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 Saynor, with 20 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
801	Saynor	20	0.020%	19.52x
802	Speight	20	0.020%	2.67x
803	Stagg	20	0.020%	3.26x
804	Starkey	20	0.020%	2.19x
805	Stenton	20	0.020%	11.86x
806	Tye	20	0.020%	3.77x
807	Wardley	20	0.020%	8.65x
808	Warris	20	0.020%	80.26x
809	Wigfield	20	0.020%	26.10x
810	Wortley	20	0.020%	7.17x
811	Axe	19	0.020%	19.66x
812	Battersby	19	0.020%	2.92x
813	Binney	19	0.020%	13.33x
814	Bottomley	19	0.020%	1.24x
815	Brightmore	19	0.020%	21.51x
816	Buttery	19	0.020%	5.36x
817	Church	19	0.020%	0.94x
818	Cobb	19	0.020%	1.45x
819	Cowburn	19	0.020%	5.66x
820	Davenport	19	0.020%	1.09x
821	Dent	19	0.020%	1.08x
822	Dufty	19	0.020%	29.83x
823	Dutton	19	0.020%	0.91x
824	Eadon	19	0.020%	22.87x
825	Fairey	19	0.020%	14.33x
826	Fieldsend	19	0.020%	12.15x
827	Fogg	19	0.020%	3.55x
828	Gallimore	19	0.020%	6.51x
829	Grantham	19	0.020%	3.35x
830	Gregg	19	0.020%	2.93x
831	Hawcroft	19	0.020%	25.00x
832	Henson	19	0.020%	1.76x
833	Hurt	19	0.020%	7.80x
834	Kenney	19	0.020%	3.74x
835	Lilley	19	0.020%	1.49x
836	Mangles	19	0.020%	49.79x
837	Monks	19	0.020%	2.55x
838	Mycroft	19	0.020%	24.40x
839	Neaves	19	0.020%	13.66x
840	Palfreyman	19	0.020%	9.53x
841	Parish	19	0.020%	1.34x
842	Pattison	19	0.020%	1.30x
843	Procter	19	0.020%	1.59x
844	Pye	19	0.020%	1.38x
845	Rooney	19	0.020%	2.31x
846	Searle	19	0.020%	1.03x
847	Selby	19	0.020%	1.73x
848	Shipman	19	0.020%	5.56x
849	Truelove	19	0.020%	11.74x
850	Acaster	18	0.020%	27.21x
851	Beardow	18	0.020%	67.24x
852	Blackburne	18	0.020%	28.40x
853	Bowler	18	0.020%	1.60x
854	Bridges	18	0.020%	1.23x
855	Calvert	18	0.020%	0.96x
856	Chappell	18	0.020%	1.16x
857	Dickens	18	0.020%	1.87x
858	Garvey	18	0.020%	5.46x
859	Hanstock	18	0.020%	56.25x
860	Hartle	18	0.020%	12.86x
861	Henry	18	0.020%	0.77x
862	Hubbard	18	0.020%	0.80x
863	Ibberson	18	0.020%	13.06x
864	Knutton	18	0.020%	54.17x
865	Longley	18	0.020%	2.88x
866	Mannion	18	0.020%	7.52x
867	Plews	18	0.020%	8.17x
868	Somerset	18	0.020%	14.41x
869	Sorby	18	0.020%	19.63x
870	Sorsby	18	0.020%	41.20x
871	Steer	18	0.020%	1.67x
872	Wareham	18	0.020%	3.49x
873	Whitely	18	0.020%	9.23x
874	Wilshaw	18	0.020%	7.73x
875	Wolstenholm	18	0.020%	41.78x
876	Abbey	17	0.020%	5.02x
877	Ainsworth	17	0.020%	0.93x
878	Anson	17	0.020%	4.98x
879	Bamford	17	0.020%	1.23x
880	Beardsley	17	0.020%	5.78x
881	Bee	17	0.020%	3.27x
882	Beverley	17	0.020%	6.11x
883	Bradford	17	0.020%	0.95x
884	Brett	17	0.020%	0.97x
885	Cahill	17	0.020%	4.01x
886	Cardwell	17	0.020%	3.83x
887	Carrington	17	0.020%	1.75x
888	Castle	17	0.020%	0.93x
889	Collings	17	0.020%	1.55x
890	Congreve	17	0.020%	48.46x
891	Cropper	17	0.020%	3.06x
892	Cryer	17	0.020%	3.35x
893	Denby	17	0.020%	4.44x
894	Dooley	17	0.020%	2.99x
895	Fidler	17	0.020%	2.88x
896	Gillam	17	0.020%	4.79x
897	Goodrich	17	0.020%	8.91x
898	Gothard	17	0.020%	9.67x
899	Goulding	17	0.020%	1.89x
900	Grady	17	0.020%	2.80x