1881 census place

Dukinfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dukinfield, Cheshire 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

1,053 surnames are listed for Dukinfield, Cheshire, covering 18,927 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 401 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dukinfield

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	Taylor	401	1.35%	2.10x
2	Wood	289	0.970%	3.04x
3	Shaw	266	0.890%	4.86x
4	Hall	202	0.680%	2.30x
5	Turner	193	0.650%	2.33x
6	Schofield	188	0.630%	11.64x
7	Walker	176	0.590%	1.76x
8	Newton	162	0.540%	7.09x
9	Chadwick	159	0.530%	12.20x
10	Hadfield	152	0.510%	36.63x
11	Harrop	151	0.510%	44.55x
12	Booth	150	0.500%	5.10x
13	Wilde	150	0.500%	34.58x
14	Harrison	147	0.490%	2.22x
15	Ashton	146	0.490%	10.00x
16	Woolley	144	0.480%	24.35x
17	Buckley	140	0.470%	8.63x
18	Whitehead	140	0.470%	6.95x
19	Howard	138	0.460%	4.72x
20	Mellor	136	0.460%	12.96x
21	Lees	135	0.450%	10.22x
22	Hill	133	0.450%	1.75x
23	Garside	127	0.430%	29.54x
24	Hague	124	0.420%	26.46x
25	Bardsley	118	0.400%	52.27x
26	Lee	117	0.390%	2.40x
27	Lawton	113	0.380%	14.71x
28	Bradbury	108	0.360%	12.54x
29	Andrew	101	0.340%	10.70x
30	Ogden	101	0.340%	11.99x
31	Hurst	100	0.340%	9.40x
32	Bennett	99	0.330%	2.02x
33	Wilkinson	99	0.330%	2.18x
34	Holt	96	0.320%	4.81x
35	Travis	96	0.320%	27.46x
36	Cheetham	93	0.310%	20.17x
37	Brooks	92	0.310%	3.16x
38	Thorpe	92	0.310%	7.81x
39	Broadbent	90	0.300%	14.08x
40	Greenwood	85	0.290%	3.67x
41	Norton	84	0.280%	8.48x
42	Sykes	84	0.280%	5.87x
43	Hibbert	83	0.280%	19.01x
44	Sidebottom	83	0.280%	48.56x
45	Williamson	82	0.280%	3.07x
46	Ashworth	80	0.270%	6.73x
47	Bayley	79	0.270%	16.44x
48	Barber	78	0.260%	4.35x
49	Fish	78	0.260%	14.06x
50	Hulme	77	0.260%	12.08x
51	Nield	77	0.260%	37.64x
52	Clayton	73	0.250%	4.51x
53	Holland	72	0.240%	3.39x
54	Stafford	72	0.240%	11.35x
55	Wild	72	0.240%	5.93x
56	Armitage	71	0.240%	9.34x
57	Lowe	70	0.230%	3.13x
58	Hyde	69	0.230%	7.53x
59	Knowles	69	0.230%	4.34x
60	Whittaker	68	0.230%	4.82x
61	Bowden	67	0.220%	7.79x
62	Cooke	67	0.220%	4.07x
63	Bentley	66	0.220%	5.24x
64	Kemp	66	0.220%	3.99x
65	Kenworthy	66	0.220%	33.28x
66	Hilton	64	0.210%	6.25x
67	Saxon	64	0.210%	64.78x
68	Platt	63	0.210%	7.99x
69	Fielding	60	0.200%	9.02x
70	Swift	60	0.200%	6.52x
71	Dean	59	0.200%	2.85x
72	Kinder	59	0.200%	47.17x
73	Holden	58	0.190%	3.55x
74	Leech	58	0.190%	11.94x
75	Bradley	57	0.190%	2.38x
76	Clegg	57	0.190%	5.62x
77	Kershaw	55	0.180%	5.72x
78	Knott	55	0.180%	9.31x
79	Ratcliffe	55	0.180%	6.68x
80	Walsh	55	0.180%	3.47x
81	Burns	54	0.180%	2.70x
82	Higginbottom	54	0.180%	27.73x
83	Kay	54	0.180%	3.49x
84	Hampson	53	0.180%	9.87x
85	Burton	52	0.170%	2.05x
86	Heap	51	0.170%	10.09x
87	Beaumont	50	0.170%	5.66x
88	Goddard	50	0.170%	4.17x
89	Hartley	50	0.170%	2.68x
90	Carr	49	0.160%	2.28x
91	Massey	49	0.160%	6.43x
92	Swallow	49	0.160%	16.31x
93	Warhurst	49	0.160%	58.63x
94	Gill	48	0.160%	2.28x
95	Grundy	48	0.160%	7.87x
96	Hopwood	48	0.160%	14.14x
97	Lomas	48	0.160%	8.72x
98	Radcliffe	48	0.160%	13.87x
99	Mottram	45	0.150%	27.88x
100	Pemberton	45	0.150%	11.89x