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 Burke, with 55 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
201	Burke	55	0.070%	2.47x
202	Jordan	55	0.070%	1.64x
203	Newton	55	0.070%	0.95x
204	Gilbert	54	0.070%	1.25x
205	Hodgetts	54	0.070%	15.29x
206	Hope	54	0.070%	2.09x
207	Painter	54	0.070%	5.19x
208	Arnold	53	0.070%	1.30x
209	Eaton	53	0.070%	2.50x
210	Gill	53	0.070%	0.99x
211	Lawton	53	0.070%	2.71x
212	Overton	53	0.070%	7.20x
213	Payne	53	0.070%	0.78x
214	Slater	53	0.070%	1.15x
215	Terry	53	0.070%	2.73x
216	Wheeler	53	0.070%	1.16x
217	Bentley	52	0.070%	1.62x
218	Chambers	52	0.070%	1.21x
219	Gould	52	0.070%	1.90x
220	Guest	52	0.070%	3.21x
221	Hopkins	52	0.070%	1.14x
222	Massey	52	0.070%	2.68x
223	Worrall	52	0.070%	5.39x
224	Burgess	51	0.070%	0.97x
225	Cliff	51	0.070%	7.69x
226	Hodgkiss	51	0.070%	17.84x
227	Miles	51	0.070%	1.14x
228	Morton	51	0.070%	1.26x
229	Tonks	51	0.070%	12.79x
230	Brindley	50	0.070%	8.63x
231	Brotherton	50	0.070%	12.95x
232	Hartill	50	0.070%	38.27x
233	Newman	50	0.070%	0.89x
234	Wakeman	50	0.070%	21.77x
235	Welch	50	0.070%	1.88x
236	York	50	0.070%	4.99x
237	Baggott	49	0.060%	22.25x
238	Cheadle	49	0.060%	27.65x
239	Reed	49	0.060%	0.89x
240	Short	49	0.060%	1.65x
241	Vickers	49	0.060%	2.52x
242	Dale	48	0.060%	1.50x
243	Gorton	48	0.060%	10.20x
244	Higgins	48	0.060%	1.25x
245	Lester	48	0.060%	4.02x
246	Moseley	48	0.060%	6.94x
247	Chilton	47	0.060%	7.72x
248	Churm	47	0.060%	72.24x
249	Coleman	47	0.060%	1.24x
250	Hartshorn	47	0.060%	14.30x
251	Lawley	47	0.060%	10.29x
252	Round	47	0.060%	6.77x
253	Saunders	47	0.060%	0.68x
254	Biddle	46	0.060%	8.42x
255	Bolton	46	0.060%	1.41x
256	Goodwin	46	0.060%	1.15x
257	Groom	46	0.060%	4.33x
258	Haycock	46	0.060%	10.83x
259	Leek	46	0.060%	12.54x
260	Simmonds	46	0.060%	2.27x
261	Wootton	46	0.060%	6.68x
262	Hales	45	0.060%	4.14x
263	Hammond	45	0.060%	1.04x
264	Robins	45	0.060%	2.80x
265	Spruce	45	0.060%	29.43x
266	Talbot	45	0.060%	2.38x
267	Buckley	44	0.060%	1.07x
268	Cope	44	0.060%	2.57x
269	Harding	44	0.060%	0.80x
270	Instone	44	0.060%	46.59x
271	Leonard	44	0.060%	2.68x
272	Manning	44	0.060%	1.83x
273	Yardley	44	0.060%	9.14x
274	Archer	43	0.060%	1.37x
275	Benbow	43	0.060%	14.31x
276	Brazier	43	0.060%	6.05x
277	Dutton	43	0.060%	2.51x
278	Finch	43	0.060%	1.70x
279	Frost	43	0.060%	1.01x
280	Gordon	43	0.060%	0.90x
281	Grosvenor	43	0.060%	25.50x
282	May	43	0.060%	0.89x
283	Meredith	43	0.060%	2.81x
284	Pool	43	0.060%	4.89x
285	Tomlinson	43	0.060%	1.23x
286	Wesley	43	0.060%	14.57x
287	Ash	42	0.060%	3.35x
288	Barrett	42	0.060%	0.82x
289	Blackham	42	0.060%	23.10x
290	Deakin	42	0.060%	4.01x
291	Dolman	42	0.060%	12.92x
292	Hough	42	0.060%	3.22x
293	Stephens	42	0.060%	1.00x
294	Turton	42	0.060%	4.93x
295	Wainwright	42	0.060%	2.62x
296	Broomhall	41	0.050%	39.98x
297	Godwin	41	0.050%	4.18x
298	Latham	41	0.050%	2.66x
299	Lawrence	41	0.050%	0.83x
300	Ling	41	0.050%	5.72x