1881 census place

Macclesfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Macclesfield, 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

1,102 surnames are listed for Macclesfield, Cheshire, covering 17,645 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Johnson, with 270 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Macclesfield

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	Johnson	270	0.940%	2.80x
2	Bailey	247	0.860%	5.72x
3	Hall	244	0.850%	2.89x
4	Potts	225	0.790%	23.52x
5	Burgess	181	0.630%	9.09x
6	Wood	177	0.620%	1.94x
7	Mellor	175	0.610%	17.33x
8	Barber	170	0.590%	9.85x
9	Hulme	168	0.590%	27.41x
10	Jackson	168	0.590%	2.10x
11	Booth	167	0.580%	5.91x
12	Holland	161	0.560%	7.89x
13	Swindells	155	0.540%	84.43x
14	Dean	149	0.520%	7.49x
15	Cooper	147	0.510%	2.11x
16	Dale	135	0.470%	11.15x
17	Davenport	122	0.430%	22.46x
18	Mottershead	120	0.420%	124.75x
19	Bayley	118	0.410%	25.54x
20	Bradley	117	0.410%	5.08x
21	Higginbotham	117	0.410%	158.15x
22	Goodwin	113	0.390%	7.48x
23	Rowbotham	110	0.380%	78.24x
24	Clarke	102	0.360%	1.76x
25	Moss	101	0.350%	5.72x
26	Brocklehurst	100	0.350%	63.94x
27	Bullock	99	0.350%	10.62x
28	Newton	95	0.330%	4.33x
29	Whittaker	94	0.330%	6.93x
30	Birchenough	93	0.320%	190.89x
31	Stubbs	92	0.320%	12.15x
32	Sutton	89	0.310%	4.88x
33	Broadhurst	88	0.310%	30.31x
34	Gosling	88	0.310%	19.61x
35	Shatwell	86	0.300%	219.67x
36	Wardle	86	0.300%	15.51x
37	Mason	85	0.300%	2.21x
38	Pownall	84	0.290%	67.93x
39	Clayton	82	0.290%	5.26x
40	Pearson	82	0.290%	2.46x
41	Sheldon	80	0.280%	18.35x
42	Sherratt	80	0.280%	48.59x
43	Lomas	79	0.280%	14.92x
44	Hammond	78	0.270%	4.78x
45	Pickford	78	0.270%	33.43x
46	Hooley	77	0.270%	56.02x
47	Massey	77	0.270%	10.51x
48	Norbury	77	0.270%	53.14x
49	Oldfield	77	0.270%	16.26x
50	Ball	76	0.270%	3.21x
51	Barlow	76	0.270%	4.91x
52	Hodkinson	76	0.270%	37.56x
53	Lockett	72	0.250%	34.59x
54	Buckley	71	0.250%	4.55x
55	Swaine	71	0.250%	56.37x
56	Nixon	68	0.240%	7.79x
57	Oliver	68	0.240%	3.33x
58	Barnes	67	0.230%	1.94x
59	Bradbury	66	0.230%	7.97x
60	Gee	66	0.230%	9.02x
61	Harding	65	0.230%	3.13x
62	Lawton	62	0.220%	8.39x
63	Stanway	62	0.220%	77.76x
64	Beard	61	0.210%	8.08x
65	Bamford	60	0.210%	13.91x
66	Rushton	60	0.210%	10.15x
67	Henshall	59	0.210%	42.42x
68	Orme	59	0.210%	24.66x
69	Hyde	58	0.200%	6.58x
70	Stanley	57	0.200%	5.17x
71	Worthington	57	0.200%	9.92x
72	Gaskell	56	0.200%	19.06x
73	Lees	56	0.200%	4.41x
74	Barnett	55	0.190%	4.25x
75	Oldham	55	0.190%	10.92x
76	Challinor	54	0.190%	53.48x
77	Hurst	54	0.190%	5.28x
78	Naden	54	0.190%	130.31x
79	Royle	54	0.190%	14.32x
80	Bond	53	0.180%	3.49x
81	Leigh	53	0.180%	8.04x
82	Slater	53	0.180%	3.05x
83	Lane	52	0.180%	2.63x
84	Beswick	50	0.170%	17.85x
85	Boothby	50	0.170%	61.46x
86	Bowers	50	0.170%	9.56x
87	Harrop	50	0.170%	15.34x
88	Ridgway	50	0.170%	19.02x
89	Slack	50	0.170%	11.07x
90	Walsh	50	0.170%	3.28x
91	Warren	50	0.170%	2.61x
92	Moores	48	0.170%	20.25x
93	Rathbone	48	0.170%	30.14x
94	Arnold	47	0.160%	3.04x
95	Clowes	47	0.160%	29.49x
96	Foden	47	0.160%	37.29x
97	Hadfield	47	0.160%	11.78x
98	Frost	46	0.160%	2.85x
99	Henshaw	46	0.160%	18.83x
100	Brough	45	0.160%	12.84x