1881 census place

Tranmere surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Tranmere, 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

1,132 surnames are listed for Tranmere, Cheshire, covering 9,535 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 728 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Tranmere

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	Jones	728	3.07%	2.71x
2	Williams	519	2.19%	3.05x
3	Davies	349	1.47%	2.90x
4	Roberts	240	1.01%	2.69x
5	Hughes	221	0.930%	3.33x
6	Griffiths	131	0.550%	3.38x
7	Ellis	115	0.490%	3.34x
8	Parry	73	0.310%	4.05x
9	Waring	63	0.270%	21.16x
10	Owens	62	0.260%	5.27x
11	Kay	53	0.220%	4.30x
12	Johnston	52	0.220%	2.72x
13	Matthews	51	0.220%	2.47x
14	Downham	48	0.200%	71.03x
15	Tomlinson	48	0.200%	4.39x
16	Buckley	46	0.190%	3.57x
17	Peers	46	0.190%	33.27x
18	Dodd	41	0.170%	4.25x
19	Langley	40	0.170%	7.69x
20	Sherlock	39	0.160%	24.43x
21	Routledge	35	0.150%	17.36x
22	Dickinson	34	0.140%	3.36x
23	Forshaw	34	0.140%	21.34x
24	Warrington	33	0.140%	16.99x
25	Lancaster	32	0.140%	5.43x
26	Myers	31	0.130%	5.01x
27	Beckett	30	0.130%	6.35x
28	Houghton	30	0.130%	3.62x
29	Mathews	30	0.130%	3.43x
30	Pierce	29	0.120%	8.33x
31	Bellis	28	0.120%	20.80x
32	Steele	28	0.120%	4.41x
33	Maddocks	25	0.110%	17.27x
34	Rothwell	25	0.110%	5.74x
35	Ashley	24	0.100%	6.05x
36	Bibby	23	0.100%	8.99x
37	Gaskell	23	0.100%	9.47x
38	Hilton	23	0.100%	2.82x
39	Rowlands	23	0.100%	3.90x
40	Doyle	22	0.090%	3.81x
41	Fitzpatrick	22	0.090%	6.34x
42	Keenan	22	0.090%	10.96x
43	Milligan	22	0.090%	7.89x
44	Mercer	21	0.090%	3.38x
45	Spicer	21	0.090%	6.59x
46	Wharton	21	0.090%	6.33x
47	Blundell	20	0.080%	7.17x
48	Calveley	20	0.080%	617.28x
49	Cookson	20	0.080%	7.16x
50	Croft	20	0.080%	3.57x
51	Mealor	20	0.080%	148.70x
52	Smedley	20	0.080%	10.32x
53	Unsworth	20	0.080%	7.34x
54	Crawshaw	19	0.080%	10.30x
55	Hampson	19	0.080%	4.45x
56	Heaps	19	0.080%	18.41x
57	Towers	19	0.080%	6.92x
58	Tudor	19	0.080%	11.92x
59	Arkell	18	0.080%	35.82x
60	Finley	18	0.080%	27.47x
61	Pinnington	18	0.080%	45.77x
62	Rimmer	18	0.080%	4.76x
63	Roscoe	18	0.080%	12.23x
64	Doswell	17	0.070%	93.82x
65	Hodson	17	0.070%	3.47x
66	Lavin	17	0.070%	40.85x
67	Leeming	17	0.070%	11.58x
68	Obrien	17	0.070%	4.85x
69	Royle	17	0.070%	5.45x
70	Steen	17	0.070%	36.78x
71	Whalley	17	0.070%	4.56x
72	Willett	17	0.070%	9.11x
73	Casson	16	0.070%	11.36x
74	Challoner	16	0.070%	27.58x
75	Fagan	16	0.070%	14.17x
76	Gerrard	16	0.070%	5.28x
77	Hellon	16	0.070%	219.78x
78	Hird	16	0.070%	8.75x
79	Kevan	16	0.070%	79.29x
80	Legg	16	0.070%	4.09x
81	Moors	16	0.070%	27.29x
82	Quigley	16	0.070%	13.18x
83	Shone	16	0.070%	16.59x
84	Alldis	15	0.060%	112.87x
85	Briscoe	15	0.060%	9.85x
86	Byrne	15	0.060%	4.54x
87	Eddowes	15	0.060%	83.15x
88	Goodacre	15	0.060%	19.77x
89	Gregson	15	0.060%	4.57x
90	Kearney	15	0.060%	13.64x
91	Leech	15	0.060%	3.88x
92	Leyland	15	0.060%	10.36x
93	Newall	15	0.060%	11.03x
94	Povall	15	0.060%	122.35x
95	Radcliffe	15	0.060%	5.45x
96	Rudge	15	0.060%	8.07x
97	Sharples	15	0.060%	3.62x
98	Sparks	15	0.060%	4.19x
99	Tickle	15	0.060%	14.15x
100	Almond	14	0.060%	4.77x