1881 census place

Westgate surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Westgate, Northumberland 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

1,207 surnames are listed for Westgate, Northumberland, covering 15,219 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 394 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Westgate

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	Brown	394	1.46%	2.22x
2	Robson	303	1.13%	17.10x
3	Thompson	289	1.07%	3.58x
4	Wilson	285	1.06%	2.31x
5	Bell	269	1.00%	5.32x
6	Armstrong	264	0.980%	12.83x
7	Hall	221	0.820%	2.79x
8	Scott	219	0.810%	3.22x
9	Gibson	197	0.730%	6.03x
10	Henderson	178	0.660%	6.08x
11	Richardson	164	0.610%	3.58x
12	Atkinson	160	0.590%	6.10x
13	Graham	145	0.540%	4.69x
14	Dixon	136	0.510%	4.61x
15	Anderson	135	0.500%	2.54x
16	Dodds	134	0.500%	23.65x
17	Young	132	0.490%	2.28x
18	Davidson	125	0.460%	5.52x
19	Forster	122	0.450%	13.82x
20	Watson	121	0.450%	1.94x
21	Stewart	119	0.440%	2.83x
22	Simpson	117	0.430%	2.49x
23	Tait	112	0.420%	14.13x
24	Elliott	106	0.390%	4.64x
25	Marshall	106	0.390%	2.35x
26	Turnbull	95	0.350%	8.37x
27	Patterson	92	0.340%	9.80x
28	Davison	88	0.330%	9.14x
29	Charlton	83	0.310%	10.76x
30	Carr	81	0.300%	4.17x
31	Lawson	78	0.290%	4.92x
32	Gray	76	0.280%	1.98x
33	Hedley	76	0.280%	27.64x
34	Reed	76	0.280%	3.87x
35	Johnston	75	0.280%	3.45x
36	Oliver	71	0.260%	3.70x
37	Lamb	67	0.250%	4.72x
38	Reid	67	0.250%	2.37x
39	Potts	65	0.240%	7.24x
40	Walton	63	0.230%	3.33x
41	Ferguson	62	0.230%	3.25x
42	Allan	59	0.220%	3.49x
43	Nicholson	56	0.210%	2.93x
44	Little	55	0.200%	4.32x
45	Burn	54	0.200%	14.91x
46	Morrison	54	0.200%	2.55x
47	Hutchinson	53	0.200%	3.47x
48	Nixon	53	0.200%	6.46x
49	Pringle	53	0.200%	12.50x
50	Dunn	52	0.190%	2.32x
51	Dickinson	50	0.190%	4.35x
52	Curry	49	0.180%	12.71x
53	English	49	0.180%	9.68x
54	Burns	48	0.180%	2.66x
55	Todd	48	0.180%	3.50x
56	Bone	47	0.170%	9.42x
57	Rutherford	47	0.170%	7.16x
58	Black	46	0.170%	2.64x
59	Waugh	46	0.170%	12.54x
60	Jobson	45	0.170%	28.45x
61	Milburn	45	0.170%	18.73x
62	Reay	45	0.170%	19.26x
63	Storey	45	0.170%	6.58x
64	Hetherington	44	0.160%	12.97x
65	Purvis	44	0.160%	16.90x
66	Snowdon	43	0.160%	21.43x
67	Tate	41	0.150%	7.89x
68	Cuthbertson	40	0.150%	19.23x
69	Howe	39	0.140%	3.69x
70	Humble	39	0.140%	30.56x
71	Coulson	37	0.140%	7.66x
72	Grey	36	0.130%	6.17x
73	Bowman	33	0.120%	4.69x
74	Boyd	33	0.120%	3.50x
75	Douglas	33	0.120%	2.53x
76	Halliday	33	0.120%	5.93x
77	Pattison	33	0.120%	7.70x
78	Dobson	32	0.120%	2.70x
79	Dodd	32	0.120%	2.92x
80	Hogarth	32	0.120%	18.02x
81	Ridley	32	0.120%	6.15x
82	Bulman	31	0.120%	31.61x
83	Carruthers	31	0.120%	8.71x
84	Dewar	31	0.120%	8.83x
85	Swan	31	0.120%	4.45x
86	Bolam	30	0.110%	40.96x
87	Ormston	30	0.110%	63.69x
88	Steele	30	0.110%	4.16x
89	Straughan	30	0.110%	67.02x
90	Marks	29	0.110%	5.27x
91	Symington	29	0.110%	38.97x
92	Veitch	29	0.110%	16.34x
93	Cohen	28	0.100%	6.61x
94	Conway	28	0.100%	5.55x
95	Mole	28	0.100%	13.40x
96	Egdell	27	0.100%	229.40x
97	Jeffrey	27	0.100%	5.43x
98	Moat	27	0.100%	51.88x
99	Mullen	27	0.100%	10.49x
100	Rowell	27	0.100%	11.49x