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 Gorman, with 143 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
201	Gorman	143	0.070%	5.63x
202	Reilly	143	0.070%	6.40x
203	Holden	142	0.070%	1.23x
204	Maloney	142	0.070%	8.17x
205	Thomson	142	0.070%	0.50x
206	Williamson	142	0.070%	0.75x
207	Bailey	141	0.070%	0.44x
208	Banks	141	0.070%	1.31x
209	Delaney	141	0.070%	10.41x
210	Henderson	141	0.070%	0.62x
211	Jordan	141	0.070%	1.52x
212	Pearson	141	0.070%	0.58x
213	Preston	141	0.070%	1.34x
214	Kerr	139	0.070%	1.21x
215	Barker	138	0.070%	0.50x
216	Ashton	137	0.070%	1.33x
217	Cohen	136	0.060%	4.10x
218	Doherty	136	0.060%	7.91x
219	Morrison	135	0.060%	0.82x
220	Flood	134	0.060%	7.25x
221	Ferguson	133	0.060%	0.89x
222	Stanton	133	0.060%	3.17x
223	Stevenson	133	0.060%	0.90x
224	Yates	133	0.060%	0.92x
225	Little	132	0.060%	1.33x
226	Oneil	132	0.060%	6.25x
227	Gardner	131	0.060%	0.92x
228	Hudson	131	0.060%	0.76x
229	Mcdonald	131	0.060%	7.66x
230	Dean	130	0.060%	0.89x
231	Knight	130	0.060%	0.50x
232	Monaghan	130	0.060%	8.52x
233	Sheridan	130	0.060%	10.26x
234	Hodgson	129	0.060%	0.88x
235	Knowles	129	0.060%	1.15x
236	Robertson	129	0.060%	0.37x
237	Adams	128	0.060%	0.41x
238	Booth	128	0.060%	0.62x
239	Furlong	128	0.060%	17.42x
240	Keating	128	0.060%	12.29x
241	Lamb	128	0.060%	1.15x
242	Lunt	128	0.060%	9.44x
243	Sloan	128	0.060%	6.46x
244	Clayton	126	0.060%	1.10x
245	Burgess	125	0.060%	0.85x
246	Healey	125	0.060%	3.63x
247	Aspinall	124	0.060%	4.28x
248	Griffin	124	0.060%	1.25x
249	Patterson	124	0.060%	1.69x
250	Odonnell	122	0.060%	9.02x
251	Parkinson	122	0.060%	1.21x
252	Reed	122	0.060%	0.79x
253	Morton	121	0.060%	1.08x
254	Porter	121	0.060%	0.77x
255	Devine	119	0.060%	5.68x
256	Dolan	119	0.060%	6.50x
257	Barton	118	0.060%	1.04x
258	Hesketh	118	0.060%	5.86x
259	Saunders	118	0.060%	0.61x
260	Crawford	117	0.060%	1.14x
261	Foley	117	0.060%	4.41x
262	May	117	0.060%	0.87x
263	Thornton	117	0.060%	1.11x
264	Corcoran	116	0.060%	11.43x
265	Gannon	115	0.050%	12.62x
266	Kearney	115	0.050%	11.77x
267	Mahoney	114	0.050%	5.06x
268	Pugh	114	0.050%	1.42x
269	Boyd	113	0.050%	1.53x
270	Cummins	113	0.050%	6.29x
271	Regan	113	0.050%	5.23x
272	Rowlands	113	0.050%	2.15x
273	Stephens	113	0.050%	0.97x
274	Dowling	112	0.050%	4.80x
275	Black	110	0.050%	0.81x
276	Cowley	110	0.050%	2.84x
277	Harding	110	0.050%	0.72x
278	Lawler	110	0.050%	11.63x
279	Ohare	110	0.050%	21.29x
280	Rourke	110	0.050%	10.60x
281	Savage	110	0.050%	1.36x
282	Dillon	109	0.050%	5.24x
283	Gavin	109	0.050%	10.47x
284	Hunter	109	0.050%	0.50x
285	Nugent	109	0.050%	9.77x
286	Hickey	108	0.050%	8.24x
287	Dwyer	107	0.050%	9.07x
288	Hewitt	107	0.050%	1.04x
289	Mercer	107	0.050%	1.94x
290	Shields	107	0.050%	3.29x
291	Bird	106	0.050%	0.66x
292	Keegan	106	0.050%	15.15x
293	Whitehead	106	0.050%	0.74x
294	Cosgrove	105	0.050%	10.24x
295	Egan	105	0.050%	6.01x
296	Davidson	104	0.050%	0.59x
297	Elliott	104	0.050%	0.58x
298	Mathews	104	0.050%	1.34x
299	Swift	104	0.050%	1.60x
300	Blundell	103	0.050%	4.16x