1881 census place

Wolverhampton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wolverhampton, 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

2,978 surnames are listed for Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, covering 59,659 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 1,714 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wolverhampton

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	Jones	1,714	2.26%	2.00x
2	Smith	1,293	1.71%	1.21x
3	Williams	795	1.05%	1.46x
4	Evans	781	1.03%	2.36x
5	Davis	607	0.800%	3.64x
6	Taylor	561	0.740%	1.16x
7	Edwards	483	0.640%	2.29x
8	Turner	458	0.600%	2.17x
9	Hughes	443	0.580%	2.09x
10	Hill	435	0.570%	2.25x
11	Davies	402	0.530%	1.04x
12	Walker	401	0.530%	1.58x
13	Griffiths	396	0.520%	3.19x
14	Price	377	0.500%	2.84x
15	Brown	369	0.490%	0.74x
16	Lewis	365	0.480%	1.83x
17	Ward	356	0.470%	2.15x
18	Morris	337	0.440%	2.00x
19	Cooper	335	0.440%	1.82x
20	Green	334	0.440%	1.56x
21	Thomas	331	0.440%	1.06x
22	Owen	319	0.420%	3.54x
23	Roberts	303	0.400%	1.06x
24	Richards	286	0.380%	2.50x
25	Cox	258	0.340%	2.25x
26	Robinson	255	0.340%	1.05x
27	Rogers	246	0.320%	2.50x
28	Whitehouse	244	0.320%	12.37x
29	Hall	234	0.310%	1.05x
30	Jackson	231	0.300%	1.09x
31	Johnson	229	0.300%	0.90x
32	Harris	219	0.290%	1.14x
33	Lloyd	208	0.270%	2.35x
34	Bennett	207	0.270%	1.66x
35	Mason	207	0.270%	2.03x
36	Phillips	206	0.270%	1.52x
37	Martin	204	0.270%	1.09x
38	Bailey	203	0.270%	1.78x
39	Powell	200	0.260%	2.11x
40	Moore	195	0.260%	1.29x
41	Wood	194	0.260%	0.80x
42	Foster	188	0.250%	1.85x
43	Webb	179	0.240%	1.74x
44	White	175	0.230%	0.72x
45	Wilkes	175	0.230%	13.32x
46	Butler	171	0.230%	2.31x
47	Wright	171	0.230%	0.70x
48	Aston	169	0.220%	13.51x
49	Collins	168	0.220%	1.54x
50	Howell	168	0.220%	5.26x
51	Baker	166	0.220%	1.00x
52	Gough	165	0.220%	7.42x
53	Clark	163	0.220%	0.72x
54	Weaver	163	0.220%	8.27x
55	Yates	162	0.210%	3.11x
56	Clarke	161	0.210%	1.05x
57	Fisher	161	0.210%	1.81x
58	Lee	159	0.210%	1.28x
59	Hart	154	0.200%	2.38x
60	Cook	153	0.200%	1.02x
61	Fletcher	152	0.200%	1.76x
62	Harper	148	0.200%	3.05x
63	Pugh	144	0.190%	4.97x
64	Carter	141	0.190%	1.11x
65	Allen	140	0.180%	0.98x
66	Bradley	140	0.180%	2.30x
67	Walton	140	0.180%	2.62x
68	Barnett	138	0.180%	4.04x
69	Blakemore	136	0.180%	42.03x
70	Harrison	133	0.180%	0.79x
71	Walters	133	0.180%	3.68x
72	Ford	132	0.170%	1.79x
73	Pearson	129	0.170%	1.46x
74	Parkes	127	0.170%	8.18x
75	Hayward	126	0.170%	3.90x
76	Matthews	125	0.160%	1.89x
77	Reynolds	122	0.160%	1.86x
78	Rowley	122	0.160%	6.13x
79	Stokes	121	0.160%	3.78x
80	Bate	119	0.160%	9.26x
81	Stanley	118	0.160%	4.05x
82	Gibbons	117	0.150%	4.80x
83	Holmes	115	0.150%	1.25x
84	Shaw	114	0.150%	0.82x
85	Horton	113	0.150%	4.02x
86	Westwood	113	0.150%	8.89x
87	Haynes	112	0.150%	4.14x
88	Hadley	108	0.140%	10.47x
89	Southall	107	0.140%	18.63x
90	Lees	105	0.140%	3.12x
91	Porter	105	0.140%	1.85x
92	Birch	102	0.130%	3.28x
93	Blower	101	0.130%	22.55x
94	Dunn	101	0.130%	1.60x
95	Armstrong	99	0.130%	1.71x
96	Law	99	0.130%	2.89x
97	Fox	98	0.130%	1.39x
98	Mills	98	0.130%	1.00x
99	Palmer	98	0.130%	1.10x
100	Pitt	96	0.130%	5.93x