1881 census place

Sheffield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Sheffield, Yorkshire 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

3,659 surnames are listed for Sheffield, Yorkshire, covering 73,172 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,469 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Sheffield

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	1,469	1.59%	1.13x
2	Taylor	847	0.920%	1.44x
3	Wilson	621	0.670%	1.47x
4	Walker	587	0.640%	1.90x
5	Ward	533	0.580%	2.65x
6	Jackson	511	0.550%	1.98x
7	Shaw	486	0.530%	2.87x
8	Brown	476	0.520%	0.78x
9	Thompson	465	0.500%	1.68x
10	Hill	428	0.460%	1.82x
11	Robinson	424	0.460%	1.44x
12	Turner	419	0.450%	1.63x
13	Wright	418	0.450%	1.41x
14	White	409	0.440%	1.38x
15	Green	390	0.420%	1.50x
16	Parkin	388	0.420%	15.66x
17	Wood	384	0.420%	1.31x
18	Johnson	373	0.400%	1.20x
19	Harrison	362	0.390%	1.77x
20	Hall	356	0.390%	1.31x
21	Marshall	355	0.390%	2.30x
22	Lee	346	0.380%	2.30x
23	Roberts	322	0.350%	0.93x
24	Booth	321	0.350%	3.53x
25	Barker	315	0.340%	2.61x
26	Cooper	303	0.330%	1.35x
27	Allen	299	0.320%	1.72x
28	Webster	297	0.320%	3.71x
29	Rodgers	285	0.310%	11.30x
30	Ellis	269	0.290%	2.01x
31	Morton	268	0.290%	5.44x
32	Fox	254	0.280%	2.97x
33	Martin	254	0.280%	1.12x
34	Hobson	236	0.260%	9.87x
35	Bell	232	0.250%	1.34x
36	Wilkinson	223	0.240%	1.59x
37	Hague	220	0.240%	15.18x
38	Gill	219	0.240%	3.36x
39	Parker	216	0.230%	1.23x
40	Nicholson	215	0.230%	3.28x
41	Watson	211	0.230%	0.99x
42	Wragg	210	0.230%	24.63x
43	Fletcher	209	0.230%	1.99x
44	Holmes	206	0.220%	1.84x
45	Foster	205	0.220%	1.66x
46	Hudson	205	0.220%	2.72x
47	Oxley	204	0.220%	15.81x
48	Fisher	202	0.220%	1.87x
49	Greaves	200	0.220%	7.40x
50	Clarke	195	0.210%	1.04x
51	Wild	194	0.210%	5.17x
52	Simpson	189	0.210%	1.17x
53	Crookes	178	0.190%	44.25x
54	Moore	178	0.190%	0.97x
55	Mitchell	175	0.190%	0.94x
56	Staniforth	170	0.180%	48.63x
57	Dawson	169	0.180%	1.66x
58	Eyre	169	0.180%	15.30x
59	Scott	167	0.180%	0.72x
60	Clark	166	0.180%	0.60x
61	Mason	163	0.180%	1.32x
62	Pearson	163	0.180%	1.52x
63	Kelly	162	0.180%	1.61x
64	Barber	159	0.170%	2.87x
65	Bingham	159	0.170%	11.74x
66	Bradshaw	158	0.170%	4.17x
67	Carr	157	0.170%	2.36x
68	Elliott	157	0.170%	2.01x
69	Newton	157	0.170%	2.22x
70	Gray	156	0.170%	1.19x
71	Naylor	155	0.170%	4.46x
72	Bower	154	0.170%	9.12x
73	Dixon	152	0.160%	1.51x
74	Riley	152	0.160%	2.08x
75	Young	143	0.160%	0.72x
76	Kay	141	0.150%	2.94x
77	Sykes	141	0.150%	3.19x
78	Swift	140	0.150%	4.92x
79	Barnes	139	0.150%	1.25x
80	Clayton	139	0.150%	2.77x
81	Hartley	139	0.150%	2.41x
82	Needham	139	0.150%	7.09x
83	Bennett	138	0.150%	0.91x
84	Dickinson	138	0.150%	3.51x
85	Bailey	136	0.150%	0.98x
86	Bradley	134	0.150%	1.81x
87	Gillott	134	0.150%	40.62x
88	Sanderson	134	0.150%	3.52x
89	Charlesworth	133	0.140%	11.18x
90	Spencer	133	0.140%	1.58x
91	Ashmore	130	0.140%	18.92x
92	Jenkinson	130	0.140%	8.06x
93	Chapman	127	0.140%	0.97x
94	Thorpe	127	0.140%	3.49x
95	Frith	125	0.140%	13.59x
96	Frost	124	0.130%	2.39x
97	Yates	124	0.130%	1.96x
98	Howard	123	0.130%	1.36x
99	Richardson	123	0.130%	0.78x
100	Siddall	119	0.130%	17.62x