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 Hallatt, with 17 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
901	Hallatt	17	0.020%	25.82x
902	Healey	17	0.020%	1.13x
903	Highfield	17	0.020%	6.61x
904	Levi	17	0.020%	7.88x
905	Mcdermott	17	0.020%	10.31x
906	Nodder	17	0.020%	31.04x
907	Riches	17	0.020%	1.61x
908	Ridley	17	0.020%	0.95x
909	Rowbottom	17	0.020%	3.09x
910	Schweitzer	17	0.020%	59.40x
911	Shipley	17	0.020%	2.09x
912	Snape	17	0.020%	2.00x
913	Squires	17	0.020%	1.30x
914	Stratford	17	0.020%	2.69x
915	Uttley	17	0.020%	3.83x
916	Wagstaffe	17	0.020%	13.03x
917	Whitehouse	17	0.020%	0.71x
918	Baggaley	16	0.020%	8.96x
919	Bannister	16	0.020%	1.01x
920	Bartholomew	16	0.020%	2.14x
921	Benn	16	0.020%	3.05x
922	Braithwaite	16	0.020%	1.50x
923	Brammall	16	0.020%	23.74x
924	Campion	16	0.020%	2.48x
925	Cater	16	0.020%	3.62x
926	Cherry	16	0.020%	1.70x
927	Collis	16	0.020%	1.68x
928	Constantine	16	0.020%	5.98x
929	Crosby	16	0.020%	1.47x
930	Culf	16	0.020%	64.21x
931	Dearman	16	0.020%	11.79x
932	Delaney	16	0.020%	2.70x
933	Dillon	16	0.020%	1.76x
934	Donoghue	16	0.020%	5.24x
935	Dransfield	16	0.020%	4.94x
936	Exley	16	0.020%	3.65x
937	Fearnley	16	0.020%	2.86x
938	Finnerty	16	0.020%	31.51x
939	Fury	16	0.020%	19.26x
940	Goldthorpe	16	0.020%	7.07x
941	Gormley	16	0.020%	14.85x
942	Haythorne	16	0.020%	44.82x
943	Horan	16	0.020%	5.92x
944	Jennett	16	0.020%	38.52x
945	Kirkham	16	0.020%	1.24x
946	Land	16	0.020%	2.41x
947	Laver	16	0.020%	4.51x
948	Lenthall	16	0.020%	22.32x
949	Levick	16	0.020%	12.65x
950	Lilly	16	0.020%	2.85x
951	Lovett	16	0.020%	1.90x
952	Moseley	16	0.020%	1.90x
953	Munks	16	0.020%	27.96x
954	Nutton	16	0.020%	13.72x
955	Pallett	16	0.020%	6.51x
956	Pattinson	16	0.020%	1.94x
957	Pepper	16	0.020%	1.23x
958	Renwick	16	0.020%	2.54x
959	Seedhouse	16	0.020%	28.89x
960	Sherwood	16	0.020%	1.36x
961	Simonite	16	0.020%	144.40x
962	Snowden	16	0.020%	1.95x
963	Sweet	16	0.020%	1.92x
964	Temporal	16	0.020%	100.00x
965	Tivey	16	0.020%	16.61x
966	Turnell	16	0.020%	18.18x
967	Waite	16	0.020%	0.84x
968	Wigfall	16	0.020%	54.74x
969	Winterbottom	16	0.020%	1.88x
970	Younge	16	0.020%	30.41x
971	Antcliffe	15	0.020%	32.07x
972	Barge	15	0.020%	12.04x
973	Basford	15	0.020%	5.42x
974	Bradwell	15	0.020%	7.93x
975	Bramham	15	0.020%	9.08x
976	Brennan	15	0.020%	1.56x
977	Carlan	15	0.020%	42.76x
978	Carlisle	15	0.020%	3.09x
979	Cawthorn	15	0.020%	8.64x
980	Cundy	15	0.020%	6.24x
981	Cuthbert	15	0.020%	1.13x
982	Dronfield	15	0.020%	23.55x
983	Duffey	15	0.020%	4.54x
984	Dunstan	15	0.020%	2.86x
985	Eades	15	0.020%	3.17x
986	Edge	15	0.020%	0.94x
987	Fairest	15	0.020%	47.32x
988	Hales	15	0.020%	1.13x
989	Haycock	15	0.020%	2.90x
990	Hewett	15	0.020%	1.40x
991	Hickman	15	0.020%	0.97x
992	Hickson	15	0.020%	2.36x
993	Higginbotham	15	0.020%	6.31x
994	Holgate	15	0.020%	1.96x
995	Jewitt	15	0.020%	4.86x
996	Lawler	15	0.020%	3.62x
997	Legg	15	0.020%	0.99x
998	Levesley	15	0.020%	44.31x
999	Lidster	15	0.020%	15.00x
1000	Lonsdale	15	0.020%	1.96x