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 Hilton, with 45 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
101	Hilton	45	0.160%	4.57x
102	Houghton	45	0.160%	4.49x
103	Bracegirdle	43	0.150%	59.19x
104	Connor	43	0.150%	5.08x
105	Longden	43	0.150%	32.48x
106	Bennison	42	0.150%	52.12x
107	Pimblott	42	0.150%	207.00x
108	Crowder	41	0.140%	36.00x
109	Eaton	41	0.140%	5.11x
110	Hampson	40	0.140%	7.74x
111	Hulse	40	0.140%	22.05x
112	Leah	40	0.140%	39.39x
113	Plant	40	0.140%	6.31x
114	Riseley	40	0.140%	165.15x
115	Shufflebotham	40	0.140%	67.74x
116	Chadwick	39	0.140%	3.11x
117	Kent	39	0.140%	3.23x
118	Upton	39	0.140%	7.14x
119	Albinson	38	0.130%	221.83x
120	Downes	38	0.130%	10.72x
121	Findlow	38	0.130%	162.74x
122	Nield	38	0.130%	19.31x
123	Butterworth	37	0.130%	3.60x
124	Corbishley	37	0.130%	82.61x
125	Pyatt	37	0.130%	67.82x
126	Rigby	37	0.130%	4.45x
127	Benson	36	0.130%	4.63x
128	Steele	36	0.130%	4.69x
129	Tomkinson	36	0.130%	19.24x
130	Warrington	36	0.130%	15.32x
131	Barton	35	0.120%	2.26x
132	Broome	35	0.120%	24.56x
133	Lynch	35	0.120%	4.63x
134	Redfern	35	0.120%	8.76x
135	Unwin	35	0.120%	12.29x
136	Braddock	34	0.120%	41.60x
137	Hobson	34	0.120%	4.57x
138	Lovatt	34	0.120%	17.10x
139	Malkin	34	0.120%	36.14x
140	Tomlinson	34	0.120%	2.57x
141	Whalley	34	0.120%	7.54x
142	Bowyer	33	0.120%	10.56x
143	Duffield	33	0.120%	13.27x
144	Thornley	33	0.120%	10.37x
145	Vernon	33	0.120%	6.99x
146	Weston	33	0.120%	2.82x
147	Bloor	32	0.110%	20.23x
148	Hatton	32	0.110%	5.69x
149	Heaps	32	0.110%	25.64x
150	Heapy	32	0.110%	150.59x
151	Wadsworth	32	0.110%	8.01x
152	Belfield	31	0.110%	42.67x
153	Blackshaw	31	0.110%	23.32x
154	Buxton	31	0.110%	7.20x
155	Collier	31	0.110%	3.24x
156	Hackney	31	0.110%	24.80x
157	Kirkham	31	0.110%	7.75x
158	Smale	31	0.110%	16.42x
159	Brookes	30	0.100%	4.46x
160	Brunt	30	0.100%	15.19x
161	Leech	30	0.100%	6.42x
162	Wild	30	0.100%	2.57x
163	Bancroft	29	0.100%	10.44x
164	Byrne	29	0.100%	7.25x
165	Cotterill	29	0.100%	11.55x
166	Hand	29	0.100%	8.43x
167	Sharpley	29	0.100%	79.11x
168	Smallwood	29	0.100%	10.97x
169	Bray	28	0.100%	2.91x
170	Fawkner	28	0.100%	610.02x
171	Flood	28	0.100%	11.13x
172	Gorton	28	0.100%	15.74x
173	Greaves	28	0.100%	3.33x
174	Heathcote	28	0.100%	12.10x
175	Lea	28	0.100%	4.95x
176	Brindley	27	0.090%	12.32x
177	Clulow	27	0.090%	94.34x
178	Cope	27	0.090%	4.17x
179	Hollinshead	27	0.090%	36.40x
180	Proctor	27	0.090%	3.83x
181	Reddish	27	0.090%	49.14x
182	Astle	26	0.090%	27.89x
183	Chappell	26	0.090%	5.38x
184	Dickens	26	0.090%	8.67x
185	Gallimore	26	0.090%	28.62x
186	Hickson	26	0.090%	13.14x
187	Rowley	26	0.090%	3.45x
188	Scragg	26	0.090%	27.95x
189	Whiston	26	0.090%	34.82x
190	Wilde	26	0.090%	6.23x
191	Moseley	25	0.090%	9.56x
192	Oakes	25	0.090%	6.02x
193	Scanlon	25	0.090%	36.79x
194	Simcock	25	0.090%	30.02x
195	Coppock	24	0.080%	40.05x
196	Edge	24	0.080%	4.86x
197	Isherwood	24	0.080%	7.24x
198	Jepson	24	0.080%	8.56x
199	Latchford	24	0.080%	53.92x
200	Pedley	24	0.080%	16.53x