1881 census place

Salford surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Salford, 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

4,166 surnames are listed for Salford, Lancashire, covering 82,524 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,382 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Salford

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
1	Smith	1,382	1.36%	0.96x
2	Jones	1,300	1.28%	1.13x
3	Taylor	855	0.840%	1.31x
4	Johnson	611	0.600%	1.78x
5	Jackson	604	0.590%	2.12x
6	Wilson	564	0.550%	1.20x
7	Williams	560	0.550%	0.76x
8	Brown	557	0.550%	0.83x
9	Davies	530	0.520%	1.02x
10	Walker	518	0.510%	1.52x
11	Robinson	500	0.490%	1.54x
12	Hall	497	0.490%	1.66x
13	Wood	488	0.480%	1.50x
14	Hughes	473	0.460%	1.66x
15	Shaw	403	0.400%	2.15x
16	Thompson	393	0.390%	1.29x
17	Roberts	348	0.340%	0.91x
18	Edwards	344	0.340%	1.21x
19	Turner	340	0.330%	1.20x
20	Kelly	329	0.320%	2.95x
21	Evans	328	0.320%	0.74x
22	Lee	326	0.320%	1.96x
23	Morris	289	0.280%	1.27x
24	Booth	267	0.260%	2.65x
25	Murphy	263	0.260%	3.23x
26	Thomas	263	0.260%	0.63x
27	Wilkinson	260	0.260%	1.67x
28	Harrison	256	0.250%	1.13x
29	Ward	247	0.240%	1.11x
30	Wright	247	0.240%	0.76x
31	Barlow	246	0.240%	4.47x
32	White	246	0.240%	0.75x
33	Cooper	240	0.240%	0.97x
34	Richardson	238	0.230%	1.37x
35	Dawson	237	0.230%	2.11x
36	Williamson	237	0.230%	2.59x
37	Yates	234	0.230%	3.34x
38	Green	230	0.230%	0.80x
39	Bailey	229	0.220%	1.49x
40	Howarth	227	0.220%	4.63x
41	Allen	223	0.220%	1.16x
42	Riley	223	0.220%	2.76x
43	Dean	218	0.210%	3.08x
44	Buckley	211	0.210%	3.80x
45	Clarke	210	0.210%	1.02x
46	Holt	207	0.200%	3.03x
47	Berry	205	0.200%	2.53x
48	Ogden	205	0.200%	7.11x
49	Chapman	199	0.200%	1.37x
50	Burgess	194	0.190%	2.74x
51	Hill	194	0.190%	0.75x
52	Whittaker	194	0.190%	4.02x
53	Martin	188	0.180%	0.75x
54	Lowe	185	0.180%	2.42x
55	Clark	184	0.180%	0.60x
56	Collins	183	0.180%	1.25x
57	Burns	182	0.180%	2.66x
58	Hayes	178	0.170%	2.81x
59	Walsh	176	0.170%	3.24x
60	Atkinson	172	0.170%	1.73x
61	Greenhalgh	170	0.170%	8.14x
62	Young	170	0.170%	0.78x
63	Chadwick	168	0.160%	3.77x
64	Barker	166	0.160%	1.24x
65	Scott	166	0.160%	0.64x
66	Ashworth	164	0.160%	4.03x
67	Pearson	164	0.160%	1.38x
68	Royle	164	0.160%	12.23x
69	Owen	163	0.160%	1.35x
70	Brooks	162	0.160%	1.63x
71	Davis	162	0.160%	0.72x
72	Howard	158	0.160%	1.58x
73	Mather	154	0.150%	6.09x
74	Newton	151	0.150%	1.93x
75	Holland	150	0.150%	2.07x
76	Crompton	149	0.150%	8.68x
77	Lewis	149	0.150%	0.56x
78	Warburton	149	0.150%	5.92x
79	Dixon	148	0.150%	1.33x
80	Seddon	147	0.140%	8.88x
81	Dunn	146	0.140%	1.72x
82	Parker	146	0.140%	0.75x
83	Foster	144	0.140%	1.06x
84	Graham	144	0.140%	1.23x
85	Moore	144	0.140%	0.71x
86	Kennedy	142	0.140%	2.31x
87	Ryan	142	0.140%	4.49x
88	Connor	141	0.140%	4.68x
89	Price	138	0.140%	0.77x
90	Bates	133	0.130%	2.05x
91	Fletcher	133	0.130%	1.14x
92	Kay	133	0.130%	2.51x
93	Doyle	131	0.130%	5.28x
94	Carter	130	0.130%	0.76x
95	Moss	129	0.130%	2.05x
96	Parkinson	129	0.130%	2.64x
97	Barnes	128	0.130%	1.04x
98	Holmes	128	0.130%	1.03x
99	Massey	128	0.130%	4.91x
100	Whitehead	128	0.130%	1.86x