1881 census place

Wallsend surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wallsend, 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

626 surnames are listed for Wallsend, Northumberland, covering 5,630 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Bell, with 184 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wallsend

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	Bell	184	1.33%	7.10x
2	Thompson	176	1.28%	4.26x
3	Watson	128	0.930%	4.00x
4	Robson	105	0.760%	11.57x
5	Knox	71	0.520%	30.00x
6	Chambers	67	0.490%	8.55x
7	Patterson	62	0.450%	12.90x
8	Elliott	60	0.440%	5.13x
9	Armstrong	57	0.410%	5.41x
10	Davidson	57	0.410%	4.92x
11	Davison	56	0.410%	11.36x
12	Forster	55	0.400%	12.17x
13	Dodds	54	0.390%	18.61x
14	Dunn	54	0.390%	4.71x
15	Turnbull	53	0.380%	9.12x
16	Reay	46	0.330%	38.44x
17	Burns	44	0.320%	4.75x
18	Allan	43	0.310%	4.97x
19	Burn	43	0.310%	23.18x
20	Lynch	42	0.300%	11.55x
21	Rutherford	42	0.300%	12.49x
22	Bainbridge	41	0.300%	21.16x
23	Swan	40	0.290%	11.20x
24	Heslop	38	0.280%	32.15x
25	Stoker	37	0.270%	39.56x
26	Liddle	34	0.250%	20.94x
27	Todd	33	0.240%	4.70x
28	Nichol	31	0.220%	20.89x
29	Delaney	30	0.220%	33.82x
30	Spence	30	0.220%	6.58x
31	Oxley	28	0.200%	14.50x
32	Norton	25	0.180%	5.45x
33	Gallon	24	0.170%	70.65x
34	Charlton	23	0.170%	5.82x
35	Conway	23	0.170%	8.91x
36	Curry	23	0.170%	11.65x
37	Hedley	23	0.170%	16.33x
38	Marr	23	0.170%	14.63x
39	Shields	23	0.170%	10.79x
40	Storey	23	0.170%	6.57x
41	Joyce	22	0.160%	6.50x
42	Mcdonald	22	0.160%	19.65x
43	Snowball	22	0.160%	49.07x
44	Elsdon	21	0.150%	82.94x
45	Finlay	21	0.150%	14.84x
46	Heads	21	0.150%	145.33x
47	Yeoman	21	0.150%	24.14x
48	Coulson	20	0.150%	8.09x
49	Waugh	20	0.150%	10.64x
50	Cowan	19	0.140%	6.76x
51	Dryden	19	0.140%	22.87x
52	Heron	19	0.140%	14.37x
53	Montgomery	19	0.140%	8.69x
54	Spoor	19	0.140%	125.83x
55	Woodman	19	0.140%	12.48x
56	Cornfoot	18	0.130%	334.57x
57	Devlin	18	0.130%	15.95x
58	Golightly	18	0.130%	58.80x
59	Hearns	18	0.130%	328.47x
60	Purves	18	0.130%	19.97x
61	Southern	18	0.130%	14.16x
62	Bunting	17	0.120%	11.05x
63	Chicken	17	0.120%	87.95x
64	Connell	17	0.120%	7.10x
65	English	17	0.120%	6.56x
66	Angus	16	0.120%	8.11x
67	Beaty	16	0.120%	50.83x
68	Cowen	16	0.120%	21.16x
69	Dewar	16	0.120%	8.90x
70	Kirton	16	0.120%	25.43x
71	Scorer	16	0.120%	84.17x
72	Urwin	16	0.120%	25.50x
73	Wigham	16	0.120%	66.97x
74	Cassidy	15	0.110%	8.90x
75	Daglish	15	0.110%	53.08x
76	Fenwick	15	0.110%	8.30x
77	Gallagher	15	0.110%	7.16x
78	Jameson	15	0.110%	9.83x
79	Mooney	15	0.110%	9.37x
80	Mullen	15	0.110%	11.38x
81	Nesbit	15	0.110%	35.39x
82	Pringle	15	0.110%	6.91x
83	Ayre	14	0.100%	18.18x
84	Brewis	14	0.100%	34.92x
85	Coulthard	14	0.100%	18.19x
86	Edgar	14	0.100%	6.60x
87	Garvey	14	0.100%	28.40x
88	Gleeson	14	0.100%	33.21x
89	Hatfield	14	0.100%	14.24x
90	Morison	14	0.100%	19.92x
91	Ormston	14	0.100%	58.04x
92	Quin	14	0.100%	9.48x
93	Rowntree	14	0.100%	34.45x
94	Telford	14	0.100%	11.53x
95	Batey	13	0.090%	24.12x
96	Connelly	13	0.090%	10.16x
97	Farris	13	0.090%	142.70x
98	Featherston	13	0.090%	99.46x
99	Laidler	13	0.090%	23.75x
100	Purdy	13	0.090%	16.54x