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 Wild, with 128 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
101	Wild	128	0.130%	3.08x
102	Butler	127	0.120%	1.28x
103	Derbyshire	126	0.120%	11.85x
104	Boardman	125	0.120%	7.64x
105	Hampson	125	0.120%	6.80x
106	Bennett	122	0.120%	0.73x
107	Schofield	122	0.120%	2.21x
108	Armstrong	120	0.120%	1.54x
109	Hartley	119	0.120%	1.86x
110	Burke	118	0.120%	3.93x
111	Phillips	118	0.120%	0.65x
112	Preston	118	0.120%	2.32x
113	Gibson	116	0.110%	0.94x
114	Hunt	116	0.110%	0.86x
115	Simpson	116	0.110%	0.65x
116	Bradshaw	115	0.110%	2.75x
117	Carroll	115	0.110%	5.62x
118	Heywood	115	0.110%	5.67x
119	Mills	115	0.110%	0.87x
120	Bell	114	0.110%	0.60x
121	Ellis	114	0.110%	0.77x
122	Holden	114	0.110%	2.04x
123	Burrows	113	0.110%	2.53x
124	Gill	113	0.110%	1.57x
125	Carr	112	0.110%	1.52x
126	Heaton	111	0.110%	4.55x
127	Renshaw	111	0.110%	11.51x
128	Cook	110	0.110%	0.54x
129	Goodwin	110	0.110%	2.05x
130	Mason	110	0.110%	0.80x
131	Parry	110	0.110%	1.42x
132	Rothwell	109	0.110%	5.82x
133	Fitzpatrick	106	0.100%	7.11x
134	Nuttall	105	0.100%	4.08x
135	Spencer	105	0.100%	1.13x
136	Hardman	104	0.100%	5.07x
137	Higgins	104	0.100%	2.02x
138	Hulme	104	0.100%	4.77x
139	Partington	104	0.100%	7.19x
140	Kenyon	103	0.100%	4.84x
141	Farrell	102	0.100%	5.28x
142	Reid	102	0.100%	0.95x
143	Dickinson	100	0.100%	2.30x
144	Faulkner	100	0.100%	3.62x
145	Ball	99	0.100%	1.18x
146	Greenwood	98	0.100%	1.24x
147	Quinn	98	0.100%	5.03x
148	Thorpe	98	0.100%	2.43x
149	Fox	97	0.100%	1.02x
150	Rogers	97	0.100%	0.73x
151	Welsh	97	0.100%	2.40x
152	Ashton	96	0.090%	1.92x
153	Cooke	96	0.090%	1.71x
154	Cheetham	95	0.090%	6.02x
155	Hurst	95	0.090%	2.61x
156	Poole	95	0.090%	1.93x
157	Stott	95	0.090%	2.98x
158	Bradley	94	0.090%	1.15x
159	Kershaw	94	0.090%	2.86x
160	King	94	0.090%	0.42x
161	Edge	91	0.090%	5.18x
162	Rigby	91	0.090%	3.08x
163	Barton	90	0.090%	1.63x
164	Morton	90	0.090%	1.65x
165	Rhodes	90	0.090%	1.90x
166	Hilton	89	0.090%	2.54x
167	Horrocks	89	0.090%	7.11x
168	Hyde	89	0.090%	2.84x
169	Pollitt	89	0.090%	11.31x
170	Slater	89	0.090%	1.44x
171	Baxter	88	0.090%	1.45x
172	Hudson	88	0.090%	1.05x
173	Lomas	88	0.090%	4.67x
174	Sharples	88	0.090%	4.94x
175	Clayton	87	0.090%	1.57x
176	Nolan	87	0.090%	6.26x
177	Clegg	86	0.080%	2.48x
178	Lever	86	0.080%	9.36x
179	Cox	85	0.080%	0.55x
180	Garner	85	0.080%	2.64x
181	Pennington	84	0.080%	5.56x
182	Pickering	84	0.080%	2.28x
183	Hargreaves	83	0.080%	1.95x
184	Roscoe	83	0.080%	13.11x
185	Webster	83	0.080%	0.94x
186	Birch	82	0.080%	1.96x
187	Briggs	82	0.080%	1.48x
188	Burton	82	0.080%	0.94x
189	Duckworth	81	0.080%	4.11x
190	Hunter	81	0.080%	0.77x
191	Knowles	81	0.080%	1.49x
192	Murray	81	0.080%	0.64x
193	Hodson	80	0.080%	3.79x
194	Lord	80	0.080%	1.70x
195	Reynolds	80	0.080%	0.91x
196	Tomlinson	80	0.080%	1.70x
197	Collier	79	0.080%	2.32x
198	Entwistle	79	0.080%	4.45x
199	Sutton	79	0.080%	1.22x
200	Barrett	78	0.080%	1.14x