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 Oshea, with 14 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
1701	Oshea	14	0.010%	12.75x
1702	Oultram	14	0.010%	29.23x
1703	Overton	14	0.010%	0.93x
1704	Oxford	14	0.010%	2.60x
1705	Palfreyman	14	0.010%	4.15x
1706	Parkington	14	0.010%	8.18x
1707	Pendergast	14	0.010%	6.79x
1708	Poulton	14	0.010%	1.12x
1709	Prendergast	14	0.010%	6.31x
1710	Pye	14	0.010%	0.60x
1711	Reding	14	0.010%	26.38x
1712	Reilly	14	0.010%	0.85x
1713	Rishton	14	0.010%	9.50x
1714	Ryley	14	0.010%	3.47x
1715	Shone	14	0.010%	2.21x
1716	Simms	14	0.010%	0.79x
1717	Smallwood	14	0.010%	0.97x
1718	Smedley	14	0.010%	1.10x
1719	Starkie	14	0.010%	2.81x
1720	Storrow	14	0.010%	26.11x
1721	Story	14	0.010%	1.45x
1722	Strand	14	0.010%	8.70x
1723	Threlfall	14	0.010%	1.98x
1724	Towns	14	0.010%	2.80x
1725	Trafford	14	0.010%	2.24x
1726	Turpin	14	0.010%	1.67x
1727	Turvey	14	0.010%	1.91x
1728	Wagner	14	0.010%	4.39x
1729	Wildgoose	14	0.010%	3.35x
1730	Woolfenden	14	0.010%	6.25x
1731	Ainley	13	0.010%	2.11x
1732	Allmond	13	0.010%	33.30x
1733	Bamforth	13	0.010%	1.87x
1734	Basnett	13	0.010%	6.68x
1735	Batley	13	0.010%	1.93x
1736	Bellinger	13	0.010%	5.53x
1737	Belshaw	13	0.010%	4.37x
1738	Beresford	13	0.010%	1.13x
1739	Betney	13	0.010%	20.99x
1740	Bourke	13	0.010%	3.42x
1741	Bramley	13	0.010%	0.91x
1742	Branagan	13	0.010%	12.61x
1743	Brayshaw	13	0.010%	2.29x
1744	Brine	13	0.010%	2.74x
1745	Bristow	13	0.010%	0.62x
1746	Broady	13	0.010%	9.72x
1747	Brockbank	13	0.010%	2.35x
1748	Brodrick	13	0.010%	6.64x
1749	Bruffell	13	0.010%	75.76x
1750	Challoner	13	0.010%	3.41x
1751	Close	13	0.010%	0.96x
1752	Coady	13	0.010%	14.11x
1753	Cragg	13	0.010%	1.31x
1754	Crosdale	13	0.010%	34.69x
1755	Crozier	13	0.010%	1.78x
1756	Davitt	13	0.010%	13.88x
1757	Dawes	13	0.010%	0.61x
1758	Dodson	13	0.010%	1.08x
1759	Donbavand	13	0.010%	42.33x
1760	Dunderdale	13	0.010%	4.68x
1761	Eastham	13	0.010%	1.63x
1762	Forester	13	0.010%	2.89x
1763	Gemmell	13	0.010%	1.39x
1764	Granger	13	0.010%	0.82x
1765	Hallsworth	13	0.010%	4.42x
1766	Handforth	13	0.010%	10.11x
1767	Hardacre	13	0.010%	3.52x
1768	Hardcastle	13	0.010%	0.94x
1769	Heslop	13	0.010%	0.97x
1770	Hignett	13	0.010%	4.14x
1771	Hilliard	13	0.010%	3.08x
1772	Hodgin	13	0.010%	19.36x
1773	Honeywood	13	0.010%	13.50x
1774	Jacobson	13	0.010%	5.63x
1775	Jeffs	13	0.010%	1.07x
1776	Keaton	13	0.010%	20.64x
1777	Kehoe	13	0.010%	5.63x
1778	Kilgour	13	0.010%	2.27x
1779	Lazarus	13	0.010%	3.50x
1780	Lingham	13	0.010%	9.42x
1781	Livesley	13	0.010%	5.97x
1782	Livingston	13	0.010%	0.93x
1783	Loughlin	13	0.010%	5.12x
1784	Maden	13	0.010%	2.28x
1785	Maude	13	0.010%	2.19x
1786	Mee	13	0.010%	1.10x
1787	Melody	13	0.010%	31.22x
1788	Millett	13	0.010%	2.10x
1789	Noden	13	0.010%	4.81x
1790	Purdy	13	0.010%	1.46x
1791	Purvis	13	0.010%	0.86x
1792	Quail	13	0.010%	7.05x
1793	Raffo	13	0.010%	166.88x
1794	Ralphs	13	0.010%	3.17x
1795	Reader	13	0.010%	0.97x
1796	Rigg	13	0.010%	0.99x
1797	Ripley	13	0.010%	1.26x
1798	Rocca	13	0.010%	64.04x
1799	Ruth	13	0.010%	7.02x
1800	Rylands	13	0.010%	6.03x