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 Sargent, with 68 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
601	Sargent	68	0.030%	1.80x
602	Whitworth	68	0.030%	1.66x
603	Cain	67	0.030%	1.31x
604	Chadwick	67	0.030%	0.62x
605	Eden	67	0.030%	2.69x
606	Godfrey	67	0.030%	0.92x
607	Grice	67	0.030%	2.65x
608	Mould	67	0.030%	3.18x
609	Myatt	67	0.030%	5.73x
610	Bagley	66	0.030%	3.63x
611	Bickley	66	0.030%	6.49x
612	Britton	66	0.030%	1.52x
613	Brooke	66	0.030%	1.80x
614	Dyer	66	0.030%	0.69x
615	Finch	66	0.030%	0.81x
616	Pope	66	0.030%	0.78x
617	Pountney	66	0.030%	13.83x
618	Robins	66	0.030%	1.27x
619	Round	66	0.030%	2.93x
620	Wise	66	0.030%	1.29x
621	Dolphin	65	0.030%	7.11x
622	Doyle	65	0.030%	1.09x
623	Woodfield	65	0.030%	7.81x
624	Collett	64	0.030%	2.03x
625	Dent	64	0.030%	1.37x
626	Garner	64	0.030%	0.82x
627	Hodgkinson	64	0.030%	1.52x
628	Mackenzie	64	0.030%	0.93x
629	Monk	64	0.030%	1.24x
630	Mullins	64	0.030%	2.72x
631	Rodgers	64	0.030%	0.95x
632	Walsh	64	0.030%	0.49x
633	Armstrong	63	0.030%	0.34x
634	Boswell	63	0.030%	2.73x
635	Caldicott	63	0.030%	12.94x
636	Carless	63	0.030%	9.67x
637	Dunkley	63	0.030%	3.22x
638	Hampton	63	0.030%	1.63x
639	Hanks	63	0.030%	5.27x
640	Hathaway	63	0.030%	4.94x
641	Nock	63	0.030%	5.80x
642	Powers	63	0.030%	6.29x
643	Ralph	63	0.030%	1.69x
644	Steward	63	0.030%	2.00x
645	Adkins	62	0.030%	3.88x
646	Barnsley	62	0.030%	6.44x
647	Benbow	62	0.030%	6.37x
648	Boden	62	0.030%	3.12x
649	Davenport	62	0.030%	1.33x
650	Duggan	62	0.030%	3.30x
651	Hawley	62	0.030%	2.58x
652	Hemmings	62	0.030%	2.97x
653	Langley	62	0.030%	1.15x
654	Shakespeare	62	0.030%	6.91x
655	Shelley	62	0.030%	3.26x
656	Tye	62	0.030%	4.39x
657	Allport	61	0.020%	10.33x
658	Biggs	61	0.020%	1.32x
659	Charles	61	0.020%	1.20x
660	Flint	61	0.020%	1.38x
661	Gittins	61	0.020%	4.03x
662	Levy	61	0.020%	1.97x
663	Pardoe	61	0.020%	5.05x
664	Proctor	61	0.020%	1.01x
665	Radford	61	0.020%	1.31x
666	Bryant	60	0.020%	0.57x
667	Collier	60	0.020%	0.73x
668	Coyne	60	0.020%	4.62x
669	Feeney	60	0.020%	7.20x
670	Hand	60	0.020%	2.04x
671	Lester	60	0.020%	1.55x
672	Rainbow	60	0.020%	5.90x
673	Rooney	60	0.020%	2.74x
674	Silver	60	0.020%	4.27x
675	Blackham	59	0.020%	10.02x
676	Callow	59	0.020%	3.88x
677	Fitter	59	0.020%	17.38x
678	Heaton	59	0.020%	1.00x
679	Jacobs	59	0.020%	1.00x
680	Jefferies	59	0.020%	2.17x
681	Prosser	59	0.020%	1.53x
682	Starkey	59	0.020%	2.42x
683	Whitfield	59	0.020%	1.20x
684	Dillon	58	0.020%	2.39x
685	Freer	58	0.020%	4.28x
686	Penn	58	0.020%	2.62x
687	Russon	58	0.020%	17.01x
688	Shale	58	0.020%	27.96x
689	Ashby	57	0.020%	1.38x
690	Biddulph	57	0.020%	10.35x
691	Butcher	57	0.020%	0.55x
692	Carroll	57	0.020%	1.16x
693	Cottrell	57	0.020%	2.61x
694	Grady	57	0.020%	3.52x
695	Grimley	57	0.020%	10.91x
696	Hatfield	57	0.020%	3.25x
697	Nutt	57	0.020%	3.21x
698	Parish	57	0.020%	1.50x
699	Roper	57	0.020%	1.12x
700	Swann	57	0.020%	2.13x