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 Douglass, with 59 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
101	Douglass	59	0.120%	18.85x
102	Downey	59	0.120%	16.94x
103	Dryden	59	0.120%	19.87x
104	Fairless	59	0.120%	60.48x
105	Heslop	59	0.120%	13.96x
106	Sharp	59	0.120%	1.44x
107	Johnston	58	0.120%	1.46x
108	Wallace	58	0.120%	1.72x
109	Frazer	57	0.120%	14.93x
110	Christie	56	0.110%	3.51x
111	Gordon	56	0.110%	1.80x
112	Laing	56	0.110%	5.66x
113	Shepherd	54	0.110%	1.50x
114	Hutchinson	53	0.110%	1.89x
115	Dodds	52	0.110%	5.01x
116	Laidler	52	0.110%	26.58x
117	Ord	52	0.110%	16.02x
118	Winter	52	0.110%	2.98x
119	Burdon	51	0.100%	31.60x
120	Newton	51	0.100%	1.35x
121	Temple	51	0.100%	7.89x
122	Shotton	50	0.100%	29.34x
123	Park	49	0.100%	3.21x
124	Whitfield	49	0.100%	4.98x
125	Arthur	48	0.100%	4.47x
126	Noble	48	0.100%	2.35x
127	Jobling	47	0.100%	24.95x
128	Pringle	47	0.100%	6.06x
129	Welch	47	0.100%	2.71x
130	Bone	46	0.090%	5.04x
131	Mather	46	0.090%	3.77x
132	Milburn	46	0.090%	10.46x
133	Short	46	0.090%	2.39x
134	Tully	46	0.090%	17.43x
135	Dobson	45	0.090%	2.07x
136	Lamb	45	0.090%	1.73x
137	Hepplewhite	44	0.090%	121.01x
138	Hills	44	0.090%	3.23x
139	Tait	44	0.090%	3.03x
140	Halliday	43	0.090%	4.22x
141	Henry	43	0.090%	3.45x
142	Legg	43	0.090%	5.29x
143	Buglass	42	0.090%	60.21x
144	Douglas	42	0.090%	1.76x
145	Main	42	0.090%	5.21x
146	Thornton	42	0.090%	1.70x
147	Wade	42	0.090%	2.13x
148	Batey	41	0.080%	21.28x
149	Bowman	41	0.080%	3.19x
150	Dew	41	0.080%	14.29x
151	Harper	41	0.080%	1.30x
152	Kennedy	41	0.080%	1.38x
153	Leask	41	0.080%	20.24x
154	Hanson	40	0.080%	2.52x
155	Nelson	40	0.080%	1.68x
156	Duffy	39	0.080%	3.62x
157	Newby	39	0.080%	7.92x
158	Tindle	39	0.080%	51.09x
159	Watt	39	0.080%	2.06x
160	Woodhouse	39	0.080%	3.34x
161	Blackburn	38	0.080%	2.05x
162	Hindmarch	38	0.080%	39.96x
163	Little	38	0.080%	1.63x
164	Donkin	37	0.080%	20.19x
165	Foreman	37	0.080%	5.74x
166	Hornby	37	0.080%	6.59x
167	Metcalf	37	0.080%	3.71x
168	Scrafton	37	0.080%	103.64x
169	Donaldson	36	0.070%	2.56x
170	Knox	36	0.070%	4.26x
171	Prior	36	0.070%	3.16x
172	Sutherland	36	0.070%	1.45x
173	Whale	36	0.070%	13.02x
174	Woodcock	36	0.070%	2.56x
175	Kane	35	0.070%	8.82x
176	Liddle	35	0.070%	6.03x
177	Manson	35	0.070%	6.07x
178	Snaith	35	0.070%	16.71x
179	Alexander	34	0.070%	1.30x
180	Brock	34	0.070%	5.94x
181	Fawcett	34	0.070%	3.57x
182	Lambert	34	0.070%	1.26x
183	Pinkney	34	0.070%	17.59x
184	Small	34	0.070%	2.72x
185	Burnett	33	0.070%	2.42x
186	Coats	33	0.070%	14.83x
187	Hepple	33	0.070%	31.64x
188	Howe	33	0.070%	1.71x
189	Shields	33	0.070%	4.33x
190	Bainbridge	32	0.060%	4.62x
191	Berryman	32	0.060%	11.69x
192	Buck	32	0.060%	3.03x
193	Jamieson	32	0.060%	2.33x
194	Wales	32	0.060%	8.02x
195	Blacklock	31	0.060%	14.81x
196	Gallagher	31	0.060%	4.14x
197	Jameson	31	0.060%	5.69x
198	Laws	31	0.060%	5.66x
199	Ranson	31	0.060%	12.72x
200	Carrick	30	0.060%	8.47x