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 Ashmore, with 126 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
301	Ashmore	126	0.050%	6.88x
302	Goodwin	126	0.050%	0.97x
303	Lines	126	0.050%	4.84x
304	Webster	126	0.050%	0.59x
305	Wilks	126	0.050%	3.26x
306	Barratt	125	0.050%	2.51x
307	Tongue	125	0.050%	15.22x
308	Worrall	125	0.050%	4.00x
309	Avery	124	0.050%	3.01x
310	Cotton	124	0.050%	2.12x
311	Lawley	124	0.050%	8.38x
312	Haywood	123	0.050%	2.39x
313	Coley	122	0.050%	8.36x
314	Crump	122	0.050%	4.60x
315	Gee	122	0.050%	1.95x
316	Gould	122	0.050%	1.38x
317	Beech	121	0.050%	3.34x
318	Benton	121	0.050%	4.76x
319	Cutler	121	0.050%	3.96x
320	Pearsall	121	0.050%	24.39x
321	Terry	121	0.050%	1.93x
322	Vernon	121	0.050%	2.99x
323	Herbert	120	0.050%	1.31x
324	Long	120	0.050%	0.75x
325	Plant	120	0.050%	2.21x
326	Trueman	120	0.050%	7.11x
327	Kendrick	119	0.050%	5.03x
328	Welsh	119	0.050%	1.22x
329	Beasley	118	0.050%	4.44x
330	Manning	118	0.050%	1.51x
331	Eades	117	0.050%	9.29x
332	Robbins	117	0.050%	3.05x
333	Smallwood	117	0.050%	5.16x
334	Cashmore	116	0.050%	15.02x
335	Phipps	116	0.050%	3.19x
336	Sharp	116	0.050%	0.57x
337	Billingham	114	0.050%	7.66x
338	Blackwell	114	0.050%	2.55x
339	Clifford	114	0.050%	2.26x
340	French	114	0.050%	0.95x
341	Hatton	114	0.050%	2.37x
342	Holt	113	0.050%	0.69x
343	Tomkins	113	0.050%	4.44x
344	Dugmore	112	0.050%	30.29x
345	Heeley	112	0.050%	10.36x
346	Higgs	112	0.050%	2.50x
347	Jeffries	112	0.050%	3.64x
348	Handley	111	0.050%	2.68x
349	Moseley	111	0.050%	4.95x
350	Bannister	110	0.040%	2.59x
351	Bradshaw	110	0.040%	1.09x
352	Burgess	110	0.040%	0.65x
353	Docker	110	0.040%	22.82x
354	Hickman	110	0.040%	2.66x
355	Kemp	110	0.040%	0.81x
356	Shuttleworth	110	0.040%	3.78x
357	Wallis	110	0.040%	1.32x
358	Ashton	109	0.040%	0.91x
359	Edmonds	109	0.040%	2.32x
360	Floyd	109	0.040%	4.67x
361	Simmons	109	0.040%	1.09x
362	Wilcox	109	0.040%	2.36x
363	Danks	108	0.040%	10.10x
364	Miles	108	0.040%	0.75x
365	Rowley	108	0.040%	1.67x
366	Yardley	108	0.040%	6.93x
367	Brittain	107	0.040%	5.64x
368	Dodd	107	0.040%	1.07x
369	Franklin	107	0.040%	1.31x
370	Hinton	107	0.040%	3.25x
371	Meredith	107	0.040%	2.16x
372	Warren	107	0.040%	0.65x
373	Clayton	106	0.040%	0.79x
374	Downing	106	0.040%	2.48x
375	Tucker	106	0.040%	0.78x
376	Farrell	105	0.040%	2.26x
377	Grove	105	0.040%	3.66x
378	Drew	104	0.040%	1.60x
379	Hackett	104	0.040%	3.60x
380	Kennedy	104	0.040%	0.70x
381	Sadler	104	0.040%	1.80x
382	Beesley	103	0.040%	5.22x
383	Haines	103	0.040%	1.81x
384	Lilley	103	0.040%	3.03x
385	Orme	103	0.040%	5.03x
386	Ryan	103	0.040%	1.35x
387	Small	103	0.040%	1.65x
388	Bate	101	0.040%	2.43x
389	Bellamy	101	0.040%	2.82x
390	Berry	101	0.040%	0.52x
391	Bolton	101	0.040%	0.96x
392	Coates	101	0.040%	1.10x
393	Overton	101	0.040%	4.24x
394	Southall	101	0.040%	5.43x
395	Stevenson	101	0.040%	0.59x
396	Turton	101	0.040%	3.66x
397	Abbott	99	0.040%	0.91x
398	Cash	99	0.040%	6.08x
399	Talbot	99	0.040%	1.62x
400	Wilkinson	99	0.040%	0.26x