1881 census place

Bishopwearmouth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bishopwearmouth, Durham 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

2,950 surnames are listed for Bishopwearmouth, Durham, covering 55,539 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,061 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bishopwearmouth

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
1	Smith	1,061	1.42%	1.01x
2	Thompson	951	1.27%	4.26x
3	Wilson	794	1.06%	2.32x
4	Brown	748	1.00%	1.52x
5	Scott	554	0.740%	2.94x
6	Johnson	525	0.700%	2.09x
7	Taylor	519	0.700%	1.09x
8	Robinson	507	0.680%	2.13x
9	Hall	492	0.660%	2.24x
10	Robson	482	0.650%	9.82x
11	Bell	470	0.630%	3.35x
12	Watson	466	0.620%	2.69x
13	Hunter	417	0.560%	5.44x
14	Davison	389	0.520%	14.59x
15	Richardson	354	0.470%	2.79x
16	Young	349	0.470%	2.18x
17	Henderson	346	0.460%	4.27x
18	Graham	332	0.450%	3.88x
19	Gibson	326	0.440%	3.60x
20	Jackson	308	0.410%	1.48x
21	Clark	305	0.410%	1.36x
22	Cook	292	0.390%	1.97x
23	Anderson	290	0.390%	1.97x
24	Wilkinson	284	0.380%	2.49x
25	Harrison	283	0.380%	1.71x
26	Atkinson	281	0.380%	3.87x
27	Dixon	273	0.370%	3.34x
28	Hodgson	273	0.370%	5.28x
29	Walker	260	0.350%	1.04x
30	Armstrong	248	0.330%	4.35x
31	Potts	243	0.330%	9.76x
32	Miller	240	0.320%	1.80x
33	Reed	240	0.320%	4.41x
34	Simpson	228	0.310%	1.75x
35	Carr	226	0.300%	4.20x
36	Carter	223	0.300%	1.78x
37	Hudson	219	0.290%	3.59x
38	Wright	217	0.290%	0.91x
39	Marshall	216	0.290%	1.73x
40	Wood	209	0.280%	0.88x
41	Dunn	199	0.270%	3.21x
42	Adamson	193	0.260%	9.78x
43	White	192	0.260%	0.80x
44	Foster	190	0.250%	1.90x
45	Hutchinson	189	0.250%	4.46x
46	Gray	181	0.240%	1.70x
47	Turnbull	180	0.240%	5.72x
48	Elliott	176	0.240%	2.78x
49	Moore	175	0.230%	1.17x
50	Stewart	173	0.230%	1.48x
51	Nicholson	171	0.230%	3.23x
52	Chapman	170	0.230%	1.60x
53	Charlton	169	0.230%	7.91x
54	Forster	163	0.220%	6.66x
55	Tate	158	0.210%	10.97x
56	Murray	154	0.210%	1.66x
57	Green	153	0.210%	0.73x
58	Nelson	153	0.210%	4.23x
59	Mitchell	152	0.200%	1.00x
60	Todd	152	0.200%	4.00x
61	Patterson	151	0.200%	5.81x
62	Oliver	149	0.200%	2.80x
63	Ward	148	0.200%	0.91x
64	Sanderson	146	0.200%	4.74x
65	Martin	145	0.190%	0.79x
66	Lamb	142	0.190%	3.61x
67	Dodds	141	0.190%	8.98x
68	Dawson	139	0.190%	1.69x
69	Ross	137	0.180%	1.68x
70	Parker	134	0.180%	0.94x
71	Campbell	127	0.170%	1.01x
72	Cooper	127	0.170%	0.70x
73	Gordon	121	0.160%	2.57x
74	Davidson	120	0.160%	1.91x
75	Reay	119	0.160%	18.37x
76	Coates	118	0.160%	4.24x
77	Hedley	118	0.160%	15.49x
78	Metcalf	118	0.160%	7.81x
79	Rutter	117	0.160%	10.30x
80	Mason	116	0.160%	1.16x
81	Allen	115	0.150%	0.82x
82	Burn	109	0.150%	10.86x
83	Dobson	109	0.150%	3.31x
84	Kelly	107	0.140%	1.31x
85	Pickering	105	0.140%	3.90x
86	Robertson	105	0.140%	0.84x
87	Allison	103	0.140%	4.86x
88	Hope	103	0.140%	4.06x
89	Newton	103	0.140%	1.80x
90	Douglas	102	0.140%	2.82x
91	Sharp	102	0.140%	1.64x
92	Cairns	101	0.140%	6.26x
93	Barnes	100	0.130%	1.11x
94	Pattison	99	0.130%	8.34x
95	Maddison	95	0.130%	13.00x
96	Pearson	93	0.120%	1.07x
97	Coulson	91	0.120%	6.80x
98	Fox	91	0.120%	1.31x
99	Burns	90	0.120%	1.80x
100	Walton	88	0.120%	1.68x