1881 census county

Lancashire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Lancashire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

24,168 surnames are listed for Lancashire, covering 3,135,361 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Unsworth, with 2,935 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Lancashire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
201	Unsworth	2,935	0.080%	7.37x
202	Dewhurst	2,912	0.080%	7.08x
203	Connor	2,905	0.080%	2.84x
204	Butler	2,904	0.080%	0.86x
205	Leigh	2,897	0.080%	3.63x
206	Isherwood	2,895	0.080%	7.22x
207	Doyle	2,887	0.080%	3.42x
208	Rogers	2,874	0.080%	0.64x
209	Bentley	2,872	0.080%	1.96x
210	Sutton	2,855	0.080%	1.29x
211	Rushton	2,849	0.080%	3.99x
212	Dunn	2,838	0.080%	0.98x
213	Baker	2,822	0.080%	0.37x
214	Bridge	2,810	0.080%	4.00x
215	Eccles	2,804	0.080%	5.06x
216	Preston	2,802	0.080%	1.62x
217	Fox	2,797	0.080%	0.87x
218	Chapman	2,760	0.080%	0.56x
219	Gregson	2,751	0.080%	5.74x
220	Briggs	2,726	0.080%	1.45x
221	Hunter	2,705	0.080%	0.76x
222	Gill	2,681	0.080%	1.09x
223	Hudson	2,677	0.080%	0.94x
224	Gardner	2,665	0.080%	1.13x
225	Pilling	2,642	0.080%	6.32x
226	Halliwell	2,638	0.080%	6.86x
227	Nicholson	2,635	0.080%	1.07x
228	Ryan	2,633	0.080%	2.45x
229	Aspinall	2,630	0.080%	5.51x
230	Pennington	2,600	0.080%	5.07x
231	Kennedy	2,597	0.070%	1.24x
232	Parr	2,586	0.070%	2.99x
233	Burrows	2,561	0.070%	1.69x
234	Clough	2,560	0.070%	3.31x
235	Armstrong	2,557	0.070%	0.97x
236	Singleton	2,543	0.070%	3.71x
237	Eastwood	2,532	0.070%	3.09x
238	Prescott	2,530	0.070%	5.17x
239	Ellison	2,505	0.070%	3.42x
240	Sumner	2,494	0.070%	4.44x
241	Swift	2,480	0.070%	2.32x
242	Glover	2,476	0.070%	1.68x
243	Law	2,461	0.070%	1.57x
244	Fitton	2,454	0.070%	6.29x
245	Phillips	2,451	0.070%	0.40x
246	Fairclough	2,444	0.070%	6.76x
247	Livesey	2,430	0.070%	7.16x
248	Royle	2,421	0.070%	5.31x
249	Cheetham	2,405	0.070%	4.48x
250	Thornton	2,399	0.070%	1.38x
251	Hewitt	2,396	0.070%	1.42x
252	Winstanley	2,381	0.070%	6.84x
253	Moran	2,358	0.070%	3.72x
254	Collier	2,354	0.070%	2.03x
255	Stewart	2,351	0.070%	0.43x
256	Crabtree	2,349	0.070%	3.36x
257	Clarkson	2,342	0.070%	2.55x
258	Bond	2,339	0.070%	1.27x
259	Massey	2,330	0.070%	2.63x
260	Quinn	2,327	0.070%	3.51x
261	Knight	2,326	0.070%	0.54x
262	Naylor	2,319	0.070%	1.77x
263	Hesketh	2,315	0.070%	6.98x
264	Burton	2,302	0.070%	0.78x
265	Stansfield	2,295	0.070%	4.29x
266	Birch	2,253	0.070%	1.59x
267	Norris	2,239	0.060%	1.50x
268	Higgins	2,227	0.060%	1.27x
269	Scholes	2,224	0.060%	5.53x
270	Rhodes	2,223	0.060%	1.38x
271	Wrigley	2,219	0.060%	5.06x
272	Ford	2,213	0.060%	0.66x
273	Lawson	2,211	0.060%	1.08x
274	Carroll	2,191	0.060%	3.15x
275	Dobson	2,191	0.060%	1.43x
276	Anderton	2,187	0.060%	5.32x
277	Hutchinson	2,183	0.060%	1.11x
278	Bibby	2,182	0.060%	5.83x
279	Lawton	2,182	0.060%	2.44x
280	Powell	2,181	0.060%	0.50x
281	Owens	2,164	0.060%	1.26x
282	Bamford	2,155	0.060%	4.13x
283	Lamb	2,154	0.060%	1.18x
284	Gaskell	2,151	0.060%	6.05x
285	Baldwin	2,150	0.060%	1.45x
286	Heyes	2,140	0.060%	7.97x
287	Pollard	2,136	0.060%	1.69x
288	Birchall	2,130	0.060%	6.26x
289	Cooke	2,128	0.060%	1.11x
290	Greaves	2,107	0.060%	2.07x
291	Barrett	2,105	0.060%	0.90x
292	Russell	2,105	0.060%	0.50x
293	Whitworth	2,097	0.060%	3.62x
294	Baron	2,083	0.060%	5.80x
295	Travis	2,080	0.060%	5.12x
296	Dearden	2,075	0.060%	6.10x
297	Farrell	2,062	0.060%	3.14x
298	Higham	2,048	0.060%	5.80x
299	Smethurst	2,045	0.060%	7.70x
300	Reynolds	2,040	0.060%	0.68x