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 Sheldon, with 36 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
801	Sheldon	36	0.020%	1.52x
802	Tomkinson	36	0.020%	3.54x
803	Towers	36	0.020%	1.99x
804	Walters	36	0.020%	0.48x
805	Acton	35	0.020%	3.88x
806	Andrew	35	0.020%	0.71x
807	Billington	35	0.020%	2.07x
808	Bowles	35	0.020%	1.37x
809	Brook	35	0.020%	0.58x
810	Durkin	35	0.020%	5.14x
811	Eccleston	35	0.020%	4.48x
812	Edmondson	35	0.020%	1.94x
813	English	35	0.020%	1.19x
814	Griffith	35	0.020%	0.69x
815	Magee	35	0.020%	5.11x
816	Mahoney	35	0.020%	2.10x
817	Ormrod	35	0.020%	6.99x
818	Shawcross	35	0.020%	6.77x
819	Sherry	35	0.020%	6.39x
820	Whatmough	35	0.020%	10.59x
821	Bate	34	0.020%	1.29x
822	Bullock	34	0.020%	0.67x
823	Charlesworth	34	0.020%	1.69x
824	Douglas	34	0.020%	0.45x
825	Franklin	34	0.020%	0.66x
826	Gilmore	34	0.020%	3.72x
827	Glennon	34	0.020%	29.56x
828	Gorton	34	0.020%	3.51x
829	Herbert	34	0.020%	0.58x
830	Kearns	34	0.020%	6.99x
831	Keeley	34	0.020%	5.37x
832	Norris	34	0.020%	0.51x
833	Quin	34	0.020%	2.04x
834	Redman	34	0.020%	1.66x
835	Rowley	34	0.020%	0.83x
836	Sellers	34	0.020%	2.84x
837	Wolstencroft	34	0.020%	5.57x
838	Ainscow	33	0.020%	17.96x
839	Binns	33	0.020%	1.28x
840	Bruce	33	0.020%	0.45x
841	Bury	33	0.020%	2.85x
842	Dewhurst	33	0.020%	1.78x
843	Fryer	33	0.020%	1.14x
844	Goodman	33	0.020%	0.73x
845	Grange	33	0.020%	3.68x
846	Grime	33	0.020%	4.03x
847	Jenkinson	33	0.020%	1.21x
848	Litherland	33	0.020%	9.34x
849	Mullin	33	0.020%	4.72x
850	Ridgway	33	0.020%	2.31x
851	Scholes	33	0.020%	1.83x
852	Street	33	0.020%	0.91x
853	Wilks	33	0.020%	1.35x
854	Allcock	32	0.020%	1.90x
855	Appleby	32	0.020%	1.26x
856	Beaver	32	0.020%	4.64x
857	Caine	32	0.020%	4.90x
858	Carlton	32	0.020%	4.00x
859	Cartledge	32	0.020%	4.07x
860	Clay	32	0.020%	1.00x
861	Cochrane	32	0.020%	1.33x
862	Collinson	32	0.020%	1.75x
863	Cowan	32	0.020%	1.01x
864	Currie	32	0.020%	0.73x
865	Deane	32	0.020%	2.46x
866	Flint	32	0.020%	1.14x
867	French	32	0.020%	0.42x
868	Gleave	32	0.020%	4.88x
869	Hannon	32	0.020%	13.25x
870	Lockwood	32	0.020%	0.93x
871	Mackey	32	0.020%	5.39x
872	Mathews	32	0.020%	0.56x
873	Mcdermott	32	0.020%	11.47x
874	Milnes	32	0.020%	2.33x
875	Pickup	32	0.020%	1.59x
876	Roper	32	0.020%	0.99x
877	Sands	32	0.020%	1.83x
878	Senior	32	0.020%	0.90x
879	Shephard	32	0.020%	2.14x
880	Sidebottom	32	0.020%	3.58x
881	Silk	32	0.020%	4.17x
882	Wadsworth	32	0.020%	1.47x
883	Woolley	32	0.020%	1.03x
884	Wroe	32	0.020%	4.98x
885	Brannan	31	0.020%	2.94x
886	Brett	31	0.020%	1.05x
887	Coffey	31	0.020%	6.52x
888	Donlan	31	0.020%	28.77x
889	Eyre	31	0.020%	1.66x
890	Flaherty	31	0.020%	6.47x
891	Flannery	31	0.020%	10.01x
892	Frith	31	0.020%	1.99x
893	Gribbin	31	0.020%	18.21x
894	Hamer	31	0.020%	1.06x
895	Hammersley	31	0.020%	6.32x
896	Hastings	31	0.020%	1.56x
897	Hines	31	0.020%	2.33x
898	Jameson	31	0.020%	1.80x
899	Joynson	31	0.020%	8.58x
900	Knox	31	0.020%	1.16x