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 Inness, with 15 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
601	Inness	15	0.020%	30.15x
602	Jobey	15	0.020%	202.98x
603	Lavender	15	0.020%	3.66x
604	Laverick	15	0.020%	6.32x
605	Loades	15	0.020%	41.10x
606	Lyall	15	0.020%	3.38x
607	Mackey	15	0.020%	6.06x
608	Maddock	15	0.020%	2.52x
609	Medd	15	0.020%	12.76x
610	Moffat	15	0.020%	1.27x
611	Mulligan	15	0.020%	4.12x
612	Newstead	15	0.020%	6.64x
613	Obrien	15	0.020%	1.56x
614	Ormston	15	0.020%	13.17x
615	Orrick	15	0.020%	65.13x
616	Philips	15	0.020%	1.24x
617	Pow	15	0.020%	9.83x
618	Rock	15	0.020%	4.05x
619	Sowerby	15	0.020%	4.27x
620	Stamp	15	0.020%	3.14x
621	Stirling	15	0.020%	1.77x
622	Story	15	0.020%	3.72x
623	Tempest	15	0.020%	4.95x
624	Thew	15	0.020%	17.35x
625	Varty	15	0.020%	16.02x
626	Waddle	15	0.020%	19.56x
627	Wardlaw	15	0.020%	12.69x
628	Warriner	15	0.020%	7.86x
629	Wilde	15	0.020%	1.58x
630	Arrowsmith	14	0.020%	2.77x
631	Brownlow	14	0.020%	7.14x
632	Bulman	14	0.020%	5.91x
633	Bunn	14	0.020%	2.21x
634	Codling	14	0.020%	6.12x
635	Colman	14	0.020%	2.31x
636	Cossar	14	0.020%	18.36x
637	Dempsey	14	0.020%	3.43x
638	Elder	14	0.020%	2.04x
639	Flint	14	0.020%	1.20x
640	Gaddes	14	0.020%	53.25x
641	Handy	14	0.020%	6.24x
642	Hanratty	14	0.020%	39.05x
643	Hick	14	0.020%	4.62x
644	Iredale	14	0.020%	6.60x
645	Kane	14	0.020%	2.67x
646	Laird	14	0.020%	1.92x
647	Leech	14	0.020%	1.32x
648	Lothian	14	0.020%	9.48x
649	Manners	14	0.020%	4.35x
650	Millican	14	0.020%	11.38x
651	Mole	14	0.020%	2.77x
652	Oneill	14	0.020%	3.38x
653	Orwin	14	0.020%	24.50x
654	Peart	14	0.020%	3.78x
655	Place	14	0.020%	4.10x
656	Ranson	14	0.020%	4.35x
657	Scaife	14	0.020%	4.85x
658	Snowden	14	0.020%	2.42x
659	Somerset	14	0.020%	15.87x
660	Steven	14	0.020%	2.84x
661	Trobe	14	0.020%	100.65x
662	Westgarth	14	0.020%	12.37x
663	Winder	14	0.020%	3.28x
664	Woof	14	0.020%	13.34x
665	Yeoman	14	0.020%	3.41x
666	Anders	13	0.020%	11.02x
667	Atchison	13	0.020%	16.57x
668	Athey	13	0.020%	17.05x
669	Binks	13	0.020%	3.39x
670	Blanch	13	0.020%	10.39x
671	Bold	13	0.020%	7.21x
672	Bosomworth	13	0.020%	18.82x
673	Braithwaite	13	0.020%	1.72x
674	Can	13	0.020%	52.95x
675	Caris	13	0.020%	171.05x
676	Charters	13	0.020%	7.31x
677	Clasper	13	0.020%	16.53x
678	Crosier	13	0.020%	20.56x
679	Dotchin	13	0.020%	92.07x
680	Fairlamb	13	0.020%	38.85x
681	Finnigan	13	0.020%	5.11x
682	Gillender	13	0.020%	84.31x
683	Greason	13	0.020%	89.29x
684	Hemsley	13	0.020%	3.99x
685	Howson	13	0.020%	3.20x
686	Huntley	13	0.020%	2.83x
687	Hunton	13	0.020%	15.87x
688	Jarrett	13	0.020%	2.18x
689	Kirkwood	13	0.020%	2.21x
690	Landless	13	0.020%	45.33x
691	Lillie	13	0.020%	8.18x
692	Lupton	13	0.020%	2.76x
693	Matthewson	13	0.020%	13.91x
694	Melvin	13	0.020%	4.15x
695	Moodie	13	0.020%	4.26x
696	Morland	13	0.020%	7.11x
697	Mullin	13	0.020%	4.46x
698	Murry	13	0.020%	3.78x
699	Murton	13	0.020%	5.90x
700	Nugent	13	0.020%	3.77x