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 Rogerson, with 49 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
601	Rogerson	49	0.030%	2.55x
602	Winterbottom	49	0.030%	3.40x
603	Chambers	48	0.030%	0.54x
604	Healy	48	0.030%	4.65x
605	Judge	48	0.030%	2.85x
606	Kiernan	48	0.030%	30.33x
607	Savage	48	0.030%	0.80x
608	Stansfield	48	0.030%	1.99x
609	Turnbull	48	0.030%	0.73x
610	Waters	48	0.030%	0.77x
611	Bartley	47	0.030%	6.27x
612	Brownhill	47	0.030%	8.61x
613	Cunliffe	47	0.030%	2.42x
614	England	47	0.030%	1.46x
615	Hamnett	47	0.030%	19.29x
616	Handley	47	0.030%	1.79x
617	Heathcote	47	0.030%	3.73x
618	Hollingworth	47	0.030%	3.73x
619	Kenney	47	0.030%	5.48x
620	Latham	47	0.030%	1.48x
621	Mannion	47	0.030%	11.61x
622	Millington	47	0.030%	1.99x
623	Ravenscroft	47	0.030%	8.87x
624	Storey	47	0.030%	1.19x
625	Armitage	46	0.030%	1.16x
626	Birchall	46	0.030%	3.01x
627	Blackshaw	46	0.030%	6.36x
628	Deakin	46	0.030%	2.14x
629	Eyres	46	0.030%	9.67x
630	Finnigan	46	0.030%	7.55x
631	Forrest	46	0.030%	1.14x
632	Hesford	46	0.030%	19.73x
633	Hickey	46	0.030%	4.74x
634	Preston	46	0.030%	0.59x
635	Rostron	46	0.030%	4.95x
636	Sheridan	46	0.030%	4.90x
637	Simister	46	0.030%	11.29x
638	Tighe	46	0.030%	12.73x
639	Timperley	46	0.030%	13.25x
640	Vaughan	46	0.030%	0.86x
641	Wray	46	0.030%	2.20x
642	Dickenson	45	0.030%	1.90x
643	Farrow	45	0.030%	1.54x
644	Foden	45	0.030%	6.56x
645	Foley	45	0.030%	2.29x
646	Goulden	45	0.030%	8.19x
647	Hawksworth	45	0.030%	6.40x
648	Horton	45	0.030%	0.78x
649	Kerwin	45	0.030%	25.06x
650	Law	45	0.030%	0.64x
651	Livesey	45	0.030%	2.95x
652	Metcalf	45	0.030%	1.43x
653	Snape	45	0.030%	3.13x
654	Stephens	45	0.030%	0.52x
655	Valentine	45	0.030%	2.25x
656	Bacon	44	0.030%	1.12x
657	Bowers	44	0.030%	1.55x
658	Brannon	44	0.030%	10.15x
659	Brookes	44	0.030%	1.20x
660	Buxton	44	0.030%	1.88x
661	Clarkson	44	0.030%	1.06x
662	Dowd	44	0.030%	8.98x
663	Gaskell	44	0.030%	2.75x
664	Hooley	44	0.030%	5.89x
665	Hynes	44	0.030%	11.71x
666	Leather	44	0.030%	4.13x
667	Logan	44	0.030%	1.19x
668	Mulligan	44	0.030%	5.05x
669	Swain	44	0.030%	1.46x
670	Abraham	43	0.030%	2.80x
671	Boyd	43	0.030%	0.79x
672	Corbett	43	0.030%	1.41x
673	Critchley	43	0.030%	3.10x
674	Diamond	43	0.030%	5.93x
675	Etchells	43	0.030%	7.13x
676	Fallon	43	0.030%	7.46x
677	Freeman	43	0.030%	0.43x
678	Howe	43	0.030%	0.70x
679	Lancaster	43	0.030%	1.11x
680	Longden	43	0.030%	5.97x
681	Moffatt	43	0.030%	4.29x
682	Ramsbottom	43	0.030%	4.08x
683	Swann	43	0.030%	2.53x
684	Wynne	43	0.030%	2.86x
685	Abrahams	42	0.030%	3.55x
686	Anderton	42	0.030%	2.27x
687	Carrol	42	0.030%	5.95x
688	Cawley	42	0.030%	5.09x
689	Cooney	42	0.030%	6.49x
690	Corrigan	42	0.030%	6.01x
691	Crook	42	0.030%	0.94x
692	Downs	42	0.030%	1.51x
693	Fish	42	0.030%	1.45x
694	Fitzsimmons	42	0.030%	11.01x
695	Higginbottom	42	0.030%	4.12x
696	Hough	42	0.030%	1.56x
697	Leah	42	0.030%	7.60x
698	Mann	42	0.030%	0.51x
699	Nightingale	42	0.030%	1.60x
700	Rafferty	42	0.030%	5.22x