1881 census place

Stanhope surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stanhope, Durham 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

233 surnames are listed for Stanhope, Durham, covering 6,208 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walton, with 272 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stanhope

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	Walton	272	3.03%	43.06x
2	Peart	251	2.80%	491.29x
3	Watson	228	2.54%	10.95x
4	Emerson	195	2.17%	313.61x
5	Robinson	193	2.15%	6.75x
6	Coulthard	173	1.93%	345.31x
7	Harrison	154	1.72%	7.73x
8	Gowland	130	1.45%	441.73x
9	Maddison	127	1.42%	144.45x
10	Featherstone	124	1.38%	153.60x
11	Bainbridge	120	1.34%	95.14x
12	Bell	113	1.26%	6.70x
13	Rutherford	109	1.21%	49.77x
14	Fairless	105	1.17%	590.88x
15	Elliott	100	1.11%	13.13x
16	Vickers	99	1.10%	42.97x
17	Dawson	85	0.950%	8.59x
18	Wearmouth	80	0.890%	652.53x
19	Forster	73	0.810%	24.81x
20	Nattrass	73	0.810%	701.92x
21	Gardiner	70	0.780%	27.14x
22	Gardner	70	0.780%	11.49x
23	Adamson	69	0.770%	29.07x
24	Hodgson	69	0.770%	11.09x
25	Roddam	68	0.760%	953.72x
26	Sanderson	67	0.750%	18.07x
27	Bowman	65	0.720%	27.73x
28	Proud	65	0.720%	141.77x
29	Currey	64	0.710%	346.70x
30	Lowes	62	0.690%	118.98x
31	Philipson	60	0.670%	239.52x
32	Kidd	59	0.660%	32.30x
33	English	55	0.610%	32.59x
34	Raine	55	0.610%	73.57x
35	Wallace	52	0.580%	8.46x
36	Collingwood	51	0.570%	103.22x
37	Ridley	49	0.550%	28.25x
38	Dalton	48	0.530%	23.30x
39	Hewitson	47	0.520%	88.61x
40	Pattinson	45	0.500%	56.03x
41	Golightly	44	0.490%	220.77x
42	Martindale	44	0.490%	85.42x
43	Oliver	44	0.490%	6.87x
44	Carrick	43	0.480%	66.62x
45	Heatherington	42	0.470%	523.04x
46	Baty	41	0.460%	188.77x
47	Lonsdale	39	0.430%	52.40x
48	Phillipson	39	0.430%	117.15x
49	Milburn	38	0.420%	47.44x
50	Mowbray	36	0.400%	96.41x
51	Tweddle	36	0.400%	116.54x
52	Elliot	35	0.390%	15.29x
53	Jopling	35	0.390%	219.99x
54	Egglestone	34	0.380%	450.33x
55	Longstaff	34	0.380%	53.70x
56	Peadon	34	0.380%	878.55x
57	Colling	33	0.370%	144.55x
58	Humble	33	0.370%	77.56x
59	Grey	32	0.360%	16.45x
60	Jacques	31	0.350%	40.75x
61	Featherston	30	0.330%	352.53x
62	Turnbull	30	0.330%	7.93x
63	Hogarth	29	0.320%	48.98x
64	Iley	29	0.320%	288.84x
65	Pickering	29	0.320%	8.96x
66	Potts	28	0.310%	9.35x
67	Race	28	0.310%	57.26x
68	Slack	28	0.310%	19.80x
69	Dalkin	27	0.300%	472.03x
70	Charlton	24	0.270%	9.33x
71	Readshaw	23	0.260%	614.97x
72	Collinson	22	0.250%	20.89x
73	Whitfield	22	0.250%	12.28x
74	Allison	21	0.230%	8.23x
75	Emmerson	21	0.230%	23.70x
76	Furnace	21	0.230%	422.54x
77	Teasdale	20	0.220%	26.30x
78	Bright	19	0.210%	10.47x
79	Dowson	19	0.210%	38.74x
80	Heads	19	0.210%	201.91x
81	Hornsby	19	0.210%	32.57x
82	Moses	19	0.210%	20.70x
83	Dent	18	0.200%	10.53x
84	Rowell	18	0.200%	22.97x
85	Lightburn	17	0.190%	359.41x
86	Vipond	17	0.190%	132.81x
87	Waugh	17	0.190%	13.90x
88	Bee	16	0.180%	31.61x
89	Mawson	16	0.180%	22.10x
90	Pattison	16	0.180%	11.20x
91	Ripley	16	0.180%	27.00x
92	Coatsworth	15	0.170%	195.57x
93	Lowery	15	0.170%	51.33x
94	Proudfoot	15	0.170%	38.33x
95	Currah	14	0.160%	281.69x
96	Garthwaite	14	0.160%	81.68x
97	Greenwell	14	0.160%	47.57x
98	Lowry	14	0.160%	38.64x
99	Ritson	14	0.160%	38.84x
100	Westgarth	14	0.160%	89.69x