1881 census place

Longbenton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Longbenton, Northumberland 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

843 surnames are listed for Longbenton, Northumberland, covering 9,158 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 257 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Longbenton

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	Thompson	257	1.40%	4.66x
2	Robson	189	1.03%	15.60x
3	Hall	164	0.890%	3.03x
4	Watson	159	0.860%	3.72x
5	Scott	145	0.790%	3.11x
6	Bell	119	0.650%	3.44x
7	Richardson	115	0.620%	3.67x
8	Bradley	111	0.600%	7.51x
9	Gibson	105	0.570%	4.70x
10	Carr	94	0.510%	7.08x
11	Charlton	94	0.510%	17.82x
12	Atkinson	85	0.460%	4.74x
13	Henderson	85	0.460%	4.25x
14	Mason	82	0.450%	3.31x
15	Forster	80	0.430%	13.25x
16	Hunter	78	0.420%	4.13x
17	Dodds	77	0.420%	19.87x
18	Hedley	77	0.420%	40.95x
19	Nicholson	72	0.390%	5.50x
20	Gray	70	0.380%	2.66x
21	Elliott	67	0.360%	4.29x
22	Turnbull	67	0.360%	8.63x
23	Patterson	64	0.350%	9.97x
24	Dunn	62	0.340%	4.05x
25	Purvis	62	0.340%	34.81x
26	Reed	62	0.340%	4.61x
27	Fenwick	61	0.330%	25.29x
28	Wardle	60	0.330%	16.84x
29	Laverick	59	0.320%	87.81x
30	Davidson	53	0.290%	3.42x
31	Storey	52	0.280%	11.12x
32	Park	51	0.280%	8.94x
33	Allan	48	0.260%	4.15x
34	Grey	46	0.250%	11.52x
35	Archbold	45	0.240%	103.26x
36	Oliver	45	0.240%	3.43x
37	Gascoigne	43	0.230%	50.76x
38	Davison	41	0.220%	6.23x
39	Nichol	41	0.220%	20.69x
40	Lowes	40	0.220%	37.42x
41	Potts	40	0.220%	6.51x
42	Pringle	38	0.210%	13.10x
43	Tait	38	0.210%	7.01x
44	Maxwell	37	0.200%	8.46x
45	Welsh	36	0.200%	4.94x
46	Cockburn	35	0.190%	14.90x
47	Maughan	35	0.190%	34.05x
48	Nixon	35	0.190%	6.24x
49	Hindmarsh	34	0.180%	45.98x
50	Kidd	34	0.180%	9.07x
51	Ryan	33	0.180%	5.78x
52	Keith	32	0.170%	16.22x
53	Mather	32	0.170%	7.01x
54	Arnott	31	0.170%	20.04x
55	Guthrie	31	0.170%	13.36x
56	Fitzpatrick	30	0.160%	11.14x
57	Knox	30	0.160%	9.49x
58	Maddison	29	0.160%	16.08x
59	Pattison	29	0.160%	9.90x
60	Soulsby	29	0.160%	53.66x
61	Dryden	28	0.150%	25.23x
62	Widdrington	28	0.150%	536.40x
63	Shanks	27	0.150%	19.29x
64	Appleby	26	0.140%	8.65x
65	Joicey	26	0.140%	313.25x
66	Rutherford	26	0.140%	5.79x
67	Adamson	24	0.130%	4.93x
68	Avery	24	0.130%	7.77x
69	Malone	24	0.130%	16.29x
70	Purcell	24	0.130%	18.74x
71	Embleton	23	0.120%	43.45x
72	Herron	23	0.120%	34.90x
73	Hindmarch	23	0.120%	64.73x
74	Logan	23	0.120%	5.27x
75	Pinkney	23	0.120%	31.84x
76	Whitfield	23	0.120%	6.26x
77	Buchanan	22	0.120%	4.62x
78	Duffy	22	0.120%	5.47x
79	Peel	22	0.120%	6.66x
80	Shields	22	0.120%	7.73x
81	Allison	21	0.110%	4.01x
82	Conway	21	0.110%	6.09x
83	Curry	21	0.110%	7.96x
84	Fryer	21	0.110%	6.15x
85	Kinghorn	21	0.110%	39.50x
86	Livingstone	21	0.110%	12.24x
87	Lowther	21	0.110%	18.68x
88	Brewis	20	0.110%	37.36x
89	Cain	20	0.110%	5.23x
90	Dinning	20	0.110%	48.71x
91	Drummond	20	0.110%	5.47x
92	Harle	20	0.110%	47.92x
93	Harrow	20	0.110%	45.31x
94	Henry	20	0.110%	4.30x
95	Kirtley	20	0.110%	55.14x
96	Marin	20	0.110%	533.33x
97	Toole	20	0.110%	20.11x
98	Angus	19	0.100%	7.21x
99	Bolam	19	0.100%	37.92x
100	Hastings	19	0.100%	8.10x