1881 census county

Isle of Man surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Isle of Man 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

2,238 surnames are listed for Isle of Man, covering 48,141 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Gordon, with 17 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Isle of Man

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
301	Gordon	17	0.030%	0.50x
302	Kennedy	17	0.030%	0.52x
303	Moffatt	17	0.030%	4.87x
304	Nicholl	17	0.030%	5.99x
305	Southward	17	0.030%	14.97x
306	Waugh	17	0.030%	2.30x
307	Agnew	16	0.030%	5.24x
308	Armstrong	16	0.030%	0.39x
309	Broughton	16	0.030%	1.58x
310	Ferrier	16	0.030%	5.07x
311	George	16	0.030%	0.50x
312	Gilmore	16	0.030%	5.03x
313	Grose	16	0.030%	10.28x
314	Harding	16	0.030%	0.41x
315	Hinton	16	0.030%	2.20x
316	Kearney	16	0.030%	6.35x
317	Kellett	16	0.030%	3.39x
318	Nicholson	16	0.030%	0.42x
319	Saunders	16	0.030%	0.32x
320	Shaw	16	0.030%	0.16x
321	Skelley	16	0.030%	62.65x
322	Whiteside	16	0.030%	3.70x
323	Bennett	15	0.030%	0.17x
324	Blackburn	15	0.030%	0.73x
325	Braid	15	0.030%	7.53x
326	Brooks	15	0.030%	0.28x
327	Butler	15	0.030%	0.28x
328	Butterfield	15	0.030%	2.07x
329	Devine	15	0.030%	2.78x
330	Dick	15	0.030%	1.24x
331	Duff	15	0.030%	1.55x
332	Gallagher	15	0.030%	1.82x
333	Gibson	15	0.030%	0.23x
334	Greene	15	0.030%	10.11x
335	Hastie	15	0.030%	4.37x
336	Hutchinson	15	0.030%	0.49x
337	Mickle	15	0.030%	42.91x
338	Nugent	15	0.030%	5.22x
339	Quinn	15	0.030%	1.45x
340	Steele	15	0.030%	1.03x
341	Trafford	15	0.030%	6.89x
342	Woolcock	15	0.030%	9.80x
343	Baird	14	0.030%	1.21x
344	Cox	14	0.030%	0.17x
345	Crosbie	14	0.030%	5.03x
346	Crow	14	0.030%	1.71x
347	Curry	14	0.030%	1.80x
348	Fielding	14	0.030%	1.16x
349	Garrott	14	0.030%	48.92x
350	Graves	14	0.030%	1.70x
351	Hardman	14	0.030%	1.28x
352	Hunt	14	0.030%	0.19x
353	Jenkinson	14	0.030%	1.47x
354	Lawton	14	0.030%	1.00x
355	Lewis	14	0.030%	0.10x
356	Ronan	14	0.030%	31.16x
357	Schofield	14	0.030%	0.48x
358	Wilkinson	14	0.030%	0.17x
359	Airey	13	0.020%	3.15x
360	Barrett	13	0.020%	0.36x
361	Bradshaw	13	0.020%	0.58x
362	Bucknall	13	0.020%	9.12x
363	Connell	13	0.020%	1.38x
364	Doyle	13	0.020%	0.98x
365	Elliot	13	0.020%	0.94x
366	Harwood	13	0.020%	0.90x
367	Howard	13	0.020%	0.24x
368	Ireland	13	0.020%	1.03x
369	Keenan	13	0.020%	2.83x
370	Partington	13	0.020%	1.69x
371	Price	13	0.020%	0.14x
372	Riley	13	0.020%	0.30x
373	Sharpe	13	0.020%	0.81x
374	Sweetman	13	0.020%	6.73x
375	Austin	12	0.020%	0.45x
376	Bannon	12	0.020%	20.14x
377	Bolton	12	0.020%	0.51x
378	Burnett	12	0.020%	0.80x
379	Condon	12	0.020%	7.98x
380	Dickenson	12	0.020%	1.46x
381	Ellis	12	0.020%	0.15x
382	Ferguson	12	0.020%	0.31x
383	Foster	12	0.020%	0.17x
384	Galloway	12	0.020%	1.28x
385	Hamilton	12	0.020%	0.29x
386	Heron	12	0.020%	2.31x
387	Holland	12	0.020%	0.31x
388	Humphrey	12	0.020%	0.83x
389	Kitto	12	0.020%	14.28x
390	Latham	12	0.020%	1.09x
391	Maley	12	0.020%	11.36x
392	Marshall	12	0.020%	0.13x
393	Pearson	12	0.020%	0.19x
394	Poland	12	0.020%	12.84x
395	Reed	12	0.020%	0.30x
396	Scott	12	0.020%	0.09x
397	Towle	12	0.020%	8.37x
398	Waid	12	0.020%	101.95x
399	Alexander	11	0.020%	0.38x
400	Bannan	11	0.020%	27.86x