1881 census place

Wednesfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wednesfield, 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

574 surnames are listed for Wednesfield, Staffordshire, covering 6,128 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Green, with 167 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wednesfield

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	Green	167	1.15%	4.09x
2	Mason	146	1.01%	7.48x
3	Griffiths	121	0.830%	5.10x
4	Pritchard	90	0.620%	11.52x
5	Owen	87	0.600%	5.05x
6	Foster	85	0.590%	4.38x
7	Whitehouse	84	0.580%	22.25x
8	Banks	79	0.540%	10.61x
9	Adey	76	0.520%	162.71x
10	Rowley	73	0.500%	19.15x
11	Hadley	63	0.430%	31.90x
12	Beech	56	0.390%	26.13x
13	Gough	54	0.370%	12.69x
14	Lane	51	0.350%	5.10x
15	Tonks	51	0.350%	66.82x
16	Wootton	51	0.350%	38.71x
17	Appleby	48	0.330%	20.25x
18	Tarbuck	48	0.330%	198.51x
19	Cope	46	0.320%	14.02x
20	Corbett	46	0.320%	16.18x
21	Edge	46	0.320%	18.40x
22	Wilkes	44	0.300%	17.50x
23	Deakin	43	0.300%	21.44x
24	Giles	43	0.300%	7.78x
25	Peers	41	0.280%	48.43x
26	Birch	40	0.280%	6.73x
27	Howell	40	0.280%	6.54x
28	Badger	38	0.260%	45.22x
29	Mattox	38	0.260%	1137.72x
30	Walters	36	0.250%	5.20x
31	Bate	35	0.240%	14.23x
32	Rushton	35	0.240%	11.69x
33	Woolley	33	0.230%	11.46x
34	Atkins	30	0.210%	5.51x
35	Emery	30	0.210%	9.47x
36	Hayward	30	0.210%	4.85x
37	Hope	30	0.210%	6.07x
38	Hickman	28	0.190%	11.47x
39	Pool	28	0.190%	16.65x
40	Vaughan	28	0.190%	5.66x
41	Barratt	26	0.180%	8.83x
42	Bellamy	26	0.180%	12.29x
43	Willetts	26	0.180%	32.02x
44	Guest	25	0.170%	8.06x
45	Talbot	25	0.170%	6.92x
46	Wilks	25	0.170%	10.95x
47	Chester	24	0.170%	13.50x
48	Hodson	24	0.170%	7.99x
49	Jacques	24	0.170%	19.51x
50	Machin	24	0.170%	16.52x
51	Marston	24	0.170%	17.76x
52	Parkes	24	0.170%	8.08x
53	Skidmore	24	0.170%	22.50x
54	Southan	24	0.170%	269.06x
55	Stringer	24	0.170%	8.30x
56	Westwood	24	0.170%	9.86x
57	Baugh	23	0.160%	44.20x
58	Elwell	23	0.160%	55.58x
59	Oakley	23	0.160%	7.48x
60	Clay	22	0.150%	7.39x
61	Dowen	22	0.150%	336.39x
62	Hand	22	0.150%	12.64x
63	Hargrove	22	0.150%	283.87x
64	Harman	22	0.150%	10.15x
65	Onions	22	0.150%	27.25x
66	Bayliss	21	0.140%	11.44x
67	Brindley	21	0.140%	18.93x
68	Hinley	21	0.140%	236.75x
69	Hinton	21	0.140%	10.78x
70	Lycett	21	0.140%	70.47x
71	Seymour	21	0.140%	7.08x
72	Eccleston	20	0.140%	27.50x
73	Haden	20	0.140%	43.22x
74	Higginson	20	0.140%	13.77x
75	Hough	20	0.140%	8.00x
76	Jenks	20	0.140%	40.39x
77	Pitt	20	0.140%	6.45x
78	Squire	20	0.140%	11.62x
79	Backhouse	19	0.130%	17.58x
80	Cotterill	19	0.130%	14.94x
81	Downes	19	0.130%	10.58x
82	Hammonds	19	0.130%	49.76x
83	Hartill	19	0.130%	76.00x
84	Hawkes	19	0.130%	8.12x
85	Hawthorn	19	0.130%	22.61x
86	Worton	19	0.130%	61.95x
87	Beresford	18	0.120%	16.84x
88	Guy	18	0.120%	5.67x
89	Cherrington	17	0.120%	76.78x
90	Leech	17	0.120%	7.19x
91	Nickolds	17	0.120%	417.69x
92	Sheldon	17	0.120%	7.70x
93	Titley	17	0.120%	43.80x
94	Anslow	16	0.110%	42.77x
95	Bibb	16	0.110%	127.49x
96	Bisby	16	0.110%	153.55x
97	Crowshaw	16	0.110%	164.27x
98	Done	16	0.110%	31.99x
99	Dudley	16	0.110%	7.35x
100	Dugmore	16	0.110%	73.23x