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 Platt, with 124 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
201	Platt	124	0.080%	3.00x
202	Reynolds	124	0.080%	0.92x
203	Berry	121	0.080%	0.98x
204	Cain	120	0.080%	3.71x
205	Greenhalgh	120	0.080%	3.76x
206	Marsh	120	0.080%	1.08x
207	Powell	120	0.080%	0.62x
208	Birch	119	0.080%	1.86x
209	Conroy	119	0.080%	10.29x
210	Ratcliffe	119	0.080%	2.76x
211	Grimshaw	118	0.080%	4.53x
212	Kenny	117	0.080%	6.27x
213	Percival	117	0.080%	4.79x
214	Hadfield	116	0.070%	5.34x
215	Haslam	116	0.070%	4.90x
216	Rothwell	116	0.070%	4.05x
217	Drinkwater	115	0.070%	7.48x
218	Gibbons	115	0.070%	2.29x
219	Ingham	115	0.070%	2.97x
220	Crossley	114	0.070%	2.66x
221	Miller	113	0.070%	0.41x
222	Parkinson	113	0.070%	1.51x
223	Pollitt	113	0.070%	9.39x
224	Casey	111	0.070%	4.83x
225	Lord	111	0.070%	1.54x
226	Renshaw	111	0.070%	7.53x
227	Bentley	110	0.070%	1.67x
228	Faulkner	110	0.070%	2.60x
229	Newton	110	0.070%	0.92x
230	Worsley	110	0.070%	8.07x
231	Leigh	108	0.070%	3.01x
232	Sweeney	108	0.070%	5.17x
233	Collier	107	0.070%	2.05x
234	Cooke	107	0.070%	1.24x
235	Mather	107	0.070%	2.77x
236	Molloy	107	0.070%	12.57x
237	Connolly	106	0.070%	5.86x
238	Daley	106	0.070%	5.78x
239	Prince	105	0.070%	2.98x
240	Worthington	105	0.070%	3.36x
241	Hobson	104	0.070%	2.57x
242	Matthews	104	0.070%	0.76x
243	Curran	103	0.070%	7.89x
244	Dodd	103	0.070%	1.62x
245	Gray	103	0.070%	0.46x
246	Kershaw	103	0.070%	2.05x
247	Walton	103	0.070%	0.94x
248	Grundy	102	0.070%	3.20x
249	Nelson	102	0.070%	1.35x
250	Power	102	0.070%	4.89x
251	Daly	101	0.060%	6.56x
252	Doherty	101	0.060%	7.94x
253	Beswick	100	0.060%	6.56x
254	Burton	100	0.060%	0.75x
255	Fielding	100	0.060%	2.87x
256	Hamilton	100	0.060%	0.86x
257	Smethurst	100	0.060%	8.38x
258	Carney	99	0.060%	7.02x
259	Eaton	99	0.060%	2.27x
260	Gardner	99	0.060%	0.94x
261	Lane	98	0.060%	0.91x
262	Conway	97	0.060%	3.32x
263	Dillon	97	0.060%	6.29x
264	Frost	97	0.060%	1.11x
265	Gee	97	0.060%	2.44x
266	Morley	97	0.060%	1.56x
267	Shepherd	97	0.060%	0.85x
268	Harper	96	0.060%	0.96x
269	Madden	96	0.060%	7.12x
270	Pollard	96	0.060%	1.69x
271	Dale	95	0.060%	1.44x
272	Knight	95	0.060%	0.49x
273	Ryder	95	0.060%	3.52x
274	Webster	95	0.060%	0.70x
275	Beckett	94	0.060%	3.03x
276	Partington	94	0.060%	4.25x
277	Cheetham	93	0.060%	3.86x
278	Garside	93	0.060%	4.13x
279	Jordan	93	0.060%	1.35x
280	Moss	93	0.060%	0.97x
281	Nicholson	93	0.060%	0.84x
282	Stanley	93	0.060%	1.55x
283	Boyle	92	0.060%	2.27x
284	Day	92	0.060%	0.63x
285	Elliott	92	0.060%	0.70x
286	Collinge	91	0.060%	8.73x
287	Garner	91	0.060%	1.85x
288	Harrop	91	0.060%	5.13x
289	Leech	91	0.060%	3.58x
290	Stringer	91	0.060%	2.93x
291	Thorp	91	0.060%	4.31x
292	Dolan	90	0.060%	6.64x
293	Healey	90	0.060%	3.53x
294	Foy	89	0.060%	6.91x
295	Grimes	89	0.060%	4.94x
296	Naylor	89	0.060%	1.51x
297	Pritchard	89	0.060%	1.06x
298	Sutcliffe	89	0.060%	1.45x
299	Barrett	88	0.060%	0.84x
300	Hogan	88	0.060%	5.62x