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 Bradbury, with 180 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
201	Bradbury	180	0.070%	2.54x
202	Pickering	178	0.070%	2.01x
203	Bell	177	0.070%	0.38x
204	Hyde	176	0.070%	2.33x
205	Coleman	175	0.070%	1.43x
206	Goode	174	0.070%	5.48x
207	Hooper	173	0.070%	1.66x
208	Darby	172	0.070%	4.36x
209	Norton	170	0.070%	2.08x
210	Cope	169	0.070%	3.04x
211	Higgins	169	0.070%	1.36x
212	Howard	169	0.070%	0.70x
213	Dudley	168	0.070%	4.56x
214	Tonks	168	0.070%	13.01x
215	Woolley	168	0.070%	3.45x
216	Cohen	167	0.070%	4.32x
217	Dawson	166	0.070%	0.61x
218	Homer	165	0.070%	8.83x
219	Walters	165	0.070%	1.41x
220	Biddle	164	0.070%	9.27x
221	Holloway	162	0.070%	2.15x
222	Pugh	159	0.060%	1.69x
223	Wigley	158	0.060%	10.15x
224	Gray	157	0.060%	0.45x
225	Guest	157	0.060%	2.99x
226	Hawkes	156	0.060%	3.94x
227	Bowen	155	0.060%	1.53x
228	Edge	154	0.060%	3.64x
229	Hancox	153	0.060%	8.18x
230	Smart	153	0.060%	1.37x
231	Vaughan	153	0.060%	1.83x
232	Banks	151	0.060%	1.20x
233	Hodges	151	0.060%	2.10x
234	Slater	151	0.060%	1.02x
235	Upton	151	0.060%	3.23x
236	Farmer	150	0.060%	1.95x
237	Underhill	150	0.060%	8.73x
238	Barlow	149	0.060%	1.12x
239	Hodgetts	149	0.060%	13.03x
240	Booth	148	0.060%	0.61x
241	Corbett	147	0.060%	3.06x
242	Barrett	146	0.060%	0.89x
243	Bourne	146	0.060%	3.07x
244	Weaver	146	0.060%	2.29x
245	Marsh	145	0.060%	0.83x
246	Murray	145	0.060%	0.48x
247	Faulkner	144	0.060%	2.16x
248	Archer	143	0.060%	1.41x
249	Burke	143	0.060%	1.98x
250	Cotterill	143	0.060%	6.65x
251	Goodman	143	0.060%	2.00x
252	Jukes	143	0.060%	9.67x
253	Kirby	143	0.060%	1.53x
254	Woodcock	143	0.060%	2.04x
255	Daniels	142	0.060%	1.84x
256	Dixon	142	0.060%	0.53x
257	Peters	142	0.060%	1.65x
258	Willis	142	0.060%	1.09x
259	Morton	141	0.060%	1.07x
260	Savage	141	0.060%	1.49x
261	Stone	141	0.060%	0.79x
262	Whitehead	141	0.060%	0.85x
263	George	140	0.060%	0.97x
264	Holder	140	0.060%	4.24x
265	Patrick	140	0.060%	2.86x
266	Giles	139	0.060%	1.49x
267	Busby	138	0.060%	5.33x
268	Hodson	138	0.060%	2.72x
269	Humphries	138	0.060%	2.50x
270	Lamb	138	0.060%	1.07x
271	Nichols	138	0.060%	1.73x
272	Elliott	137	0.060%	0.66x
273	Bond	136	0.060%	1.05x
274	Deeley	136	0.060%	16.26x
275	Hayward	136	0.060%	1.30x
276	Preston	136	0.060%	1.11x
277	Arnold	135	0.060%	1.02x
278	Thornton	135	0.060%	1.09x
279	Bullock	134	0.050%	1.68x
280	Dutton	134	0.050%	2.41x
281	Knowles	133	0.050%	1.01x
282	Mann	133	0.050%	1.03x
283	Mathews	132	0.050%	1.46x
284	Austin	131	0.050%	1.09x
285	Buckley	131	0.050%	0.98x
286	Draper	131	0.050%	2.27x
287	Moran	131	0.050%	2.91x
288	Dale	130	0.050%	1.25x
289	Law	130	0.050%	1.17x
290	Rudge	130	0.050%	6.75x
291	Wild	129	0.050%	1.29x
292	Barber	128	0.050%	0.87x
293	Gill	128	0.050%	0.74x
294	Hope	128	0.050%	1.53x
295	Lea	128	0.050%	2.64x
296	Stephens	128	0.050%	0.94x
297	Tyler	128	0.050%	1.77x
298	Clements	127	0.050%	1.56x
299	Dean	127	0.050%	0.75x
300	Mountford	127	0.050%	5.82x