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 Durkin, with 28 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
301	Durkin	28	0.060%	12.60x
302	Llewellyn	28	0.060%	3.76x
303	Lunn	28	0.060%	4.25x
304	Malpas	28	0.060%	19.55x
305	Overton	28	0.060%	5.66x
306	Brough	27	0.050%	4.34x
307	Egan	27	0.050%	6.39x
308	Hand	27	0.050%	4.42x
309	Howl	27	0.050%	64.53x
310	Osbourn	27	0.050%	33.42x
311	Pool	27	0.050%	4.57x
312	Poppleton	27	0.050%	30.24x
313	Thorley	27	0.050%	8.15x
314	Clenton	26	0.050%	191.04x
315	Devey	26	0.050%	34.04x
316	Dolan	26	0.050%	5.87x
317	Hanley	26	0.050%	6.20x
318	Hinton	26	0.050%	3.80x
319	Keay	26	0.050%	11.96x
320	Onions	26	0.050%	9.18x
321	Sager	26	0.050%	35.47x
322	Staples	26	0.050%	5.34x
323	Brindley	25	0.050%	6.42x
324	Cornfield	25	0.050%	52.30x
325	Denham	25	0.050%	5.57x
326	Lycett	25	0.050%	23.90x
327	Mansell	25	0.050%	4.20x
328	Millward	25	0.050%	4.37x
329	Moran	25	0.050%	2.68x
330	Oneil	25	0.050%	4.89x
331	Pinches	25	0.050%	27.89x
332	Rowbottom	25	0.050%	8.23x
333	Russon	25	0.050%	35.34x
334	Worthington	25	0.050%	2.45x
335	Busst	24	0.050%	207.61x
336	Chidlow	24	0.050%	43.15x
337	Collier	24	0.050%	1.41x
338	Drew	24	0.050%	1.78x
339	Farmer	24	0.050%	1.51x
340	Franklin	24	0.050%	1.42x
341	Kirkham	24	0.050%	3.38x
342	Penn	24	0.050%	5.22x
343	Poxon	24	0.050%	25.65x
344	Rathbone	24	0.050%	8.48x
345	Sly	24	0.050%	12.45x
346	Wheway	24	0.050%	70.55x
347	Acton	23	0.050%	7.80x
348	Badger	23	0.050%	7.80x
349	Brittain	23	0.050%	5.84x
350	Downing	23	0.050%	2.60x
351	Gale	23	0.050%	1.51x
352	Hartshorn	23	0.050%	10.42x
353	Hicken	23	0.050%	34.76x
354	Holder	23	0.050%	3.36x
355	Lines	23	0.050%	4.26x
356	Ricketts	23	0.050%	4.65x
357	Selby	23	0.050%	3.78x
358	Shelley	23	0.050%	5.83x
359	Tolley	23	0.050%	8.63x
360	Vale	23	0.050%	6.32x
361	Wooldridge	23	0.050%	8.26x
362	Worley	23	0.050%	10.16x
363	Beddows	22	0.040%	22.38x
364	Bland	22	0.040%	2.08x
365	Cotterill	22	0.040%	4.93x
366	Dewsbury	22	0.040%	28.12x
367	Elwell	22	0.040%	15.15x
368	Farnell	22	0.040%	11.79x
369	Foxall	22	0.040%	15.27x
370	Greatrex	22	0.040%	35.54x
371	Hartill	22	0.040%	25.07x
372	Hood	22	0.040%	1.56x
373	Meacham	22	0.040%	21.31x
374	Newell	22	0.040%	2.73x
375	Nichols	22	0.040%	1.33x
376	Philips	22	0.040%	2.33x
377	Priest	22	0.040%	3.30x
378	Proud	22	0.040%	8.45x
379	Southall	22	0.040%	5.70x
380	Watkiss	22	0.040%	38.61x
381	Bannister	21	0.040%	2.39x
382	Barnard	21	0.040%	1.66x
383	Bill	21	0.040%	11.58x
384	Bratt	21	0.040%	11.88x
385	Caddick	21	0.040%	11.89x
386	Carrington	21	0.040%	3.91x
387	Cleary	21	0.040%	9.99x
388	Etheridge	21	0.040%	6.93x
389	Gallagher	21	0.040%	2.71x
390	Gateley	21	0.040%	95.72x
391	Holloway	21	0.040%	1.35x
392	Humpage	21	0.040%	34.59x
393	Maund	21	0.040%	20.37x
394	Nightingale	21	0.040%	2.45x
395	Paine	21	0.040%	2.99x
396	Steadman	21	0.040%	6.70x
397	Woodall	21	0.040%	5.13x
398	Cherrington	20	0.040%	25.73x
399	Downes	20	0.040%	3.17x
400	Grainger	20	0.040%	2.55x