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 Dews, with 15 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
2301	Dews	15	0.010%	2.64x
2302	Dodson	15	0.010%	0.79x
2303	Doolan	15	0.010%	3.12x
2304	Duffill	15	0.010%	5.29x
2305	Dunford	15	0.010%	1.01x
2306	Earle	15	0.010%	0.98x
2307	Eling	15	0.010%	26.91x
2308	Elkin	15	0.010%	3.00x
2309	Ely	15	0.010%	1.16x
2310	Embury	15	0.010%	11.88x
2311	Eves	15	0.010%	1.46x
2312	Evetts	15	0.010%	7.75x
2313	Eyre	15	0.010%	0.51x
2314	Fleetwood	15	0.010%	1.75x
2315	Flinn	15	0.010%	1.01x
2316	Fullwood	15	0.010%	3.59x
2317	Gadd	15	0.010%	0.92x
2318	Garrad	15	0.010%	3.59x
2319	Gisborne	15	0.010%	13.76x
2320	Glenn	15	0.010%	1.95x
2321	Godson	15	0.010%	3.36x
2322	Gorman	15	0.010%	0.51x
2323	Gower	15	0.010%	0.58x
2324	Granger	15	0.010%	0.60x
2325	Gwilliam	15	0.010%	1.60x
2326	Hancocks	15	0.010%	4.19x
2327	Hawkin	15	0.010%	2.83x
2328	Hawthorne	15	0.010%	2.62x
2329	Hick	15	0.010%	1.31x
2330	Hobley	15	0.010%	3.64x
2331	Holbrook	15	0.010%	0.85x
2332	Hopcroft	15	0.010%	3.82x
2333	Horobin	15	0.010%	3.17x
2334	Hounslow	15	0.010%	4.56x
2335	Howles	15	0.010%	8.02x
2336	Hundy	15	0.010%	39.78x
2337	Jay	15	0.010%	0.70x
2338	Jepson	15	0.010%	0.62x
2339	Jeynes	15	0.010%	5.72x
2340	Joiner	15	0.010%	1.72x
2341	Keough	15	0.010%	8.88x
2342	Kilkenny	15	0.010%	7.82x
2343	Kilmartin	15	0.010%	9.43x
2344	Kinsey	15	0.010%	0.93x
2345	Last	15	0.010%	0.77x
2346	Leadbetter	15	0.010%	1.18x
2347	Maddock	15	0.010%	0.67x
2348	Magee	15	0.010%	1.39x
2349	Maisey	15	0.010%	2.76x
2350	Malvern	15	0.010%	18.67x
2351	Maynard	15	0.010%	0.40x
2352	Mayon	15	0.010%	16.19x
2353	Meyrick	15	0.010%	2.33x
2354	Millman	15	0.010%	2.22x
2355	Moffatt	15	0.010%	0.95x
2356	Mold	15	0.010%	3.26x
2357	Mottram	15	0.010%	1.13x
2358	Munslow	15	0.010%	5.13x
2359	Nokes	15	0.010%	2.74x
2360	Padmore	15	0.010%	4.01x
2361	Pinfold	15	0.010%	3.25x
2362	Pointing	15	0.010%	7.01x
2363	Pound	15	0.010%	1.28x
2364	Proverbs	15	0.010%	32.69x
2365	Rann	15	0.010%	5.72x
2366	Ridge	15	0.010%	0.87x
2367	Rough	15	0.010%	2.71x
2368	Rush	15	0.010%	0.57x
2369	Sansum	15	0.010%	7.04x
2370	Seaton	15	0.010%	0.72x
2371	Sharratt	15	0.010%	1.97x
2372	Simpkin	15	0.010%	1.63x
2373	Singer	15	0.010%	1.52x
2374	Stamps	15	0.010%	9.38x
2375	Stedman	15	0.010%	0.98x
2376	Steed	15	0.010%	1.27x
2377	Tarbuck	15	0.010%	3.67x
2378	Tighe	15	0.010%	2.64x
2379	Timmis	15	0.010%	2.63x
2380	Timpson	15	0.010%	3.48x
2381	Tippins	15	0.010%	8.13x
2382	Toye	15	0.010%	5.74x
2383	Tyers	15	0.010%	1.91x
2384	Wakeham	15	0.010%	1.61x
2385	Wakeling	15	0.010%	1.60x
2386	Warrillow	15	0.010%	14.52x
2387	Weale	15	0.010%	3.25x
2388	Wedgewood	15	0.010%	6.65x
2389	Welding	15	0.010%	9.01x
2390	Willets	15	0.010%	6.00x
2391	Worthington	15	0.010%	0.30x
2392	Allmark	14	0.010%	5.75x
2393	Armson	14	0.010%	6.32x
2394	Badland	14	0.010%	14.60x
2395	Baller	14	0.010%	24.06x
2396	Banister	14	0.010%	1.37x
2397	Barnbrook	14	0.010%	15.52x
2398	Beddington	14	0.010%	10.67x
2399	Bennet	14	0.010%	0.41x
2400	Bickerstaff	14	0.010%	2.72x