1881 census place

Elswick surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Elswick, 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

1,608 surnames are listed for Elswick, Northumberland, covering 21,559 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 473 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Elswick

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	Thompson	473	1.36%	4.55x
2	Scott	382	1.10%	4.35x
3	Brown	364	1.05%	1.59x
4	Bell	333	0.960%	5.11x
5	Wilson	331	0.950%	2.08x
6	Robson	322	0.930%	14.10x
7	Graham	255	0.740%	6.40x
8	Watson	251	0.720%	3.12x
9	Armstrong	242	0.700%	9.13x
10	Johnson	226	0.650%	1.94x
11	Robinson	215	0.620%	1.94x
12	Richardson	214	0.620%	3.62x
13	Atkinson	193	0.560%	5.71x
14	Young	189	0.540%	2.54x
15	Clark	188	0.540%	1.80x
16	Henderson	187	0.540%	4.96x
17	Dixon	180	0.520%	4.74x
18	Hall	171	0.490%	1.68x
19	Nicholson	159	0.460%	6.45x
20	Anderson	150	0.430%	2.19x
21	Charlton	136	0.390%	13.68x
22	Gibson	136	0.390%	3.23x
23	Forster	133	0.380%	11.69x
24	Wilkinson	128	0.370%	2.42x
25	Simpson	127	0.370%	2.09x
26	Pearson	125	0.360%	3.10x
27	Dodds	124	0.360%	16.98x
28	Marshall	119	0.340%	2.05x
29	Turnbull	116	0.330%	7.93x
30	Davidson	109	0.310%	3.74x
31	Miller	108	0.310%	1.74x
32	Gray	107	0.310%	2.16x
33	Carr	105	0.300%	4.19x
34	Dawson	104	0.300%	2.72x
35	Hutchinson	99	0.290%	5.02x
36	Walton	96	0.280%	3.93x
37	Davison	94	0.270%	7.58x
38	Oliver	93	0.270%	3.76x
39	Patterson	91	0.260%	7.52x
40	Elliott	87	0.250%	2.96x
41	Murray	86	0.250%	2.00x
42	Reed	86	0.250%	3.40x
43	Hunter	81	0.230%	2.27x
44	Ridley	80	0.230%	11.93x
45	Rutherford	80	0.230%	9.45x
46	Dunn	75	0.220%	2.60x
47	Hetherington	73	0.210%	16.69x
48	Lamb	70	0.200%	3.83x
49	Burns	69	0.200%	2.96x
50	Little	69	0.200%	4.21x
51	Dickinson	68	0.200%	4.59x
52	Lawson	68	0.200%	3.33x
53	Todd	68	0.200%	3.85x
54	Potts	67	0.190%	5.79x
55	Fenwick	64	0.180%	14.08x
56	Burn	62	0.180%	13.28x
57	Storey	62	0.180%	7.03x
58	Pattison	59	0.170%	10.69x
59	Pringle	58	0.170%	10.61x
60	Tait	57	0.160%	5.58x
61	Whitfield	57	0.160%	8.23x
62	Williamson	55	0.160%	1.77x
63	Curry	54	0.160%	10.87x
64	Wallace	54	0.160%	2.27x
65	Angus	53	0.150%	10.68x
66	Purvis	53	0.150%	15.79x
67	Bates	52	0.150%	2.36x
68	Douglas	52	0.150%	3.09x
69	Rowell	51	0.150%	16.84x
70	Waugh	50	0.140%	10.57x
71	Jeffrey	49	0.140%	7.64x
72	Newton	49	0.140%	1.84x
73	Crawford	48	0.140%	2.83x
74	Hope	48	0.140%	4.07x
75	Short	48	0.140%	3.54x
76	Hodgson	47	0.140%	1.96x
77	Milburn	47	0.140%	15.18x
78	Hale	46	0.130%	3.70x
79	Kennedy	46	0.130%	2.20x
80	Noble	45	0.130%	3.12x
81	Coates	44	0.130%	3.40x
82	Dobson	44	0.130%	2.88x
83	Spence	44	0.130%	3.83x
84	Fairless	43	0.120%	62.60x
85	Pattinson	43	0.120%	13.85x
86	Best	41	0.120%	4.39x
87	Gordon	41	0.120%	1.88x
88	Hind	41	0.120%	9.36x
89	Nichol	40	0.120%	10.71x
90	Ord	40	0.120%	17.50x
91	Dodd	39	0.110%	2.76x
92	Harper	39	0.110%	1.76x
93	Humble	39	0.110%	23.71x
94	Urwin	39	0.110%	24.70x
95	Maughan	38	0.110%	19.62x
96	Pickering	38	0.110%	3.04x
97	Winter	38	0.110%	3.09x
98	Hedley	37	0.110%	10.44x
99	Heslop	37	0.110%	12.44x
100	Lambert	37	0.110%	1.95x