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 Wells, with 118 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
101	Wells	118	0.130%	1.54x
102	Higgins	117	0.130%	2.51x
103	Powell	117	0.130%	1.02x
104	Briggs	116	0.130%	2.32x
105	Marsh	116	0.130%	1.76x
106	Oates	115	0.120%	8.01x
107	Senior	115	0.120%	5.45x
108	Slack	115	0.120%	7.92x
109	Gibson	114	0.120%	1.02x
110	Mills	114	0.120%	0.95x
111	Hinchliffe	113	0.120%	14.21x
112	Platts	113	0.120%	18.37x
113	Atkinson	112	0.120%	1.25x
114	Stacey	111	0.120%	5.36x
115	Unwin	111	0.120%	12.12x
116	Hodgkinson	110	0.120%	6.95x
117	Cook	109	0.120%	0.60x
118	Drabble	109	0.120%	35.53x
119	Dyson	108	0.120%	3.62x
120	Ford	108	0.120%	1.20x
121	Ledger	108	0.120%	17.14x
122	Wainwright	108	0.120%	5.54x
123	Goodwin	106	0.120%	2.18x
124	Ashton	104	0.110%	2.30x
125	Butler	104	0.110%	1.16x
126	Eaton	104	0.110%	4.03x
127	Grayson	104	0.110%	15.13x
128	Owen	103	0.110%	0.94x
129	Slater	103	0.110%	1.85x
130	Hayes	102	0.110%	1.78x
131	Howe	102	0.110%	2.82x
132	Milner	102	0.110%	4.83x
133	Hadfield	101	0.110%	7.87x
134	Law	101	0.110%	2.42x
135	Linley	101	0.110%	30.79x
136	Tomlinson	101	0.110%	2.38x
137	Hallam	99	0.110%	5.76x
138	Rose	99	0.110%	1.45x
139	Simmonite	98	0.110%	128.93x
140	Turton	96	0.100%	9.27x
141	Walton	96	0.100%	1.48x
142	Barlow	95	0.100%	1.91x
143	Lowe	95	0.100%	1.38x
144	Armitage	94	0.100%	4.00x
145	Burton	94	0.100%	1.20x
146	Marples	93	0.100%	37.97x
147	Short	93	0.100%	2.58x
148	Berry	91	0.100%	1.24x
149	Hawley	91	0.100%	10.10x
150	Storey	91	0.100%	3.89x
151	Brookes	90	0.100%	4.16x
152	Hunter	90	0.100%	0.95x
153	Crossland	89	0.100%	10.99x
154	Glossop	89	0.100%	27.46x
155	Holland	88	0.100%	1.34x
156	Ibbotson	88	0.100%	13.91x
157	Hoyland	87	0.090%	25.40x
158	Sheldon	87	0.090%	6.21x
159	West	87	0.090%	0.98x
160	Broomhead	86	0.090%	20.87x
161	Birks	85	0.090%	13.91x
162	Cocker	85	0.090%	11.25x
163	Haywood	85	0.090%	4.40x
164	Palmer	85	0.090%	0.78x
165	Davison	84	0.090%	2.55x
166	Hawksworth	84	0.090%	20.20x
167	Hunt	84	0.090%	0.69x
168	Norton	84	0.090%	2.74x
169	Butcher	83	0.090%	2.14x
170	Hurst	83	0.090%	2.52x
171	Hutchinson	83	0.090%	1.59x
172	Biggin	82	0.090%	35.24x
173	Hewitt	82	0.090%	1.83x
174	Lister	82	0.090%	3.12x
175	Matthews	82	0.090%	1.02x
176	Carnall	81	0.090%	46.67x
177	Furniss	81	0.090%	19.83x
178	Littlewood	81	0.090%	6.82x
179	Murphy	81	0.090%	1.10x
180	Booker	80	0.090%	7.24x
181	Jepson	80	0.090%	8.87x
182	Lockwood	80	0.090%	3.93x
183	Rhodes	80	0.090%	1.87x
184	Walsh	80	0.090%	1.63x
185	Buxton	79	0.090%	5.71x
186	Mosley	78	0.080%	8.99x
187	Stevenson	78	0.080%	1.21x
188	Burke	77	0.080%	2.84x
189	Deakin	77	0.080%	6.05x
190	Downing	77	0.080%	4.81x
191	Graham	77	0.080%	0.73x
192	Reed	77	0.080%	1.14x
193	Adams	76	0.080%	0.56x
194	Cowlishaw	76	0.080%	47.68x
195	Stones	76	0.080%	6.93x
196	Batty	74	0.080%	5.25x
197	Bramhall	74	0.080%	25.31x
198	Mellor	74	0.080%	2.28x
199	Revill	74	0.080%	17.96x
200	Williamson	74	0.080%	0.90x