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 Bowers, with 44 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
101	Bowers	44	0.130%	7.27x
102	Sykes	44	0.130%	2.76x
103	Worthington	44	0.130%	6.61x
104	Bentley	43	0.130%	3.06x
105	Howarth	43	0.130%	2.70x
106	Jordan	43	0.130%	2.93x
107	Schofield	43	0.130%	2.39x
108	Adshead	42	0.130%	29.09x
109	Grady	42	0.130%	19.20x
110	Carrington	41	0.120%	11.73x
111	Connor	41	0.120%	4.18x
112	Gee	41	0.120%	4.84x
113	Loftus	41	0.120%	22.66x
114	Mottershead	41	0.120%	36.81x
115	Brookes	40	0.120%	5.13x
116	Goulden	40	0.120%	34.18x
117	Hammond	40	0.120%	2.12x
118	Hooley	40	0.120%	25.14x
119	Hyde	40	0.120%	3.92x
120	Nield	40	0.120%	17.56x
121	Stanton	40	0.120%	6.04x
122	Seaton	39	0.120%	13.89x
123	Beard	38	0.110%	4.35x
124	Burrows	38	0.110%	2.62x
125	Cooke	38	0.110%	2.07x
126	Froggatt	38	0.110%	24.92x
127	Dale	37	0.110%	2.64x
128	Parkinson	37	0.110%	2.32x
129	Albiston	36	0.110%	131.53x
130	Bruckshaw	36	0.110%	124.96x
131	Chappell	36	0.110%	6.43x
132	Clegg	36	0.110%	3.19x
133	Gamble	36	0.110%	7.58x
134	Morley	36	0.110%	2.71x
135	Seel	36	0.110%	107.56x
136	Tomlinson	36	0.110%	2.35x
137	Torkington	36	0.110%	73.66x
138	Beech	35	0.110%	7.14x
139	Birchenough	35	0.110%	62.06x
140	Collier	35	0.110%	3.16x
141	Moores	35	0.110%	12.75x
142	Mottram	35	0.110%	19.47x
143	Partington	35	0.110%	7.43x
144	Bancroft	34	0.100%	10.57x
145	Barnett	34	0.100%	2.27x
146	Bibby	34	0.100%	9.49x
147	Calvert	34	0.100%	5.02x
148	Derbyshire	34	0.100%	9.83x
149	Hallworth	34	0.100%	39.49x
150	Nixon	34	0.100%	3.36x
151	Ollerenshaw	34	0.100%	43.33x
152	Darlington	33	0.100%	14.63x
153	Hague	33	0.100%	6.32x
154	Hamer	33	0.100%	5.31x
155	Langley	33	0.100%	4.53x
156	Malone	33	0.100%	12.42x
157	Rawlinson	33	0.100%	8.34x
158	Fosbrooke	32	0.100%	317.46x
159	Plant	32	0.100%	4.36x
160	Carroll	31	0.090%	4.65x
161	Chatterton	31	0.090%	16.46x
162	Fidler	31	0.090%	14.60x
163	Gaskell	31	0.090%	9.11x
164	Hampson	31	0.090%	5.18x
165	Lester	31	0.090%	5.93x
166	Wrigley	31	0.090%	7.38x
167	Hallam	30	0.090%	4.85x
168	Lyons	30	0.090%	4.06x
169	Salt	30	0.090%	6.08x
170	Worsley	30	0.090%	10.34x
171	Barrow	29	0.090%	4.12x
172	Bunting	29	0.090%	7.83x
173	Farrington	29	0.090%	10.17x
174	Nuttall	29	0.090%	3.47x
175	Shelmerdine	29	0.090%	53.19x
176	Ardern	28	0.080%	39.98x
177	Bracegirdle	28	0.080%	33.29x
178	Crompton	28	0.080%	5.01x
179	Fitzpatrick	28	0.080%	5.77x
180	Grimshaw	28	0.080%	5.05x
181	Hardman	28	0.080%	4.19x
182	Heginbotham	28	0.080%	146.90x
183	Rothwell	28	0.080%	4.59x
184	Shawcross	28	0.080%	25.45x
185	Ashworth	27	0.080%	2.04x
186	Gannon	27	0.080%	18.80x
187	Norton	27	0.080%	2.45x
188	Oakes	27	0.080%	5.62x
189	Ogden	27	0.080%	2.88x
190	Rooney	27	0.080%	9.12x
191	Conway	26	0.080%	4.18x
192	Dooley	26	0.080%	12.71x
193	Garnett	26	0.080%	6.31x
194	Hallowell	26	0.080%	108.15x
195	Lingard	26	0.080%	12.35x
196	Longson	26	0.080%	69.84x
197	Quinn	26	0.080%	4.10x
198	Slack	26	0.080%	4.97x
199	Woodall	26	0.080%	9.74x
200	Brierley	25	0.080%	4.24x