1881 census place

Stranton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stranton, 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

1,467 surnames are listed for Stranton, Durham, covering 14,192 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 304 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stranton

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	Wilson	304	1.04%	2.26x
2	Thompson	277	0.950%	3.16x
3	Robinson	235	0.800%	2.52x
4	Harrison	181	0.620%	2.79x
5	Hall	168	0.570%	1.95x
6	Watson	156	0.530%	2.30x
7	Bell	145	0.500%	2.64x
8	Atkinson	144	0.490%	5.05x
9	Pearson	124	0.420%	3.65x
10	Young	122	0.420%	1.94x
11	Armstrong	112	0.380%	5.01x
12	Richardson	112	0.380%	2.25x
13	Hunter	108	0.370%	3.59x
14	Hodgson	106	0.360%	5.23x
15	Simpson	102	0.350%	1.99x
16	Turnbull	98	0.330%	7.95x
17	Dixon	93	0.320%	2.90x
18	Coates	87	0.300%	7.98x
19	Henderson	82	0.280%	2.58x
20	Parkinson	80	0.270%	5.70x
21	Metcalfe	70	0.240%	10.48x
22	Reed	65	0.220%	3.04x
23	Robson	65	0.220%	3.38x
24	Spence	63	0.220%	6.51x
25	Pounder	62	0.210%	64.89x
26	Alderson	60	0.210%	14.78x
27	Davison	58	0.200%	5.55x
28	Sanderson	56	0.190%	4.63x
29	Hutchinson	55	0.190%	3.31x
30	Fox	54	0.180%	1.99x
31	Tate	54	0.180%	9.56x
32	Harper	53	0.180%	2.83x
33	Todd	53	0.180%	3.56x
34	Watt	52	0.180%	4.63x
35	Charlton	50	0.170%	5.96x
36	Coverdale	47	0.160%	58.67x
37	Wallace	47	0.160%	2.35x
38	Fenwick	46	0.160%	12.00x
39	Smurthwaite	46	0.160%	105.58x
40	Chambers	45	0.150%	2.70x
41	Waite	45	0.150%	7.41x
42	Bainbridge	44	0.150%	10.70x
43	Shepherd	44	0.150%	2.05x
44	Bowes	43	0.150%	16.01x
45	Coulson	41	0.140%	7.81x
46	Oliver	41	0.140%	1.96x
47	Corner	40	0.140%	18.81x
48	Gibbon	40	0.140%	13.50x
49	Moody	40	0.140%	5.23x
50	Kirby	39	0.130%	3.51x
51	Allison	37	0.130%	4.45x
52	Harland	37	0.130%	15.17x
53	Rowlands	37	0.130%	5.08x
54	Arnold	36	0.120%	2.28x
55	Garbutt	36	0.120%	17.04x
56	Lawson	36	0.120%	2.09x
57	Noble	36	0.120%	2.96x
58	Boddy	35	0.120%	21.59x
59	Frankland	35	0.120%	16.14x
60	Moor	34	0.120%	8.29x
61	Greig	33	0.110%	7.13x
62	Heslop	33	0.110%	13.15x
63	Liddle	33	0.110%	9.57x
64	Rutter	33	0.110%	7.40x
65	Stoddart	33	0.110%	13.51x
66	Calvert	32	0.110%	5.36x
67	Adamson	31	0.110%	4.01x
68	Baines	31	0.110%	5.53x
69	Lund	31	0.110%	9.78x
70	Welch	31	0.110%	3.01x
71	Emerson	30	0.100%	14.80x
72	Fleetham	30	0.100%	238.10x
73	Patterson	30	0.100%	2.94x
74	Snowdon	30	0.100%	13.76x
75	Usher	30	0.100%	9.29x
76	Waller	30	0.100%	4.07x
77	Addison	29	0.100%	7.16x
78	Borthwick	29	0.100%	17.66x
79	Burdon	29	0.100%	30.26x
80	Burnett	29	0.100%	3.58x
81	Dodsworth	29	0.100%	23.75x
82	Marley	29	0.100%	17.08x
83	Muers	29	0.100%	390.84x
84	Pickering	29	0.100%	2.75x
85	Swales	29	0.100%	14.18x
86	Coxon	28	0.100%	12.52x
87	Elliot	28	0.100%	3.75x
88	Pattison	28	0.100%	6.01x
89	Appleby	27	0.090%	5.65x
90	Bowman	27	0.090%	3.53x
91	Cass	27	0.090%	13.02x
92	Horsley	27	0.090%	9.87x
93	Wardell	27	0.090%	23.22x
94	Bulmer	26	0.090%	11.23x
95	Farley	26	0.090%	7.07x
96	Lowes	26	0.090%	15.30x
97	Moran	26	0.090%	4.85x
98	Potts	26	0.090%	2.66x
99	Rowbotham	26	0.090%	18.12x
100	Storm	26	0.090%	69.48x