1881 census place

Burslem surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Burslem, Staffordshire 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

1,002 surnames are listed for Burslem, Staffordshire, covering 17,786 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Heath, with 208 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Burslem

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	Heath	208	0.740%	14.83x
2	Johnson	202	0.720%	2.13x
3	Machin	196	0.690%	69.29x
4	Wood	194	0.690%	2.16x
5	Rowley	191	0.680%	25.74x
6	Jackson	179	0.630%	2.27x
7	Bailey	177	0.630%	4.16x
8	Shaw	177	0.630%	3.41x
9	Turner	177	0.630%	2.25x
10	Cooper	172	0.610%	2.50x
11	Bourne	167	0.590%	30.48x
12	Mountford	162	0.570%	64.50x
13	Goodwin	158	0.560%	10.62x
14	Price	153	0.540%	3.10x
15	Bennett	144	0.510%	3.10x
16	Adams	132	0.470%	3.17x
17	Cartlidge	131	0.460%	161.11x
18	Hulme	128	0.450%	21.19x
19	Boulton	127	0.450%	24.94x
20	Bloor	120	0.420%	76.96x
21	Colclough	117	0.410%	91.07x
22	Booth	115	0.410%	4.13x
23	Barlow	114	0.400%	7.47x
24	Davenport	114	0.400%	21.30x
25	Eardley	111	0.390%	104.51x
26	Beech	110	0.390%	26.37x
27	Lawton	107	0.380%	14.70x
28	Gibson	106	0.380%	3.09x
29	Steele	104	0.370%	13.76x
30	Plant	103	0.360%	16.49x
31	Simpson	98	0.350%	1.98x
32	Ford	92	0.330%	3.34x
33	Tunstall	91	0.320%	60.68x
34	Walton	91	0.320%	4.58x
35	Parr	85	0.300%	12.04x
36	Alcock	84	0.300%	20.60x
37	Dean	84	0.300%	4.28x
38	Kelsall	83	0.290%	58.39x
39	Lovatt	82	0.290%	41.86x
40	Pointon	82	0.290%	68.72x
41	Stevenson	81	0.290%	4.09x
42	Gater	78	0.280%	107.53x
43	Holdcroft	78	0.280%	121.61x
44	Garner	77	0.270%	8.62x
45	Brough	76	0.270%	22.01x
46	Bowers	75	0.270%	14.55x
47	Dale	73	0.260%	6.12x
48	Clews	72	0.250%	56.21x
49	Nixon	71	0.250%	8.25x
50	Yates	71	0.250%	3.66x
51	Ball	69	0.240%	2.96x
52	Mayer	69	0.240%	42.51x
53	Walley	69	0.240%	51.88x
54	Cope	66	0.230%	10.34x
55	Daniels	66	0.230%	7.44x
56	Leese	66	0.230%	53.25x
57	Vernon	65	0.230%	13.98x
58	Wilcox	65	0.230%	12.21x
59	Brindley	63	0.220%	29.18x
60	Burgess	62	0.220%	3.16x
61	Frost	61	0.220%	3.84x
62	Grocott	61	0.220%	75.37x
63	Mellor	61	0.220%	6.13x
64	Rhodes	61	0.220%	4.65x
65	Sutton	61	0.220%	3.39x
66	Wedgwood	61	0.220%	231.76x
67	Hodgkinson	60	0.210%	12.36x
68	Forrester	59	0.210%	15.56x
69	Reeves	59	0.210%	5.10x
70	Oakes	58	0.210%	14.18x
71	Platt	58	0.210%	7.76x
72	Lindop	56	0.200%	85.05x
73	Tomkinson	56	0.200%	30.37x
74	Poole	54	0.190%	3.97x
75	Weaver	54	0.190%	7.35x
76	Bentley	53	0.190%	4.44x
77	Coates	53	0.190%	5.03x
78	Sherratt	53	0.190%	32.67x
79	Barnett	52	0.180%	4.08x
80	Leigh	52	0.180%	8.00x
81	Pedley	52	0.180%	36.34x
82	Watkin	52	0.180%	21.03x
83	Edge	51	0.180%	10.48x
84	Knapper	51	0.180%	154.92x
85	Cliff	50	0.180%	20.25x
86	Kirkham	50	0.180%	12.69x
87	Proctor	50	0.180%	7.20x
88	Faulkner	49	0.170%	6.40x
89	Gratton	49	0.170%	43.54x
90	Toft	49	0.170%	44.36x
91	Wardle	49	0.170%	8.96x
92	Brookes	48	0.170%	7.23x
93	Kettle	48	0.170%	19.42x
94	Lees	48	0.170%	3.83x
95	Meir	47	0.170%	250.40x
96	Emery	46	0.160%	7.46x
97	Greatbatch	46	0.160%	215.76x
98	Podmore	46	0.160%	45.50x
99	Malkin	45	0.160%	48.53x
100	Heames	44	0.160%	561.94x