1881 census place

Darlington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Darlington, 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

1,485 surnames are listed for Darlington, Durham, covering 19,969 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robinson, with 442 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Darlington

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	Robinson	442	1.32%	4.13x
2	Thompson	318	0.950%	3.16x
3	Wilson	285	0.850%	1.85x
4	Watson	277	0.830%	3.56x
5	Johnson	268	0.800%	2.38x
6	Bell	248	0.740%	3.93x
7	Walker	240	0.720%	2.14x
8	Harrison	208	0.620%	2.79x
9	Wood	208	0.620%	1.95x
10	Hall	206	0.610%	2.09x
11	Robson	201	0.600%	9.10x
12	Hodgson	193	0.580%	8.30x
13	Simpson	181	0.540%	3.08x
14	Jackson	179	0.530%	1.91x
15	Atkinson	156	0.460%	4.77x
16	Graham	154	0.460%	4.00x
17	Dixon	137	0.410%	3.73x
18	Metcalfe	136	0.410%	17.75x
19	Scott	135	0.400%	1.59x
20	Hutchinson	125	0.370%	6.56x
21	Todd	122	0.360%	7.14x
22	Ward	122	0.360%	1.66x
23	Wilkinson	121	0.360%	2.36x
24	Nicholson	115	0.340%	4.82x
25	Barker	100	0.300%	2.28x
26	Richardson	97	0.290%	1.70x
27	Richmond	97	0.290%	13.19x
28	Carter	95	0.280%	1.69x
29	Walton	95	0.280%	4.02x
30	Chapman	92	0.270%	1.93x
31	Alderson	89	0.270%	19.12x
32	Forster	89	0.270%	8.09x
33	Oliver	88	0.260%	3.68x
34	Hunter	86	0.260%	2.50x
35	Pearson	84	0.250%	2.16x
36	Foster	82	0.240%	1.83x
37	Moses	79	0.240%	23.02x
38	Davison	77	0.230%	6.42x
39	Dunn	76	0.230%	2.72x
40	Henderson	74	0.220%	2.03x
41	Ridley	73	0.220%	11.26x
42	Dodds	72	0.210%	10.19x
43	Turnbull	70	0.210%	4.95x
44	Stainsby	68	0.200%	123.34x
45	Craggs	65	0.190%	37.64x
46	Sanderson	65	0.190%	4.69x
47	Dent	64	0.190%	10.01x
48	Longstaff	61	0.180%	25.76x
49	Bainbridge	60	0.180%	12.72x
50	Temple	60	0.180%	13.62x
51	Coates	58	0.170%	4.64x
52	Dobson	58	0.170%	3.92x
53	Hindle	58	0.170%	12.30x
54	Hudson	57	0.170%	2.07x
55	Noble	56	0.170%	4.02x
56	Spence	55	0.160%	4.96x
57	Crawford	54	0.160%	3.29x
58	Dodsworth	54	0.160%	38.55x
59	Raine	54	0.160%	19.32x
60	Bland	53	0.160%	7.62x
61	Nelson	53	0.160%	3.26x
62	Bowman	51	0.150%	5.82x
63	Swales	51	0.150%	21.74x
64	Coulson	49	0.150%	8.14x
65	Hammond	49	0.150%	2.56x
66	Calvert	48	0.140%	7.01x
67	Charlton	46	0.140%	4.78x
68	French	46	0.140%	2.81x
69	Shutt	46	0.140%	38.01x
70	Teasdale	46	0.140%	16.18x
71	Adamson	45	0.130%	5.07x
72	Airey	45	0.130%	17.64x
73	Dickinson	45	0.130%	3.14x
74	Heslop	45	0.130%	15.64x
75	Horn	45	0.130%	5.90x
76	Lancaster	45	0.130%	5.40x
77	Snaith	45	0.130%	31.55x
78	Denham	43	0.130%	14.54x
79	Wray	43	0.130%	9.53x
80	Allan	42	0.130%	1.99x
81	Harker	42	0.130%	11.89x
82	Park	42	0.130%	4.04x
83	Shields	42	0.130%	8.10x
84	Pattison	41	0.120%	7.68x
85	Sowerby	41	0.120%	22.66x
86	Lambert	40	0.120%	2.18x
87	Prior	40	0.120%	5.15x
88	Tate	40	0.120%	6.17x
89	Boyd	39	0.120%	3.31x
90	Bulmer	39	0.120%	14.69x
91	Fawcett	39	0.120%	6.01x
92	Whitfield	39	0.120%	5.82x
93	Best	38	0.110%	4.20x
94	Kipling	38	0.110%	47.50x
95	Layton	38	0.110%	14.15x
96	Summers	38	0.110%	4.04x
97	Kirby	37	0.110%	2.91x
98	Laidler	37	0.110%	27.77x
99	Lax	37	0.110%	57.63x
100	Lynch	37	0.110%	4.18x