1881 census place

Byker surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Byker, Northumberland 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

910 surnames are listed for Byker, Northumberland, covering 10,903 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Tweddell, with 22 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Byker

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	Tweddell	22	0.100%	124.65x
102	Winship	22	0.100%	49.94x
103	Bryson	21	0.100%	12.75x
104	Daglish	21	0.100%	47.67x
105	Petrie	21	0.100%	8.22x
106	Teasdale	21	0.100%	11.53x
107	Toward	21	0.100%	110.88x
108	Bulman	20	0.090%	25.55x
109	Darling	20	0.090%	9.72x
110	Frazer	20	0.090%	12.01x
111	Gilroy	20	0.090%	22.96x
112	Heron	20	0.090%	9.71x
113	Matfin	20	0.090%	754.72x
114	Moffatt	20	0.090%	14.47x
115	Raine	20	0.090%	11.17x
116	Atkin	19	0.090%	6.62x
117	Brewis	19	0.090%	30.40x
118	Harle	19	0.090%	39.00x
119	Hudspeth	19	0.090%	94.57x
120	Liddle	19	0.090%	7.51x
121	Pescod	19	0.090%	104.68x
122	Rippon	19	0.090%	25.41x
123	Snowball	19	0.090%	27.19x
124	Ure	19	0.090%	28.47x
125	Archbold	18	0.080%	35.38x
126	Craggs	18	0.080%	16.28x
127	Fairbairn	18	0.080%	11.34x
128	Sewell	18	0.080%	3.96x
129	Wishart	18	0.080%	10.69x
130	Annan	17	0.080%	56.42x
131	Denham	17	0.080%	8.98x
132	Donnison	17	0.080%	57.24x
133	Douglass	17	0.080%	12.45x
134	Gallagher	17	0.080%	5.21x
135	Kidd	17	0.080%	3.89x
136	Liddell	17	0.080%	8.63x
137	Pattison	17	0.080%	4.97x
138	Spoors	17	0.080%	63.36x
139	Welford	17	0.080%	28.41x
140	Bainbridge	16	0.070%	5.30x
141	Crozier	16	0.070%	15.86x
142	Dryden	16	0.070%	12.36x
143	Grieveson	16	0.070%	133.56x
144	Hastings	16	0.070%	5.85x
145	Hopper	16	0.070%	5.21x
146	Jameson	16	0.070%	6.73x
147	Leighton	16	0.070%	6.92x
148	Lightfoot	16	0.070%	5.35x
149	Maughan	16	0.070%	13.34x
150	Reddy	16	0.070%	51.15x
151	Stoddart	16	0.070%	8.92x
152	Cuthbertson	15	0.070%	9.03x
153	Dickenson	15	0.070%	4.60x
154	Dodgson	15	0.070%	14.37x
155	Dowson	15	0.070%	12.77x
156	Dunbar	15	0.070%	6.08x
157	Eltringham	15	0.070%	66.37x
158	Jobson	15	0.070%	11.88x
159	Navin	15	0.070%	141.24x
160	Ormston	15	0.070%	39.89x
161	Affleck	14	0.070%	28.24x
162	Buxton	14	0.070%	4.34x
163	Courtney	14	0.070%	9.08x
164	Delany	14	0.070%	39.58x
165	Jull	14	0.070%	101.08x
166	Mckay	14	0.070%	27.22x
167	Monaghan	14	0.070%	8.99x
168	Paxton	14	0.070%	8.17x
169	Routledge	14	0.070%	7.66x
170	Ryles	14	0.070%	72.54x
171	Tulip	14	0.070%	40.49x
172	Barkas	13	0.060%	266.39x
173	Barret	13	0.060%	21.32x
174	Birkett	13	0.060%	6.27x
175	Grahamslaw	13	0.060%	292.13x
176	Horden	13	0.060%	68.39x
177	Kirkwood	13	0.060%	6.69x
178	Lackenby	13	0.060%	82.38x
179	Lakey	13	0.060%	59.42x
180	Lilley	13	0.060%	4.37x
181	Lindsey	13	0.060%	11.89x
182	Lockey	13	0.060%	25.49x
183	Mckenzie	13	0.060%	18.10x
184	Moat	13	0.060%	31.30x
185	Mould	13	0.060%	7.06x
186	Ogle	13	0.060%	18.93x
187	Percy	13	0.060%	6.49x
188	Venus	13	0.060%	53.76x
189	Weddell	13	0.060%	35.67x
190	Batson	12	0.060%	20.03x
191	Beautyman	12	0.060%	192.31x
192	Blacklock	12	0.060%	13.15x
193	Bonner	12	0.060%	6.36x
194	Bowmaker	12	0.060%	96.15x
195	Bramwell	12	0.060%	9.90x
196	Buchan	12	0.060%	4.32x
197	Burdis	12	0.060%	65.86x
198	Deans	12	0.060%	8.24x
199	Flinn	12	0.060%	9.25x
200	Handyside	12	0.060%	39.63x