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 Bagshaw, with 73 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
201	Bagshaw	73	0.080%	9.92x
202	Burgin	73	0.080%	20.22x
203	Dalton	73	0.080%	3.45x
204	Jennings	73	0.080%	1.56x
205	Mycock	73	0.080%	23.21x
206	Savage	73	0.080%	2.06x
207	Whiteley	73	0.080%	4.41x
208	Woodcock	73	0.080%	2.78x
209	Atkin	72	0.080%	5.85x
210	Pinder	72	0.080%	6.48x
211	Swallow	72	0.080%	7.75x
212	Dobson	71	0.080%	1.75x
213	France	71	0.080%	5.07x
214	South	71	0.080%	8.17x
215	Spooner	71	0.080%	5.34x
216	Denton	70	0.080%	4.13x
217	Dungworth	70	0.080%	80.38x
218	Hirst	70	0.080%	2.33x
219	Lawson	70	0.080%	1.29x
220	Buckley	69	0.070%	1.38x
221	Cheetham	69	0.070%	4.84x
222	Dunn	69	0.070%	0.90x
223	Machin	69	0.070%	7.48x
224	Rowland	69	0.070%	2.63x
225	Banks	68	0.070%	1.44x
226	Blackburn	68	0.070%	1.96x
227	Beaumont	67	0.070%	2.45x
228	Brownhill	67	0.070%	20.75x
229	Knight	67	0.070%	0.59x
230	Reaney	67	0.070%	42.86x
231	Sharp	67	0.070%	0.87x
232	Baines	66	0.070%	3.74x
233	Birch	66	0.070%	1.75x
234	Guest	66	0.070%	3.35x
235	Laycock	66	0.070%	5.21x
236	Nelson	66	0.070%	1.48x
237	Rawson	66	0.070%	6.56x
238	Reynolds	66	0.070%	0.83x
239	Watts	66	0.070%	0.85x
240	Copley	65	0.070%	9.11x
241	Skelton	65	0.070%	4.85x
242	Warburton	65	0.070%	2.86x
243	Whitehead	65	0.070%	1.04x
244	Woolhouse	65	0.070%	32.25x
245	Bishop	64	0.070%	0.99x
246	Broadhead	64	0.070%	9.46x
247	Jubb	64	0.070%	13.87x
248	North	64	0.070%	2.09x
249	Bacon	63	0.070%	2.72x
250	Beal	63	0.070%	7.27x
251	Cutts	63	0.070%	8.70x
252	Lingard	63	0.070%	10.77x
253	Shepherd	63	0.070%	0.93x
254	Watkinson	63	0.070%	5.84x
255	Brooks	62	0.070%	0.69x
256	Coward	62	0.070%	5.87x
257	Day	62	0.070%	0.71x
258	Hibberd	62	0.070%	10.94x
259	Bland	61	0.070%	3.19x
260	Hanson	61	0.070%	2.05x
261	Knowles	61	0.070%	1.24x
262	Moran	61	0.070%	3.62x
263	Skinner	61	0.070%	1.30x
264	Tingle	61	0.070%	20.76x
265	Wall	61	0.070%	1.89x
266	Bramall	60	0.070%	24.46x
267	Hibbert	60	0.070%	4.44x
268	Jessop	60	0.070%	5.48x
269	Ryan	60	0.070%	2.10x
270	Vickers	60	0.070%	2.54x
271	Blackwell	59	0.060%	3.51x
272	Harvey	59	0.060%	0.60x
273	Hopkinson	59	0.060%	3.92x
274	Marriott	59	0.060%	2.86x
275	Renshaw	59	0.060%	6.77x
276	Dale	58	0.060%	1.49x
277	Haslam	58	0.060%	4.14x
278	Heathcote	58	0.060%	7.79x
279	Bird	57	0.060%	0.81x
280	Cartledge	57	0.060%	12.26x
281	Chambers	57	0.060%	1.09x
282	Cooke	57	0.060%	1.12x
283	Gould	57	0.060%	1.71x
284	Lambert	57	0.060%	1.13x
285	Lomas	57	0.060%	3.35x
286	Oliver	57	0.060%	0.87x
287	Proctor	57	0.060%	2.52x
288	Schofield	57	0.060%	1.14x
289	Wallis	57	0.060%	1.83x
290	Bedford	56	0.060%	2.56x
291	Bottom	56	0.060%	22.78x
292	Firth	56	0.060%	1.83x
293	Hydes	56	0.060%	43.33x
294	Kitson	56	0.060%	7.60x
295	Longden	56	0.060%	13.16x
296	Mappin	56	0.060%	85.84x
297	Peace	56	0.060%	6.70x
298	Pollard	56	0.060%	1.67x
299	Gambles	55	0.060%	39.89x
300	Pashley	55	0.060%	16.22x