1881 census place

Oldbury surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Oldbury, 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

669 surnames are listed for Oldbury, Worcestershire, covering 9,164 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hadley, with 227 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Oldbury

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	Hadley	227	1.21%	88.86x
2	Parkes	149	0.790%	38.76x
3	Whitehouse	140	0.750%	28.67x
4	Round	136	0.720%	79.08x
5	Baker	124	0.660%	3.02x
6	Cutler	118	0.630%	50.52x
7	Price	118	0.630%	3.59x
8	Horton	114	0.610%	16.36x
9	Darby	112	0.600%	37.17x
10	Holloway	104	0.550%	18.09x
11	Hale	95	0.510%	14.11x
12	Field	93	0.500%	9.96x
13	Sadler	87	0.460%	19.66x
14	Harvey	86	0.460%	4.29x
15	Cox	83	0.440%	2.92x
16	Bradley	82	0.440%	5.44x
17	Mason	77	0.410%	3.05x
18	Stevens	77	0.410%	3.93x
19	Crumpton	76	0.400%	171.52x
20	Powell	76	0.400%	3.25x
21	Skidmore	75	0.400%	54.37x
22	Waterhouse	74	0.390%	25.88x
23	Rollason	72	0.380%	118.93x
24	Birch	65	0.350%	8.45x
25	Barnsley	64	0.340%	86.91x
26	Harrold	63	0.340%	74.40x
27	Franks	61	0.330%	26.07x
28	Hipkiss	61	0.330%	167.54x
29	Lowe	61	0.330%	4.34x
30	Stokes	61	0.330%	7.70x
31	Timmins	59	0.310%	39.08x
32	Nightingale	54	0.290%	17.07x
33	Bird	53	0.280%	3.70x
34	Millership	52	0.280%	373.83x
35	Westwood	52	0.280%	16.52x
36	Tonks	51	0.270%	51.67x
37	Bridge	50	0.270%	13.15x
38	Matthews	50	0.270%	3.05x
39	Preston	48	0.260%	5.12x
40	Guest	47	0.250%	11.72x
41	Brookes	46	0.250%	10.43x
42	Fantom	46	0.250%	509.98x
43	Millward	45	0.240%	21.35x
44	Sheldon	45	0.240%	15.76x
45	Smallwood	45	0.240%	25.99x
46	Aston	43	0.230%	13.89x
47	Grigg	43	0.230%	35.02x
48	Downing	42	0.220%	12.87x
49	Gould	41	0.220%	6.04x
50	Nickless	41	0.220%	162.31x
51	Oakes	41	0.220%	15.08x
52	Onions	40	0.210%	38.31x
53	Beddow	37	0.200%	72.00x
54	Blewitt	37	0.200%	87.84x
55	Withers	37	0.200%	12.02x
56	Nicholls	36	0.190%	3.67x
57	Weston	36	0.190%	4.70x
58	Jukes	35	0.190%	30.95x
59	Bowen	34	0.180%	4.38x
60	Yeomans	34	0.180%	21.97x
61	Windmill	33	0.180%	110.63x
62	Dudley	32	0.170%	11.36x
63	Pearsall	32	0.170%	84.39x
64	Underhill	32	0.170%	24.36x
65	Dutton	30	0.160%	7.06x
66	Rowley	30	0.160%	6.08x
67	Slim	30	0.160%	167.41x
68	Atkins	29	0.150%	4.12x
69	Bate	29	0.150%	9.12x
70	Nock	29	0.150%	34.95x
71	Boswell	28	0.150%	15.89x
72	Mathews	28	0.150%	4.04x
73	Bastable	27	0.140%	74.01x
74	Boden	27	0.140%	17.75x
75	Clift	27	0.140%	26.30x
76	Cowley	27	0.140%	7.82x
77	Fellows	27	0.140%	10.63x
78	Humphries	27	0.140%	6.39x
79	York	27	0.140%	10.88x
80	Harriss	26	0.140%	21.20x
81	Hurley	26	0.140%	11.88x
82	Carless	25	0.130%	50.17x
83	Crump	25	0.130%	12.33x
84	Weaver	25	0.130%	5.12x
85	Beresford	24	0.130%	17.36x
86	Hartland	24	0.130%	29.10x
87	Mallard	24	0.130%	49.41x
88	Spooner	24	0.130%	8.86x
89	Willetts	24	0.130%	22.85x
90	Cooksey	23	0.120%	53.58x
91	Glynn	23	0.120%	27.74x
92	Hinton	23	0.120%	9.13x
93	Kimberley	23	0.120%	33.64x
94	Plant	23	0.120%	5.54x
95	Bayliss	22	0.120%	9.26x
96	Goode	22	0.120%	9.06x
97	Harley	22	0.120%	9.09x
98	Lester	22	0.120%	7.45x
99	Tranter	22	0.120%	15.93x
100	Beach	21	0.110%	11.75x