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UK surname

Fallowfield

An English habitational surname derived from the name of a location meaning "fallow field".

In the 1881 census there were 251 people recorded with the Fallowfield surname, ranking it #11,041 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 308, ranked #14,479, down from #11,041 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to St Bees, Hull Holy Trinity and Manchester. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include Rotherham, Leeds and South Lakeland.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Fallowfield is 360 in 1999. Compared with 1881, the name has grown by 22.7%.

1881 census count

251

Ranked #11,041

Modern count

308

2016, ranked #14,479

Peak year

1999

360 bearers

Map years

9

1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Fallowfield had 251 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #11,041 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 308 in 2016, ranked #14,479.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 358 in 1911.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Rural Amenity.

Fallowfield surname distribution map

The map shows where the Fallowfield surname is concentrated in each census or modern distribution year. Darker areas mean a stronger local concentration.

Distribution map

Fallowfield surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Fallowfield over time

The table below tracks recorded surname counts and rank from the 19th-century census years through the modern adult-register period.

Year Period Count Rank
1851 historical 195 #10,620
1861 historical 187 #12,690
1881 historical 251 #11,041
1891 historical 269 #12,060
1901 historical 318 #11,187
1911 historical 358 #10,110
1997 modern 351 #12,145
1998 modern 359 #12,321
1999 modern 360 #12,371
2000 modern 353 #12,480
2001 modern 338 #12,669
2002 modern 340 #12,884
2003 modern 328 #13,026
2004 modern 335 #12,870
2005 modern 315 #13,375
2006 modern 318 #13,348
2007 modern 321 #13,403
2008 modern 319 #13,581
2009 modern 314 #13,985
2010 modern 315 #14,223
2011 modern 314 #14,165
2012 modern 318 #13,926
2013 modern 326 #13,893
2014 modern 321 #14,150
2015 modern 309 #14,430
2016 modern 308 #14,479

Geography

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Where Fallowfields are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around St Bees, Hull Holy Trinity, Manchester, Penrith and Orton. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to Rotherham, Leeds, South Lakeland and Calderdale. Treat these as concentration signals, not proof that every family line began there.

Some modern areas include a three-digit suffix, such as Leeds 110. The suffix is a small-area code, so it stays in the table while the prose uses the plain place name.

Top historical parishes

Rank Parish Area
1 St Bees Cumberland
2 Hull Holy Trinity Yorkshire, East Riding
3 Manchester Lancashire
4 Penrith Cumberland
5 Orton Westmorland

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 Rotherham 002 Rotherham
2 Leeds 087 Leeds
3 South Lakeland 013 South Lakeland
4 Calderdale 015 Calderdale
5 South Lakeland 002 South Lakeland

Forenames

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First names often paired with Fallowfield

These lists show first names that appear often with the Fallowfield surname in historical and recent records.

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Fallowfield

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Fallowfield, this points to the kinds of places where the surname is most concentrated today.

These neighbourhood labels describe areas, not individual people. They are useful because surnames often cluster through family history, migration, housing patterns and local work. A surname can be strongest in one type of neighbourhood even when people with that name live across the country.

The UK classification gives the national picture. The London classification is more specific to the capital, where housing, age profile, tenure and population mix can look quite different from the rest of the UK.

UK neighbourhood type

UK Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities

Group

Rural Amenity

Nationally, the Fallowfield surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Rural Amenity, within Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities. This does not mean every Fallowfield household fits that profile, but it gives a useful signal about where the modern surname distribution is strongest.

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Group profile

This Group comprises older parents or retirees, with no resident dependent children, and with the lowest residential densities in this Supergroup. Predominantly UK-born, residents typically live in detached houses, although others do live in semi-detached and terraced properties. The level of multiple car ownership is the highest in this Supergroup. Most houses are owner occupied although social renting is also present. Many concentrations occur in high amenity rural locations, such as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Wider pattern

Pervasive throughout the UK, members of this Supergroup typically own (or are buying) their detached, semi-detached or terraced homes. They are also typically educated to A Level/Highers or degree level and work in skilled or professional occupations. Typically born in the UK, some families have children, although the median adult age is above 45 and some property has become under-occupied after children have left home. This Supergroup is pervasive not only in suburban locations, but also in neighbourhoods at or beyond the edge of cities that adjoin rural parts of the country.

London neighbourhood type

London Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles

Group

Inner London Working Professionals

Within London, Fallowfield is most associated with areas classed as Inner London Working Professionals, part of Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles. This gives the surname a London-specific profile rather than forcing the capital into the same pattern as the rest of the country.

