1881 census place

Walsall Foreign surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Walsall Foreign, 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

1,936 surnames are listed for Walsall Foreign, Staffordshire, covering 35,608 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 958 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Walsall Foreign

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	958	1.88%	1.33x
2	Jones	712	1.40%	1.23x
3	Taylor	492	0.970%	1.51x
4	Cooper	423	0.830%	3.41x
5	Davis	357	0.700%	3.19x
6	Evans	328	0.640%	1.47x
7	Walker	231	0.450%	1.35x
8	Mason	230	0.450%	3.36x
9	Allen	209	0.410%	2.17x
10	Green	203	0.400%	1.42x
11	Baker	191	0.380%	1.71x
12	Birch	190	0.370%	9.10x
13	Whitehouse	188	0.370%	14.19x
14	Morris	183	0.360%	1.61x
15	Wright	177	0.350%	1.08x
16	Mills	176	0.350%	2.66x
17	Russell	176	0.350%	2.83x
18	Adams	173	0.340%	2.30x
19	Harrison	173	0.340%	1.53x
20	Stokes	173	0.340%	8.04x
21	Bird	169	0.330%	4.34x
22	Edwards	165	0.320%	1.16x
23	Clark	164	0.320%	1.07x
24	Hill	159	0.310%	1.23x
25	Moore	158	0.310%	1.55x
26	Hall	157	0.310%	1.05x
27	Parker	155	0.300%	1.60x
28	Bailey	152	0.300%	1.98x
29	Butler	151	0.300%	3.04x
30	Webster	145	0.280%	3.27x
31	Harris	142	0.280%	1.10x
32	Powell	142	0.280%	2.23x
33	Yates	142	0.280%	4.06x
34	Lloyd	140	0.270%	2.35x
35	Price	140	0.270%	1.57x
36	Ward	139	0.270%	1.25x
37	Wilcox	136	0.270%	14.17x
38	Fletcher	134	0.260%	2.30x
39	Walters	131	0.260%	5.39x
40	Wootton	129	0.250%	27.89x
41	Cox	128	0.250%	1.66x
42	Marshall	128	0.250%	1.50x
43	Stanley	128	0.250%	6.54x
44	Ball	127	0.250%	3.02x
45	Richards	127	0.250%	1.65x
46	Griffiths	126	0.250%	1.51x
47	Craddock	125	0.250%	29.17x
48	Hawkins	125	0.250%	3.39x
49	Horton	125	0.250%	6.61x
50	Bates	124	0.240%	3.83x
51	Owen	123	0.240%	2.03x
52	Holden	117	0.230%	4.19x
53	Parkes	117	0.230%	11.22x
54	Lees	115	0.230%	5.09x
55	Rogers	111	0.220%	1.68x
56	Somerfield	111	0.220%	200.80x
57	Wilkes	110	0.220%	12.46x
58	Bullock	104	0.200%	6.28x
59	Nicholls	104	0.200%	3.91x
60	Clarke	103	0.200%	1.00x
61	Cook	102	0.200%	1.01x
62	Stringer	101	0.200%	9.95x
63	Ross	100	0.200%	1.80x
64	Harvey	98	0.190%	1.80x
65	Archer	93	0.180%	4.41x
66	Lowe	90	0.180%	2.36x
67	Guest	89	0.170%	8.18x
68	Webb	89	0.170%	1.29x
69	Emery	88	0.170%	7.91x
70	Rowley	88	0.170%	6.58x
71	Jennings	87	0.170%	3.37x
72	Palmer	87	0.170%	1.45x
73	Harper	86	0.170%	2.64x
74	Stanton	86	0.170%	8.47x
75	Bate	85	0.170%	9.85x
76	Beebee	85	0.170%	236.83x
77	Benton	85	0.170%	16.12x
78	Cope	85	0.170%	7.38x
79	Oakley	85	0.170%	7.88x
80	Sutton	85	0.170%	2.62x
81	Wilks	85	0.170%	10.61x
82	Kelly	84	0.160%	1.51x
83	Reynolds	83	0.160%	1.88x
84	Brookes	82	0.160%	6.85x
85	Ford	82	0.160%	1.65x
86	Broadhurst	79	0.160%	15.31x
87	Marsh	78	0.150%	2.15x
88	Riley	77	0.150%	1.91x
89	Higgins	76	0.150%	2.95x
90	Lowbridge	72	0.140%	235.22x
91	Banks	71	0.140%	2.72x
92	Holmes	71	0.140%	1.14x
93	Glover	70	0.140%	3.22x
94	Newman	69	0.140%	1.82x
95	Pritchard	69	0.140%	2.52x
96	Salt	69	0.140%	9.12x
97	Allsop	68	0.130%	13.00x
98	Walton	68	0.130%	1.90x
99	Beech	67	0.130%	8.91x
100	Cockayne	67	0.130%	43.72x