1881 census place

Darlaston surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Darlaston, 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

447 surnames are listed for Darlaston, Staffordshire, covering 6,373 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Foster, with 328 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Darlaston

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	Foster	328	2.41%	18.00x
2	Wilkes	261	1.92%	110.51x
3	Butler	202	1.48%	15.20x
4	Bayley	191	1.40%	86.94x
5	Harper	162	1.19%	18.57x
6	Horton	136	1.00%	26.89x
7	Whitehouse	101	0.740%	28.49x
8	Page	97	0.710%	8.90x
9	Carter	89	0.650%	3.89x
10	Giles	89	0.650%	17.14x
11	Partridge	88	0.650%	24.72x
12	Small	79	0.580%	22.85x
13	Bird	70	0.510%	6.72x
14	Humpage	67	0.490%	412.56x
15	Yates	67	0.490%	7.15x
16	Dowen	61	0.450%	993.49x
17	Baggott	57	0.420%	143.98x
18	Cotterill	57	0.420%	47.73x
19	Dangerfield	57	0.420%	143.47x
20	Gibbons	57	0.420%	13.01x
21	Reynolds	57	0.420%	4.83x
22	Fellows	55	0.400%	29.82x
23	Simkin	45	0.330%	157.45x
24	Walters	45	0.330%	6.93x
25	Hale	44	0.320%	9.00x
26	Sheldon	44	0.320%	21.23x
27	Corbett	43	0.320%	16.10x
28	Gough	41	0.300%	10.26x
29	Cresswell	40	0.290%	27.83x
30	Haynes	39	0.290%	8.02x
31	Banks	38	0.280%	5.44x
32	Beech	38	0.280%	18.88x
33	Hubbard	37	0.270%	11.17x
34	Askey	36	0.260%	112.04x
35	Blakemore	36	0.260%	61.90x
36	Belcher	35	0.260%	21.32x
37	Eaton	33	0.240%	8.65x
38	Perkins	33	0.240%	5.38x
39	Aston	32	0.230%	14.23x
40	Stokes	32	0.230%	5.56x
41	Tonks	32	0.230%	44.65x
42	Orton	31	0.230%	24.21x
43	Wiles	31	0.230%	26.25x
44	Dooley	30	0.220%	35.71x
45	Seaman	29	0.210%	27.45x
46	Tranter	29	0.210%	28.91x
47	Cotton	28	0.210%	8.61x
48	Fieldhouse	28	0.210%	42.97x
49	Groves	28	0.210%	7.31x
50	Guest	27	0.200%	9.27x
51	Millington	27	0.200%	13.08x
52	Nightingale	27	0.200%	11.76x
53	Yeomans	27	0.200%	24.03x
54	Constable	26	0.190%	17.25x
55	Cottrell	26	0.190%	21.43x
56	Myatt	25	0.180%	38.53x
57	Norton	25	0.180%	5.52x
58	Benton	24	0.180%	17.01x
59	Bowker	24	0.180%	18.06x
60	Causer	24	0.180%	117.70x
61	Holder	24	0.180%	13.10x
62	Teece	24	0.180%	133.85x
63	Yardley	24	0.180%	27.74x
64	Garrington	23	0.170%	260.48x
65	Kimberley	23	0.170%	46.32x
66	Wootton	23	0.170%	18.59x
67	Tyler	22	0.160%	5.47x
68	Winsper	22	0.160%	358.31x
69	Salt	21	0.150%	10.37x
70	Ash	20	0.150%	8.88x
71	Marlow	20	0.150%	12.50x
72	Cotterell	19	0.140%	32.88x
73	Grainger	19	0.140%	9.07x
74	Harriss	19	0.140%	21.34x
75	Ashmore	18	0.130%	17.71x
76	Hampton	18	0.130%	8.37x
77	Horne	18	0.130%	6.07x
78	Jukes	18	0.130%	21.93x
79	Marson	18	0.130%	29.02x
80	Salisbury	18	0.130%	13.30x
81	Bagley	17	0.120%	16.86x
82	Colclough	17	0.120%	27.43x
83	Howl	17	0.120%	151.92x
84	Handley	16	0.120%	6.96x
85	Penrice	16	0.120%	133.22x
86	Ray	16	0.120%	5.93x
87	Spink	16	0.120%	14.55x
88	Willetts	16	0.120%	20.98x
89	Adey	15	0.110%	34.19x
90	Beach	15	0.110%	11.56x
91	Burfoot	15	0.110%	100.20x
92	Bartram	14	0.100%	20.75x
93	Bassett	14	0.100%	6.58x
94	Blackham	14	0.100%	42.85x
95	Chew	14	0.100%	20.20x
96	Clamp	14	0.100%	33.66x
97	Dimmock	14	0.100%	28.04x
98	Haden	14	0.100%	32.21x
99	Jeavons	14	0.100%	39.49x
100	Leek	14	0.100%	21.23x