1881 census county

Cheshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cheshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

13,220 surnames are listed for Cheshire, covering 591,819 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Swindells, with 885 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cheshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
101	Swindells	885	0.140%	21.43x
102	Bell	883	0.140%	0.73x
103	Tomlinson	881	0.140%	2.96x
104	Lees	860	0.130%	3.01x
105	Wild	856	0.130%	3.26x
106	Hulse	849	0.130%	20.81x
107	Hadfield	834	0.130%	9.29x
108	Bradbury	829	0.130%	4.45x
109	Martin	825	0.130%	0.52x
110	Ball	800	0.120%	1.50x
111	Webb	796	0.120%	0.91x
112	Gibson	785	0.120%	1.00x
113	Latham	782	0.120%	5.96x
114	Whitehead	778	0.120%	1.78x
115	Watson	777	0.120%	0.52x
116	Cook	775	0.120%	0.61x
117	Powell	773	0.120%	0.96x
118	Barnes	761	0.120%	0.98x
119	Bayley	760	0.120%	7.31x
120	Hayes	759	0.120%	1.89x
121	Foster	756	0.120%	0.88x
122	Harrop	752	0.120%	10.25x
123	Lightfoot	750	0.120%	8.36x
124	Slater	749	0.120%	1.92x
125	Young	749	0.120%	0.54x
126	Lea	744	0.120%	5.84x
127	Hunt	743	0.120%	0.87x
128	Maddock	728	0.110%	12.36x
129	Scott	721	0.110%	0.44x
130	Phillips	717	0.110%	0.62x
131	Faulkner	711	0.110%	4.07x
132	Mills	707	0.110%	0.85x
133	Worthington	704	0.110%	5.45x
134	Chadwick	699	0.110%	2.48x
135	Vernon	696	0.110%	6.56x
136	Schofield	694	0.110%	1.99x
137	Ford	688	0.110%	1.10x
138	Woodward	686	0.110%	2.16x
139	Bowden	685	0.110%	3.68x
140	Edge	684	0.110%	6.16x
141	Bebbington	682	0.110%	23.87x
142	Murphy	681	0.110%	1.32x
143	Woolley	680	0.110%	5.31x
144	Yates	675	0.100%	1.52x
145	Barnett	668	0.100%	2.30x
146	Oakes	653	0.100%	6.99x
147	Percival	651	0.100%	6.44x
148	Eaton	645	0.100%	3.57x
149	Mitchell	641	0.100%	0.49x
150	Nield	637	0.100%	14.39x
151	Rogers	636	0.100%	0.76x
152	Gee	633	0.100%	3.85x
153	Mottershead	630	0.100%	29.11x
154	Griffith	628	0.100%	2.99x
155	Hampson	628	0.100%	5.40x
156	Henshall	626	0.100%	20.01x
157	Lamb	626	0.100%	1.84x
158	Hatton	621	0.100%	4.91x
159	Peers	618	0.100%	16.43x
160	Darlington	617	0.100%	14.08x
161	Moores	617	0.100%	11.57x
162	Forster	616	0.100%	2.91x
163	Higgins	616	0.100%	1.89x
164	Heath	612	0.090%	1.91x
165	Littler	612	0.090%	14.30x
166	Marshall	609	0.090%	0.56x
167	Bostock	602	0.090%	9.94x
168	Broadhurst	602	0.090%	9.22x
169	Worrall	598	0.090%	7.29x
170	Burrows	597	0.090%	2.11x
171	Harris	596	0.090%	0.36x
172	Fox	594	0.090%	0.99x
173	Leech	591	0.090%	5.62x
174	Houghton	590	0.090%	2.62x
175	Atherton	583	0.090%	5.03x
176	Burns	583	0.090%	1.35x
177	Nixon	583	0.090%	2.97x
178	Collins	580	0.090%	0.63x
179	Rigby	578	0.090%	3.09x
180	Heywood	574	0.090%	4.47x
181	Barton	573	0.090%	1.64x
182	Hibbert	573	0.090%	6.06x
183	Spencer	571	0.090%	0.97x
184	Bradshaw	568	0.090%	2.14x
185	Hodgkinson	568	0.090%	5.13x
186	Stafford	568	0.090%	4.14x
187	Prince	560	0.090%	3.84x
188	Pritchard	559	0.090%	1.61x
189	Wainwright	559	0.090%	4.10x
190	Adams	557	0.090%	0.59x
191	Preston	554	0.090%	1.72x
192	Palin	545	0.080%	19.71x
193	Redfern	544	0.080%	6.06x
194	Plant	543	0.080%	3.81x
195	Brocklehurst	541	0.080%	15.38x
196	Knight	539	0.080%	0.68x
197	Atkinson	538	0.080%	0.86x
198	Murray	538	0.080%	0.67x
199	Rowland	538	0.080%	2.94x
200	Poole	537	0.080%	1.73x