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Group profile

These primarily Inner London neighbourhoods are more densely populated than the Supergroup average. Residents have a younger over-all age profile than the Supergroup as a whole, and are less likely to be owner occupiers. Full time employment is more common than elsewhere in the Supergroup and multiple car ownership is uncommon. Chinese and non-EU-born European migrants are less in evidence than elsewhere in the Supergroup.

Wider London pattern

These neighbourhoods house people of all ages, predominantly of White British or European extraction. Resident turnover is low. Religious affiliation is less common than average and tends to be Christian if expressed. Homeownership, typically of terraced houses, is common but use of the social rented sector is not. Employment is typically in professional, managerial and associate professional or technical occupations. There are few full-time students. Level 4 qualifications are common. More households lack dependent children than have them which, considered alongside low levels of crowding and over-all age structure, indicates that many households may be post child-rearing and in late middle age. Incidence of disability is low, as is residence in communal establishments.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Fallowfield is most concentrated in decile 1 for access to healthy assets and hazards. This places the surname towards the less healthy end of the index.

Lower deciles point towards weaker access to healthy assets or stronger exposure to local hazards. Higher deciles point towards stronger access and fewer hazards.

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Lower access Higher access

Neighbourhood deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation

Fallowfield falls in decile 6 for neighbourhood deprivation. This puts the surname near the middle of the scale.

Decile 1 represents the more deprived end of the scale. Decile 10 represents the less deprived end.

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More deprived Less deprived

Broadband speed

Fixed broadband download speed

The modern neighbourhood pattern for Fallowfield is most associated with a typical fixed broadband download band of 30-40 mbit/s.

The scale below places that band in context, from slower local download bands through to faster ones.

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Slower band Faster band

Area snapshot

Ethnic group estimate

Most common ethnic group estimate
White - British

This describes the area pattern most associated with Fallowfield, not the ethnicity of every person with the surname.

Meaning and origin of Fallowfield

The surname Fallowfield is of English origin, believed to have originated in the medieval period, around the 13th or 14th century. The name is derived from the Old English words "falwe" meaning fallow or pale yellow, and "feld" meaning field, referring to a fallow or uncultivated field.

Fallowfield was likely a place name before becoming a surname. It may have been used to describe someone who lived near or worked on a fallow field. The earliest recorded spelling of the surname is found in the Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire from 1273, where it appears as Falowefelde.

In the 14th century, the name is documented in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Returns of 1379, listing a John de Falowfeld. This suggests that the name was already in use as a hereditary surname by this time.

The Fallowfield surname appears in various historical records and documents throughout England, including the Protestation Returns of 1641-1642, which list several individuals with the surname from various counties.

One notable early bearer of the Fallowfield name was William Fallowfield (c. 1480-1558), an English clergyman and author who served as the Archdeacon of Nottingham during the reign of Queen Mary I.

Another historical figure was Sir Thomas Fallowfield (1610-1688), an English politician and landowner who served as a Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in the 17th century.

In the 18th century, John Fallowfield (1732-1809) was a prominent English businessman and philanthropist from Doncaster, who established several charitable foundations in his hometown.

The Fallowfield surname has also been associated with various place names across England, such as Fallowfield in Manchester, which was once a rural area named after the fallow fields that surrounded it.

Other notable individuals with the Fallowfield surname include George Fallowfield (1788-1862), an English architect and surveyor who worked in Nottinghamshire, and William Fallowfield (1811-1890), a British architect and civil engineer who designed several notable buildings in London.

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1881 census detail

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Fallowfield families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Fallowfield surname. Use the location tables for concentration, then the name and occupation tables for the people behind the surname.

Top counties

Total is the county count. Frequency and index adjust for local population size, so they are better concentration signals. Yorkshire leads with 63 Fallowfields recorded in 1881 and an index of 2.66x.

County Total Index
Yorkshire 63 2.66x
Westmorland 56 106.63x
Lancashire 54 1.90x
Cumberland 19 9.24x
Durham 13 1.83x
Middlesex 13 0.54x
Northumberland 9 2.53x
Surrey 8 0.69x
Cheshire 3 0.57x
Lincolnshire 3 0.79x
Buckinghamshire 1 0.69x
Kent 1 0.12x
Stirlingshire 1 1.13x
Warwickshire 1 0.17x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Penrith in Cumberland leads with 14 Fallowfields recorded in 1881 and an index of 184.21x.

