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 Meyrick, with 21 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
601	Meyrick	21	0.030%	10.57x
602	Payton	21	0.030%	6.95x
603	Piddock	21	0.030%	33.86x
604	Pooler	21	0.030%	36.06x
605	Purslow	21	0.030%	18.11x
606	Roper	21	0.030%	1.33x
607	Rowlands	21	0.030%	1.11x
608	Sambrook	21	0.030%	13.44x
609	Shelly	21	0.030%	11.88x
610	Swindley	21	0.030%	39.88x
611	Wilde	21	0.030%	1.90x
612	Withers	21	0.030%	1.69x
613	Beresford	20	0.030%	3.58x
614	Bills	20	0.030%	9.89x
615	Bowers	20	0.030%	1.45x
616	Broatch	20	0.030%	49.07x
617	Brodie	20	0.030%	1.97x
618	Chard	20	0.030%	4.67x
619	Clay	20	0.030%	1.29x
620	Elkington	20	0.030%	7.01x
621	Gorman	20	0.030%	2.19x
622	Greenway	20	0.030%	3.55x
623	Hawthorn	20	0.030%	4.56x
624	Howl	20	0.030%	32.11x
625	Lovatt	20	0.030%	3.80x
626	Mansfield	20	0.030%	1.41x
627	Mayer	20	0.030%	4.59x
628	Milward	20	0.030%	5.70x
629	Nock	20	0.030%	5.97x
630	Povey	20	0.030%	4.36x
631	Raby	20	0.030%	5.50x
632	Shingler	20	0.030%	12.23x
633	Stocking	20	0.030%	31.85x
634	Tennant	20	0.030%	2.47x
635	Tipper	20	0.030%	6.15x
636	Whild	20	0.030%	127.39x
637	Worton	20	0.030%	12.48x
638	Allerton	19	0.030%	10.96x
639	Astbury	19	0.030%	5.36x
640	Beach	19	0.030%	2.63x
641	Beckett	19	0.030%	1.26x
642	Billingsley	19	0.030%	17.91x
643	Brittain	19	0.030%	3.24x
644	Clamp	19	0.030%	8.21x
645	Colbourn	19	0.030%	23.02x
646	Constable	19	0.030%	2.27x
647	Deacon	19	0.030%	1.48x
648	Dingley	19	0.030%	8.34x
649	Garbett	19	0.030%	6.43x
650	Haines	19	0.030%	1.08x
651	Hazeldine	19	0.030%	12.18x
652	Hogan	19	0.030%	2.49x
653	Holder	19	0.030%	1.86x
654	Holding	19	0.030%	2.83x
655	Hopwood	19	0.030%	2.20x
656	Jarman	19	0.030%	2.63x
657	Kidson	19	0.030%	20.85x
658	Lowndes	19	0.030%	7.45x
659	Minshall	19	0.030%	12.81x
660	Morrall	19	0.030%	14.16x
661	Mulliner	19	0.030%	17.70x
662	Onion	19	0.030%	12.87x
663	Paulton	19	0.030%	62.56x
664	Randle	19	0.030%	2.99x
665	Rochell	19	0.030%	40.14x
666	Sexton	19	0.030%	2.91x
667	Stallard	19	0.030%	5.68x
668	Starkey	19	0.030%	2.53x
669	Tudor	19	0.030%	3.73x
670	Ware	19	0.030%	1.52x
671	Whittle	19	0.030%	1.15x
672	Wilcox	19	0.030%	1.33x
673	Wolverson	19	0.030%	40.14x
674	Wooldridge	19	0.030%	4.58x
675	Annan	18	0.020%	16.93x
676	Anson	18	0.020%	6.41x
677	Ashford	18	0.020%	2.40x
678	Bissell	18	0.020%	8.00x
679	Bridgen	18	0.020%	22.94x
680	Britton	18	0.020%	1.34x
681	Causer	18	0.020%	15.87x
682	Christmas	18	0.020%	4.40x
683	Clapham	18	0.020%	2.75x
684	Colley	18	0.020%	1.87x
685	Cooksey	18	0.020%	10.38x
686	Cooney	18	0.020%	5.72x
687	Dugmore	18	0.020%	15.76x
688	Gardener	18	0.020%	1.32x
689	Gunter	18	0.020%	6.76x
690	Hanks	18	0.020%	4.87x
691	Lakin	18	0.020%	4.05x
692	Lamsdale	18	0.020%	101.58x
693	Littlehales	18	0.020%	20.61x
694	Nicklin	18	0.020%	5.98x
695	Padmore	18	0.020%	15.59x
696	Pinson	18	0.020%	16.31x
697	Reade	18	0.020%	7.90x
698	Rutter	18	0.020%	1.56x
699	Sealey	18	0.020%	7.25x
700	Selvey	18	0.020%	41.33x