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 Chandler, with 98 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
401	Chandler	98	0.040%	1.24x
402	Connor	98	0.040%	1.35x
403	Flynn	98	0.040%	2.09x
404	Graham	98	0.040%	0.35x
405	Hobson	98	0.040%	1.54x
406	Moss	98	0.040%	0.65x
407	Osborn	98	0.040%	1.92x
408	Cleaver	97	0.040%	4.66x
409	Doughty	97	0.040%	3.11x
410	Pemberton	97	0.040%	3.11x
411	Tranter	97	0.040%	5.37x
412	Street	96	0.040%	1.67x
413	Timmins	96	0.040%	4.86x
414	Truman	96	0.040%	6.28x
415	Baldwin	95	0.040%	0.91x
416	Carr	95	0.040%	0.54x
417	Preece	94	0.040%	2.35x
418	Waldron	94	0.040%	4.35x
419	Allsop	93	0.040%	3.69x
420	Bartlett	93	0.040%	0.86x
421	Hammond	93	0.040%	0.67x
422	Sheppard	93	0.040%	1.09x
423	Morley	92	0.040%	0.94x
424	Shepherd	92	0.040%	0.51x
425	Bagnall	91	0.040%	4.32x
426	Grant	91	0.040%	0.37x
427	Roden	91	0.040%	7.91x
428	Swain	91	0.040%	1.92x
429	Mansell	90	0.040%	3.14x
430	Pritchett	90	0.040%	15.35x
431	Summers	90	0.040%	1.31x
432	Chatwin	89	0.040%	15.94x
433	May	89	0.040%	0.57x
434	Oakes	89	0.040%	2.50x
435	Swift	89	0.040%	1.17x
436	Watton	89	0.040%	10.01x
437	Beach	88	0.040%	3.76x
438	Downes	88	0.040%	2.90x
439	Hicks	88	0.040%	0.86x
440	Kimberley	88	0.040%	9.84x
441	Lancaster	88	0.040%	1.44x
442	Millington	88	0.040%	2.37x
443	Rollason	88	0.040%	11.11x
444	Allcock	87	0.040%	3.28x
445	Attwood	87	0.040%	3.58x
446	Bevan	87	0.040%	1.45x
447	Burrows	87	0.040%	0.81x
448	Court	87	0.040%	2.79x
449	Dingley	87	0.040%	11.79x
450	Humphreys	87	0.040%	1.01x
451	Lyons	87	0.040%	1.59x
452	Peace	87	0.040%	3.91x
453	Phelps	87	0.040%	3.57x
454	Reading	87	0.040%	4.58x
455	Best	86	0.040%	1.30x
456	Cheshire	86	0.040%	4.55x
457	Oliver	86	0.040%	0.49x
458	Priest	86	0.040%	2.68x
459	Ray	86	0.040%	1.77x
460	Stringer	86	0.040%	1.76x
461	Bassett	85	0.030%	2.22x
462	Joyce	85	0.030%	1.41x
463	Kent	85	0.030%	0.82x
464	Wyatt	85	0.030%	1.18x
465	Chamberlain	84	0.030%	1.26x
466	Harwood	84	0.030%	1.28x
467	Hood	84	0.030%	1.24x
468	Underwood	84	0.030%	1.27x
469	Bedford	83	0.030%	1.42x
470	Hale	83	0.030%	0.94x
471	Hinks	83	0.030%	8.30x
472	Reed	83	0.030%	0.46x
473	Rhodes	83	0.030%	0.73x
474	Rushton	83	0.030%	1.64x
475	Bateman	82	0.030%	1.29x
476	Earp	82	0.030%	9.18x
477	Egginton	82	0.030%	24.22x
478	Griffith	82	0.030%	1.03x
479	Holden	82	0.030%	0.61x
480	Houghton	82	0.030%	0.96x
481	Ross	82	0.030%	0.31x
482	Stanton	82	0.030%	1.67x
483	Aldridge	81	0.030%	1.70x
484	Bentley	81	0.030%	0.78x
485	Bragg	81	0.030%	4.03x
486	Chaplin	81	0.030%	2.30x
487	Greenway	81	0.030%	4.44x
488	Haddock	81	0.030%	5.14x
489	Keen	81	0.030%	1.65x
490	Lacey	81	0.030%	1.79x
491	Norris	81	0.030%	0.77x
492	Sheldon	81	0.030%	2.17x
493	Vincent	81	0.030%	1.06x
494	Woodhouse	81	0.030%	1.39x
495	Adderley	80	0.030%	19.55x
496	Gardener	80	0.030%	1.82x
497	Langford	80	0.030%	2.07x
498	Marks	80	0.030%	1.59x
499	Marston	80	0.030%	3.50x
500	Newell	80	0.030%	2.06x