1881 census place

Kidderminster Borough surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Kidderminster Borough, Worcestershire 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

863 surnames are listed for Kidderminster Borough, Worcestershire, covering 11,256 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Edwards, with 178 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Kidderminster Borough

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	Edwards	178	0.800%	2.86x
2	Cooper	168	0.750%	3.09x
3	Price	168	0.750%	4.30x
4	Hill	149	0.670%	2.62x
5	Davis	141	0.630%	2.87x
6	Bennett	138	0.620%	3.76x
7	Brooks	125	0.560%	5.73x
8	Barker	111	0.500%	3.80x
9	Parker	110	0.490%	2.59x
10	Potter	108	0.480%	7.46x
11	Webb	101	0.450%	3.34x
12	Cook	100	0.450%	2.25x
13	Pugh	97	0.430%	11.37x
14	Hunt	92	0.410%	3.10x
15	Lloyd	91	0.410%	3.49x
16	Moule	87	0.390%	112.64x
17	Palmer	85	0.380%	3.23x
18	Perks	81	0.360%	34.86x
19	Cooke	75	0.340%	6.09x
20	Mason	74	0.330%	2.46x
21	Millward	71	0.320%	28.32x
22	Silk	71	0.320%	64.60x
23	Payne	69	0.310%	3.43x
24	Weaver	67	0.300%	11.54x
25	Humphries	65	0.290%	12.92x
26	Oakes	65	0.290%	20.10x
27	Pitt	65	0.290%	13.62x
28	Barber	64	0.290%	4.76x
29	Jordan	59	0.260%	5.98x
30	Thatcher	59	0.260%	28.76x
31	Cope	58	0.260%	11.49x
32	Walters	58	0.260%	5.45x
33	Willey	57	0.260%	28.34x
34	Hopkins	55	0.250%	4.09x
35	Lowe	55	0.250%	3.29x
36	Cole	54	0.240%	2.65x
37	Hardiman	54	0.240%	82.22x
38	Tyler	54	0.240%	8.19x
39	Willis	53	0.240%	4.46x
40	Watkins	52	0.230%	3.84x
41	Wheeler	52	0.230%	3.86x
42	Reynolds	51	0.230%	2.64x
43	Hooper	49	0.220%	5.18x
44	Page	49	0.220%	2.75x
45	Westwood	49	0.220%	13.08x
46	Haycock	48	0.220%	38.37x
47	Rollings	48	0.220%	69.30x
48	Walford	47	0.210%	34.28x
49	Brookes	46	0.210%	8.77x
50	Gale	46	0.210%	6.88x
51	Guest	46	0.210%	9.64x
52	Underwood	46	0.210%	7.63x
53	Wall	46	0.210%	5.89x
54	Baylis	45	0.200%	19.21x
55	Farmer	45	0.200%	6.45x
56	Mallard	45	0.200%	77.88x
57	Perrins	45	0.200%	66.32x
58	Coates	44	0.200%	5.29x
59	Crisp	44	0.200%	14.18x
60	Nicholls	44	0.200%	3.77x
61	Southall	44	0.200%	26.01x
62	Giles	43	0.190%	5.05x
63	Pearsall	43	0.190%	95.34x
64	Grove	42	0.190%	16.08x
65	Poole	39	0.170%	3.63x
66	Preece	39	0.170%	10.74x
67	Hartwell	38	0.170%	41.37x
68	Longmore	38	0.170%	69.53x
69	Gardener	36	0.160%	8.99x
70	Griffin	36	0.160%	3.43x
71	Hammond	36	0.160%	2.83x
72	Hyde	36	0.160%	5.24x
73	Whitehouse	36	0.160%	6.20x
74	Whittall	36	0.160%	78.38x
75	Oakley	35	0.160%	7.40x
76	Pardoe	35	0.160%	31.85x
77	Rowley	35	0.160%	5.97x
78	Waldron	35	0.160%	17.80x
79	Field	34	0.150%	3.06x
80	Mann	33	0.150%	2.81x
81	Maylott	33	0.150%	456.43x
82	Phipps	33	0.150%	9.99x
83	Starr	33	0.150%	30.01x
84	Wilkes	33	0.150%	8.53x
85	Bowen	32	0.140%	3.47x
86	Caswell	32	0.140%	29.56x
87	Crane	32	0.140%	6.79x
88	Dyer	32	0.140%	3.70x
89	Tovey	32	0.140%	24.46x
90	Whatley	32	0.140%	37.06x
91	Beech	31	0.140%	9.40x
92	Chamberlain	31	0.140%	5.10x
93	Jevons	31	0.140%	79.06x
94	Bayes	30	0.130%	45.06x
95	Broom	30	0.130%	10.90x
96	Piper	30	0.130%	6.80x
97	Wilks	30	0.130%	8.54x
98	Ayers	29	0.130%	21.63x
99	Booton	29	0.130%	164.12x
100	Bourne	29	0.130%	6.70x