1881 census place

Birmingham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

7,834 surnames are listed for Birmingham, Warwickshire, covering 214,800 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jagger, with 17 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Birmingham

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
2101	Jagger	17	0.010%	0.87x
2102	Jasper	17	0.010%	2.12x
2103	Jelfs	17	0.010%	6.54x
2104	Keefe	17	0.010%	1.60x
2105	Keenan	17	0.010%	0.82x
2106	Keys	17	0.010%	1.39x
2107	Knighton	17	0.010%	1.97x
2108	Langston	17	0.010%	2.46x
2109	Larkin	17	0.010%	0.77x
2110	Larvin	17	0.010%	17.14x
2111	Laxton	17	0.010%	2.27x
2112	Lett	17	0.010%	5.21x
2113	Liney	17	0.010%	11.15x
2114	Luckock	17	0.010%	28.80x
2115	Lusty	17	0.010%	3.60x
2116	Lycett	17	0.010%	3.37x
2117	Maley	17	0.010%	3.56x
2118	Mallett	17	0.010%	0.78x
2119	Maughan	17	0.010%	1.24x
2120	Merry	17	0.010%	0.93x
2121	Minchin	17	0.010%	2.81x
2122	Mobley	17	0.010%	6.60x
2123	More	17	0.010%	0.89x
2124	Muddiman	17	0.010%	7.01x
2125	Mustin	17	0.010%	24.69x
2126	Nathan	17	0.010%	2.08x
2127	Needham	17	0.010%	0.33x
2128	Noke	17	0.010%	7.25x
2129	Nowell	17	0.010%	1.47x
2130	Pember	17	0.010%	7.22x
2131	Pettit	17	0.010%	0.88x
2132	Pettitt	17	0.010%	1.29x
2133	Phillpot	17	0.010%	5.70x
2134	Pickford	17	0.010%	0.85x
2135	Pitcher	17	0.010%	0.89x
2136	Prewitt	17	0.010%	32.40x
2137	Purden	17	0.010%	13.92x
2138	Rafferty	17	0.010%	1.34x
2139	Randell	17	0.010%	1.11x
2140	Reader	17	0.010%	0.80x
2141	Rowan	17	0.010%	1.08x
2142	Rowney	17	0.010%	6.30x
2143	Sandall	17	0.010%	3.53x
2144	Sant	17	0.010%	3.47x
2145	Selvey	17	0.010%	12.06x
2146	Shea	17	0.010%	1.03x
2147	Shingler	17	0.010%	3.21x
2148	Sibley	17	0.010%	0.86x
2149	Silverman	17	0.010%	17.88x
2150	Singleton	17	0.010%	0.35x
2151	Spears	17	0.010%	2.91x
2152	Spink	17	0.010%	0.86x
2153	Sprason	17	0.010%	59.27x
2154	Spriggs	17	0.010%	1.39x
2155	Squelch	17	0.010%	12.96x
2156	Stocker	17	0.010%	1.29x
2157	Stowe	17	0.010%	2.36x
2158	Tidman	17	0.010%	4.97x
2159	Townley	17	0.010%	1.10x
2160	Turnpenny	17	0.010%	11.39x
2161	Wallin	17	0.010%	8.40x
2162	Warrall	17	0.010%	9.18x
2163	Westwick	17	0.010%	20.13x
2164	Whitlock	17	0.010%	1.16x
2165	Willey	17	0.010%	0.77x
2166	Wolstenholme	17	0.010%	0.87x
2167	Woodroffe	17	0.010%	3.45x
2168	Woollaston	17	0.010%	25.92x
2169	Aaron	16	0.010%	4.18x
2170	Adie	16	0.010%	3.02x
2171	Anson	16	0.010%	1.76x
2172	Apps	16	0.010%	1.45x
2173	Arthur	16	0.010%	0.30x
2174	Barge	16	0.010%	4.82x
2175	Barron	16	0.010%	0.42x
2176	Birchley	16	0.010%	12.05x
2177	Blaney	16	0.010%	3.24x
2178	Bowers	16	0.010%	0.36x
2179	Breeze	16	0.010%	1.06x
2180	Broad	16	0.010%	0.51x
2181	Broom	16	0.010%	0.53x
2182	Brunt	16	0.010%	0.95x
2183	Burdett	16	0.010%	0.92x
2184	Butter	16	0.010%	1.37x
2185	Byrnes	16	0.010%	3.67x
2186	Cartland	16	0.010%	15.13x
2187	Cheatham	16	0.010%	13.19x
2188	Clayfield	16	0.010%	11.15x
2189	Cloves	16	0.010%	30.49x
2190	Coldrick	16	0.010%	7.87x
2191	Cowdrill	16	0.010%	108.40x
2192	Crouch	16	0.010%	0.49x
2193	Dalby	16	0.010%	0.80x
2194	David	16	0.010%	0.63x
2195	Delany	16	0.010%	3.96x
2196	Dewsbery	16	0.010%	65.09x
2197	Durham	16	0.010%	0.76x
2198	Dyas	16	0.010%	5.53x
2199	Eldershaw	16	0.010%	14.25x
2200	Exton	16	0.010%	1.95x