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 Oakley, with 80 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
501	Oakley	80	0.030%	1.54x
502	Roach	80	0.030%	2.21x
503	Bayley	79	0.030%	2.00x
504	Bliss	79	0.030%	5.25x
505	Bromwich	79	0.030%	14.67x
506	Garratt	79	0.030%	3.17x
507	Marson	79	0.030%	7.07x
508	Meakin	79	0.030%	4.13x
509	Withers	79	0.030%	1.96x
510	Haycock	78	0.030%	5.67x
511	Leonard	78	0.030%	1.47x
512	Sims	78	0.030%	1.06x
513	Wiseman	78	0.030%	2.31x
514	Clews	77	0.030%	6.92x
515	Crook	77	0.030%	1.09x
516	Hollins	77	0.030%	5.99x
517	Key	77	0.030%	2.27x
518	Masters	77	0.030%	1.69x
519	Mee	77	0.030%	4.12x
520	Skinner	77	0.030%	0.62x
521	Sparkes	77	0.030%	4.28x
522	Tandy	77	0.030%	6.60x
523	Yeomans	77	0.030%	3.80x
524	Betts	76	0.030%	1.45x
525	Carpenter	76	0.030%	0.90x
526	Browning	75	0.030%	1.50x
527	Clifton	75	0.030%	2.16x
528	Frost	75	0.030%	0.54x
529	Hanley	75	0.030%	3.71x
530	Massey	75	0.030%	1.19x
531	Pagett	75	0.030%	12.07x
532	Randall	75	0.030%	0.98x
533	Randle	75	0.030%	3.65x
534	Ryder	75	0.030%	1.76x
535	Willetts	75	0.030%	5.46x
536	Baxter	74	0.030%	0.51x
537	Beard	74	0.030%	1.14x
538	Crisp	74	0.030%	2.17x
539	Hobday	74	0.030%	7.47x
540	Perrins	74	0.030%	9.92x
541	Sewell	74	0.030%	1.43x
542	Beck	73	0.030%	1.27x
543	Brewer	73	0.030%	1.12x
544	Burley	73	0.030%	3.13x
545	Cowley	73	0.030%	1.62x
546	Grainger	73	0.030%	1.93x
547	Jenks	73	0.030%	8.71x
548	Jinks	73	0.030%	7.10x
549	Latham	73	0.030%	1.46x
550	Onions	73	0.030%	5.34x
551	Ridley	73	0.030%	1.54x
552	Roe	73	0.030%	1.53x
553	Simmonds	73	0.030%	1.11x
554	Tomlinson	73	0.030%	0.64x
555	Dalton	72	0.030%	1.28x
556	Dovey	72	0.030%	7.66x
557	Laurence	72	0.030%	2.06x
558	Piper	72	0.030%	1.48x
559	Rooke	72	0.030%	3.98x
560	Skidmore	72	0.030%	3.99x
561	Tennant	72	0.030%	2.75x
562	Tipper	72	0.030%	6.83x
563	Brindley	71	0.030%	3.78x
564	Broadhurst	71	0.030%	2.86x
565	Ensor	71	0.030%	12.96x
566	Felton	71	0.030%	4.20x
567	Flavell	71	0.030%	9.68x
568	Hartland	71	0.030%	6.58x
569	Shipley	71	0.030%	3.27x
570	Bagshaw	70	0.030%	3.57x
571	Beckett	70	0.030%	1.43x
572	Bunn	70	0.030%	2.92x
573	Dawes	70	0.030%	2.09x
574	Eaton	70	0.030%	1.02x
575	Freeth	70	0.030%	13.26x
576	Hare	70	0.030%	1.85x
577	Hipkiss	70	0.030%	14.70x
578	Twist	70	0.030%	5.77x
579	Baylis	69	0.030%	2.68x
580	Crowley	69	0.030%	4.36x
581	Haddleton	69	0.030%	56.87x
582	Haddon	69	0.030%	4.20x
583	Hutchinson	69	0.030%	0.49x
584	Jakeman	69	0.030%	10.15x
585	Kendall	69	0.030%	1.31x
586	Pool	69	0.030%	2.43x
587	Short	69	0.030%	0.72x
588	Wilde	69	0.030%	1.93x
589	Wootton	69	0.030%	3.10x
590	Adcock	68	0.030%	2.80x
591	Alexander	68	0.030%	0.52x
592	Castle	68	0.030%	1.39x
593	Curtis	68	0.030%	0.49x
594	Fenton	68	0.030%	1.39x
595	Godwin	68	0.030%	2.14x
596	Haden	68	0.030%	8.68x
597	Howes	68	0.030%	1.58x
598	Lawson	68	0.030%	0.47x
599	Mander	68	0.030%	8.34x
600	Prince	68	0.030%	1.22x