1881 census place

Westoe surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Westoe, Durham 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

1,972 surnames are listed for Westoe, Durham, covering 33,212 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 822 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Westoe

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	Smith	822	1.67%	1.18x
2	Thompson	628	1.27%	4.25x
3	Brown	588	1.19%	1.81x
4	Johnson	451	0.920%	2.72x
5	Scott	438	0.890%	3.51x
6	Wilson	428	0.870%	1.89x
7	Robson	406	0.820%	12.52x
8	Bell	367	0.740%	3.96x
9	Hall	326	0.660%	2.25x
10	Young	316	0.640%	2.99x
11	Watson	289	0.590%	2.53x
12	Richardson	285	0.580%	3.40x
13	Clark	270	0.550%	1.82x
14	Hunter	255	0.520%	5.04x
15	Miller	243	0.490%	2.76x
16	Henderson	241	0.490%	4.50x
17	Purvis	238	0.480%	49.94x
18	Wright	237	0.480%	1.50x
19	Anderson	235	0.480%	2.41x
20	Dixon	231	0.470%	4.28x
21	Marshall	221	0.450%	2.67x
22	Atkinson	210	0.430%	4.38x
23	Robertson	204	0.410%	2.47x
24	Davison	202	0.410%	11.47x
25	Robinson	199	0.400%	1.27x
26	Gray	197	0.400%	2.80x
27	Elliott	189	0.380%	4.52x
28	Gibson	181	0.370%	3.03x
29	Lawson	174	0.350%	5.99x
30	Nicholson	173	0.350%	4.94x
31	Allen	172	0.350%	1.85x
32	Harrison	172	0.350%	1.57x
33	Graham	162	0.330%	2.86x
34	Jackson	162	0.330%	1.18x
35	Cook	161	0.330%	1.65x
36	Oliver	157	0.320%	4.47x
37	Ramsey	156	0.320%	29.14x
38	Armstrong	150	0.300%	3.98x
39	White	150	0.300%	0.95x
40	Turnbull	149	0.300%	7.17x
41	Murray	136	0.280%	2.23x
42	Dunn	134	0.270%	3.27x
43	Sanderson	131	0.270%	6.44x
44	Todd	131	0.270%	5.23x
45	Charlton	128	0.260%	9.07x
46	Carr	126	0.260%	3.54x
47	Martin	123	0.250%	1.01x
48	Forster	121	0.250%	7.49x
49	Moore	119	0.240%	1.21x
50	Pearson	119	0.240%	2.08x
51	Hudson	115	0.230%	2.85x
52	Wilkinson	110	0.220%	1.46x
53	Davidson	108	0.220%	2.61x
54	Carter	106	0.220%	1.28x
55	Hodgson	104	0.210%	3.05x
56	Patterson	104	0.210%	6.05x
57	Tate	100	0.200%	10.51x
58	Slater	89	0.180%	2.98x
59	Morton	85	0.170%	3.23x
60	Ross	85	0.170%	1.58x
61	Heron	83	0.170%	17.57x
62	Riddle	83	0.170%	20.30x
63	Hedley	80	0.160%	15.90x
64	Burn	78	0.160%	11.76x
65	Reed	78	0.160%	2.17x
66	Potts	76	0.150%	4.62x
67	Ferguson	74	0.150%	2.12x
68	Rutherford	74	0.150%	6.15x
69	Storey	74	0.150%	5.91x
70	Dawson	73	0.150%	1.34x
71	Reay	73	0.150%	17.07x
72	Waugh	73	0.150%	10.87x
73	Bains	72	0.150%	58.82x
74	Bruce	71	0.140%	3.08x
75	Forrest	71	0.140%	5.59x
76	Reid	71	0.140%	1.37x
77	Ridley	71	0.140%	7.46x
78	Grant	70	0.140%	1.43x
79	Hopper	70	0.140%	9.95x
80	Pollard	70	0.140%	3.90x
81	Williamson	70	0.140%	1.58x
82	Coulson	69	0.140%	7.81x
83	Curry	69	0.140%	9.78x
84	Burns	68	0.140%	2.06x
85	Ford	68	0.140%	1.42x
86	Urwin	67	0.140%	29.88x
87	Blakey	66	0.130%	16.70x
88	Fenwick	66	0.130%	10.22x
89	Grieves	66	0.130%	53.49x
90	Stoker	66	0.130%	19.74x
91	Spence	65	0.130%	3.99x
92	Newham	64	0.130%	35.43x
93	Walton	64	0.130%	1.85x
94	Hails	63	0.130%	103.50x
95	Nichol	63	0.130%	11.88x
96	Barrow	62	0.130%	5.94x
97	Chambers	62	0.130%	2.21x
98	Collier	61	0.120%	3.70x
99	Crawford	61	0.120%	2.53x
100	West	60	0.120%	1.26x