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 Wainwright, with 57 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
701	Wainwright	57	0.020%	1.10x
702	Waters	57	0.020%	0.58x
703	Bullivant	56	0.020%	8.85x
704	Chinn	56	0.020%	6.71x
705	Cotterell	56	0.020%	5.38x
706	Doherty	56	0.020%	2.79x
707	Fielding	56	0.020%	1.02x
708	Goddard	56	0.020%	0.57x
709	Hastings	56	0.020%	1.79x
710	Hawker	56	0.020%	2.98x
711	Hinkley	56	0.020%	12.51x
712	Lawton	56	0.020%	0.88x
713	Nightingale	56	0.020%	1.35x
714	Nolan	56	0.020%	1.67x
715	Spratt	56	0.020%	4.10x
716	Thacker	56	0.020%	3.15x
717	Tolley	56	0.020%	4.36x
718	Blakemore	55	0.020%	5.25x
719	Bradford	55	0.020%	1.15x
720	Briggs	55	0.020%	0.41x
721	Bright	55	0.020%	1.11x
722	Broughton	55	0.020%	1.20x
723	Kenny	55	0.020%	1.87x
724	Nelson	55	0.020%	0.46x
725	Orton	55	0.020%	2.38x
726	Redfern	55	0.020%	1.61x
727	Summerfield	55	0.020%	3.46x
728	Wallace	55	0.020%	0.33x
729	Anderton	54	0.020%	1.85x
730	Appleby	54	0.020%	1.35x
731	Astley	54	0.020%	3.32x
732	Colley	54	0.020%	1.74x
733	France	54	0.020%	1.45x
734	Hinsley	54	0.020%	14.70x
735	Jarrett	54	0.020%	2.40x
736	Kay	54	0.020%	0.42x
737	Millard	54	0.020%	1.33x
738	Seymour	54	0.020%	1.08x
739	Stych	54	0.020%	50.68x
740	Tierney	54	0.020%	5.33x
741	Tomkinson	54	0.020%	3.37x
742	Turley	54	0.020%	4.08x
743	Ballard	53	0.020%	1.44x
744	Bishton	53	0.020%	21.84x
745	Boot	53	0.020%	4.57x
746	Cattell	53	0.020%	7.76x
747	Duffield	53	0.020%	2.49x
748	Foley	53	0.020%	1.71x
749	Hobbs	53	0.020%	0.59x
750	Luckett	53	0.020%	8.64x
751	Morriss	53	0.020%	3.54x
752	Owens	53	0.020%	0.43x
753	Power	53	0.020%	1.61x
754	Sabin	53	0.020%	9.14x
755	Timms	53	0.020%	2.14x
756	Whittaker	53	0.020%	0.46x
757	Asbury	52	0.020%	9.04x
758	Brain	52	0.020%	1.97x
759	Capewell	52	0.020%	7.72x
760	Chester	52	0.020%	1.73x
761	Denham	52	0.020%	2.40x
762	Gaunt	52	0.020%	2.15x
763	Gold	52	0.020%	3.72x
764	Harriss	52	0.020%	3.24x
765	Marlow	52	0.020%	1.80x
766	Moreton	52	0.020%	2.83x
767	Myers	52	0.020%	0.81x
768	Philips	52	0.020%	1.14x
769	Scriven	52	0.020%	4.21x
770	Adey	51	0.020%	6.45x
771	Bott	51	0.020%	2.64x
772	Cale	51	0.020%	10.15x
773	Clay	51	0.020%	1.01x
774	Conway	51	0.020%	1.11x
775	Costello	51	0.020%	3.40x
776	Crosby	51	0.020%	1.76x
777	Dowler	51	0.020%	11.33x
778	Fulford	51	0.020%	6.22x
779	Henley	51	0.020%	2.72x
780	Hodgkiss	51	0.020%	5.51x
781	Howe	51	0.020%	0.53x
782	Kilby	51	0.020%	3.69x
783	Mousley	51	0.020%	15.32x
784	Salt	51	0.020%	1.40x
785	Sands	51	0.020%	1.85x
786	Spilsbury	51	0.020%	10.67x
787	Stubbs	51	0.020%	0.79x
788	Tovey	51	0.020%	3.54x
789	Walter	51	0.020%	1.36x
790	Warwick	51	0.020%	1.50x
791	Crawford	50	0.020%	0.42x
792	Cresswell	50	0.020%	1.93x
793	Fitzpatrick	50	0.020%	1.39x
794	Nicholas	50	0.020%	1.04x
795	Robotham	50	0.020%	11.03x
796	Scattergood	50	0.020%	7.57x
797	Shirley	50	0.020%	2.49x
798	Wheatley	50	0.020%	1.00x
799	Whiting	50	0.020%	1.06x
800	William	50	0.020%	2.38x