1881 census place

Stockport surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stockport, Cheshire 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

1,373 surnames are listed for Stockport, Cheshire, covering 19,876 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Johnson, with 249 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stockport

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
1	Johnson	249	0.750%	2.23x
2	Wood	237	0.710%	2.24x
3	Jackson	213	0.640%	2.30x
4	Clarke	207	0.620%	3.08x
5	Walker	189	0.570%	1.70x
6	Robinson	179	0.540%	1.69x
7	Pearson	170	0.510%	4.41x
8	Hulme	169	0.510%	23.81x
9	Turner	167	0.500%	1.81x
10	Booth	161	0.490%	4.92x
11	Wright	152	0.460%	1.43x
12	Bailey	144	0.430%	2.88x
13	Bowden	139	0.420%	14.51x
14	Clayton	136	0.410%	7.54x
15	Barlow	134	0.400%	7.48x
16	Harrison	130	0.390%	1.76x
17	Williamson	130	0.390%	4.37x
18	Dean	129	0.390%	5.60x
19	Wild	127	0.380%	9.39x
20	Holland	111	0.330%	4.70x
21	Bennett	109	0.330%	2.00x
22	Broadhurst	106	0.320%	31.54x
23	Garner	106	0.320%	10.11x
24	Bardsley	102	0.310%	40.57x
25	Hadfield	102	0.310%	22.07x
26	Heywood	101	0.300%	15.30x
27	Kelly	101	0.300%	2.78x
28	Burns	100	0.300%	4.49x
29	Potts	97	0.290%	8.76x
30	Burgess	96	0.290%	4.17x
31	Oldham	96	0.290%	16.46x
32	Hopwood	94	0.280%	24.86x
33	Lee	92	0.280%	1.70x
34	Royle	89	0.270%	20.38x
35	Burke	88	0.270%	9.01x
36	Ashton	86	0.260%	5.29x
37	Barratt	85	0.260%	12.63x
38	Pickford	79	0.240%	29.24x
39	Fletcher	77	0.230%	2.03x
40	Warburton	76	0.230%	9.28x
41	Marsland	75	0.230%	38.79x
42	Murphy	74	0.220%	2.79x
43	Hibbert	73	0.220%	15.01x
44	Knowles	73	0.220%	4.12x
45	Blackshaw	71	0.210%	46.13x
46	Gibbons	71	0.210%	6.66x
47	Lomas	71	0.210%	11.58x
48	Lawton	70	0.210%	8.18x
49	Lees	69	0.210%	4.69x
50	Moran	69	0.210%	11.36x
51	Faulkner	67	0.200%	7.45x
52	Brooks	66	0.200%	2.03x
53	Leigh	66	0.200%	8.64x
54	Beswick	65	0.200%	20.04x
55	Davenport	65	0.200%	10.34x
56	Mather	64	0.190%	7.78x
57	Barber	63	0.190%	3.15x
58	Whittaker	63	0.190%	4.01x
59	Bradley	62	0.190%	2.33x
60	Gordon	62	0.190%	2.96x
61	Hewitt	62	0.190%	3.84x
62	Meakin	62	0.190%	23.96x
63	Gosling	61	0.180%	11.74x
64	Rhodes	61	0.180%	3.96x
65	Riley	61	0.180%	2.32x
66	Cheetham	60	0.180%	11.68x
67	Newton	60	0.180%	2.36x
68	Downs	58	0.170%	9.83x
69	Lowe	56	0.170%	2.25x
70	Platt	56	0.170%	6.37x
71	Whitehead	56	0.170%	2.50x
72	Pollitt	55	0.170%	21.48x
73	Redfern	55	0.170%	11.90x
74	Sutton	55	0.170%	2.60x
75	Needham	54	0.160%	7.65x
76	Swindells	54	0.160%	25.41x
77	Bostock	53	0.160%	17.01x
78	Stafford	53	0.160%	7.50x
79	Hough	52	0.160%	9.10x
80	Massey	52	0.160%	6.13x
81	Shore	52	0.160%	14.57x
82	Bradbury	51	0.150%	5.32x
83	Mellor	51	0.150%	4.36x
84	Brindley	50	0.150%	19.71x
85	Leah	50	0.150%	42.53x
86	Birch	49	0.150%	3.60x
87	Deakin	49	0.150%	10.68x
88	Goodwin	49	0.150%	2.80x
89	Harrop	49	0.150%	12.98x
90	Dolan	48	0.140%	16.63x
91	Preston	48	0.140%	2.90x
92	Welsh	48	0.140%	3.65x
93	Hurst	47	0.140%	3.97x
94	Jepson	47	0.140%	14.48x
95	Hopkins	46	0.140%	2.30x
96	Slater	46	0.140%	2.29x
97	Walsh	46	0.140%	2.60x
98	Hazeldine	45	0.140%	65.92x
99	Higham	45	0.140%	13.31x
100	Moss	45	0.140%	2.20x