Place Total Index
Penrith 14 184.21x
Barrow In Furness 11 28.52x
Holme On Spalding Moor 10 645.16x
Leeds 9 6.73x
Long Marton 9 1525.42x
Beverley St Mary 8 231.21x
Byker 8 45.51x
Clayton Le Moors 7 127.27x
Hulme 7 11.82x
Shap 7 603.45x
Crook Billy Row 6 65.93x
Fulwood 6 196.08x
Great Strickland 6 2608.70x
Holy Trinity 6 10.53x
Sculcoates 6 15.98x
Stockton On Tees 6 17.51x
West Broughton 6 625.00x
Applethwaite 5 318.47x
Bainbridge 5 892.86x
Crosby Ravensworth 5 781.25x
Lambeth 5 2.40x
Shoreditch London 5 4.83x
Sleagill 5 4545.45x
Castleford 4 46.40x
Everton 4 4.43x
West Derby 4 4.82x
Grayrigg 3 1578.95x
Handley 3 1363.64x
Islington London 3 1.30x
Liverpool 3 1.74x
North Cave Drewton 3 322.58x
Orton 3 191.08x
Richmond 3 18.38x
Westminster St James 3 12.21x
Bromby 2 1176.47x
Clifton 2 625.00x
Garsdale 2 408.16x
Kirkby Thore 2 476.19x
Little Strickland 2 2222.22x
Lower Upper Holker 2 512.82x
Newton Regny Catterlen 2 833.33x
Salford 2 2.40x
Appleby St Michael 1 84.75x
Armley 1 9.58x
Askham 1 238.10x
Berwick Upon Tweed 1 13.28x
Binbrooke 1 105.26x
Bridlington 1 18.45x
Cottingham 1 19.61x
Crowle 1 42.92x
Culgaith 1 357.14x
Dalston 1 62.89x
High Abbotside 1 250.00x
Howden 1 62.11x
Kendal 1 10.41x
Kingstonupon Hull 1 52.63x
Kirkby Stephen 1 73.53x
Leamington Priors 1 6.74x
Low Bolton 1 192.31x
Newby 1 500.00x
Newport Pagnell 1 33.11x
Nonington 1 153.85x
Sancton Houghton 1 333.33x
Scalthwaiterigg 1 370.37x
Scarborough 1 4.65x
Sedburgh 1 101.01x
Shildon 1 17.51x
Skelsmergh 1 322.58x
St Pancras London 1 0.52x
Stirling 1 9.00x
Tatham 1 227.27x
Turton 1 21.55x
Willesden 1 4.44x

Top female names

These are the female first names most often recorded with the Fallowfield surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
Mary 15
Elizabeth 12
Jane 11
Margaret 8
Sarah 8
Hannah 6
Ann 5
Annie 4
Agnes 3
Bridget 3
Isabella 3
Ada 2
Anne 2
Clara 2
Edith 2
Eliza 2
Ellen 2
Emily 2
Emma 2
Fanny 2
Frances 2
Ruth 2
Alice 1
Amy 1
Annabel 1
Barbara 1
Clare 1
Dinah 1
Dynah 1
Ermestine 1
Ethel 1
Fannie 1
Hanah 1
Isabel 1
Jessie 1
Kate 1
Laura 1
Lena 1
Lizzie 1
Louisa 1
Margret 1
Maria 1
Martha 1
Maud 1
Minnie 1
Nanney 1
Rosina 1
Sophia 1
Theresa 1

Top male names

These are the male first names most often recorded with the Fallowfield surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
Thomas 18
George 14
William 14
John 11
Joseph 7
Arthur 6
Richard 6
Edward 5
James 5
Robert 5
Charles 4
Alfred 2
Anthony 2
Christopher 2
Geo. 2
Wm. 2
Ernest 1
Henry 1
Herbert 1
Jno. 1
Johnathan 1
Jonas 1
Saml. 1
Thompson 1
Tom 1
W. 1

FAQ

Fallowfield surname: questions and answers

How common was the Fallowfield surname in 1881?

In 1881, 251 people were recorded with the Fallowfield surname. That placed it at #11,041 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Fallowfield surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 308 in 2016. That gives Fallowfield a modern rank of #14,479.

What does the Fallowfield surname mean?

An English habitational surname derived from the name of a location meaning "fallow field".

What does the Fallowfield map show?

The map shows local surname concentration for the selected year. Darker areas have a stronger concentration of Fallowfield bearers relative to the surrounding population.

What records is this surname page based on?

The historical counts come from census surname records. The modern counts and neighbourhood summaries come from later surname distribution records. Counts are recorded bearers in those records, not a live estimate of everyone with the name today.