1881 census place

Handsworth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Handsworth, Staffordshire 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

1,246 surnames are listed for Handsworth, Staffordshire, covering 9,197 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hill, with 181 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Handsworth

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	Hill	181	0.740%	2.92x
2	Adams	97	0.400%	2.71x
3	Horton	89	0.370%	9.87x
4	Butler	81	0.330%	3.42x
5	Reynolds	78	0.320%	3.70x
6	Rose	75	0.310%	4.16x
7	Griffin	69	0.280%	6.03x
8	Smallwood	66	0.270%	29.43x
9	Whitehouse	63	0.260%	9.96x
10	Lowe	57	0.230%	3.13x
11	Parsons	53	0.220%	2.87x
12	Darby	51	0.210%	13.07x
13	Westwood	51	0.210%	12.51x
14	Freeman	50	0.210%	3.22x
15	Gilbert	50	0.210%	3.61x
16	Woodhouse	49	0.200%	8.51x
17	Parkes	46	0.190%	9.24x
18	Vaughan	46	0.190%	5.55x
19	Lane	44	0.180%	2.63x
20	Harper	43	0.180%	2.76x
21	Reeves	43	0.180%	4.32x
22	Read	42	0.170%	2.68x
23	Stanley	42	0.170%	4.49x
24	Wilkins	42	0.170%	3.91x
25	Crump	40	0.160%	15.24x
26	Hemming	40	0.160%	18.59x
27	Willetts	40	0.160%	29.41x
28	Nicholls	39	0.160%	3.07x
29	Perkins	38	0.160%	3.48x
30	Grove	37	0.150%	13.01x
31	Jennings	37	0.150%	3.00x
32	Brookes	36	0.150%	6.31x
33	Sheldon	36	0.150%	9.74x
34	Yardley	36	0.150%	23.33x
35	Aston	35	0.140%	8.73x
36	Bowen	35	0.140%	3.48x
37	Foden	35	0.140%	32.75x
38	Stokes	35	0.140%	3.41x
39	Jordan	33	0.140%	3.07x
40	Kirby	33	0.140%	3.58x
41	Millward	33	0.140%	12.09x
42	Wilkes	33	0.140%	7.83x
43	Barnett	32	0.130%	2.92x
44	Leech	32	0.130%	8.08x
45	Lyster	31	0.130%	261.60x
46	Perrins	31	0.130%	41.98x
47	Spittle	30	0.120%	43.33x
48	Vale	30	0.120%	17.28x
49	Lines	29	0.120%	11.24x
50	Benson	28	0.120%	4.25x
51	Fellows	28	0.120%	8.51x
52	Hope	27	0.110%	3.26x
53	Neale	27	0.110%	4.68x
54	Finney	26	0.110%	12.34x
55	Sunderland	26	0.110%	9.32x
56	Bill	25	0.100%	28.90x
57	Child	25	0.100%	6.05x
58	Faux	25	0.100%	70.48x
59	Judd	25	0.100%	7.92x
60	Hadley	24	0.100%	7.26x
61	Marlow	24	0.100%	8.41x
62	Newey	24	0.100%	24.22x
63	Perks	24	0.100%	9.49x
64	Sadler	24	0.100%	4.19x
65	Skidmore	24	0.100%	13.44x
66	Bartlam	23	0.090%	87.75x
67	Beesley	23	0.090%	11.77x
68	Billingham	23	0.090%	15.61x
69	Drinkwater	23	0.090%	9.59x
70	Goode	23	0.090%	7.31x
71	Hawkes	23	0.090%	5.87x
72	Nock	23	0.090%	21.41x
73	Partridge	23	0.090%	3.62x
74	Timms	23	0.090%	9.38x
75	Wakefield	23	0.090%	5.29x
76	Bryan	22	0.090%	3.65x
77	Guest	22	0.090%	4.24x
78	Ryland	22	0.090%	36.48x
79	Ryley	22	0.090%	35.02x
80	Edmonds	21	0.090%	4.52x
81	Garland	21	0.090%	6.52x
82	Shirley	21	0.090%	10.57x
83	Talbot	21	0.090%	3.47x
84	Warwick	21	0.090%	6.25x
85	Lancaster	20	0.080%	3.31x
86	Pattison	20	0.080%	5.17x
87	Pemberton	20	0.080%	6.48x
88	Salt	20	0.080%	5.54x
89	Dudley	19	0.080%	5.21x
90	Floyd	19	0.080%	8.22x
91	Garratt	19	0.080%	7.71x
92	Reading	19	0.080%	10.11x
93	Spurrier	19	0.080%	77.02x
94	Bayliss	18	0.070%	5.85x
95	Fulford	18	0.070%	22.18x
96	Hands	18	0.070%	7.39x
97	Hems	18	0.070%	115.53x
98	Ireland	18	0.070%	3.19x
99	Leonard	18	0.070%	3.42x
100	Pitt	18	0.070%	3.47x