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 Matthews, with 78 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
201	Matthews	78	0.080%	0.88x
202	Percival	78	0.080%	4.88x
203	Eckersley	77	0.080%	12.08x
204	Fisher	77	0.080%	0.65x
205	Hamer	77	0.080%	4.03x
206	Platt	77	0.080%	2.85x
207	Walton	77	0.080%	1.07x
208	Bentley	76	0.070%	1.76x
209	Nicholson	76	0.070%	1.05x
210	Worthington	76	0.070%	3.72x
211	Butterworth	75	0.070%	2.05x
212	Healey	75	0.070%	4.50x
213	Maguire	75	0.070%	7.20x
214	Makin	75	0.070%	8.57x
215	Roach	75	0.070%	5.00x
216	Woods	75	0.070%	1.17x
217	Brookes	74	0.070%	3.09x
218	Davenport	74	0.070%	3.83x
219	Moran	74	0.070%	3.96x
220	Sykes	74	0.070%	1.51x
221	Bowker	73	0.070%	7.34x
222	Byrne	73	0.070%	5.13x
223	Foley	73	0.070%	5.69x
224	Lyons	73	0.070%	3.22x
225	Powell	73	0.070%	0.57x
226	Stubbs	73	0.070%	2.71x
227	Knight	72	0.070%	0.57x
228	Lees	72	0.070%	1.59x
229	Pritchard	72	0.070%	1.31x
230	Warren	72	0.070%	1.06x
231	Brierley	71	0.070%	3.92x
232	Gee	71	0.070%	2.73x
233	Henderson	71	0.070%	0.64x
234	Higson	71	0.070%	10.89x
235	Leach	71	0.070%	1.69x
236	Marsh	71	0.070%	0.98x
237	Barrow	70	0.070%	3.24x
238	Cawley	70	0.070%	12.96x
239	Crook	70	0.070%	2.39x
240	Gray	70	0.070%	0.48x
241	Houghton	70	0.070%	1.96x
242	Palmer	70	0.070%	0.58x
243	Wrigley	70	0.070%	5.43x
244	Ford	69	0.070%	0.69x
245	Gordon	69	0.070%	1.07x
246	Hough	69	0.070%	3.93x
247	Lynch	69	0.070%	2.56x
248	Shepherd	69	0.070%	0.92x
249	Bradburn	68	0.070%	16.74x
250	Grimshaw	68	0.070%	3.99x
251	Hewitt	68	0.070%	1.37x
252	Lambert	68	0.070%	1.22x
253	Atherton	67	0.070%	3.66x
254	Livesey	67	0.070%	6.71x
255	Mellor	67	0.070%	1.87x
256	Monks	67	0.070%	8.12x
257	Unsworth	67	0.070%	5.72x
258	Walmsley	67	0.070%	3.18x
259	Gorman	66	0.060%	5.37x
260	Worsley	66	0.060%	7.41x
261	Andrews	65	0.060%	0.67x
262	Larkin	65	0.060%	7.10x
263	Naylor	65	0.060%	1.69x
264	Pilling	65	0.060%	5.28x
265	Rogerson	65	0.060%	5.18x
266	Clare	64	0.060%	4.34x
267	Harvey	64	0.060%	0.59x
268	Johnston	64	0.060%	0.78x
269	Kenny	64	0.060%	5.24x
270	Kirkham	64	0.060%	4.50x
271	Leigh	64	0.060%	2.73x
272	Thornton	64	0.060%	1.25x
273	Whittle	64	0.060%	2.88x
274	Abbott	63	0.060%	1.40x
275	Broughton	63	0.060%	3.31x
276	Dodd	63	0.060%	1.52x
277	Grundy	63	0.060%	3.02x
278	Lamb	63	0.060%	1.17x
279	Tonge	63	0.060%	9.70x
280	Wallwork	63	0.060%	10.62x
281	Dale	62	0.060%	1.44x
282	Dutton	62	0.060%	2.69x
283	Frost	62	0.060%	1.08x
284	Beswick	61	0.060%	6.12x
285	Bolton	61	0.060%	1.39x
286	Brady	61	0.060%	3.38x
287	Gardner	61	0.060%	0.88x
288	Hobson	61	0.060%	2.31x
289	Bradbury	60	0.060%	2.04x
290	Farrar	60	0.060%	4.41x
291	Henshaw	60	0.060%	6.91x
292	Hope	60	0.060%	1.73x
293	Jordan	60	0.060%	1.33x
294	Read	60	0.060%	0.91x
295	Stanley	60	0.060%	1.53x
296	Travis	60	0.060%	5.02x
297	Whitworth	60	0.060%	3.52x
298	Bent	59	0.060%	7.94x
299	Bowden	59	0.060%	2.01x
300	Cavanagh	59	0.060%	7.67x