1881 census place

Wolstanton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wolstanton, 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

1,110 surnames are listed for Wolstanton, Staffordshire, covering 18,712 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Johnson, with 305 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wolstanton

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	Johnson	305	1.02%	3.03x
2	Cooper	243	0.810%	3.34x
3	Turner	217	0.720%	2.60x
4	Ball	199	0.660%	8.04x
5	Wood	192	0.640%	2.01x
6	Goodwin	170	0.570%	10.77x
7	Bailey	169	0.560%	3.75x
8	Machin	160	0.530%	53.35x
9	Wright	156	0.520%	1.62x
10	Rowley	154	0.510%	19.57x
11	Dale	150	0.500%	11.85x
12	Lawton	150	0.500%	19.43x
13	Heath	142	0.470%	9.55x
14	Booth	140	0.470%	4.74x
15	Bennett	135	0.450%	2.74x
16	Davis	132	0.440%	2.01x
17	Shaw	130	0.430%	2.36x
18	Nixon	120	0.400%	13.15x
19	Owen	119	0.400%	3.35x
20	Dean	116	0.390%	5.58x
21	Gibson	116	0.390%	3.19x
22	Oakes	115	0.380%	26.51x
23	Colclough	111	0.370%	81.49x
24	Eardley	109	0.360%	96.79x
25	Price	109	0.360%	2.08x
26	Ford	105	0.350%	3.60x
27	Pointon	101	0.340%	79.84x
28	Boulton	100	0.330%	18.52x
29	Chadwick	100	0.330%	7.63x
30	Bowers	99	0.330%	18.12x
31	Lovatt	97	0.320%	46.70x
32	Beech	92	0.310%	20.80x
33	Harding	92	0.310%	4.24x
34	Alcock	89	0.300%	20.59x
35	Cope	89	0.300%	13.15x
36	Stubbs	83	0.280%	10.49x
37	Brereton	81	0.270%	65.00x
38	Holland	81	0.270%	3.80x
39	Bourne	80	0.270%	13.77x
40	Cotton	79	0.260%	11.05x
41	Grocott	79	0.260%	92.07x
42	Hulme	78	0.260%	12.18x
43	Podmore	78	0.260%	72.75x
44	Sutton	78	0.260%	4.09x
45	Leese	77	0.260%	58.60x
46	Poole	74	0.250%	5.13x
47	Sherratt	74	0.250%	43.02x
48	Hollinshead	73	0.240%	94.19x
49	Austin	72	0.240%	4.92x
50	Knapper	72	0.240%	206.30x
51	Potts	72	0.240%	7.20x
52	Rigby	70	0.230%	8.06x
53	Steele	69	0.230%	8.61x
54	Vernon	67	0.220%	13.59x
55	Barnett	65	0.220%	4.81x
56	Whitehurst	64	0.210%	67.29x
57	Dodd	63	0.210%	5.17x
58	Clews	62	0.210%	45.65x
59	Longshaw	61	0.200%	116.63x
60	Scragg	61	0.200%	62.75x
61	Sproston	61	0.200%	106.09x
62	Hackney	59	0.200%	45.17x
63	Lunt	59	0.200%	30.60x
64	Baskeyfield	58	0.190%	439.39x
65	Bentley	58	0.190%	4.58x
66	Bloor	58	0.190%	35.09x
67	Lowe	58	0.190%	2.58x
68	Meir	58	0.190%	291.46x
69	Plant	58	0.190%	8.76x
70	Platt	58	0.190%	7.31x
71	Frost	57	0.190%	3.38x
72	Mayer	57	0.190%	33.12x
73	Lightfoot	56	0.190%	13.44x
74	Peake	56	0.190%	19.39x
75	Challinor	55	0.180%	52.13x
76	Gallimore	55	0.180%	57.95x
77	Hammond	55	0.180%	3.23x
78	Howell	55	0.180%	4.36x
79	Mellor	55	0.180%	5.21x
80	Tomkinson	55	0.180%	28.13x
81	Brookes	54	0.180%	7.68x
82	Cooke	54	0.180%	3.27x
83	Handley	54	0.180%	10.68x
84	Moss	54	0.180%	2.93x
85	Stanier	54	0.180%	147.14x
86	Barlow	52	0.170%	3.22x
87	Harper	52	0.170%	2.71x
88	Mountford	51	0.170%	19.15x
89	Barber	50	0.170%	2.77x
90	Baxter	50	0.170%	2.80x
91	Thorley	50	0.170%	25.68x
92	Deakin	49	0.160%	11.84x
93	Brough	48	0.160%	13.11x
94	Cartlidge	48	0.160%	55.68x
95	Hodgkinson	48	0.160%	9.33x
96	Minshull	48	0.160%	74.88x
97	Birch	47	0.160%	3.83x
98	Brammer	46	0.150%	64.25x
99	Kirkham	46	0.150%	11.01x
100	Smallwood	46	0.150%	16.65x