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 Liddle, with 87 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
101	Liddle	87	0.120%	9.90x
102	Dent	85	0.110%	5.98x
103	Ridley	85	0.110%	5.90x
104	Booth	84	0.110%	1.14x
105	Johnston	84	0.110%	1.40x
106	Stothard	84	0.110%	50.86x
107	Willis	84	0.110%	2.12x
108	Curry	82	0.110%	7.67x
109	French	82	0.110%	2.25x
110	Lawson	82	0.110%	1.86x
111	Murphy	82	0.110%	1.38x
112	Noble	82	0.110%	2.65x
113	Snowdon	82	0.110%	14.75x
114	Russell	81	0.110%	0.89x
115	Haswell	80	0.110%	33.18x
116	Hopper	80	0.110%	7.51x
117	Ord	79	0.110%	16.07x
118	Allan	78	0.100%	1.67x
119	Swan	78	0.100%	4.04x
120	Emmerson	77	0.100%	10.45x
121	Little	77	0.100%	2.18x
122	Milburn	77	0.100%	11.56x
123	Douglass	76	0.100%	16.03x
124	Wake	76	0.100%	12.65x
125	Rutherford	75	0.100%	4.12x
126	Williamson	75	0.100%	1.12x
127	Laing	74	0.100%	4.94x
128	Baxter	73	0.100%	1.64x
129	Ferguson	73	0.100%	1.38x
130	Ramsey	73	0.100%	9.01x
131	Gibbons	72	0.100%	3.00x
132	Wallace	72	0.100%	1.41x
133	Cummings	71	0.100%	6.18x
134	Cockburn	70	0.090%	7.35x
135	Duffy	70	0.090%	4.30x
136	Gardner	68	0.090%	1.34x
137	Hindmarch	67	0.090%	46.53x
138	Thornton	67	0.090%	1.79x
139	Black	66	0.090%	1.37x
140	Crawford	66	0.090%	1.81x
141	Fenwick	66	0.090%	6.75x
142	Jefferson	66	0.090%	8.14x
143	Shotton	66	0.090%	25.57x
144	Snowball	66	0.090%	27.20x
145	Winter	66	0.090%	2.49x
146	Herring	65	0.090%	8.50x
147	Wayman	65	0.090%	33.11x
148	Alderson	64	0.090%	6.18x
149	Ayre	64	0.090%	15.36x
150	Hutton	64	0.090%	2.87x
151	Batey	63	0.080%	21.60x
152	Horn	63	0.080%	3.72x
153	Mordey	63	0.080%	151.44x
154	Butler	62	0.080%	0.85x
155	Cowell	62	0.080%	5.80x
156	Knox	62	0.080%	4.84x
157	Nesbitt	62	0.080%	30.24x
158	Parkinson	62	0.080%	1.73x
159	Stevenson	62	0.080%	1.18x
160	Harper	61	0.080%	1.28x
161	Lister	61	0.080%	2.87x
162	Halliday	60	0.080%	3.89x
163	Heslop	60	0.080%	9.38x
164	Humble	60	0.080%	16.96x
165	Kerr	60	0.080%	1.47x
166	Morton	60	0.080%	1.50x
167	Watt	60	0.080%	2.10x
168	Errington	59	0.080%	14.19x
169	Shepherd	59	0.080%	1.08x
170	Stafford	59	0.080%	3.72x
171	West	59	0.080%	0.82x
172	Sutherland	58	0.080%	1.54x
173	Elliot	57	0.080%	3.00x
174	Greenwell	57	0.080%	23.30x
175	Bowman	56	0.080%	2.87x
176	Cameron	56	0.080%	0.97x
177	Dodd	56	0.080%	1.85x
178	Fairley	56	0.080%	15.33x
179	Gill	56	0.080%	1.06x
180	Lawrence	56	0.080%	1.16x
181	Lowes	56	0.080%	12.93x
182	Bewick	55	0.070%	26.10x
183	Oates	55	0.070%	4.73x
184	Waters	55	0.070%	1.83x
185	Whitfield	55	0.070%	3.69x
186	Raine	54	0.070%	8.69x
187	Snaith	54	0.070%	17.03x
188	Bainbridge	53	0.070%	5.05x
189	Briggs	53	0.070%	1.31x
190	Marley	53	0.070%	12.24x
191	Telford	53	0.070%	8.06x
192	Best	52	0.070%	2.59x
193	Crosby	52	0.070%	5.89x
194	Saunders	52	0.070%	0.76x
195	Usher	52	0.070%	6.32x
196	Donkin	51	0.070%	18.38x
197	Haddock	51	0.070%	10.65x
198	Jopling	51	0.070%	38.56x
199	Long	51	0.070%	1.05x
200	Punshon	51	0.070%	89.02x