1881 census place

Wednesbury surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wednesbury, 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

1,025 surnames are listed for Wednesbury, Staffordshire, covering 11,823 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Price, with 175 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wednesbury

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	Price	175	0.710%	4.06x
2	Hill	149	0.600%	2.37x
3	Griffiths	143	0.580%	3.55x
4	Mason	137	0.560%	4.13x
5	Lloyd	128	0.520%	4.45x
6	Butler	124	0.500%	5.16x
7	Fellows	124	0.500%	37.18x
8	Whitehouse	111	0.450%	17.32x
9	Partridge	101	0.410%	15.69x
10	Slater	94	0.380%	6.30x
11	Kendrick	91	0.370%	38.36x
12	Wilkes	91	0.370%	21.31x
13	Holland	88	0.360%	5.02x
14	Aston	78	0.320%	19.19x
15	Page	78	0.320%	3.96x
16	Lowe	76	0.310%	4.11x
17	Hodson	72	0.290%	14.12x
18	Horton	68	0.280%	7.43x
19	Harper	67	0.270%	4.25x
20	Longmore	67	0.270%	111.07x
21	Yates	66	0.270%	3.90x
22	Spittle	65	0.260%	92.61x
23	Bates	60	0.240%	3.83x
24	Bird	60	0.240%	3.19x
25	Moseley	60	0.240%	26.68x
26	Bullock	59	0.240%	7.36x
27	Timmins	59	0.240%	29.76x
28	Berry	57	0.230%	2.91x
29	Danks	53	0.220%	49.39x
30	Watts	51	0.210%	2.47x
31	Lawton	50	0.200%	7.87x
32	Skidmore	50	0.200%	27.61x
33	Burns	49	0.200%	2.96x
34	Humphries	49	0.200%	8.83x
35	Small	49	0.200%	7.84x
36	Lees	48	0.190%	4.39x
37	Lester	48	0.190%	12.37x
38	Pitt	48	0.190%	9.12x
39	Griffith	47	0.190%	5.85x
40	Oldbury	46	0.190%	207.02x
41	Severn	46	0.190%	61.37x
42	Wilks	46	0.190%	11.87x
43	Earp	43	0.170%	47.99x
44	Hampson	43	0.170%	9.68x
45	Sheldon	42	0.170%	11.21x
46	Bayley	41	0.170%	10.32x
47	Kent	41	0.170%	3.95x
48	Norton	40	0.160%	4.88x
49	Plant	40	0.160%	7.34x
50	Rowley	40	0.160%	6.18x
51	Bayliss	39	0.160%	12.51x
52	Gibbs	39	0.160%	3.22x
53	Lawrence	39	0.160%	2.44x
54	Benton	38	0.150%	14.89x
55	Birks	38	0.150%	23.26x
56	Blakemore	38	0.150%	36.13x
57	Brookes	38	0.150%	6.57x
58	Holden	38	0.150%	2.82x
59	Holyhead	38	0.150%	325.34x
60	Tonks	38	0.150%	29.32x
61	Walford	38	0.150%	25.11x
62	Archer	37	0.150%	3.63x
63	Burrows	37	0.150%	3.43x
64	Farmer	37	0.150%	4.80x
65	Lunn	37	0.150%	11.60x
66	Haywood	35	0.140%	6.77x
67	Moran	35	0.140%	7.76x
68	Groves	34	0.140%	4.91x
69	Hartshorn	34	0.140%	31.83x
70	Pratt	34	0.140%	2.40x
71	Woodhall	34	0.140%	34.20x
72	Barnsley	33	0.130%	34.13x
73	Higgins	33	0.130%	2.65x
74	Steatham	33	0.130%	668.02x
75	Bissell	32	0.130%	43.74x
76	Maybury	32	0.130%	63.33x
77	Noakes	32	0.130%	17.76x
78	Parkes	32	0.130%	6.34x
79	Tilley	32	0.130%	9.89x
80	Duffield	31	0.130%	14.50x
81	Garbett	31	0.130%	32.28x
82	Millington	31	0.130%	8.31x
83	Platt	31	0.130%	4.75x
84	Simkin	31	0.130%	59.98x
85	Stokes	31	0.130%	2.98x
86	Beardmore	30	0.120%	26.57x
87	Hadley	30	0.120%	8.94x
88	Ingram	30	0.120%	3.99x
89	Pickering	30	0.120%	3.37x
90	Pugh	30	0.120%	3.19x
91	Amos	29	0.120%	7.16x
92	Byrne	29	0.120%	8.44x
93	Clifford	29	0.120%	5.72x
94	Simcox	29	0.120%	46.31x
95	Spooner	29	0.120%	8.16x
96	Wall	29	0.120%	3.37x
97	Wearing	29	0.120%	38.47x
98	Brazier	28	0.110%	12.12x
99	Crump	28	0.110%	10.52x
100	Madeley	28	0.110%	41.75x