1881 census place

West Bromwich surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in West Bromwich, 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

1,887 surnames are listed for West Bromwich, Staffordshire, covering 43,736 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 1,095 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in West Bromwich

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	Jones	1,095	1.94%	1.71x
2	Smith	1,032	1.83%	1.29x
3	Whitehouse	715	1.27%	48.69x
4	Williams	507	0.900%	1.25x
5	Evans	484	0.860%	1.96x
6	Taylor	465	0.820%	1.29x
7	Davis	396	0.700%	3.19x
8	Hill	358	0.630%	2.49x
9	Green	341	0.600%	2.15x
10	Richards	338	0.600%	3.96x
11	Harris	334	0.590%	2.33x
12	Moore	319	0.570%	2.83x
13	Morris	316	0.560%	2.51x
14	Hall	300	0.530%	1.81x
15	Stokes	290	0.510%	12.17x
16	Johnson	289	0.510%	1.52x
17	Turner	285	0.500%	1.81x
18	Cooper	270	0.480%	1.97x
19	Griffiths	264	0.470%	2.86x
20	Parker	264	0.470%	2.46x
21	Wright	264	0.470%	1.46x
22	Powell	263	0.470%	3.73x
23	Timmins	256	0.450%	56.37x
24	Price	255	0.450%	2.58x
25	Bates	234	0.410%	6.51x
26	Thompson	234	0.410%	1.38x
27	Horton	232	0.410%	11.07x
28	Martin	228	0.400%	1.64x
29	Hughes	221	0.390%	1.40x
30	Partridge	216	0.380%	14.65x
31	Lloyd	214	0.380%	3.25x
32	Robinson	208	0.370%	1.16x
33	Baker	205	0.360%	1.66x
34	Edwards	200	0.350%	1.27x
35	Butler	197	0.350%	3.58x
36	Ward	192	0.340%	1.56x
37	Parkes	190	0.340%	16.43x
38	Sheldon	190	0.340%	22.13x
39	Walker	189	0.330%	1.00x
40	Lowe	188	0.330%	4.44x
41	Cox	186	0.330%	2.17x
42	Hale	179	0.320%	8.84x
43	Adams	178	0.320%	2.14x
44	Wilkes	175	0.310%	17.89x
45	Webb	174	0.310%	2.27x
46	Harrison	171	0.300%	1.36x
47	Reeves	170	0.300%	7.35x
48	Cashmore	167	0.300%	94.05x
49	Grice	166	0.290%	28.52x
50	Holden	164	0.290%	5.30x
51	Shaw	163	0.290%	1.57x
52	Allen	158	0.280%	1.48x
53	Stevens	151	0.270%	2.56x
54	Fisher	150	0.270%	2.27x
55	Clark	147	0.260%	0.87x
56	Carter	144	0.260%	1.52x
57	Darby	143	0.250%	15.78x
58	Simcox	142	0.250%	98.98x
59	Wall	142	0.250%	7.19x
60	Brookes	141	0.250%	10.63x
61	Woodward	141	0.250%	5.06x
62	Phillips	140	0.250%	1.39x
63	Mason	136	0.240%	1.79x
64	Bailey	132	0.230%	1.55x
65	Bird	132	0.230%	3.06x
66	Rogers	130	0.230%	1.77x
67	Fellows	127	0.230%	16.62x
68	Woodhall	127	0.230%	55.77x
69	Riley	126	0.220%	2.82x
70	Mills	125	0.220%	1.71x
71	Knight	117	0.210%	1.68x
72	Hickman	116	0.210%	12.21x
73	Russell	112	0.200%	1.63x
74	Pearson	109	0.190%	1.66x
75	Hunt	107	0.190%	1.43x
76	Aston	105	0.190%	11.28x
77	Harper	105	0.190%	2.91x
78	Cutler	102	0.180%	14.52x
79	Brooks	101	0.180%	1.83x
80	Hadley	100	0.180%	13.01x
81	Westwood	100	0.180%	10.56x
82	Reynolds	99	0.180%	2.02x
83	Fletcher	98	0.170%	1.52x
84	Holloway	98	0.170%	5.67x
85	Wheatley	98	0.170%	8.52x
86	Barton	97	0.170%	3.18x
87	Field	97	0.170%	3.45x
88	Bayliss	96	0.170%	13.44x
89	Cole	96	0.170%	1.87x
90	Sutton	96	0.170%	2.67x
91	Clarke	95	0.170%	0.83x
92	Saunders	94	0.170%	1.82x
93	Bullock	93	0.160%	5.06x
94	Bayley	91	0.160%	10.00x
95	Law	91	0.160%	3.56x
96	Pitt	91	0.160%	7.54x
97	Withers	91	0.160%	9.83x
98	Yates	91	0.160%	2.35x
99	Round	90	0.160%	17.40x
100	Holland	89	0.160%	2.21x