1881 census place

Middlesbrough surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire 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

1,908 surnames are listed for Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, covering 19,868 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Waller, with 31 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Middlesbrough

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
101	Waller	31	0.080%	3.26x
102	Gallagher	30	0.080%	5.24x
103	Kidd	30	0.080%	3.91x
104	Liddle	30	0.080%	6.76x
105	Barron	29	0.080%	4.97x
106	Gatenby	29	0.080%	33.15x
107	Hatfield	29	0.080%	10.79x
108	Maddison	29	0.080%	7.85x
109	Rudd	29	0.080%	4.88x
110	Caswell	28	0.070%	15.32x
111	Downing	28	0.070%	4.27x
112	Duffy	28	0.070%	3.40x
113	Horner	28	0.070%	3.90x
114	Ord	28	0.070%	11.27x
115	Rutherford	28	0.070%	3.04x
116	Appleby	27	0.070%	4.39x
117	Harker	27	0.070%	6.80x
118	Knott	27	0.070%	3.61x
119	Marley	27	0.070%	12.34x
120	Nixon	27	0.070%	2.35x
121	Prest	27	0.070%	23.16x
122	Carroll	26	0.070%	3.44x
123	Dennis	26	0.070%	2.33x
124	Dodsworth	26	0.070%	16.52x
125	Foley	26	0.070%	5.48x
126	Hebron	26	0.070%	77.94x
127	Ingram	26	0.070%	2.26x
128	Lincoln	26	0.070%	9.15x
129	Chester	25	0.070%	5.41x
130	Douglass	25	0.070%	10.44x
131	Downs	25	0.070%	3.73x
132	Hopper	25	0.070%	4.64x
133	Hutton	25	0.070%	2.22x
134	Bainbridge	24	0.060%	4.53x
135	Butterfield	24	0.060%	4.76x
136	Cassidy	24	0.060%	5.21x
137	Dolan	24	0.060%	7.32x
138	Gillespie	24	0.060%	4.01x
139	Hornsby	24	0.060%	9.79x
140	Keegan	24	0.060%	19.16x
141	Knaggs	24	0.060%	24.67x
142	Knox	24	0.060%	3.71x
143	Pinkney	24	0.060%	16.23x
144	Purvis	24	0.060%	6.58x
145	Quinn	24	0.060%	3.33x
146	Allison	23	0.060%	2.15x
147	Appleyard	23	0.060%	6.67x
148	Ayre	23	0.060%	10.92x
149	Dowson	23	0.060%	11.16x
150	Fagan	23	0.060%	12.80x
151	Hedley	23	0.060%	5.97x
152	Lofthouse	23	0.060%	8.19x
153	Moor	23	0.060%	4.35x
154	Richmond	23	0.060%	2.78x
155	Swales	23	0.060%	8.73x
156	Trotter	23	0.060%	5.82x
157	Blades	22	0.060%	10.28x
158	Bowman	22	0.060%	2.23x
159	Gibbon	22	0.060%	5.76x
160	Hird	22	0.060%	7.56x
161	Oxley	22	0.060%	4.17x
162	Pounder	22	0.060%	17.87x
163	Rutter	22	0.060%	3.83x
164	Sherwood	22	0.060%	4.58x
165	Shields	22	0.060%	3.78x
166	Woodhouse	22	0.060%	2.46x
167	Carrick	21	0.060%	7.75x
168	Emmerson	21	0.060%	5.64x
169	France	21	0.060%	3.66x
170	Fryer	21	0.060%	3.00x
171	Golding	21	0.060%	3.16x
172	Grainger	21	0.060%	3.62x
173	Joyce	21	0.060%	2.27x
174	Layton	21	0.060%	6.96x
175	Lester	21	0.060%	3.54x
176	Rodgers	21	0.060%	2.04x
177	Rowlands	21	0.060%	2.24x
178	Stainsby	21	0.060%	33.91x
179	Theakston	21	0.060%	98.73x
180	Weatherhead	21	0.060%	19.51x
181	Wharton	21	0.060%	3.98x
182	Angus	20	0.050%	3.71x
183	Brannan	20	0.050%	7.85x
184	Byers	20	0.050%	10.23x
185	Coyle	20	0.050%	7.81x
186	Dawes	20	0.050%	3.90x
187	Fawcett	20	0.050%	2.74x
188	Gorman	20	0.050%	4.40x
189	Granger	20	0.050%	5.19x
190	Horsman	20	0.050%	15.16x
191	Kirkham	20	0.050%	3.80x
192	Langley	20	0.050%	2.42x
193	Newcomb	20	0.050%	22.50x
194	Rowntree	20	0.050%	17.99x
195	Snaith	20	0.050%	12.48x
196	Tate	20	0.050%	2.75x
197	Teasdale	20	0.050%	6.26x
198	Birks	19	0.050%	7.60x
199	Bonner	19	0.050%	5.74x
200	Calligan	19	0.050%	25.37x