1881 census place

Newcastle Under Lyme surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Newcastle Under Lyme, 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

744 surnames are listed for Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, covering 8,310 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Mason, with 195 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Newcastle Under Lyme

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	Mason	195	1.12%	8.31x
2	Griffiths	126	0.720%	4.41x
3	Leech	110	0.630%	38.69x
4	Bloor	107	0.610%	111.10x
5	Bayley	105	0.600%	37.33x
6	Lawton	104	0.600%	23.12x
7	Tittensor	97	0.560%	899.81x
8	Pepper	91	0.520%	37.09x
9	Bailey	90	0.520%	3.42x
10	Shufflebotham	90	0.520%	250.35x
11	Edge	85	0.490%	28.28x
12	Rhodes	80	0.460%	9.87x
13	Whittaker	80	0.460%	9.68x
14	Heath	79	0.450%	9.12x
15	Whittingham	73	0.420%	55.64x
16	Emery	69	0.400%	18.11x
17	Beech	68	0.390%	26.39x
18	Dean	62	0.360%	5.12x
19	Pattison	62	0.360%	22.33x
20	Downs	58	0.330%	18.69x
21	Beardmore	54	0.310%	67.55x
22	Lovatt	54	0.310%	44.62x
23	Mayer	53	0.300%	52.86x
24	Hand	52	0.300%	24.84x
25	Plant	52	0.300%	13.48x
26	Bagguley	51	0.290%	418.72x
27	Meadon	51	0.290%	850.00x
28	Hulme	49	0.280%	13.13x
29	Cartledge	47	0.270%	53.38x
30	Beeston	46	0.260%	62.66x
31	Coomer	46	0.260%	313.35x
32	Dobson	45	0.260%	5.85x
33	Bates	44	0.250%	3.96x
34	Pickerill	44	0.250%	222.78x
35	Eardley	42	0.240%	64.02x
36	Deakin	41	0.240%	17.00x
37	Myatt	40	0.230%	48.14x
38	Smallwood	40	0.230%	24.85x
39	Burke	39	0.220%	7.60x
40	Griffith	38	0.220%	6.69x
41	Hargreaves	38	0.220%	5.22x
42	Grocott	32	0.180%	64.01x
43	Kettle	32	0.180%	20.96x
44	Salt	32	0.180%	12.34x
45	Furnival	31	0.180%	100.78x
46	Massey	31	0.180%	6.95x
47	Watkin	31	0.180%	20.30x
48	Dodd	30	0.170%	4.23x
49	Eccles	30	0.170%	10.75x
50	Horton	30	0.170%	4.63x
51	Astbury	29	0.170%	35.53x
52	Cheney	29	0.170%	54.10x
53	Cotton	29	0.170%	6.96x
54	Flynn	29	0.170%	8.68x
55	Nolan	29	0.170%	12.19x
56	Barratt	28	0.160%	7.91x
57	Bourne	28	0.160%	8.27x
58	Clewlow	28	0.160%	154.02x
59	Dale	28	0.160%	3.80x
60	Forrester	28	0.160%	11.95x
61	Hollins	28	0.160%	30.63x
62	Keen	27	0.150%	7.72x
63	Ogden	27	0.150%	5.47x
64	Ratcliffe	27	0.150%	5.60x
65	Dowler	26	0.150%	81.28x
66	Dutton	26	0.150%	6.58x
67	Ellerton	26	0.150%	82.49x
68	Lea	26	0.150%	7.55x
69	Parton	26	0.150%	27.39x
70	Pendleton	26	0.150%	40.31x
71	Swift	26	0.150%	4.82x
72	Titley	26	0.150%	55.71x
73	Bradbury	25	0.140%	4.96x
74	Goodall	25	0.140%	6.69x
75	Hickman	25	0.140%	8.52x
76	Machin	25	0.140%	14.31x
77	Peake	25	0.140%	14.86x
78	Rowley	25	0.140%	5.45x
79	Skerratt	25	0.140%	158.33x
80	Vaughan	25	0.140%	4.20x
81	Clay	24	0.140%	6.70x
82	Copeland	24	0.140%	14.53x
83	Gilmore	24	0.140%	23.47x
84	Goulding	24	0.140%	14.08x
85	Malkin	24	0.140%	41.91x
86	Pye	24	0.140%	9.20x
87	Rhead	24	0.140%	107.29x
88	Thursfield	24	0.140%	96.93x
89	Colclough	23	0.130%	28.98x
90	Eaton	23	0.130%	4.71x
91	Moreton	23	0.130%	17.62x
92	Wilkes	23	0.130%	7.61x
93	Beckett	22	0.130%	6.33x
94	Hough	22	0.130%	7.32x
95	Ruddy	22	0.130%	77.22x
96	Wilton	22	0.130%	13.10x
97	Bickerton	21	0.120%	28.72x
98	Broomhall	21	0.120%	88.98x
99	Gannon	21	0.120%	27.81x
100	Henson	21	0.120%	10.27x