1881 census place

Stoke Upon Trent surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stoke Upon Trent, 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

2,891 surnames are listed for Stoke Upon Trent, Staffordshire, covering 88,298 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,650 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stoke Upon Trent

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	Smith	1,650	1.58%	1.12x
2	Jones	1,466	1.40%	1.24x
3	Johnson	920	0.880%	2.62x
4	Williams	808	0.770%	1.08x
5	Hughes	597	0.570%	2.04x
6	Cooper	590	0.560%	2.32x
7	Taylor	587	0.560%	0.88x
8	Adams	579	0.550%	3.76x
9	Walker	573	0.550%	1.64x
10	Wood	567	0.540%	1.70x
11	Hall	537	0.510%	1.75x
12	Roberts	530	0.510%	1.35x
13	Simpson	530	0.510%	2.90x
14	Edwards	516	0.490%	1.77x
15	Evans	511	0.490%	1.12x
16	Shaw	496	0.470%	2.58x
17	Turner	484	0.460%	1.66x
18	Brown	482	0.460%	0.70x
19	Jackson	439	0.420%	1.50x
20	Heath	431	0.410%	8.30x
21	Bailey	424	0.410%	2.69x
22	Wright	423	0.400%	1.26x
23	Barker	419	0.400%	3.06x
24	Leese	414	0.400%	90.23x
25	Hill	413	0.390%	1.55x
26	Salt	410	0.390%	26.39x
27	Goodwin	409	0.390%	7.42x
28	Davies	404	0.390%	0.76x
29	Ball	394	0.380%	4.56x
30	Colclough	377	0.360%	79.27x
31	Harrison	376	0.360%	1.62x
32	Hulme	347	0.330%	15.52x
33	Mountford	342	0.330%	36.78x
34	Davis	341	0.330%	1.48x
35	Lawton	332	0.320%	12.32x
36	Bentley	330	0.320%	7.46x
37	Plant	330	0.320%	14.27x
38	Rowley	330	0.320%	12.01x
39	Cope	328	0.310%	13.88x
40	Burton	320	0.310%	3.59x
41	Morris	319	0.310%	1.37x
42	Griffiths	318	0.300%	1.86x
43	Steele	318	0.300%	11.36x
44	Forrester	309	0.300%	22.01x
45	Bennett	303	0.290%	1.76x
46	Boulton	296	0.280%	15.70x
47	Thomas	290	0.280%	0.67x
48	Shenton	285	0.270%	42.60x
49	Baker	283	0.270%	1.24x
50	Clarke	280	0.270%	1.32x
51	Lovatt	278	0.270%	38.33x
52	Allen	275	0.260%	1.39x
53	Birks	273	0.260%	39.39x
54	Barlow	270	0.260%	4.78x
55	Rushton	269	0.260%	12.47x
56	Booth	262	0.250%	2.54x
57	Wilson	259	0.250%	0.54x
58	Poole	258	0.250%	5.12x
59	Foster	257	0.250%	1.84x
60	Lockett	256	0.240%	33.71x
61	Myatt	255	0.240%	51.21x
62	Robinson	253	0.240%	0.76x
63	Green	250	0.240%	0.85x
64	Dawson	249	0.240%	2.16x
65	Stevenson	244	0.230%	3.33x
66	Bradbury	243	0.230%	8.04x
67	Nixon	243	0.230%	7.63x
68	Moore	241	0.230%	1.15x
69	Owen	240	0.230%	1.93x
70	Lewis	239	0.230%	0.87x
71	Dale	232	0.220%	5.25x
72	Bourne	231	0.220%	11.39x
73	Bates	229	0.220%	3.44x
74	Ellis	228	0.220%	1.50x
75	Brunt	223	0.210%	30.96x
76	Kelsall	221	0.210%	42.00x
77	Lowe	221	0.210%	2.82x
78	Austin	219	0.210%	4.28x
79	Cotton	218	0.210%	8.73x
80	Mellor	213	0.200%	5.78x
81	Bloor	209	0.200%	36.21x
82	Harris	209	0.200%	0.79x
83	Price	209	0.200%	1.14x
84	Dean	206	0.200%	2.84x
85	Holmes	200	0.190%	1.57x
86	Phillips	200	0.190%	1.07x
87	Slater	200	0.190%	3.16x
88	Cartlidge	198	0.190%	65.78x
89	Lloyd	197	0.190%	1.61x
90	Chadwick	195	0.190%	4.26x
91	Finney	194	0.190%	21.40x
92	Beardmore	191	0.180%	39.87x
93	Ratcliffe	190	0.180%	6.58x
94	Wilkinson	190	0.180%	1.19x
95	Mayer	187	0.180%	31.12x
96	Ford	185	0.180%	1.82x
97	Bagnall	184	0.180%	20.49x
98	Sutton	183	0.180%	2.75x
99	Pointon	182	0.170%	41.20x
100	Birch	179	0.170%	4.18x