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 Winter, with 55 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
301	Winter	55	0.060%	1.68x
302	Woodhead	55	0.060%	3.18x
303	Bownes	54	0.060%	73.73x
304	Bunting	54	0.060%	5.25x
305	Chadwick	54	0.060%	1.34x
306	Kirby	54	0.060%	1.54x
307	Lindley	54	0.060%	5.93x
308	Burns	53	0.060%	0.86x
309	Dewsnap	53	0.060%	38.10x
310	Hardwick	53	0.060%	3.76x
311	Pryor	53	0.060%	8.62x
312	Fields	52	0.060%	11.74x
313	Smedley	52	0.060%	6.90x
314	Twigg	52	0.060%	8.07x
315	Badger	51	0.060%	9.56x
316	Heath	51	0.060%	1.11x
317	Nixon	51	0.060%	1.82x
318	Todd	51	0.060%	1.09x
319	Worrall	51	0.060%	4.35x
320	Betts	50	0.050%	2.54x
321	Burkinshaw	50	0.050%	27.40x
322	Crowther	50	0.050%	1.82x
323	Darwin	50	0.050%	28.45x
324	Heald	50	0.050%	8.74x
325	Hodgson	50	0.050%	0.78x
326	Liversidge	50	0.050%	21.58x
327	Roper	50	0.050%	2.61x
328	Slinn	50	0.050%	34.57x
329	Woodward	50	0.050%	1.10x
330	Furness	49	0.050%	6.66x
331	Hogan	49	0.050%	5.29x
332	Howson	49	0.050%	8.52x
333	May	49	0.050%	0.84x
334	Myers	49	0.050%	2.04x
335	Sellars	49	0.050%	8.57x
336	Benson	48	0.050%	1.92x
337	Darley	48	0.050%	12.22x
338	Elliss	48	0.050%	15.92x
339	Hinchcliffe	48	0.050%	8.53x
340	Merrill	48	0.050%	18.14x
341	Priest	48	0.050%	3.98x
342	Roe	48	0.050%	2.67x
343	Woollen	48	0.050%	53.60x
344	Barnsley	47	0.050%	13.00x
345	Bateman	47	0.050%	1.97x
346	Bradbury	47	0.050%	1.77x
347	Kenny	47	0.050%	4.26x
348	Maxfield	47	0.050%	19.28x
349	Ramsden	47	0.050%	2.80x
350	Redfern	47	0.050%	3.66x
351	Addy	46	0.050%	11.72x
352	Askham	46	0.050%	25.64x
353	Biggins	46	0.050%	20.70x
354	Chatterton	46	0.050%	8.79x
355	Duffy	46	0.050%	2.29x
356	Glaves	46	0.050%	82.13x
357	Sissons	46	0.050%	16.18x
358	Stokes	46	0.050%	1.18x
359	Ashforth	45	0.050%	28.12x
360	Bingley	45	0.050%	17.94x
361	Cockayne	45	0.050%	16.23x
362	Flint	45	0.050%	2.72x
363	Grey	45	0.050%	2.25x
364	Higginbottom	45	0.050%	7.47x
365	Makin	45	0.050%	5.69x
366	Travis	45	0.050%	4.16x
367	Barton	44	0.050%	0.88x
368	Burley	44	0.050%	5.03x
369	Cousins	44	0.050%	2.65x
370	Crofts	44	0.050%	5.91x
371	Crossley	44	0.050%	1.74x
372	Driver	44	0.050%	2.58x
373	Goodison	44	0.050%	23.40x
374	Herring	44	0.050%	4.66x
375	Kent	44	0.050%	1.13x
376	Memmott	44	0.050%	106.72x
377	Priestley	44	0.050%	2.82x
378	Spotswood	44	0.050%	147.45x
379	Thackray	44	0.050%	11.15x
380	Whelan	44	0.050%	7.05x
381	Beckett	43	0.050%	2.34x
382	Dodd	43	0.050%	1.15x
383	Eastwood	43	0.050%	1.97x
384	Gee	43	0.050%	1.83x
385	Gillatt	43	0.050%	45.51x
386	Hammond	43	0.050%	0.82x
387	Handley	43	0.050%	2.76x
388	Norman	43	0.050%	1.01x
389	Oldfield	43	0.050%	2.82x
390	Parkes	43	0.050%	2.28x
391	Pass	43	0.050%	9.56x
392	Radford	43	0.050%	2.46x
393	Saville	43	0.050%	5.14x
394	Yeardley	43	0.050%	44.36x
395	Brady	42	0.050%	2.57x
396	Bramwell	42	0.050%	8.08x
397	Coldwell	42	0.050%	10.41x
398	Dickenson	42	0.050%	3.01x
399	Goddard	42	0.050%	1.13x
400	Kelley	42	0.050%	3.92x