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 Potter, with 2,039 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
301	Potter	2,039	0.060%	0.91x
302	Lynch	2,035	0.060%	2.22x
303	Ormerod	2,028	0.060%	7.32x
304	Davenport	2,016	0.060%	3.07x
305	Dyson	2,013	0.060%	1.79x
306	Cox	2,002	0.060%	0.38x
307	Wilcock	1,994	0.060%	4.04x
308	Derbyshire	1,990	0.060%	5.51x
309	Hodson	1,978	0.060%	2.76x
310	Thornley	1,974	0.060%	5.13x
311	Gray	1,958	0.060%	0.40x
312	Richards	1,957	0.060%	0.37x
313	Welsh	1,956	0.060%	1.43x
314	Barrow	1,953	0.060%	2.66x
315	Heys	1,942	0.060%	7.67x
316	Fairhurst	1,939	0.060%	6.83x
317	Duffy	1,928	0.060%	2.55x
318	Bradbury	1,915	0.060%	1.91x
319	Hope	1,915	0.060%	1.62x
320	Andrew	1,907	0.060%	1.74x
321	Nolan	1,901	0.050%	4.02x
322	Thorpe	1,898	0.050%	1.38x
323	Benson	1,894	0.050%	2.02x
324	Latham	1,882	0.050%	2.67x
325	Wolstenholme	1,882	0.050%	6.80x
326	Gerrard	1,880	0.050%	4.24x
327	Almond	1,866	0.050%	4.34x
328	Bates	1,866	0.050%	0.85x
329	Lancaster	1,866	0.050%	2.17x
330	Pollitt	1,863	0.050%	6.96x
331	Fish	1,852	0.050%	2.87x
332	Bamber	1,851	0.050%	6.92x
333	Baxter	1,848	0.050%	0.89x
334	Crowther	1,832	0.050%	1.77x
335	Harwood	1,827	0.050%	1.97x
336	Sanderson	1,827	0.050%	1.28x
337	Broadbent	1,810	0.050%	2.43x
338	Critchley	1,808	0.050%	5.85x
339	Waddington	1,801	0.050%	3.20x
340	Pickering	1,789	0.050%	1.43x
341	Gallagher	1,788	0.050%	3.39x
342	Whiteside	1,787	0.050%	6.48x
343	Garner	1,762	0.050%	1.61x
344	Lomas	1,760	0.050%	2.75x
345	Adams	1,758	0.050%	0.34x
346	Collinge	1,754	0.050%	7.57x
347	Lyon	1,754	0.050%	2.41x
348	Eckersley	1,752	0.050%	8.08x
349	Matthews	1,752	0.050%	0.58x
350	Johnston	1,751	0.050%	0.63x
351	Forshaw	1,740	0.050%	7.47x
352	Pye	1,737	0.050%	3.35x
353	Catterall	1,733	0.050%	7.90x
354	Webb	1,731	0.050%	0.37x
355	Rawlinson	1,730	0.050%	4.19x
356	Cain	1,729	0.050%	2.40x
357	Hough	1,725	0.050%	2.89x
358	Edmondson	1,722	0.050%	4.30x
359	Brindle	1,715	0.050%	6.89x
360	Dodd	1,714	0.050%	1.22x
361	Pritchard	1,713	0.050%	0.92x
362	Hornby	1,711	0.050%	4.33x
363	Morton	1,704	0.050%	0.92x
364	Sykes	1,702	0.050%	1.02x
365	Cookson	1,692	0.050%	4.14x
366	Duxbury	1,690	0.050%	7.26x
367	Edge	1,690	0.050%	2.83x
368	Rostron	1,679	0.050%	8.13x
369	Sharp	1,679	0.050%	0.58x
370	Riding	1,676	0.050%	7.17x
371	Oldham	1,674	0.050%	2.75x
372	Hibbert	1,668	0.050%	3.28x
373	Hamilton	1,666	0.050%	0.64x
374	Hanson	1,664	0.050%	1.49x
375	Whitaker	1,663	0.050%	1.70x
376	Pendlebury	1,660	0.050%	7.47x
377	Wallwork	1,659	0.050%	8.23x
378	Longworth	1,653	0.050%	7.46x
379	Woodward	1,652	0.050%	0.97x
380	Flynn	1,648	0.050%	2.48x
381	Winterbottom	1,646	0.050%	5.14x
382	Makin	1,645	0.050%	5.53x
383	Molyneux	1,638	0.050%	6.19x
384	Melling	1,637	0.050%	7.63x
385	Abbott	1,635	0.050%	1.07x
386	Barber	1,629	0.050%	0.78x
387	Byrne	1,625	0.050%	3.36x
388	Gee	1,624	0.050%	1.84x
389	Reid	1,616	0.050%	0.44x
390	Blundell	1,615	0.050%	3.96x
391	Bowker	1,614	0.050%	4.78x
392	Goodwin	1,610	0.050%	0.88x
393	Beswick	1,608	0.050%	4.75x
394	Healey	1,602	0.050%	2.83x
395	Stanley	1,596	0.050%	1.20x
396	Wareing	1,596	0.050%	7.10x
397	Dutton	1,587	0.050%	2.02x
398	Higson	1,566	0.050%	7.06x
399	Lambert	1,565	0.050%	0.83x
400	Proctor	1,563	0.050%	1.83x