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 Grainger, with 88 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
101	Grainger	88	0.160%	10.14x
102	Bradley	86	0.150%	1.90x
103	Poulton	86	0.150%	18.98x
104	Spooner	86	0.150%	10.56x
105	Lawley	85	0.150%	24.99x
106	Skidmore	85	0.150%	20.49x
107	Vaughan	85	0.150%	4.41x
108	Foster	84	0.150%	1.11x
109	Turton	84	0.150%	13.25x
110	Guest	83	0.150%	6.88x
111	Walton	83	0.150%	2.09x
112	Dunn	81	0.140%	1.73x
113	Tonks	81	0.140%	27.28x
114	Barnes	79	0.140%	1.16x
115	Oakley	79	0.140%	6.61x
116	Lunn	78	0.140%	10.68x
117	Hodgetts	77	0.140%	29.28x
118	Rushton	77	0.140%	6.61x
119	Gilbert	75	0.130%	2.33x
120	Griffin	74	0.130%	2.79x
121	Nicholls	74	0.130%	2.51x
122	Nock	74	0.130%	29.65x
123	Wilkins	73	0.130%	2.93x
124	Glover	72	0.130%	2.99x
125	Gough	72	0.130%	4.35x
126	Hawkes	71	0.130%	7.80x
127	Haywood	71	0.130%	5.99x
128	Silvester	71	0.130%	16.27x
129	Danks	70	0.120%	28.48x
130	Marsh	70	0.120%	1.74x
131	Stanton	70	0.120%	6.22x
132	Blackham	69	0.120%	50.98x
133	Pritchard	69	0.120%	2.27x
134	Fox	68	0.120%	1.30x
135	Bunn	67	0.120%	12.18x
136	Carpenter	67	0.120%	3.46x
137	Peters	67	0.120%	3.38x
138	Stephens	67	0.120%	2.14x
139	Sedgley	66	0.120%	76.62x
140	Homer	65	0.120%	15.13x
141	Millward	65	0.120%	10.25x
142	Oliver	65	0.120%	1.61x
143	Perkins	65	0.120%	2.56x
144	Spencer	65	0.120%	1.26x
145	Birch	64	0.110%	2.77x
146	Fenton	64	0.110%	5.68x
147	Gill	64	0.110%	1.60x
148	Jesson	64	0.110%	51.44x
149	Jukes	64	0.110%	18.82x
150	Walters	64	0.110%	2.38x
151	Baggott	63	0.110%	38.41x
152	Slater	63	0.110%	1.84x
153	Corbett	62	0.110%	5.60x
154	Hampton	62	0.110%	6.96x
155	Holding	62	0.110%	12.39x
156	Lane	61	0.110%	1.57x
157	Parish	61	0.110%	7.00x
158	Rollason	61	0.110%	33.50x
159	Bagnall	60	0.110%	12.38x
160	Hawkins	60	0.110%	1.47x
161	Payne	60	0.110%	1.18x
162	Tinsley	60	0.110%	17.50x
163	Burton	59	0.100%	1.23x
164	Harvey	59	0.100%	0.98x
165	Nightingale	59	0.100%	6.20x
166	Perks	59	0.100%	10.04x
167	Turley	58	0.100%	19.05x
168	Wilks	58	0.100%	6.53x
169	Hinton	56	0.100%	7.39x
170	Ingram	56	0.100%	3.25x
171	Reed	56	0.100%	1.36x
172	Gould	55	0.100%	2.70x
173	Langford	55	0.100%	6.20x
174	Neale	55	0.100%	4.10x
175	Hodgkins	53	0.090%	20.89x
176	Povey	53	0.090%	15.51x
177	Randle	53	0.090%	11.21x
178	Banner	52	0.090%	16.87x
179	Hancox	52	0.090%	12.09x
180	Kendrick	52	0.090%	9.57x
181	Osborne	52	0.090%	1.93x
182	Plant	51	0.090%	4.09x
183	Pugh	51	0.090%	2.36x
184	Colley	50	0.090%	6.99x
185	Dean	50	0.090%	1.28x
186	Mallin	50	0.090%	65.17x
187	Page	50	0.090%	1.11x
188	Earp	49	0.090%	23.87x
189	Freeth	49	0.090%	40.36x
190	Jeavons	49	0.090%	33.37x
191	Long	49	0.090%	1.34x
192	Mansell	49	0.090%	7.43x
193	Nichols	49	0.090%	2.66x
194	Shakespeare	49	0.090%	23.76x
195	Sheppard	49	0.090%	2.51x
196	Cotterill	48	0.090%	9.70x
197	Hayes	48	0.090%	1.37x
198	Silk	48	0.090%	17.27x
199	Beckett	47	0.080%	4.18x
200	Hartland	47	0.080%	18.95x