1881 census place

Dudley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dudley, Worcestershire 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

1,428 surnames are listed for Dudley, Worcestershire, covering 33,626 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 934 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dudley

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	Smith	934	2.01%	1.43x
2	Round	584	1.26%	137.43x
3	Davies	482	1.04%	2.04x
4	Taylor	406	0.880%	1.37x
5	Hill	363	0.780%	3.07x
6	Hughes	359	0.770%	2.76x
7	Woodall	345	0.740%	92.48x
8	Robinson	326	0.700%	2.20x
9	Parkes	315	0.680%	33.16x
10	Price	298	0.640%	3.67x
11	Wright	293	0.630%	1.97x
12	Edwards	286	0.620%	2.21x
13	Evans	284	0.610%	1.40x
14	Shaw	273	0.590%	3.20x
15	Turner	264	0.570%	2.04x
16	Timmins	263	0.570%	70.50x
17	Walker	262	0.560%	1.69x
18	Whitehouse	251	0.540%	20.81x
19	Darby	250	0.540%	33.58x
20	Guest	242	0.520%	24.42x
21	Pearson	237	0.510%	4.40x
22	Wood	231	0.500%	1.56x
23	Jewkes	224	0.480%	385.74x
24	Morris	214	0.460%	2.07x
25	Baker	209	0.450%	2.06x
26	Homer	209	0.450%	59.22x
27	Fellows	203	0.440%	32.34x
28	Marsh	200	0.430%	6.05x
29	Harper	199	0.430%	6.70x
30	Lloyd	199	0.430%	3.67x
31	Smart	196	0.420%	9.28x
32	Cooper	193	0.420%	1.71x
33	Grainger	186	0.400%	26.09x
34	Mason	185	0.400%	2.97x
35	Griffiths	184	0.400%	2.42x
36	Jackson	184	0.400%	1.42x
37	Raybould	184	0.400%	131.43x
38	Willetts	179	0.390%	68.96x
39	Southall	164	0.350%	46.67x
40	Wilkinson	164	0.350%	2.32x
41	Dunn	160	0.350%	4.15x
42	Cole	159	0.340%	3.76x
43	Hall	159	0.340%	1.17x
44	Hickman	158	0.340%	20.25x
45	Harris	155	0.330%	1.32x
46	Bradley	154	0.330%	4.14x
47	Danks	150	0.320%	74.28x
48	Westwood	148	0.320%	19.03x
49	Oakley	144	0.310%	14.66x
50	Webb	144	0.310%	2.29x
51	Davis	143	0.310%	1.40x
52	Hadley	136	0.290%	21.54x
53	Aston	135	0.290%	17.65x
54	Crew	133	0.290%	45.42x
55	Bennett	129	0.280%	1.69x
56	Wilkes	127	0.270%	15.80x
57	Mills	125	0.270%	2.08x
58	Hampton	121	0.260%	16.53x
59	Ward	121	0.260%	1.19x
60	Dudley	116	0.250%	16.67x
61	Hancox	115	0.250%	32.55x
62	Parsons	113	0.240%	3.21x
63	Skidmore	112	0.240%	32.86x
64	Horton	109	0.240%	6.33x
65	Phillips	109	0.240%	1.31x
66	Fletcher	107	0.230%	2.02x
67	Downing	105	0.230%	13.02x
68	Haden	104	0.220%	70.32x
69	Nicklin	104	0.220%	56.53x
70	Stevens	104	0.220%	2.15x
71	Rollason	100	0.220%	66.84x
72	Harvey	98	0.210%	1.98x
73	Shakespeare	98	0.210%	57.84x
74	Garratt	97	0.210%	20.62x
75	Lee	94	0.200%	1.24x
76	Brooks	93	0.200%	2.05x
77	Lilley	92	0.200%	14.33x
78	Allen	91	0.200%	1.04x
79	Powell	90	0.190%	1.56x
80	Brookes	89	0.190%	8.17x
81	Finch	89	0.190%	5.76x
82	Tromans	88	0.190%	84.94x
83	Gill	87	0.190%	2.65x
84	Millard	86	0.190%	11.20x
85	Bowater	85	0.180%	125.31x
86	Brownhill	84	0.180%	51.71x
87	Ball	83	0.180%	2.17x
88	Rhodes	82	0.180%	3.81x
89	Spittle	81	0.170%	61.32x
90	Matthews	79	0.170%	1.95x
91	Priest	79	0.170%	13.01x
92	Sheldon	79	0.170%	11.20x
93	Pritchard	78	0.170%	3.12x
94	Griffin	77	0.170%	3.53x
95	Lees	77	0.170%	3.74x
96	Russon	77	0.170%	119.53x
97	Cadman	76	0.160%	20.10x
98	Jeavons	76	0.160%	63.00x
99	Perkins	76	0.160%	3.64x
100	Wall	76	0.160%	4.69x