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 Hind, with 13 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
1101	Hind	13	0.010%	1.12x
1102	Hodkinson	13	0.010%	2.00x
1103	Hook	13	0.010%	0.95x
1104	Kerrigan	13	0.010%	7.82x
1105	Knapp	13	0.010%	2.07x
1106	Lill	13	0.010%	7.27x
1107	Maddocks	13	0.010%	2.31x
1108	Mahar	13	0.010%	29.96x
1109	Malloy	13	0.010%	8.11x
1110	Manuel	13	0.010%	4.68x
1111	Monaghan	13	0.010%	1.95x
1112	Mulligan	13	0.010%	2.52x
1113	Nall	13	0.010%	12.00x
1114	Neville	13	0.010%	1.19x
1115	Nutbrown	13	0.010%	28.16x
1116	Orton	13	0.010%	1.50x
1117	Pring	13	0.010%	3.09x
1118	Pulford	13	0.010%	5.48x
1119	Rabjohn	13	0.010%	60.35x
1120	Raftery	13	0.010%	24.28x
1121	Rider	13	0.010%	1.45x
1122	Rotherham	13	0.010%	7.02x
1123	Scanlon	13	0.010%	5.95x
1124	Scargill	13	0.010%	8.60x
1125	Sheriff	13	0.010%	5.06x
1126	Simms	13	0.010%	1.24x
1127	Soby	13	0.010%	35.80x
1128	Thackery	13	0.010%	16.31x
1129	Toole	13	0.010%	2.61x
1130	Trigg	13	0.010%	2.51x
1131	Wallice	13	0.010%	25.76x
1132	Watmough	13	0.010%	5.79x
1133	Wigglesworth	13	0.010%	2.85x
1134	Wray	13	0.010%	1.05x
1135	Addis	12	0.010%	3.81x
1136	Bagley	12	0.010%	1.76x
1137	Beaty	12	0.010%	5.70x
1138	Bilton	12	0.010%	3.07x
1139	Birley	12	0.010%	8.53x
1140	Bowling	12	0.010%	3.53x
1141	Bramley	12	0.010%	1.43x
1142	Breeze	12	0.010%	2.11x
1143	Brookfield	12	0.010%	4.53x
1144	Capewell	12	0.010%	4.74x
1145	Carl	12	0.010%	20.63x
1146	Champion	12	0.010%	1.24x
1147	Coffey	12	0.010%	4.27x
1148	Costello	12	0.010%	2.13x
1149	Coxon	12	0.010%	1.70x
1150	Cusworth	12	0.010%	8.86x
1151	Denham	12	0.010%	1.48x
1152	Devine	12	0.010%	1.31x
1153	Dickins	12	0.010%	3.54x
1154	Durham	12	0.010%	1.51x
1155	Eling	12	0.010%	57.36x
1156	Farnsworth	12	0.010%	3.13x
1157	Fawkes	12	0.010%	5.15x
1158	Finnigan	12	0.010%	3.33x
1159	Foulston	12	0.010%	21.66x
1160	Gath	12	0.010%	15.11x
1161	Hanley	12	0.010%	1.58x
1162	Hardcastle	12	0.010%	1.47x
1163	Harrott	12	0.010%	33.33x
1164	Harty	12	0.010%	15.11x
1165	Hemmingway	12	0.010%	8.57x
1166	Hester	12	0.010%	3.50x
1167	Hoffman	12	0.010%	6.11x
1168	Holehouse	12	0.010%	18.05x
1169	Hoult	12	0.010%	5.04x
1170	Jebson	12	0.010%	17.49x
1171	Kean	12	0.010%	1.92x
1172	Lander	12	0.010%	1.90x
1173	Langworthy	12	0.010%	11.27x
1174	Longmore	12	0.010%	5.32x
1175	Maloy	12	0.010%	8.46x
1176	Margerison	12	0.010%	7.03x
1177	Melbourne	12	0.010%	6.40x
1178	Newsom	12	0.010%	13.78x
1179	Oneill	12	0.010%	2.05x
1180	Pasley	12	0.010%	19.21x
1181	Ravenhill	12	0.010%	8.01x
1182	Rawlin	12	0.010%	27.66x
1183	Reader	12	0.010%	1.51x
1184	Ridge	12	0.010%	1.86x
1185	Ronksley	12	0.010%	44.31x
1186	Roome	12	0.010%	6.76x
1187	Scanlan	12	0.010%	5.79x
1188	Smeaton	12	0.010%	4.63x
1189	Starr	12	0.010%	2.64x
1190	Surr	12	0.010%	21.66x
1191	Talford	12	0.010%	57.36x
1192	Tesh	12	0.010%	61.92x
1193	Thornley	12	0.010%	1.17x
1194	Winder	12	0.010%	1.98x
1195	Abrahams	11	0.010%	1.57x
1196	Balley	11	0.010%	29.55x
1197	Bernard	11	0.010%	2.88x
1198	Blagden	11	0.010%	12.68x
1199	Bowker	11	0.010%	1.22x
1200	Burgoyne	11	0.010%	2.73x