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 Wheelhouse, with 34 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
501	Wheelhouse	34	0.040%	16.32x
502	Whittington	34	0.040%	5.24x
503	Wildgoose	34	0.040%	13.78x
504	Brook	33	0.040%	0.93x
505	Burrell	33	0.040%	2.75x
506	Cavill	33	0.040%	11.22x
507	Coggan	33	0.040%	21.32x
508	Hollingsworth	33	0.040%	5.41x
509	Hoole	33	0.040%	11.07x
510	Nichols	33	0.040%	1.10x
511	Osborne	33	0.040%	0.75x
512	Paramore	33	0.040%	67.44x
513	Pickering	33	0.040%	0.99x
514	Plant	33	0.040%	1.62x
515	Waterhouse	33	0.040%	2.35x
516	Worthington	33	0.040%	1.79x
517	Boyle	32	0.030%	1.34x
518	Brammer	32	0.030%	14.52x
519	Case	32	0.030%	3.48x
520	Coulson	32	0.030%	1.94x
521	Farrell	32	0.030%	1.83x
522	Goodlad	32	0.030%	20.51x
523	Graves	32	0.030%	2.29x
524	Hodkin	32	0.030%	31.99x
525	Horner	32	0.030%	1.82x
526	Mottram	32	0.030%	6.41x
527	Wilks	32	0.030%	2.21x
528	Woodhouse	32	0.030%	1.47x
529	Ashley	31	0.030%	2.01x
530	Bearder	31	0.030%	55.35x
531	Brailsford	31	0.030%	9.54x
532	Crawshaw	31	0.030%	4.32x
533	Else	31	0.030%	10.16x
534	Elston	31	0.030%	6.94x
535	Fenton	31	0.030%	1.69x
536	Foy	31	0.030%	4.07x
537	Garside	31	0.030%	2.33x
538	Gibbons	31	0.030%	1.05x
539	Horsfield	31	0.030%	5.01x
540	Knott	31	0.030%	1.70x
541	Mallinson	31	0.030%	4.08x
542	Shelton	31	0.030%	2.86x
543	Tankard	31	0.030%	21.85x
544	Ardron	30	0.030%	45.77x
545	Askew	30	0.030%	2.88x
546	Durkin	30	0.030%	7.46x
547	Eccles	30	0.030%	2.03x
548	Holroyd	30	0.030%	2.93x
549	Ingham	30	0.030%	1.31x
550	Millington	30	0.030%	2.15x
551	Mortimer	30	0.030%	1.56x
552	Newbould	30	0.030%	14.17x
553	Nolan	30	0.030%	2.39x
554	Ratcliffe	30	0.030%	1.18x
555	Sampson	30	0.030%	1.91x
556	Staley	30	0.030%	9.94x
557	Theaker	30	0.030%	13.95x
558	Toplis	30	0.030%	16.90x
559	Wadsworth	30	0.030%	2.33x
560	Wolstenholme	30	0.030%	4.08x
561	Ash	29	0.030%	1.90x
562	Bartram	29	0.030%	6.35x
563	Beet	29	0.030%	22.17x
564	Bush	29	0.030%	1.27x
565	Cohen	29	0.030%	2.00x
566	Connolly	29	0.030%	2.71x
567	Cowley	29	0.030%	1.71x
568	Ellin	29	0.030%	55.11x
569	Fagan	29	0.030%	6.60x
570	Garner	29	0.030%	1.00x
571	Kirkby	29	0.030%	5.56x
572	Machon	29	0.030%	25.20x
573	Oldale	29	0.030%	56.10x
574	Pressley	29	0.030%	33.78x
575	Rolley	29	0.030%	43.23x
576	Salt	29	0.030%	2.12x
577	Sharman	29	0.030%	2.28x
578	Sills	29	0.030%	10.01x
579	Smithson	29	0.030%	3.28x
580	Vernon	29	0.030%	1.91x
581	Wilcock	29	0.030%	2.21x
582	Atkins	28	0.030%	0.81x
583	Barron	28	0.030%	1.96x
584	Birkhead	28	0.030%	23.51x
585	Castleton	28	0.030%	35.82x
586	Corker	28	0.030%	12.43x
587	Depledge	28	0.030%	19.11x
588	Draper	28	0.030%	1.29x
589	Hodson	28	0.030%	1.47x
590	Illingworth	28	0.030%	2.68x
591	Morley	28	0.030%	0.76x
592	Revitt	28	0.030%	29.35x
593	Rushby	28	0.030%	18.31x
594	Seaton	28	0.030%	3.59x
595	Timperley	28	0.030%	13.64x
596	Weldon	28	0.030%	7.60x
597	Winfield	28	0.030%	3.66x
598	Alcock	27	0.030%	2.03x
599	Appleyard	27	0.030%	3.20x
600	Broadbent	27	0.030%	1.37x