1881 census place

Manchester surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Manchester, 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

5,889 surnames are listed for Manchester, Lancashire, covering 130,370 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Leicester, with 31 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Manchester

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
901	Leicester	31	0.020%	8.85x
902	Lemon	31	0.020%	2.74x
903	Ollerenshaw	31	0.020%	8.41x
904	Oxley	31	0.020%	1.42x
905	Pugh	31	0.020%	0.52x
906	Robertshaw	31	0.020%	2.43x
907	Small	31	0.020%	0.78x
908	Tracey	31	0.020%	3.14x
909	Warrington	31	0.020%	2.43x
910	Wilcock	31	0.020%	1.40x
911	Ambrose	30	0.020%	2.18x
912	Bateman	30	0.020%	0.74x
913	Boulton	30	0.020%	1.07x
914	Burn	30	0.020%	1.43x
915	Charlton	30	0.020%	0.67x
916	Cotterill	30	0.020%	2.20x
917	Ennis	30	0.020%	7.05x
918	Feeney	30	0.020%	5.67x
919	Hawley	30	0.020%	1.97x
920	Hayhurst	30	0.020%	4.40x
921	Heron	30	0.020%	2.01x
922	Jacques	30	0.020%	2.27x
923	Lennon	30	0.020%	5.46x
924	Leyland	30	0.020%	3.15x
925	Mallinson	30	0.020%	2.33x
926	Salmon	30	0.020%	0.84x
927	Summersgill	30	0.020%	14.74x
928	Telford	30	0.020%	2.18x
929	Wagstaff	30	0.020%	1.55x
930	Whitehouse	30	0.020%	0.74x
931	Archer	29	0.020%	0.45x
932	Beech	29	0.020%	1.26x
933	Butcher	29	0.020%	0.44x
934	Consterdine	29	0.020%	26.40x
935	Fennell	29	0.020%	3.97x
936	Garrity	29	0.020%	10.43x
937	Giles	29	0.020%	0.49x
938	Gillow	29	0.020%	24.87x
939	Haywood	29	0.020%	0.89x
940	Hulmes	29	0.020%	14.32x
941	Kitchen	29	0.020%	1.09x
942	Leadbeater	29	0.020%	4.53x
943	Marr	29	0.020%	1.63x
944	Mottershead	29	0.020%	5.54x
945	Neill	29	0.020%	2.81x
946	Orme	29	0.020%	2.23x
947	Ormerod	29	0.020%	2.33x
948	Pownall	29	0.020%	4.31x
949	Ramsden	29	0.020%	1.02x
950	Redford	29	0.020%	3.45x
951	Redmond	29	0.020%	5.09x
952	Reece	29	0.020%	2.13x
953	Rodgers	29	0.020%	0.68x
954	Tattersall	29	0.020%	1.34x
955	Weir	29	0.020%	0.72x
956	Wills	29	0.020%	0.62x
957	Winter	29	0.020%	0.52x
958	Wynn	29	0.020%	2.15x
959	Alcock	28	0.020%	1.24x
960	Bagnall	28	0.020%	2.09x
961	Bickerton	28	0.020%	4.29x
962	Blakely	28	0.020%	10.49x
963	Bland	28	0.020%	0.87x
964	Bratt	28	0.020%	5.18x
965	Costigan	28	0.020%	22.51x
966	Cotton	28	0.020%	0.75x
967	Cropper	28	0.020%	2.98x
968	Drake	28	0.020%	0.62x
969	Eccles	28	0.020%	1.12x
970	Ferris	28	0.020%	1.82x
971	Galloway	28	0.020%	1.04x
972	Galvin	28	0.020%	8.35x
973	Gormley	28	0.020%	15.37x
974	Grace	28	0.020%	1.34x
975	Hassell	28	0.020%	5.69x
976	Irving	28	0.020%	0.81x
977	Kaye	28	0.020%	1.20x
978	Kirkman	28	0.020%	2.81x
979	Locke	28	0.020%	2.00x
980	Mackay	28	0.020%	0.50x
981	Montgomery	28	0.020%	1.13x
982	Musgrove	28	0.020%	3.72x
983	Partridge	28	0.020%	0.69x
984	Pierce	28	0.020%	1.22x
985	Ritchie	28	0.020%	0.52x
986	Rutter	28	0.020%	1.18x
987	Sherratt	28	0.020%	3.13x
988	Spence	28	0.020%	0.54x
989	Swift	28	0.020%	0.58x
990	Warner	28	0.020%	0.49x
991	Bamber	27	0.020%	2.24x
992	Burk	27	0.020%	4.82x
993	Corry	27	0.020%	8.87x
994	Courtney	27	0.020%	2.41x
995	Cusick	27	0.020%	15.03x
996	Delany	27	0.020%	10.52x
997	Ditchfield	27	0.020%	5.07x
998	Done	27	0.020%	5.03x
999	Drew	27	0.020%	0.66x
1000	Featherstone	27	0.020%	1.93x