1881 census place

Liverpool surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Liverpool, Lancashire 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

7,781 surnames are listed for Liverpool, Lancashire, covering 168,026 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Richardson, with 237 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Liverpool

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
101	Richardson	237	0.110%	0.66x
102	Rogers	235	0.110%	0.86x
103	Hogan	231	0.110%	10.92x
104	Howard	228	0.110%	1.10x
105	Davis	227	0.110%	0.49x
106	Sweeney	226	0.110%	8.02x
107	Carter	225	0.110%	0.64x
108	Daly	224	0.110%	10.78x
109	Power	223	0.110%	7.91x
110	Boyle	220	0.100%	4.03x
111	Fleming	218	0.100%	2.49x
112	Brennan	215	0.100%	9.78x
113	Parker	215	0.100%	0.54x
114	Fitzgerald	214	0.100%	5.81x
115	Lyons	214	0.100%	4.57x
116	Butler	212	0.100%	1.03x
117	Carr	212	0.100%	1.40x
118	Donnelly	212	0.100%	8.00x
119	Reynolds	212	0.100%	1.16x
120	Kenny	210	0.100%	8.33x
121	Reid	209	0.100%	0.95x
122	Nelson	207	0.100%	2.03x
123	Cooper	204	0.100%	0.40x
124	Maher	203	0.100%	26.23x
125	Pritchard	202	0.100%	1.78x
126	Gibson	201	0.100%	0.79x
127	Powell	201	0.100%	0.77x
128	Armstrong	199	0.090%	1.24x
129	Gill	196	0.090%	1.32x
130	Rice	196	0.090%	3.00x
131	Wallace	196	0.090%	1.36x
132	Jennings	195	0.090%	1.83x
133	Ross	193	0.090%	0.84x
134	Russell	191	0.090%	0.74x
135	Rooney	187	0.090%	9.96x
136	Foster	185	0.090%	0.66x
137	Mason	185	0.090%	0.65x
138	Bradley	183	0.090%	1.08x
139	Hart	183	0.090%	1.02x
140	Barnes	181	0.090%	0.71x
141	Hunt	181	0.090%	0.65x
142	Ford	180	0.090%	0.88x
143	Melia	178	0.080%	35.22x
144	Daley	177	0.080%	7.14x
145	Dixon	177	0.080%	0.77x
146	Duggan	177	0.080%	10.98x
147	Callaghan	176	0.080%	7.38x
148	Cox	176	0.080%	0.55x
149	Curran	176	0.080%	9.98x
150	Gray	176	0.080%	0.59x
151	Grant	175	0.080%	0.84x
152	Holmes	175	0.080%	0.68x
153	Oneill	174	0.080%	12.99x
154	Redmond	174	0.080%	22.60x
155	Rigby	173	0.080%	2.83x
156	Whelan	173	0.080%	12.13x
157	Kearns	172	0.080%	26.20x
158	Ball	171	0.080%	0.98x
159	Gibbons	170	0.080%	2.51x
160	Berry	169	0.080%	1.01x
161	Flanagan	169	0.080%	10.24x
162	Roach	168	0.080%	5.42x
163	Marshall	167	0.080%	0.47x
164	Molloy	167	0.080%	14.53x
165	Richards	166	0.080%	0.52x
166	Cassidy	165	0.080%	6.41x
167	Nicholson	165	0.080%	1.10x
168	Fletcher	164	0.080%	0.68x
169	Myers	164	0.080%	2.99x
170	Webster	164	0.080%	0.90x
171	Cavanagh	163	0.080%	10.26x
172	Hanlon	163	0.080%	16.77x
173	Cook	162	0.080%	0.39x
174	Dawson	161	0.080%	0.69x
175	Malone	160	0.080%	9.49x
176	Sutton	160	0.080%	1.19x
177	Conway	158	0.080%	4.01x
178	Gordon	157	0.070%	1.18x
179	Spencer	157	0.070%	0.82x
180	Buckley	156	0.070%	1.36x
181	Dempsey	156	0.070%	11.82x
182	Henry	155	0.070%	2.91x
183	Lowe	155	0.070%	0.98x
184	Barrett	154	0.070%	1.09x
185	Hamilton	154	0.070%	0.98x
186	Holland	154	0.070%	1.03x
187	Mills	154	0.070%	0.56x
188	Bradshaw	153	0.070%	1.77x
189	Fisher	153	0.070%	0.62x
190	Kehoe	150	0.070%	48.06x
191	Dodd	149	0.070%	1.74x
192	Fagan	149	0.070%	14.85x
193	Matthews	149	0.070%	0.81x
194	Leonard	148	0.070%	3.24x
195	Carey	147	0.070%	3.70x
196	Atkinson	146	0.070%	0.71x
197	Lawson	146	0.070%	1.18x
198	Harvey	145	0.070%	0.65x
199	Mullin	144	0.070%	15.25x
200	Casey	143	0.070%	4.61x