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 Kitchen, with 173 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
701	Kitchen	173	0.030%	1.57x
702	Shuttleworth	173	0.030%	2.26x
703	Swann	173	0.030%	2.46x
704	Unsworth	173	0.030%	2.33x
705	Nolan	172	0.030%	1.96x
706	Cotton	171	0.030%	1.11x
707	Spruce	171	0.030%	13.15x
708	Walters	171	0.030%	0.56x
709	Benson	170	0.030%	0.97x
710	Bray	170	0.030%	0.78x
711	Morrison	170	0.030%	0.34x
712	Payne	170	0.030%	0.29x
713	Bramhall	168	0.030%	8.21x
714	Haughton	168	0.030%	5.12x
715	Heaps	168	0.030%	5.98x
716	Hoyle	168	0.030%	1.13x
717	Jenkinson	168	0.030%	1.49x
718	Hesketh	167	0.030%	2.71x
719	Wall	167	0.030%	0.74x
720	Beaumont	166	0.030%	0.87x
721	Boyd	166	0.030%	0.73x
722	Dykes	166	0.030%	3.74x
723	Garlick	166	0.030%	2.92x
724	Kerr	166	0.030%	0.47x
725	Scholes	166	0.030%	2.22x
726	Lawrence	165	0.030%	0.39x
727	Reeves	165	0.030%	0.62x
728	Barrett	164	0.030%	0.38x
729	Moseley	164	0.030%	2.79x
730	Astles	163	0.030%	30.77x
731	Cowap	163	0.030%	35.88x
732	Firth	163	0.030%	0.76x
733	Gorst	163	0.030%	11.59x
734	Stretch	163	0.030%	11.26x
735	Ashbrook	162	0.030%	27.36x
736	Bolton	162	0.030%	0.58x
737	Aston	161	0.030%	1.51x
738	Boon	161	0.030%	2.66x
739	Joyce	161	0.030%	1.02x
740	Reed	161	0.030%	0.34x
741	Abbott	160	0.020%	0.56x
742	Aspinall	159	0.020%	1.79x
743	Hodson	159	0.020%	1.19x
744	Sanderson	159	0.020%	0.60x
745	Towers	159	0.020%	2.13x
746	Woodhouse	159	0.020%	1.04x
747	Broughton	158	0.020%	1.31x
748	Cain	158	0.020%	1.18x
749	Cole	158	0.020%	0.27x
750	Joinson	158	0.020%	32.76x
751	Shakeshaft	158	0.020%	13.87x
752	Thorp	158	0.020%	1.81x
753	Eastwood	157	0.020%	1.03x
754	Farrell	157	0.020%	1.28x
755	Sutcliffe	157	0.020%	0.62x
756	Winterbottom	157	0.020%	2.64x
757	Briggs	156	0.020%	0.45x
758	Corbishley	156	0.020%	15.48x
759	Dickens	156	0.020%	2.31x
760	Hamer	156	0.020%	1.29x
761	Ikin	156	0.020%	18.53x
762	Povey	156	0.020%	4.00x
763	Prescott	156	0.020%	1.72x
764	Casey	155	0.020%	1.63x
765	Cowley	155	0.020%	1.31x
766	Crimes	155	0.020%	29.87x
767	Pierce	155	0.020%	1.64x
768	Pimlott	155	0.020%	15.65x
769	Ray	155	0.020%	1.21x
770	Ruscoe	155	0.020%	11.65x
771	Brough	154	0.020%	1.95x
772	Farrall	154	0.020%	12.06x
773	Hamnett	154	0.020%	15.28x
774	Heaton	154	0.020%	1.00x
775	Norman	154	0.020%	0.52x
776	Rayner	154	0.020%	0.96x
777	Robertson	154	0.020%	0.14x
778	Thomson	154	0.020%	0.18x
779	Coppock	153	0.020%	11.35x
780	Crank	153	0.020%	11.67x
781	Hutchinson	153	0.020%	0.42x
782	Johnstone	153	0.020%	0.52x
783	Peters	153	0.020%	0.68x
784	Radcliffe	153	0.020%	2.04x
785	Wheeldon	153	0.020%	4.81x
786	Yoxall	153	0.020%	14.62x
787	Clarkson	152	0.020%	0.89x
788	Greenhalgh	152	0.020%	1.15x
789	Sharples	152	0.020%	1.35x
790	Toft	152	0.020%	6.03x
791	Willett	152	0.020%	2.99x
792	Aldcroft	151	0.020%	17.57x
793	Dalton	151	0.020%	1.02x
794	Haslam	151	0.020%	1.54x
795	Hazlehurst	151	0.020%	13.67x
796	Neild	151	0.020%	9.20x
797	Fairbrother	150	0.020%	4.09x
798	Millward	150	0.020%	2.07x
799	Purcell	150	0.020%	3.34x
800	Broad	149	0.020%	1.82x