1881 census place

Chesterfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Chesterfield, Derbyshire 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

771 surnames are listed for Chesterfield, Derbyshire, covering 7,217 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Turner, with 166 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Chesterfield

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
1	Turner	166	0.970%	3.48x
2	Clarke	109	0.640%	3.14x
3	Holmes	103	0.600%	4.93x
4	Barker	88	0.510%	3.92x
5	Lowe	88	0.510%	6.85x
6	Hopkinson	84	0.490%	29.97x
7	Mason	82	0.480%	3.56x
8	Bradley	80	0.470%	5.81x
9	Kelly	80	0.470%	4.26x
10	Wragg	75	0.440%	47.27x
11	Stevenson	71	0.410%	5.90x
12	Marriott	66	0.380%	17.19x
13	Newton	64	0.370%	4.87x
14	Madin	63	0.370%	426.54x
15	Heath	61	0.360%	7.17x
16	Short	59	0.340%	8.81x
17	Eyre	57	0.330%	27.73x
18	Slack	54	0.310%	19.99x
19	Bower	50	0.290%	15.92x
20	Longden	49	0.290%	61.88x
21	Roper	48	0.280%	13.45x
22	Naylor	47	0.270%	7.27x
23	Booker	46	0.270%	22.39x
24	Rawson	46	0.270%	24.58x
25	Hadfield	45	0.260%	18.85x
26	Barber	44	0.260%	4.26x
27	Goodwin	43	0.250%	4.76x
28	Limb	42	0.250%	108.36x
29	Cutts	41	0.240%	30.42x
30	Briddon	40	0.230%	211.08x
31	Wheatley	39	0.230%	11.17x
32	Buxton	38	0.220%	14.75x
33	Wheatcroft	37	0.220%	71.97x
34	Walters	36	0.210%	4.40x
35	Savage	33	0.190%	5.01x
36	Forrest	32	0.190%	7.24x
37	Oldfield	31	0.180%	10.94x
38	Silcock	31	0.180%	43.18x
39	Spooner	31	0.180%	12.53x
40	Stanton	31	0.180%	9.07x
41	Coates	30	0.180%	4.69x
42	Toplis	30	0.180%	90.83x
43	Bacon	29	0.170%	6.73x
44	Bunting	29	0.170%	15.16x
45	Catchpole	29	0.170%	26.24x
46	Rodgers	29	0.170%	6.18x
47	Shipley	29	0.170%	19.13x
48	Shelton	28	0.160%	13.89x
49	Hallam	27	0.160%	8.45x
50	Henstock	27	0.160%	129.19x
51	Adlington	26	0.150%	94.03x
52	Ashmore	26	0.150%	20.34x
53	Lancaster	26	0.150%	6.10x
54	Marples	26	0.150%	57.06x
55	Newbold	26	0.150%	20.79x
56	Wass	26	0.150%	27.93x
57	Beresford	25	0.150%	19.79x
58	Biggin	25	0.150%	57.76x
59	Neal	25	0.150%	4.93x
60	Windle	24	0.140%	24.69x
61	Heathcote	23	0.130%	16.61x
62	Northern	23	0.130%	197.93x
63	Pashley	23	0.130%	36.46x
64	Widdowson	23	0.130%	25.25x
65	Brookes	22	0.130%	5.46x
66	Calladine	22	0.130%	80.06x
67	Mountney	22	0.130%	153.74x
68	Roe	22	0.130%	6.59x
69	Rooth	22	0.130%	349.21x
70	Sharpe	22	0.130%	4.35x
71	Davenport	21	0.120%	6.46x
72	Pilkington	21	0.120%	6.82x
73	Smedley	21	0.120%	14.97x
74	Carrington	20	0.120%	11.07x
75	Fogg	20	0.120%	20.08x
76	Hays	20	0.120%	27.31x
77	Haywood	20	0.120%	5.56x
78	Hodgkinson	20	0.120%	6.79x
79	Maddison	20	0.120%	11.91x
80	Rollinson	20	0.120%	21.62x
81	Wardle	20	0.120%	6.03x
82	Glossop	19	0.110%	31.51x
83	Hardwick	19	0.110%	7.25x
84	Unwin	19	0.110%	11.15x
85	Bargh	18	0.110%	136.16x
86	Carroll	18	0.110%	5.23x
87	Dooley	18	0.110%	17.03x
88	Holehouse	18	0.110%	145.51x
89	Hollingworth	18	0.110%	13.00x
90	Hooley	18	0.110%	21.89x
91	Nunn	18	0.110%	5.99x
92	Platts	18	0.110%	15.73x
93	Reddish	18	0.110%	54.78x
94	Riggott	18	0.110%	327.27x
95	Wharton	18	0.110%	7.49x
96	Wilde	18	0.110%	7.21x
97	Bingham	17	0.100%	6.75x
98	Doe	17	0.100%	20.72x
99	Farnsworth	17	0.100%	23.87x
100	Gilberthorpe	17	0.100%	237.43x