1881 census place

Willenhall surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Willenhall, 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

632 surnames are listed for Willenhall, Staffordshire, covering 9,982 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Baker, with 165 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Willenhall

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	Baker	165	0.890%	4.08x
2	Turner	157	0.850%	3.05x
3	Appleby	147	0.800%	48.73x
4	Davis	142	0.770%	3.50x
5	Banks	137	0.740%	14.46x
6	Marston	133	0.720%	77.35x
7	Aston	129	0.700%	42.34x
8	Cooper	128	0.690%	2.85x
9	Griffiths	121	0.660%	4.00x
10	Parker	110	0.600%	3.13x
11	Whitehouse	106	0.570%	22.06x
12	Richards	104	0.560%	3.73x
13	Lloyd	101	0.550%	4.68x
14	Read	97	0.530%	8.15x
15	Constable	96	0.520%	46.98x
16	Bird	95	0.510%	6.73x
17	Squire	94	0.510%	42.92x
18	Mason	91	0.490%	3.66x
19	Butler	86	0.470%	4.78x
20	Brindley	79	0.430%	55.96x
21	Foster	79	0.430%	3.20x
22	Vaughan	79	0.430%	12.54x
23	Ash	76	0.410%	24.91x
24	Lees	76	0.410%	9.28x
25	Tonks	73	0.400%	75.15x
26	Haynes	71	0.380%	10.77x
27	Duncombe	68	0.370%	146.61x
28	Fisher	68	0.370%	3.15x
29	Saunders	68	0.370%	4.01x
30	Pitt	64	0.350%	16.22x
31	Southall	64	0.350%	45.73x
32	Eccleston	61	0.330%	65.90x
33	Harper	61	0.330%	5.16x
34	Fellows	59	0.320%	23.60x
35	Shepherd	59	0.320%	4.36x
36	Dudley	57	0.310%	20.57x
37	Wolverson	57	0.310%	494.36x
38	Birch	56	0.300%	7.40x
39	Marsh	56	0.300%	4.25x
40	Tonkinson	56	0.300%	311.98x
41	Starkey	53	0.290%	28.93x
42	Knowles	51	0.280%	5.17x
43	Benton	50	0.270%	26.14x
44	Pace	50	0.270%	60.82x
45	Rowley	49	0.270%	10.10x
46	Wakelam	48	0.260%	247.93x
47	Jobber	46	0.250%	1022.22x
48	Parkes	45	0.240%	11.90x
49	Poole	45	0.240%	5.06x
50	Haddon	44	0.240%	35.58x
51	Rutter	44	0.240%	15.64x
52	Walters	44	0.240%	5.00x
53	Wilkes	43	0.230%	13.43x
54	Bucknall	42	0.230%	86.53x
55	Burrows	42	0.230%	5.19x
56	Nicholls	41	0.220%	4.25x
57	Stringer	41	0.220%	11.14x
58	Dunton	40	0.220%	140.70x
59	Pedley	40	0.220%	42.75x
60	Summerfield	40	0.220%	33.41x
61	Tildesley	40	0.220%	145.40x
62	Faulkner	38	0.210%	7.59x
63	Horton	37	0.200%	5.40x
64	Pinson	37	0.200%	137.60x
65	Preston	36	0.190%	3.90x
66	Clift	35	0.190%	34.65x
67	Collett	35	0.190%	14.77x
68	Jordan	35	0.190%	4.29x
69	Lockley	35	0.190%	49.96x
70	Dugmore	34	0.180%	122.26x
71	Groves	34	0.180%	6.55x
72	Worrall	34	0.180%	14.48x
73	Anslow	33	0.180%	69.31x
74	Brant	33	0.180%	44.00x
75	Kempson	33	0.180%	81.82x
76	Amos	32	0.170%	10.54x
77	Barnett	32	0.170%	3.84x
78	Broomhall	32	0.170%	128.10x
79	Fallon	32	0.170%	46.87x
80	Howells	32	0.170%	6.79x
81	Hyde	32	0.170%	5.63x
82	Oakley	32	0.170%	8.18x
83	Atkins	31	0.170%	4.48x
84	Burke	31	0.170%	5.70x
85	Lowbridge	31	0.170%	279.28x
86	Hadley	30	0.160%	11.93x
87	Hartill	30	0.160%	94.28x
88	Massey	30	0.160%	6.35x
89	Stanley	30	0.160%	4.22x
90	Millington	29	0.160%	10.37x
91	Adey	28	0.150%	47.10x
92	Beards	28	0.150%	133.91x
93	Cotterill	28	0.150%	17.30x
94	Henworth	28	0.150%	1261.26x
95	Kingston	28	0.150%	16.24x
96	Ordidge	28	0.150%	614.04x
97	Tarbuck	28	0.150%	91.00x
98	Garner	27	0.150%	4.62x
99	Higgs	27	0.150%	8.02x
100	Bratt	26	0.140%	40.57x