1881 census place

Tynemouth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Tynemouth, Northumberland 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

1,095 surnames are listed for Tynemouth, Northumberland, covering 11,772 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 244 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Tynemouth

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	Thompson	244	1.05%	3.50x
2	Scott	233	1.00%	3.96x
3	Johnson	195	0.840%	2.49x
4	Robson	183	0.790%	11.95x
5	Hall	181	0.780%	2.64x
6	Bell	156	0.670%	3.57x
7	Anderson	155	0.670%	3.37x
8	Young	145	0.620%	2.90x
9	Dixon	137	0.590%	5.37x
10	Patterson	134	0.580%	16.51x
11	Dunn	131	0.560%	6.77x
12	Richardson	131	0.560%	3.31x
13	Hunter	121	0.520%	5.06x
14	Turnbull	117	0.500%	11.92x
15	Reed	104	0.450%	6.12x
16	Armstrong	101	0.430%	5.68x
17	Graham	101	0.430%	3.78x
18	Charlton	98	0.420%	14.69x
19	Henderson	98	0.420%	3.87x
20	Davison	92	0.400%	11.06x
21	Nicholson	92	0.400%	5.56x
22	Dawson	91	0.390%	3.55x
23	Gibson	91	0.390%	3.22x
24	Storey	90	0.390%	15.22x
25	Carr	80	0.340%	4.76x
26	Atkinson	78	0.340%	3.44x
27	Gray	70	0.300%	2.11x
28	Burn	66	0.280%	21.07x
29	Elliott	63	0.270%	3.19x
30	Forster	62	0.270%	8.12x
31	Todd	60	0.260%	5.07x
32	Williamson	59	0.250%	2.83x
33	Hedley	56	0.240%	23.55x
34	Mather	54	0.230%	9.36x
35	Purvis	53	0.230%	23.54x
36	Potts	51	0.220%	6.56x
37	Rutherford	51	0.220%	8.98x
38	Hutchinson	48	0.210%	3.63x
39	Black	46	0.200%	3.05x
40	Chambers	46	0.200%	3.48x
41	Wallace	45	0.190%	2.82x
42	Brand	43	0.180%	12.51x
43	Dickinson	43	0.180%	4.33x
44	Tate	43	0.180%	9.56x
45	Cockburn	42	0.180%	14.14x
46	English	42	0.180%	9.60x
47	Lambert	39	0.170%	3.07x
48	Eskdale	37	0.160%	360.62x
49	Boyle	36	0.150%	5.96x
50	Dale	36	0.150%	3.66x
51	Grey	36	0.150%	7.13x
52	Irvin	36	0.150%	52.69x
53	Cowell	35	0.150%	10.50x
54	Coulson	34	0.150%	8.14x
55	Morton	34	0.150%	2.73x
56	Swan	34	0.150%	5.64x
57	Towns	34	0.150%	45.56x
58	Dodds	33	0.140%	6.74x
59	Douglass	33	0.140%	22.31x
60	Downie	33	0.140%	12.09x
61	Latimer	33	0.140%	36.82x
62	Rowntree	33	0.140%	48.08x
63	Sanderson	33	0.140%	3.43x
64	Fell	32	0.140%	9.79x
65	Hadaway	32	0.140%	117.30x
66	Tait	32	0.140%	4.67x
67	Donaldson	31	0.130%	4.67x
68	Milburn	31	0.130%	14.92x
69	Ridley	31	0.130%	6.89x
70	Reay	30	0.130%	14.84x
71	Spence	30	0.130%	3.90x
72	Waugh	30	0.130%	9.46x
73	Fleming	29	0.120%	3.00x
74	Hope	29	0.120%	3.66x
75	Ramsay	29	0.120%	4.84x
76	Appleby	28	0.120%	7.37x
77	Baird	28	0.120%	5.63x
78	Park	28	0.120%	3.88x
79	Sadler	28	0.120%	5.10x
80	Bertram	27	0.120%	24.26x
81	Best	27	0.120%	4.30x
82	Blakey	27	0.120%	14.46x
83	Brodie	27	0.120%	8.64x
84	Crow	27	0.120%	7.69x
85	Fenwick	27	0.120%	8.85x
86	Liddle	27	0.120%	9.85x
87	Winter	27	0.120%	3.27x
88	Gunn	26	0.110%	4.56x
89	Liddell	26	0.110%	12.18x
90	Pow	26	0.110%	47.65x
91	Emmerson	25	0.110%	10.88x
92	Irwin	25	0.110%	12.77x
93	Stoker	25	0.110%	15.83x
94	Trotter	25	0.110%	10.24x
95	Venus	25	0.110%	95.46x
96	Dykes	24	0.100%	14.99x
97	Elsdon	24	0.100%	56.14x
98	Fry	24	0.100%	3.22x
99	Maxwell	24	0.100%	4.34x
100	Moor	24	0.100%	7.36x