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 Welsh, with 47 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
201	Welsh	47	0.070%	1.82x
202	Briggs	46	0.070%	1.30x
203	Burdis	46	0.070%	83.35x
204	Dickson	46	0.070%	1.91x
205	Main	46	0.070%	4.32x
206	Winter	46	0.070%	1.99x
207	Cowan	45	0.070%	3.39x
208	Hindmarsh	45	0.070%	17.22x
209	Parkinson	45	0.070%	1.44x
210	Stark	45	0.070%	5.05x
211	Sweeney	45	0.070%	5.16x
212	Tindale	45	0.070%	24.00x
213	Alexander	44	0.070%	1.28x
214	Angus	44	0.070%	4.73x
215	Carruthers	44	0.070%	5.11x
216	Crow	44	0.070%	4.48x
217	Hills	44	0.070%	2.45x
218	Lumsden	44	0.070%	8.11x
219	Moody	44	0.070%	2.59x
220	Pickering	44	0.070%	1.87x
221	Soulsby	44	0.070%	23.04x
222	Monkhouse	43	0.070%	28.39x
223	Spence	43	0.070%	2.00x
224	Wardle	43	0.070%	3.41x
225	Forrest	42	0.060%	2.50x
226	Greenwell	42	0.060%	19.68x
227	Adamson	41	0.060%	2.38x
228	Bone	41	0.060%	3.40x
229	Errington	41	0.060%	11.31x
230	Hind	41	0.060%	4.99x
231	Naylor	41	0.060%	1.67x
232	Shipley	41	0.060%	7.13x
233	Simm	41	0.060%	16.28x
234	Alderson	40	0.060%	4.43x
235	Dinning	40	0.060%	27.56x
236	Rochester	40	0.060%	23.48x
237	Smart	40	0.060%	1.35x
238	Blakey	39	0.060%	7.47x
239	Carrick	39	0.060%	8.33x
240	Laws	39	0.060%	5.39x
241	Longstaff	39	0.060%	8.49x
242	Summers	39	0.060%	2.14x
243	Batey	38	0.060%	14.93x
244	French	38	0.060%	1.20x
245	Hopper	38	0.060%	4.09x
246	Johnstone	38	0.060%	1.29x
247	Cain	37	0.060%	2.74x
248	Cowen	37	0.060%	10.36x
249	Coxon	37	0.060%	7.44x
250	Ferry	37	0.060%	18.00x
251	Frazer	37	0.060%	7.34x
252	Gladstone	37	0.060%	21.05x
253	Irwin	37	0.060%	6.76x
254	Keenan	37	0.060%	6.71x
255	Allison	36	0.060%	1.95x
256	Greener	36	0.060%	19.00x
257	Hannah	36	0.060%	4.26x
258	Heppell	36	0.060%	34.95x
259	Kent	36	0.060%	1.31x
260	March	36	0.060%	5.14x
261	Oxley	36	0.060%	3.95x
262	Ray	36	0.060%	2.80x
263	Shotton	36	0.060%	15.99x
264	Cowans	35	0.050%	49.11x
265	Donaldson	35	0.050%	1.89x
266	Elsdon	35	0.050%	29.29x
267	Gilroy	35	0.050%	13.27x
268	Lynn	35	0.050%	6.16x
269	Spoors	35	0.050%	43.07x
270	Wake	35	0.050%	6.68x
271	Woodcock	35	0.050%	1.88x
272	Barras	34	0.050%	26.84x
273	Boyd	34	0.050%	1.49x
274	Hepple	34	0.050%	24.68x
275	Hume	34	0.050%	3.68x
276	Jobling	34	0.050%	13.67x
277	Morrow	34	0.050%	12.83x
278	Paxton	34	0.050%	6.55x
279	Spraggon	34	0.050%	77.86x
280	Trotter	34	0.050%	4.98x
281	Conway	33	0.050%	2.71x
282	Fawcett	33	0.050%	2.62x
283	Garrett	33	0.050%	2.23x
284	Hay	33	0.050%	1.38x
285	Heslop	33	0.050%	5.91x
286	Hull	33	0.050%	2.43x
287	Monaghan	33	0.050%	7.00x
288	Nelson	33	0.050%	1.05x
289	Ruddick	33	0.050%	21.24x
290	Surtees	33	0.050%	16.88x
291	Wall	33	0.050%	1.45x
292	Connor	32	0.050%	1.67x
293	Crawley	32	0.050%	3.79x
294	Galloway	32	0.050%	2.86x
295	Kirkley	32	0.050%	40.46x
296	Mackin	32	0.050%	32.73x
297	Parkin	32	0.050%	1.83x
298	Ramsay	32	0.050%	1.91x
299	Seymour	32	0.050%	2.41x
300	Snowball	32	0.050%	15.12x