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 Broadbent, with 57 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
501	Broadbent	57	0.040%	1.70x
502	Bromley	57	0.040%	2.37x
503	Donovan	57	0.040%	2.30x
504	Dunne	57	0.040%	11.22x
505	Hand	57	0.040%	3.05x
506	Harwood	57	0.040%	1.37x
507	Levy	57	0.040%	2.90x
508	Marks	57	0.040%	1.79x
509	Saxon	57	0.040%	11.03x
510	Stafford	57	0.040%	1.72x
511	Appleton	56	0.040%	2.29x
512	Broadhurst	56	0.040%	3.55x
513	Cadman	56	0.040%	4.41x
514	Edge	56	0.040%	2.09x
515	Garvey	56	0.040%	10.04x
516	Gough	56	0.040%	1.23x
517	Millward	56	0.040%	3.20x
518	Needham	56	0.040%	1.69x
519	Oneill	56	0.040%	5.64x
520	Proctor	56	0.040%	1.46x
521	Rowland	56	0.040%	1.26x
522	Simmons	56	0.040%	0.88x
523	Slack	56	0.040%	2.28x
524	Wade	56	0.040%	0.90x
525	Bancroft	55	0.040%	3.64x
526	Caldwell	55	0.040%	2.25x
527	Cole	55	0.040%	0.39x
528	Curley	55	0.040%	10.14x
529	Darlington	55	0.040%	5.19x
530	Knott	55	0.040%	1.78x
531	Leonard	55	0.040%	1.63x
532	Longworth	55	0.040%	5.52x
533	Milner	55	0.040%	1.54x
534	Noon	55	0.040%	4.91x
535	Plant	55	0.040%	1.60x
536	Purcell	55	0.040%	5.07x
537	Roach	55	0.040%	2.40x
538	Sanderson	55	0.040%	0.85x
539	Thornley	55	0.040%	3.18x
540	Wallwork	55	0.040%	6.07x
541	Cosgrove	54	0.030%	7.11x
542	Cummings	54	0.030%	2.25x
543	Donnelly	54	0.030%	2.75x
544	Horsfield	54	0.030%	5.16x
545	Speakman	54	0.030%	7.53x
546	Baines	53	0.030%	1.78x
547	Egerton	53	0.030%	6.92x
548	Hallam	53	0.030%	1.82x
549	Halliday	53	0.030%	1.65x
550	Mack	53	0.030%	3.38x
551	Manning	53	0.030%	1.07x
552	Mcdonald	53	0.030%	4.19x
553	Page	53	0.030%	0.43x
554	Pemberton	53	0.030%	2.68x
555	Regan	53	0.030%	3.32x
556	Short	53	0.030%	0.87x
557	Swan	53	0.030%	1.31x
558	Baxter	52	0.030%	0.56x
559	Birmingham	52	0.030%	13.43x
560	Cahill	52	0.030%	7.25x
561	Dugdale	52	0.030%	4.84x
562	Holroyd	52	0.030%	3.00x
563	Long	52	0.030%	0.51x
564	Norton	52	0.030%	1.00x
565	Oneil	52	0.030%	3.32x
566	Perkins	52	0.030%	0.74x
567	Cookson	51	0.030%	2.77x
568	Coupe	51	0.030%	4.69x
569	Croft	51	0.030%	1.39x
570	Howell	51	0.030%	0.78x
571	Humphreys	51	0.030%	0.93x
572	Keegan	51	0.030%	9.85x
573	Kirby	51	0.030%	0.86x
574	Larkin	51	0.030%	3.64x
575	Lever	51	0.030%	3.63x
576	Nield	51	0.030%	4.77x
577	Tinker	51	0.030%	6.48x
578	Tonge	51	0.030%	5.14x
579	Travis	51	0.030%	2.79x
580	Willis	51	0.030%	0.62x
581	Birtles	50	0.030%	9.24x
582	Cowley	50	0.030%	1.74x
583	Crawford	50	0.030%	0.66x
584	Crosby	50	0.030%	2.71x
585	Goodier	50	0.030%	8.97x
586	Hinds	50	0.030%	4.65x
587	Kemp	50	0.030%	0.58x
588	Makin	50	0.030%	3.73x
589	Maxwell	50	0.030%	1.35x
590	Unsworth	50	0.030%	2.79x
591	Whittle	50	0.030%	1.47x
592	Cleary	49	0.030%	7.62x
593	Dempsey	49	0.030%	5.01x
594	Draper	49	0.030%	1.33x
595	Heath	49	0.030%	0.63x
596	Meadowcroft	49	0.030%	8.65x
597	Oldfield	49	0.030%	1.90x
598	Paton	49	0.030%	1.40x
599	Pilling	49	0.030%	2.60x
600	Rawlinson	49	0.030%	2.64x