1881 census place

Rowley Regis surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Rowley Regis, 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

688 surnames are listed for Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, covering 18,459 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Tromans, with 504 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Rowley Regis

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	Tromans	504	1.83%	820.98x
2	Willetts	478	1.74%	310.81x
3	Parkes	471	1.71%	83.69x
4	Johnson	385	1.40%	4.17x
5	Harris	376	1.37%	5.38x
6	Taylor	357	1.30%	2.03x
7	Priest	316	1.15%	87.83x
8	Westwood	279	1.02%	60.53x
9	Adams	274	1.00%	6.77x
10	Hadley	270	0.980%	72.19x
11	Homer	237	0.860%	113.33x
12	Parsons	233	0.850%	11.16x
13	Billingham	222	0.810%	133.29x
14	Baker	219	0.800%	3.64x
15	Price	215	0.780%	4.47x
16	Hill	211	0.770%	3.01x
17	Shaw	205	0.750%	4.06x
18	Hackett	202	0.740%	62.40x
19	Darby	187	0.680%	42.38x
20	Tibbetts	179	0.650%	400.54x
21	Bennett	168	0.610%	3.72x
22	Woodhouse	165	0.600%	25.34x
23	Nock	164	0.600%	134.99x
24	Mason	163	0.590%	4.41x
25	Pearson	158	0.570%	4.95x
26	Lowe	152	0.550%	7.38x
27	Davis	149	0.540%	2.47x
28	Green	146	0.530%	1.89x
29	Sidaway	145	0.530%	358.29x
30	Cole	144	0.520%	5.75x
31	Cox	143	0.520%	3.43x
32	Hingley	141	0.510%	221.42x
33	Cooper	137	0.500%	2.05x
34	Siviter	132	0.480%	499.43x
35	Round	131	0.480%	52.03x
36	Woodall	124	0.450%	56.09x
37	Griffiths	123	0.450%	2.74x
38	Downing	116	0.420%	24.28x
39	Dunn	113	0.410%	4.94x
40	Grove	111	0.400%	34.53x
41	Whitehouse	105	0.380%	14.69x
42	Smart	104	0.380%	8.31x
43	Brookes	100	0.360%	15.49x
44	Stevens	95	0.350%	3.31x
45	Fletcher	93	0.340%	2.96x
46	Slater	92	0.330%	5.53x
47	Brooks	91	0.330%	3.39x
48	Payne	91	0.330%	3.68x
49	Rock	89	0.320%	56.95x
50	Bradley	88	0.320%	3.99x
51	Partridge	88	0.320%	12.26x
52	Weston	85	0.310%	7.58x
53	Harper	83	0.300%	4.72x
54	Southall	83	0.300%	39.86x
55	Fellows	82	0.300%	22.05x
56	Rose	81	0.290%	3.97x
57	Guest	78	0.280%	13.29x
58	Barnsley	77	0.280%	71.42x
59	Hodgetts	76	0.280%	59.37x
60	Hipkiss	74	0.270%	138.81x
61	Poole	74	0.270%	5.59x
62	Stringer	72	0.260%	13.15x
63	Attwood	70	0.250%	25.72x
64	Plant	67	0.240%	11.03x
65	Gould	66	0.240%	6.65x
66	Kite	66	0.240%	42.26x
67	Danks	64	0.230%	53.48x
68	Palmer	64	0.230%	1.98x
69	Pugh	64	0.230%	6.10x
70	Horton	63	0.230%	6.18x
71	Haden	62	0.230%	70.75x
72	Bate	61	0.220%	13.10x
73	Bloomer	61	0.220%	74.11x
74	Weaver	61	0.220%	8.53x
75	Coley	60	0.220%	36.75x
76	Cutler	58	0.210%	16.96x
77	Gill	57	0.210%	2.93x
78	Stokes	57	0.210%	4.91x
79	Hewitt	55	0.200%	4.11x
80	Holloway	54	0.200%	6.41x
81	Mole	54	0.200%	25.32x
82	Newton	53	0.190%	2.52x
83	Bishop	52	0.190%	2.71x
84	Humphries	52	0.190%	8.40x
85	Forrest	51	0.190%	7.20x
86	Bagley	50	0.180%	24.59x
87	Gadd	49	0.180%	26.77x
88	Preece	49	0.180%	10.96x
89	Bird	47	0.170%	2.24x
90	Dingley	47	0.170%	56.91x
91	Foley	47	0.170%	13.58x
92	Jeavons	46	0.170%	64.35x
93	Redfern	45	0.160%	11.75x
94	Troman	45	0.160%	270.92x
95	Bowater	44	0.160%	109.48x
96	Edge	44	0.160%	9.29x
97	Portman	44	0.160%	87.82x
98	Raybould	44	0.160%	53.04x
99	Blakeway	43	0.160%	124.96x
100	Cockin	43	0.160%	135.82x