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 Woodall, with 50 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
801	Woodall	50	0.020%	2.53x
802	Ash	49	0.020%	1.21x
803	Benson	49	0.020%	0.74x
804	Bill	49	0.020%	5.61x
805	Blakeman	49	0.020%	6.79x
806	Boulton	49	0.020%	1.11x
807	Carney	49	0.020%	2.21x
808	Conner	49	0.020%	2.58x
809	Eccles	49	0.020%	1.25x
810	Edkins	49	0.020%	10.67x
811	Foxall	49	0.020%	7.06x
812	Hutchins	49	0.020%	1.98x
813	Line	49	0.020%	4.20x
814	Povey	49	0.020%	3.30x
815	Rice	49	0.020%	0.64x
816	Seal	49	0.020%	2.77x
817	Shorthouse	49	0.020%	9.98x
818	Silvester	49	0.020%	2.58x
819	Snape	49	0.020%	2.16x
820	Southam	49	0.020%	4.78x
821	Beresford	48	0.020%	2.65x
822	Giblin	48	0.020%	10.09x
823	Gosling	48	0.020%	1.25x
824	Hawkesford	48	0.020%	43.05x
825	Reddall	48	0.020%	50.05x
826	Ridding	48	0.020%	19.91x
827	Salter	48	0.020%	0.85x
828	Wakefield	48	0.020%	1.09x
829	Bray	47	0.020%	0.57x
830	Caswell	47	0.020%	3.95x
831	Cave	47	0.020%	1.33x
832	Charlton	47	0.020%	0.67x
833	Dance	47	0.020%	2.39x
834	Doley	47	0.020%	41.85x
835	Doody	47	0.020%	10.78x
836	Douglas	47	0.020%	0.40x
837	Hurley	47	0.020%	1.64x
838	Jessop	47	0.020%	1.61x
839	Ludlow	47	0.020%	3.66x
840	Reeve	47	0.020%	0.82x
841	Stockton	47	0.020%	3.15x
842	Wade	47	0.020%	0.48x
843	Whitmore	47	0.020%	2.18x
844	Willcox	47	0.020%	3.55x
845	Belcher	46	0.020%	1.56x
846	Blackburn	46	0.020%	0.50x
847	Broadhead	46	0.020%	2.55x
848	Bromley	46	0.020%	1.22x
849	Chatterton	46	0.020%	3.30x
850	Crutchley	46	0.020%	6.89x
851	Curley	46	0.020%	5.38x
852	Eccleston	46	0.020%	3.74x
853	Foy	46	0.020%	2.27x
854	Goodall	46	0.020%	0.87x
855	Harcourt	46	0.020%	8.50x
856	Harley	46	0.020%	1.45x
857	Hassall	46	0.020%	3.00x
858	Henn	46	0.020%	21.58x
859	Hines	46	0.020%	2.20x
860	Hutton	46	0.020%	0.63x
861	Layton	46	0.020%	2.34x
862	Leek	46	0.020%	3.87x
863	Lock	46	0.020%	0.66x
864	Marriott	46	0.020%	0.84x
865	Spiers	46	0.020%	2.28x
866	Spooner	46	0.020%	1.30x
867	Styles	46	0.020%	1.77x
868	Towers	46	0.020%	1.62x
869	Vickers	46	0.020%	0.73x
870	Allday	45	0.020%	13.93x
871	Askey	45	0.020%	7.77x
872	Bloxham	45	0.020%	5.61x
873	Bruce	45	0.020%	0.39x
874	Eaves	45	0.020%	3.37x
875	Farley	45	0.020%	1.46x
876	Fleming	45	0.020%	0.44x
877	Gannon	45	0.020%	4.24x
878	Gurney	45	0.020%	1.76x
879	Holyoake	45	0.020%	18.42x
880	Kain	45	0.020%	9.13x
881	Lear	45	0.020%	3.14x
882	Meers	45	0.020%	17.31x
883	Messenger	45	0.020%	2.38x
884	Purnell	45	0.020%	3.49x
885	Redding	45	0.020%	4.35x
886	Shelton	45	0.020%	1.56x
887	Sparrow	45	0.020%	1.45x
888	Thorne	45	0.020%	0.87x
889	Thorpe	45	0.020%	0.46x
890	Wassall	45	0.020%	18.86x
891	Ashley	44	0.020%	1.07x
892	Bacon	44	0.020%	0.71x
893	Burford	44	0.020%	3.21x
894	Bushell	44	0.020%	1.85x
895	Dolan	44	0.020%	2.06x
896	Dyke	44	0.020%	1.81x
897	Farnell	44	0.020%	4.89x
898	Froggatt	44	0.020%	3.90x
899	Goodyear	44	0.020%	3.38x
900	Gossage	44	0.020%	19.73x