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 Meddings, with 13 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
901	Meddings	13	0.020%	19.60x
902	Mees	13	0.020%	13.07x
903	Minton	13	0.020%	5.06x
904	Mullaney	13	0.020%	22.52x
905	Ohara	13	0.020%	2.98x
906	Pass	13	0.020%	3.51x
907	Pedley	13	0.020%	3.38x
908	Podmore	13	0.020%	4.79x
909	Raybould	13	0.020%	5.68x
910	Sargent	13	0.020%	1.11x
911	Sedgley	13	0.020%	11.24x
912	Sedgwick	13	0.020%	2.36x
913	Tandy	13	0.020%	3.61x
914	Tatlow	13	0.020%	19.45x
915	Tibbitts	13	0.020%	29.68x
916	Tulley	13	0.020%	8.32x
917	Venables	13	0.020%	2.44x
918	Webberley	13	0.020%	34.46x
919	Whatton	13	0.020%	21.22x
920	Willcock	13	0.020%	4.71x
921	Willington	13	0.020%	14.42x
922	Wooton	13	0.020%	6.45x
923	Akers	12	0.020%	3.26x
924	Allsop	12	0.020%	1.54x
925	Anthony	12	0.020%	1.36x
926	Arrowsmith	12	0.020%	2.04x
927	Baynes	12	0.020%	4.01x
928	Bellis	12	0.020%	2.79x
929	Bennet	12	0.020%	1.15x
930	Beswick	12	0.020%	1.62x
931	Bowater	12	0.020%	10.82x
932	Brannan	12	0.020%	2.34x
933	Brettell	12	0.020%	12.03x
934	Bridgwater	12	0.020%	8.33x
935	Burkitt	12	0.020%	8.03x
936	Cam	12	0.020%	19.67x
937	Carthy	12	0.020%	10.24x
938	Chance	12	0.020%	3.42x
939	Compton	12	0.020%	1.64x
940	Cookson	12	0.020%	1.34x
941	Crowe	12	0.020%	1.59x
942	Deans	12	0.020%	2.33x
943	Deeley	12	0.020%	4.65x
944	Edgerton	12	0.020%	11.05x
945	Elliss	12	0.020%	4.84x
946	Farr	12	0.020%	1.07x
947	Feeney	12	0.020%	4.66x
948	Fowles	12	0.020%	3.23x
949	Gallimore	12	0.020%	4.99x
950	Gandy	12	0.020%	3.93x
951	Gittos	12	0.020%	77.72x
952	Grady	12	0.020%	2.40x
953	Hawksford	12	0.020%	50.44x
954	Heaford	12	0.020%	48.37x
955	Higham	12	0.020%	1.55x
956	Hollingsworth	12	0.020%	2.39x
957	Icke	12	0.020%	25.90x
958	Ireson	12	0.020%	7.78x
959	Isles	12	0.020%	5.86x
960	Jacob	12	0.020%	2.03x
961	Kerry	12	0.020%	2.34x
962	Lambeth	12	0.020%	8.76x
963	Littleford	12	0.020%	21.74x
964	Malpass	12	0.020%	6.12x
965	Millichamp	12	0.020%	19.19x
966	Mortiboy	12	0.020%	92.95x
967	Moses	12	0.020%	1.55x
968	Nott	12	0.020%	2.24x
969	Poad	12	0.020%	21.06x
970	Powers	12	0.020%	3.88x
971	Ransom	12	0.020%	2.92x
972	Reading	12	0.020%	2.05x
973	Reece	12	0.020%	1.81x
974	Ring	12	0.020%	3.90x
975	Shirley	12	0.020%	1.94x
976	Shorter	12	0.020%	3.40x
977	Simkin	12	0.020%	7.55x
978	Smout	12	0.020%	9.96x
979	Sparkes	12	0.020%	2.16x
980	Speak	12	0.020%	4.55x
981	Sproston	12	0.020%	8.24x
982	Sweetman	12	0.020%	4.44x
983	Tatton	12	0.020%	6.08x
984	Thickbroom	12	0.020%	50.98x
985	Tildesley	12	0.020%	10.63x
986	Tolley	12	0.020%	3.03x
987	Twigg	12	0.020%	2.26x
988	Tyrer	12	0.020%	3.59x
989	Wardley	12	0.020%	6.31x
990	Wigley	12	0.020%	2.50x
991	Worth	12	0.020%	1.76x
992	Amies	11	0.010%	8.80x
993	Argyle	11	0.010%	8.67x
994	Ashmore	11	0.010%	1.95x
995	Austins	11	0.010%	46.73x
996	Badley	11	0.010%	13.45x
997	Beavon	11	0.010%	24.01x
998	Bebb	11	0.010%	7.47x
999	Bladen	11	0.010%	11.77x
1000	Blakeney	11	0.010%	24.97x