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 Hands, with 31 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
401	Hands	31	0.040%	4.08x
402	Hartland	31	0.040%	9.30x
403	Hubbard	31	0.040%	1.68x
404	Kean	31	0.040%	6.04x
405	Meakin	31	0.040%	5.24x
406	Nichols	31	0.040%	1.25x
407	Nightingale	31	0.040%	2.43x
408	Wilks	31	0.040%	2.60x
409	Yeomans	31	0.040%	4.96x
410	Arthur	30	0.040%	1.82x
411	Beardmore	30	0.040%	8.64x
412	Casey	30	0.040%	2.68x
413	Coyne	30	0.040%	7.48x
414	Cutler	30	0.040%	3.18x
415	Farley	30	0.040%	3.15x
416	Newey	30	0.040%	9.70x
417	Steele	30	0.040%	1.48x
418	Street	30	0.040%	1.69x
419	Beard	29	0.040%	1.45x
420	Browning	29	0.040%	1.88x
421	Cresswell	29	0.040%	3.63x
422	Hand	29	0.040%	3.19x
423	Hatton	29	0.040%	1.95x
424	Head	29	0.040%	1.57x
425	Howe	29	0.040%	0.97x
426	Ingram	29	0.040%	1.25x
427	Judson	29	0.040%	8.37x
428	Langley	29	0.040%	1.74x
429	Lister	29	0.040%	1.34x
430	Millward	29	0.040%	3.41x
431	New	29	0.040%	4.37x
432	Rigby	29	0.040%	1.32x
433	Rodgers	29	0.040%	1.40x
434	Smallwood	29	0.040%	4.15x
435	Underhill	29	0.040%	5.46x
436	Waldron	29	0.040%	4.34x
437	Aldridge	28	0.040%	1.90x
438	Bateman	28	0.040%	1.43x
439	Bratton	28	0.040%	29.49x
440	Coley	28	0.040%	6.22x
441	Dain	28	0.040%	40.97x
442	Draper	28	0.040%	1.57x
443	Farlow	28	0.040%	51.68x
444	Goodall	28	0.040%	1.72x
445	Kirkham	28	0.040%	2.65x
446	Leighton	28	0.040%	3.43x
447	Parton	28	0.040%	6.79x
448	Prosser	28	0.040%	2.36x
449	Box	27	0.040%	4.39x
450	Campion	27	0.040%	5.08x
451	Cockerill	27	0.040%	7.39x
452	Corbett	27	0.040%	1.82x
453	Edward	27	0.040%	3.84x
454	Fenn	27	0.040%	3.51x
455	Hallett	27	0.040%	2.89x
456	Homer	27	0.040%	4.68x
457	Meek	27	0.040%	3.06x
458	Micklewright	27	0.040%	26.86x
459	Savage	27	0.040%	0.93x
460	Shinton	27	0.040%	44.26x
461	Skidmore	27	0.040%	4.85x
462	Snape	27	0.040%	3.86x
463	Stanford	27	0.040%	4.28x
464	Summers	27	0.040%	1.27x
465	Tilley	27	0.040%	2.71x
466	Wooley	27	0.040%	5.57x
467	Addenbrooke	26	0.030%	165.61x
468	Atkins	26	0.030%	0.91x
469	Collings	26	0.030%	2.88x
470	Earp	26	0.030%	9.43x
471	Gaunt	26	0.030%	3.48x
472	Hassall	26	0.030%	5.49x
473	Lilley	26	0.030%	2.48x
474	Morey	26	0.030%	10.43x
475	Mountford	26	0.030%	3.86x
476	Neville	26	0.030%	2.89x
477	Powel	26	0.030%	13.42x
478	Radford	26	0.030%	1.81x
479	Shale	26	0.030%	40.59x
480	Sherwood	26	0.030%	2.69x
481	Simkiss	26	0.030%	62.62x
482	Steadman	26	0.030%	5.57x
483	Titley	26	0.030%	12.82x
484	Watkiss	26	0.030%	30.65x
485	Bamford	25	0.030%	2.19x
486	Carey	25	0.030%	1.75x
487	Costley	25	0.030%	125.06x
488	Davenport	25	0.030%	1.74x
489	Dawes	25	0.030%	2.42x
490	Dovey	25	0.030%	8.61x
491	Harrington	25	0.030%	1.74x
492	Haywood	25	0.030%	1.57x
493	Herbert	25	0.030%	0.88x
494	Loftus	25	0.030%	6.05x
495	Maloney	25	0.030%	4.00x
496	Munn	25	0.030%	4.58x
497	Paskin	25	0.030%	50.64x
498	Pemberton	25	0.030%	2.60x
499	Penn	25	0.030%	3.65x
500	Salter	25	0.030%	1.44x