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 Redfern, with 42 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
701	Redfern	42	0.030%	1.93x
702	Wheeler	42	0.030%	0.45x
703	Beaumont	41	0.030%	0.89x
704	Darbyshire	41	0.030%	4.95x
705	Devaney	41	0.030%	21.06x
706	Flood	41	0.030%	3.00x
707	Hanley	41	0.030%	3.19x
708	Hoyle	41	0.030%	1.14x
709	Lister	41	0.030%	0.92x
710	Loftus	41	0.030%	4.82x
711	Poole	41	0.030%	0.55x
712	Pratt	41	0.030%	0.46x
713	Stead	41	0.030%	1.29x
714	Sumner	41	0.030%	1.62x
715	Woodcock	41	0.030%	0.92x
716	Blair	40	0.030%	0.99x
717	Bottomley	40	0.030%	1.54x
718	Cowen	40	0.030%	4.68x
719	Crabtree	40	0.030%	1.27x
720	Fitton	40	0.030%	2.28x
721	Hindle	40	0.030%	1.83x
722	Mahon	40	0.030%	5.79x
723	Nugent	40	0.030%	4.84x
724	Richmond	40	0.030%	1.17x
725	Shields	40	0.030%	1.66x
726	Stockton	40	0.030%	4.23x
727	Bibby	39	0.030%	2.32x
728	Bowen	39	0.030%	0.61x
729	Bright	39	0.030%	1.24x
730	Coyne	39	0.030%	4.73x
731	Downes	39	0.030%	2.02x
732	Fagan	39	0.030%	5.25x
733	Farrington	39	0.030%	2.91x
734	Grady	39	0.030%	3.80x
735	Halliwell	39	0.030%	2.25x
736	Hodgkinson	39	0.030%	1.46x
737	Kerrigan	39	0.030%	13.87x
738	Merrick	39	0.030%	3.37x
739	Neild	39	0.030%	9.83x
740	Patterson	39	0.030%	0.72x
741	Philbin	39	0.030%	37.09x
742	Quigley	39	0.030%	4.88x
743	Whiteley	39	0.030%	1.39x
744	Whitworth	39	0.030%	1.50x
745	Woods	39	0.030%	0.40x
746	Backhouse	38	0.020%	3.27x
747	Conner	38	0.020%	3.15x
748	Corless	38	0.020%	8.66x
749	Eardley	38	0.020%	6.48x
750	Forsyth	38	0.020%	1.14x
751	France	38	0.020%	1.60x
752	Furlong	38	0.020%	6.99x
753	Gatenby	38	0.020%	10.50x
754	Goddard	38	0.020%	0.61x
755	Haworth	38	0.020%	1.16x
756	Machin	38	0.020%	2.43x
757	Moorhouse	38	0.020%	1.97x
758	Noble	38	0.020%	0.59x
759	Rice	38	0.020%	0.79x
760	Rosenberg	38	0.020%	17.76x
761	Spooner	38	0.020%	1.69x
762	Steele	38	0.020%	0.91x
763	Thomason	38	0.020%	4.18x
764	Warwick	38	0.020%	1.76x
765	Bannister	37	0.020%	1.37x
766	Calligan	37	0.020%	11.95x
767	Coates	37	0.020%	0.64x
768	Coop	37	0.020%	7.26x
769	Coyle	37	0.020%	3.49x
770	Crane	37	0.020%	1.13x
771	Donohue	37	0.020%	10.27x
772	Fairhurst	37	0.020%	2.90x
773	Guest	37	0.020%	1.11x
774	Hague	37	0.020%	1.51x
775	Hopkinson	37	0.020%	1.45x
776	Horner	37	0.020%	1.25x
777	Luke	37	0.020%	2.44x
778	Oakes	37	0.020%	1.64x
779	Peak	37	0.020%	5.67x
780	Pennington	37	0.020%	1.60x
781	Shannon	37	0.020%	3.07x
782	Usher	37	0.020%	2.15x
783	Wharton	37	0.020%	1.69x
784	Woodhouse	37	0.020%	1.00x
785	Bryan	36	0.020%	0.93x
786	Chamberlain	36	0.020%	0.85x
787	Dowling	36	0.020%	2.08x
788	Downing	36	0.020%	1.33x
789	Foulkes	36	0.020%	2.48x
790	Gilligan	36	0.020%	9.05x
791	Gleeson	36	0.020%	7.55x
792	Greaves	36	0.020%	0.79x
793	Gregson	36	0.020%	1.67x
794	Hodkinson	36	0.020%	3.27x
795	Keogh	36	0.020%	10.11x
796	Kinsey	36	0.020%	3.53x
797	Lacey	36	0.020%	1.25x
798	Lawless	36	0.020%	6.42x
799	Lingard	36	0.020%	3.64x
800	Melia	36	0.020%	9.62x