Select a location below to view the most common surnames in that location at the 1881 census.
Counties of England
- Bedfordshire (BDF)
- Buckinghamshire (BKM)
- Berkshire (BRK)
- Cambridgeshire (CAM)
- Cheshire (CHS)
- Cornwall (CON)
- Cumberland (CUL)
- Derbyshire (DBY)
- Devon (DEV)
- Dorset (DOR)
- Durham (DUR)
- Essex (ESS)
- Gloucestershire (GLS)
- Hampshire (HAM)
- Herefordshire (HEF)
- Hertfordshire (HRT)
- Huntingdonshire (HUN)
- Kent (KEN)
- Lancashire (LAN)
- Leicestershire (LEI)
- Lincolnshire (LIN)
- Middlesex (MDX)
- Northumberland (NBL)
- Norfolk (NFK)
- Northamptonshire (NTH)
- Nottinghamshire (NTT)
- Oxfordshire (OXF)
- Rutland (R)
- Shropshire (SAL)
- Suffolk (SFK)
- Somerset (SOM)
- Surrey (SRY)
- Sussex (SSX)
- Staffordshire (STS)
- Warwickshire (WAR)
- Westmorland (WES)
- Wiltshire (WIL)
- Worcestershire (WOR)
- Yorkshire (YKS)
Counties of Scotland
- Aberdeenshire (ABD)
- Angus (ANS)
- Argyll (ARL)
- Ayrshire (AYR)
- Banffshire (BAN)
- Berwickshire (BEW)
- Bute (B)
- Caithness (CAI)
- Clackmannanshire (C)
- Dumfriesshire (DFS)
- Dunbartonshire (D)
- East Lothian (ELN)
- Fife (FIF)
- Inverness-shire (INV)
- Kincardineshire (KCD)
- Kirkcudbrightshire (KKD)
- Kinross-shire (K)
- Lanarkshire (LKS)
- Midlothian (MLN)
- Moray (MOR)
- Nairnshire (N)
- Orkney (OKI)
- Peeblesshire (PEE)
- Perthshire (PER)
- Renfrewshire (RFW)
- Ross and Cromarty (ROC)
- Roxburghshire (ROX)
- Selkirkshire (SEL)
- Shetland (SHI)
- Stirlingshire (STI)
- Sutherland (SUT)
- Wigtownshire (WIG)
- West Lothian (W)
Counties of Wales
- Anglesey (AGY)
- Brecknockshire (BRE)
- Caernarfonshire (CAE)
- Cardiganshire (CGN)
- Carmarthenshire (CMN)
- Denbighshire (DEN)
- Flintshire (F)
- Glamorgan (GLA)
- Merionethshire (MER)
- Montgomeryshire (MGY)
- Monmouthshire (MON)
- Pembrokeshire (PEM)
- Radnorshire (RAD)
Isle of Man
- Isle of Man (IOM)