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 Weaver, with 76 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
101	Weaver	76	0.160%	6.30x
102	Woodhouse	75	0.160%	6.82x
103	Adams	74	0.160%	1.08x
104	Fisher	74	0.160%	1.36x
105	Knowles	74	0.160%	2.99x
106	Billingham	72	0.160%	25.62x
107	Massey	72	0.160%	6.07x
108	Chilton	71	0.150%	19.05x
109	Lovell	71	0.150%	7.32x
110	Newey	70	0.150%	37.02x
111	Plant	69	0.150%	6.73x
112	Clayton	68	0.150%	2.70x
113	Burton	67	0.140%	1.70x
114	Willitts	65	0.140%	196.14x
115	Cash	64	0.140%	20.82x
116	Nock	64	0.140%	31.21x
117	Palmer	64	0.140%	1.17x
118	Bill	60	0.130%	36.34x
119	Wooldridge	60	0.130%	23.67x
120	Haywood	59	0.130%	6.06x
121	Chambers	58	0.130%	2.20x
122	Slater	58	0.130%	2.07x
123	Arnold	57	0.120%	2.28x
124	Collett	57	0.120%	9.58x
125	Naylor	57	0.120%	3.26x
126	Tilley	57	0.120%	9.36x
127	Barnsley	56	0.120%	30.77x
128	Stokes	55	0.120%	2.81x
129	Jukes	54	0.120%	19.33x
130	Portman	54	0.120%	63.87x
131	Bannister	53	0.110%	6.62x
132	Holloway	53	0.110%	3.73x
133	Hodgetts	52	0.110%	24.07x
134	Mullett	52	0.110%	35.83x
135	Wakelam	52	0.110%	106.95x
136	Ainsbury	51	0.110%	433.31x
137	Bate	51	0.110%	6.49x
138	Farmer	51	0.110%	3.52x
139	Hollies	51	0.110%	140.73x
140	Poole	51	0.110%	2.28x
141	Heathcock	50	0.110%	116.55x
142	Oliver	50	0.110%	1.51x
143	Granger	49	0.110%	10.33x
144	Hinton	49	0.110%	7.87x
145	Holland	49	0.110%	1.48x
146	Kitson	49	0.110%	13.22x
147	Payne	49	0.110%	1.17x
148	Bird	48	0.100%	1.35x
149	Hingley	48	0.100%	44.66x
150	Prince	48	0.100%	4.58x
151	Dainty	47	0.100%	36.74x
152	Elwell	47	0.100%	35.54x
153	Hobbs	47	0.100%	2.78x
154	Mansell	47	0.100%	8.67x
155	Reed	47	0.100%	1.39x
156	Rollinson	47	0.100%	18.78x
157	Willis	47	0.100%	1.91x
158	Bayliss	46	0.100%	7.84x
159	Bourne	46	0.100%	5.11x
160	Silvers	46	0.100%	185.63x
161	Woolley	46	0.100%	5.00x
162	Bunn	45	0.100%	9.95x
163	Hale	45	0.100%	2.70x
164	Hartland	45	0.100%	22.08x
165	Hipkiss	45	0.100%	50.01x
166	Hubble	45	0.100%	40.87x
167	Lavender	45	0.100%	15.42x
168	Pearsall	45	0.100%	48.03x
169	Rowley	45	0.100%	3.69x
170	Vanes	45	0.100%	227.04x
171	Walters	45	0.100%	2.04x
172	Buckley	44	0.090%	1.74x
173	Hyde	44	0.090%	3.08x
174	Millward	44	0.090%	8.45x
175	Grove	43	0.090%	7.93x
176	Oakes	43	0.090%	6.40x
177	Pitt	43	0.090%	4.34x
178	Rolinson	43	0.090%	129.13x
179	Beese	42	0.090%	127.35x
180	Corbett	42	0.090%	4.62x
181	Hamblett	42	0.090%	58.58x
182	Hayward	42	0.090%	2.12x
183	Higgins	42	0.090%	1.79x
184	Weston	42	0.090%	2.22x
185	Coley	41	0.090%	14.88x
186	Greenfield	41	0.090%	7.95x
187	Sidaway	41	0.090%	60.04x
188	Bagley	40	0.090%	11.66x
189	Golding	40	0.090%	4.89x
190	Holden	40	0.090%	1.57x
191	Law	40	0.090%	1.91x
192	Little	40	0.090%	1.82x
193	Worton	40	0.090%	40.80x
194	Horne	39	0.080%	3.86x
195	Nott	39	0.080%	11.92x
196	Sutton	39	0.080%	1.32x
197	Rock	38	0.080%	14.41x
198	Sheppard	38	0.080%	2.37x
199	Turley	38	0.080%	15.19x
200	Vaughan	38	0.080%	2.40x