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 Sunderland, with 20 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
1301	Sunderland	20	0.010%	1.12x
1302	Tasker	20	0.010%	1.21x
1303	Tyers	20	0.010%	4.00x
1304	Tyson	20	0.010%	0.98x
1305	Watkin	20	0.010%	1.47x
1306	Whitmore	20	0.010%	1.46x
1307	Whyatt	20	0.010%	5.15x
1308	Wilshaw	20	0.010%	5.08x
1309	Woolfe	20	0.010%	16.63x
1310	Yeomans	20	0.010%	1.56x
1311	Barclay	19	0.010%	0.59x
1312	Barrington	19	0.010%	3.75x
1313	Bayley	19	0.010%	0.76x
1314	Bowler	19	0.010%	1.00x
1315	Boylan	19	0.010%	7.99x
1316	Callighan	19	0.010%	13.27x
1317	Cane	19	0.010%	1.79x
1318	Carruthers	19	0.010%	0.92x
1319	Carty	19	0.010%	5.19x
1320	Casson	19	0.010%	2.05x
1321	Charnock	19	0.010%	2.55x
1322	Colley	19	0.010%	0.96x
1323	Cordwell	19	0.010%	6.11x
1324	Diggle	19	0.010%	3.33x
1325	Eagan	19	0.010%	10.52x
1326	Eustace	19	0.010%	4.35x
1327	Fearn	19	0.010%	1.63x
1328	Flanaghan	19	0.010%	12.33x
1329	Greer	19	0.010%	3.63x
1330	Hackney	19	0.010%	2.79x
1331	Hambleton	19	0.010%	3.00x
1332	Heapy	19	0.010%	16.44x
1333	Ireland	19	0.010%	0.53x
1334	Jacobs	19	0.010%	0.51x
1335	Joy	19	0.010%	1.45x
1336	Kearney	19	0.010%	2.63x
1337	Kewley	19	0.010%	4.29x
1338	Lavery	19	0.010%	4.44x
1339	Lavin	19	0.010%	6.94x
1340	Liddle	19	0.010%	1.03x
1341	Lindon	19	0.010%	7.26x
1342	Lunn	19	0.010%	0.94x
1343	Mccarthy	19	0.010%	2.54x
1344	Medley	19	0.010%	3.30x
1345	Neil	19	0.010%	0.92x
1346	Noonan	19	0.010%	7.09x
1347	Obrian	19	0.010%	3.71x
1348	Odea	19	0.010%	64.04x
1349	Officer	19	0.010%	12.21x
1350	Penny	19	0.010%	0.68x
1351	Pomfret	19	0.010%	3.54x
1352	Rathbone	19	0.010%	2.19x
1353	Ruddock	19	0.010%	3.94x
1354	Scowcroft	19	0.010%	7.92x
1355	Sheen	19	0.010%	1.83x
1356	Stanton	19	0.010%	0.61x
1357	Starr	19	0.010%	2.47x
1358	Ackroyd	18	0.010%	1.24x
1359	Battle	18	0.010%	3.77x
1360	Bohanna	18	0.010%	44.35x
1361	Braithwaite	18	0.010%	1.00x
1362	Britton	18	0.010%	0.65x
1363	Cave	18	0.010%	0.80x
1364	Dignam	18	0.010%	20.22x
1365	Dunbar	18	0.010%	1.00x
1366	Durham	18	0.010%	1.34x
1367	Floyd	18	0.010%	1.21x
1368	Flyn	18	0.010%	9.37x
1369	Gannon	18	0.010%	2.67x
1370	Gillespie	18	0.010%	0.73x
1371	Graves	18	0.010%	0.76x
1372	Halton	18	0.010%	3.02x
1373	Hepworth	18	0.010%	1.01x
1374	Hewson	18	0.010%	1.41x
1375	Irlam	18	0.010%	8.16x
1376	Kean	18	0.010%	1.71x
1377	Keough	18	0.010%	16.79x
1378	Kirwin	18	0.010%	19.54x
1379	Lalley	18	0.010%	13.35x
1380	Large	18	0.010%	1.12x
1381	Lowry	18	0.010%	2.86x
1382	Lund	18	0.010%	1.07x
1383	Mycock	18	0.010%	3.38x
1384	Oakley	18	0.010%	0.55x
1385	Ohare	18	0.010%	4.70x
1386	Painter	18	0.010%	0.84x
1387	Patten	18	0.010%	1.84x
1388	Pickford	18	0.010%	1.42x
1389	Pimlott	18	0.010%	7.52x
1390	Plunkett	18	0.010%	4.37x
1391	Pounder	18	0.010%	3.54x
1392	Rae	18	0.010%	0.51x
1393	Ridings	18	0.010%	5.20x
1394	Ronan	18	0.010%	13.94x
1395	Routledge	18	0.010%	1.36x
1396	Sankey	18	0.010%	2.79x
1397	Sexton	18	0.010%	1.34x
1398	Shanley	18	0.010%	11.23x
1399	Sherwin	18	0.010%	2.15x
1400	Shoreman	18	0.010%	86.50x