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 Hopwood, with 88 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
301	Hopwood	88	0.060%	4.95x
302	Sharp	88	0.060%	0.68x
303	Blackburn	87	0.060%	1.48x
304	Bolton	87	0.060%	1.30x
305	Bowker	87	0.060%	5.72x
306	Bridge	87	0.060%	2.76x
307	Egan	87	0.060%	6.73x
308	Ferguson	87	0.060%	0.79x
309	Finn	87	0.060%	6.12x
310	Potter	87	0.060%	0.86x
311	Andrews	86	0.060%	0.58x
312	Barton	86	0.060%	1.02x
313	Craven	86	0.060%	2.86x
314	Sharples	86	0.060%	3.16x
315	Bostock	85	0.050%	5.81x
316	Doran	85	0.050%	6.56x
317	Higham	85	0.050%	5.35x
318	Hope	85	0.050%	1.60x
319	Kirkham	85	0.050%	3.91x
320	Rooney	85	0.050%	6.11x
321	Barratt	84	0.050%	2.66x
322	Cox	84	0.050%	0.36x
323	Hunter	84	0.050%	0.52x
324	Sykes	84	0.050%	1.12x
325	Webb	84	0.050%	0.40x
326	Bates	83	0.050%	0.84x
327	Cannon	83	0.050%	2.94x
328	Mullen	83	0.050%	5.57x
329	Rose	83	0.050%	0.72x
330	Winstanley	83	0.050%	5.30x
331	Ainsworth	82	0.050%	2.66x
332	Ashcroft	82	0.050%	3.93x
333	Cummins	82	0.050%	6.16x
334	Dalton	82	0.050%	2.29x
335	Entwistle	82	0.050%	3.02x
336	Porter	82	0.050%	0.70x
337	Vickers	82	0.050%	2.05x
338	Ellison	81	0.050%	2.46x
339	Hassall	81	0.050%	8.32x
340	Jennings	81	0.050%	1.02x
341	Rourke	81	0.050%	10.54x
342	Stubbs	81	0.050%	1.97x
343	Wardle	81	0.050%	2.69x
344	Flanagan	80	0.050%	6.55x
345	Dearden	79	0.050%	5.17x
346	Gorman	79	0.050%	4.20x
347	Harvey	79	0.050%	0.47x
348	Hodgson	79	0.050%	0.73x
349	Swindells	79	0.050%	7.91x
350	Benson	78	0.050%	1.85x
351	Delaney	78	0.050%	7.78x
352	Hopkins	78	0.050%	0.83x
353	Lawler	78	0.050%	11.14x
354	Parry	78	0.050%	0.66x
355	Banks	77	0.050%	0.96x
356	Coleman	77	0.050%	0.99x
357	Cullen	77	0.050%	2.82x
358	Davenport	77	0.050%	2.61x
359	Dickinson	77	0.050%	1.16x
360	Gallagher	77	0.050%	3.25x
361	Houghton	77	0.050%	1.41x
362	Johnston	77	0.050%	0.61x
363	Bamford	76	0.050%	3.24x
364	Dobson	76	0.050%	1.11x
365	Harding	76	0.050%	0.67x
366	Joyce	76	0.050%	1.99x
367	Bardsley	75	0.050%	6.35x
368	Dutton	75	0.050%	2.13x
369	Hatton	75	0.050%	2.45x
370	Higginson	75	0.050%	4.81x
371	Leach	75	0.050%	1.17x
372	Maloney	75	0.050%	5.83x
373	Oliver	75	0.050%	0.67x
374	Tetlow	75	0.050%	12.20x
375	Barrow	74	0.050%	2.24x
376	Bowden	74	0.050%	1.64x
377	Duckworth	74	0.050%	2.46x
378	Eckersley	74	0.050%	7.59x
379	Horrocks	74	0.050%	3.86x
380	Hutchinson	74	0.050%	0.84x
381	Pilkington	74	0.050%	2.64x
382	Clough	73	0.050%	2.10x
383	Leary	73	0.050%	5.18x
384	Rigby	73	0.050%	1.61x
385	Whalley	73	0.050%	2.97x
386	Costello	72	0.050%	7.57x
387	Kelley	72	0.050%	3.98x
388	Lambert	72	0.050%	0.85x
389	Maher	72	0.050%	12.56x
390	Walmsley	72	0.050%	2.23x
391	Waterhouse	72	0.050%	3.03x
392	Atherton	71	0.050%	2.53x
393	Hammond	71	0.050%	0.80x
394	Hanson	71	0.050%	1.41x
395	Henderson	71	0.050%	0.42x
396	Reid	71	0.050%	0.43x
397	Conley	70	0.040%	12.41x
398	Dwyer	70	0.040%	8.01x
399	Heap	70	0.040%	2.65x
400	Chorlton	69	0.040%	13.62x