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 Lawton, with 42 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
401	Lawton	42	0.050%	1.77x
402	Parkinson	42	0.050%	0.95x
403	Wallace	42	0.050%	0.67x
404	Callaghan	41	0.040%	3.93x
405	Colton	41	0.040%	13.30x
406	Jordan	41	0.040%	1.01x
407	Kennedy	41	0.040%	0.74x
408	Stocks	41	0.040%	4.09x
409	Stringer	41	0.040%	2.23x
410	Sweeney	41	0.040%	3.32x
411	Baxter	40	0.040%	0.73x
412	Belk	40	0.040%	43.91x
413	Best	40	0.040%	1.61x
414	Colley	40	0.040%	3.42x
415	Crowder	40	0.040%	10.92x
416	Hides	40	0.040%	34.21x
417	Nuttall	40	0.040%	1.72x
418	Pigott	40	0.040%	11.32x
419	Rawlins	40	0.040%	7.46x
420	Varley	40	0.040%	3.16x
421	Whitham	40	0.040%	7.47x
422	Windle	40	0.040%	7.65x
423	Beatson	39	0.040%	22.63x
424	Cawthorne	39	0.040%	15.42x
425	Connor	39	0.040%	1.43x
426	Inman	39	0.040%	6.22x
427	Ryalls	39	0.040%	56.07x
428	Saxton	39	0.040%	7.16x
429	Darwent	38	0.040%	39.96x
430	Drake	38	0.040%	1.42x
431	Holden	38	0.040%	0.75x
432	Hukin	38	0.040%	102.07x
433	Machen	38	0.040%	38.83x
434	Mann	38	0.040%	0.78x
435	Molloy	38	0.040%	7.55x
436	Oldham	38	0.040%	2.35x
437	Sayles	38	0.040%	27.75x
438	Sharpe	38	0.040%	1.40x
439	Wait	38	0.040%	8.17x
440	Warrington	38	0.040%	5.03x
441	Allison	37	0.040%	1.41x
442	Allott	37	0.040%	11.17x
443	Beeley	37	0.040%	19.21x
444	Boden	37	0.040%	4.95x
445	Coates	37	0.040%	1.08x
446	Haley	37	0.040%	3.37x
447	Hattersley	37	0.040%	14.06x
448	Helliwell	37	0.040%	4.36x
449	Manion	37	0.040%	28.35x
450	Obrien	37	0.040%	2.72x
451	Roebuck	37	0.040%	5.93x
452	Stanley	37	0.040%	1.04x
453	Thickett	37	0.040%	28.90x
454	Trickett	37	0.040%	9.25x
455	Bray	36	0.040%	1.16x
456	Bright	36	0.040%	1.93x
457	Fearn	36	0.040%	5.23x
458	Flanagan	36	0.040%	4.98x
459	Froggatt	36	0.040%	8.50x
460	Horton	36	0.040%	1.05x
461	Keen	36	0.040%	1.95x
462	Malkin	36	0.040%	11.90x
463	Mettam	36	0.040%	37.62x
464	Southern	36	0.040%	4.24x
465	Styring	36	0.040%	65.73x
466	Wingfield	36	0.040%	8.45x
467	Bullas	35	0.040%	40.05x
468	Cadman	35	0.040%	4.66x
469	Coleman	35	0.040%	0.76x
470	Croft	35	0.040%	1.61x
471	Curtis	35	0.040%	0.67x
472	Dawes	35	0.040%	2.79x
473	Dodson	35	0.040%	4.91x
474	Duke	35	0.040%	3.27x
475	Hepworth	35	0.040%	3.33x
476	Lane	35	0.040%	0.55x
477	Leach	35	0.040%	0.92x
478	Lees	35	0.040%	0.86x
479	Loxley	35	0.040%	20.64x
480	Noble	35	0.040%	0.91x
481	Tyas	35	0.040%	16.06x
482	Wilde	35	0.040%	2.61x
483	Willey	35	0.040%	4.22x
484	Andrew	34	0.040%	1.16x
485	Beck	34	0.040%	1.58x
486	Bellamy	34	0.040%	2.53x
487	Boulding	34	0.040%	34.97x
488	Burrows	34	0.040%	0.84x
489	Damms	34	0.040%	61.38x
490	Fell	34	0.040%	2.63x
491	Fretwell	34	0.040%	10.86x
492	Gamble	34	0.040%	2.58x
493	Garlick	34	0.040%	4.19x
494	Heaton	34	0.040%	1.54x
495	Lamb	34	0.040%	0.70x
496	Ludlam	34	0.040%	17.40x
497	Lyons	34	0.040%	1.66x
498	Radley	34	0.040%	6.40x
499	Rutter	34	0.040%	2.42x
500	Swain	34	0.040%	1.91x