In 1881, 10446 people in Great Britain had the name, which was widespread in England, with a cluster in the Midlands.
Meanwhile, Irish bearers of the name around the middle of the nineteenth century clustered in Cork.
Other concentrations include East Sussex, (17th, 3,323), Cambridgeshire, (32nd, 3,357), Hampshire, (84th, 3,385), Tyne & Wear, (192nd, 1,821), West Yorkshire, (280th, 1,739), Cheshire, (282nd, 1,715) and Essex (461st, 1,703).
Other notable concentrations include, Gwynedd, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Greater London.
[citation needed] Notable people with the surname include: Sources