1881 census place

Gateshead surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Gateshead, 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

2,382 surnames are listed for Gateshead, Durham, covering 48,451 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 879 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Gateshead

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	879	1.35%	0.96x
2	Thompson	877	1.35%	4.50x
3	Robson	826	1.27%	19.29x
4	Wilson	771	1.18%	2.58x
5	Brown	712	1.09%	1.66x
6	Watson	499	0.770%	3.31x
7	Bell	496	0.760%	4.06x
8	Scott	488	0.750%	2.96x
9	Hall	474	0.730%	2.48x
10	Robinson	404	0.620%	1.95x
11	Richardson	388	0.600%	3.50x
12	Johnson	373	0.570%	1.71x
13	Henderson	347	0.530%	4.91x
14	Anderson	344	0.530%	2.68x
15	Taylor	335	0.510%	0.81x
16	Armstrong	322	0.490%	6.47x
17	Atkinson	317	0.490%	5.00x
18	Carr	305	0.470%	6.50x
19	Miller	293	0.450%	2.52x
20	Young	293	0.450%	2.10x
21	Clark	292	0.450%	1.49x
22	Wilkinson	288	0.440%	2.90x
23	Wright	273	0.420%	1.31x
24	Dixon	271	0.420%	3.80x
25	Graham	269	0.410%	3.60x
26	Elliott	267	0.410%	4.84x
27	Turnbull	267	0.410%	9.73x
28	Nicholson	266	0.410%	5.75x
29	Forster	263	0.400%	12.33x
30	Gibson	244	0.380%	3.09x
31	Harrison	238	0.370%	1.65x
32	Davidson	226	0.350%	4.13x
33	Walker	219	0.340%	1.01x
34	Wood	216	0.330%	1.04x
35	Hutchinson	213	0.330%	5.76x
36	Gray	209	0.320%	2.25x
37	Hunter	204	0.310%	3.05x
38	Dodds	203	0.310%	14.82x
39	White	202	0.310%	0.97x
40	Davison	195	0.300%	8.38x
41	Hedley	192	0.300%	28.89x
42	Patterson	187	0.290%	8.24x
43	Dunn	184	0.280%	3.40x
44	Oliver	180	0.280%	3.88x
45	Jackson	174	0.270%	0.96x
46	Turner	174	0.270%	0.96x
47	Ridley	172	0.260%	13.68x
48	Charlton	170	0.260%	9.12x
49	Rutherford	164	0.250%	10.33x
50	Lawson	162	0.250%	4.22x
51	Fenwick	159	0.240%	18.65x
52	Simpson	158	0.240%	1.39x
53	Murray	157	0.240%	1.95x
54	Kelly	154	0.240%	2.16x
55	Pearson	151	0.230%	2.00x
56	Marshall	147	0.230%	1.35x
57	Reed	145	0.220%	3.05x
58	Martin	144	0.220%	0.90x
59	Kennedy	141	0.220%	3.59x
60	Lamb	140	0.220%	4.08x
61	Todd	138	0.210%	4.17x
62	Campbell	134	0.210%	1.22x
63	Cook	134	0.210%	1.04x
64	Tait	130	0.200%	6.79x
65	Burns	129	0.200%	2.95x
66	Murphy	128	0.200%	2.46x
67	Sanderson	122	0.190%	4.54x
68	Robertson	119	0.180%	1.09x
69	Storey	118	0.180%	7.14x
70	Bowman	110	0.170%	6.47x
71	Dobson	110	0.170%	3.83x
72	Potts	107	0.160%	4.93x
73	Reay	107	0.160%	18.94x
74	Moore	106	0.160%	0.81x
75	Newton	105	0.160%	2.11x
76	Maddison	104	0.160%	16.31x
77	Nixon	101	0.160%	5.10x
78	Black	100	0.150%	2.37x
79	Stewart	100	0.150%	0.98x
80	Carter	96	0.150%	0.88x
81	Collins	96	0.150%	1.03x
82	Douglas	95	0.150%	3.01x
83	Maughan	95	0.150%	26.15x
84	Coulson	94	0.140%	8.05x
85	Walton	94	0.140%	2.05x
86	Johnston	92	0.140%	1.75x
87	Gordon	91	0.140%	2.22x
88	Hood	91	0.140%	5.05x
89	Renwick	91	0.140%	20.50x
90	Grey	90	0.140%	6.38x
91	Pringle	90	0.140%	8.78x
92	Riley	90	0.140%	1.75x
93	Adams	89	0.140%	0.93x
94	Foster	89	0.140%	1.02x
95	Bainbridge	88	0.140%	9.62x
96	Drummond	87	0.130%	6.73x
97	Holmes	87	0.130%	1.10x
98	Mason	87	0.130%	0.99x
99	Urwin	86	0.130%	29.04x
100	Waugh	86	0.130%	9.70x