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 Ashton, with 198 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
101	Ashton	198	0.130%	2.59x
102	Simpson	198	0.130%	0.73x
103	Sutton	196	0.130%	1.97x
104	Hartley	195	0.130%	2.00x
105	Massey	194	0.120%	4.87x
106	Dunn	193	0.120%	1.49x
107	Griffiths	193	0.120%	0.76x
108	Hunt	192	0.120%	0.93x
109	Lowe	192	0.120%	1.64x
110	Young	192	0.120%	0.57x
111	Mills	191	0.120%	0.94x
112	Bennett	187	0.120%	0.73x
113	Holmes	187	0.120%	0.99x
114	Oldham	187	0.120%	6.83x
115	Moores	185	0.120%	14.35x
116	Holden	184	0.120%	2.15x
117	Atkinson	183	0.120%	1.21x
118	Graham	177	0.110%	0.99x
119	Harris	177	0.110%	0.45x
120	Goodwin	175	0.110%	2.13x
121	Barker	174	0.110%	0.85x
122	Spencer	172	0.110%	1.21x
123	Kay	171	0.110%	2.11x
124	Schofield	171	0.110%	2.02x
125	Anderson	170	0.110%	0.55x
126	Heywood	170	0.110%	5.48x
127	Lomas	168	0.110%	5.83x
128	Marshall	168	0.110%	0.64x
129	Chapman	167	0.110%	0.75x
130	Morton	167	0.110%	2.00x
131	Clegg	163	0.100%	3.07x
132	Brooks	162	0.100%	1.06x
133	Crowther	162	0.100%	3.48x
134	Bradbury	159	0.100%	3.53x
135	Price	159	0.100%	0.58x
136	Hurst	158	0.100%	2.84x
137	Nuttall	158	0.100%	4.02x
138	Barber	156	0.100%	1.66x
139	Gibson	156	0.100%	0.82x
140	Hampson	156	0.100%	5.55x
141	Armstrong	155	0.100%	1.30x
142	Bradley	155	0.100%	1.24x
143	Fitzgerald	155	0.100%	5.69x
144	Hibbert	155	0.100%	6.78x
145	Flynn	152	0.100%	5.09x
146	Hewitt	152	0.100%	2.00x
147	Lyons	152	0.100%	4.38x
148	Hulme	150	0.100%	4.50x
149	Kenyon	149	0.100%	4.58x
150	Cohen	148	0.090%	6.03x
151	Ford	148	0.090%	0.97x
152	Hart	147	0.090%	1.11x
153	Knowles	147	0.090%	1.77x
154	Bradshaw	145	0.090%	2.26x
155	Byrne	145	0.090%	6.67x
156	Cook	145	0.090%	0.47x
157	Dixon	145	0.090%	0.85x
158	Greenwood	144	0.090%	1.19x
159	Slater	144	0.090%	1.53x
160	Burgess	143	0.090%	1.32x
161	Tomlinson	143	0.090%	1.99x
162	Fisher	142	0.090%	0.78x
163	Russell	142	0.090%	0.75x
164	Butler	141	0.090%	0.93x
165	Hudson	141	0.090%	1.10x
166	Lawton	140	0.090%	3.48x
167	Baker	139	0.090%	0.41x
168	Clayton	139	0.090%	1.64x
169	Crompton	139	0.090%	5.30x
170	Duffy	139	0.090%	4.08x
171	Carr	138	0.090%	1.23x
172	Ball	137	0.090%	1.06x
173	Cavanagh	137	0.090%	11.65x
174	Wild	137	0.090%	2.16x
175	Burrows	136	0.090%	1.99x
176	Hyde	136	0.090%	2.84x
177	Stott	136	0.090%	2.79x
178	Gill	135	0.090%	1.22x
179	Brennan	134	0.090%	8.23x
180	Hilton	134	0.090%	2.50x
181	Lloyd	134	0.090%	0.74x
182	Brierley	133	0.090%	4.80x
183	Maguire	132	0.080%	8.28x
184	Thornton	131	0.080%	1.67x
185	Boardman	130	0.080%	5.20x
186	Heaton	130	0.080%	3.49x
187	Gordon	129	0.080%	1.31x
188	Lees	129	0.080%	1.87x
189	Potts	129	0.080%	2.48x
190	Fitzpatrick	128	0.080%	5.61x
191	Derbyshire	127	0.080%	7.81x
192	Hargreaves	127	0.080%	1.95x
193	Seddon	127	0.080%	5.01x
194	Lamb	126	0.080%	1.53x
195	Mooney	126	0.080%	6.96x
196	Thorpe	126	0.080%	2.04x
197	Whelan	126	0.080%	11.93x
198	Daniels	125	0.080%	2.55x
199	Hardman	125	0.080%	3.99x
200	Obrien	124	0.080%	5.38x