1881 census place

Accrington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Accrington, Lancashire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

967 surnames are listed for Accrington, Lancashire, covering 21,520 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Haworth, with 564 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Accrington

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Haworth	564	1.79%	85.08x
2	Whittaker	474	1.50%	31.76x
3	Barnes	461	1.46%	12.15x
4	Hargreaves	453	1.44%	34.48x
5	Taylor	429	1.36%	2.13x
6	Pilkington	425	1.35%	75.05x
7	Riley	402	1.28%	16.12x
8	Hindle	357	1.13%	80.62x
9	Ashworth	287	0.910%	22.83x
10	Holden	255	0.810%	14.77x
11	Kenyon	254	0.810%	38.60x
12	Duckworth	248	0.790%	40.71x
13	Walsh	224	0.710%	13.35x
14	Heap	216	0.690%	40.40x
15	Hartley	203	0.640%	10.28x
16	Ingham	203	0.640%	25.90x
17	Greenwood	201	0.640%	8.21x
18	Wilkinson	198	0.630%	4.12x
19	Chadwick	183	0.580%	13.28x
20	Pickup	177	0.560%	43.44x
21	Parkinson	175	0.560%	11.58x
22	Grimshaw	171	0.540%	32.48x
23	Heys	159	0.500%	69.05x
24	Entwistle	158	0.500%	28.78x
25	Tattersall	158	0.500%	36.11x
26	Clegg	156	0.500%	14.54x
27	Nuttall	154	0.490%	19.38x
28	Cunliffe	150	0.480%	38.22x
29	Walmsley	141	0.450%	21.62x
30	Hoyle	140	0.440%	19.25x
31	Pollard	138	0.440%	12.01x
32	Lord	137	0.430%	9.43x
33	Yates	135	0.430%	6.23x
34	Harrison	134	0.430%	1.92x
35	Howarth	128	0.410%	8.45x
36	Knowles	127	0.400%	7.55x
37	Cronshaw	121	0.380%	154.53x
38	Rushton	118	0.370%	18.16x
39	Sutcliffe	117	0.370%	9.40x
40	Briggs	116	0.370%	6.78x
41	Dean	116	0.370%	5.30x
42	Birtwistle	113	0.360%	65.28x
43	Dewhurst	113	0.360%	30.21x
44	Slater	106	0.340%	5.56x
45	Simpson	105	0.330%	1.90x
46	Astin	104	0.330%	113.72x
47	Parker	103	0.330%	1.72x
48	Tomlinson	97	0.310%	6.67x
49	Eastwood	96	0.300%	12.88x
50	Booth	94	0.300%	3.02x
51	Ormerod	91	0.290%	36.11x
52	Wade	90	0.290%	7.14x
53	Rawcliffe	89	0.280%	70.65x
54	Thornton	87	0.280%	5.49x
55	Baron	84	0.270%	25.75x
56	Ellis	84	0.270%	1.84x
57	Duxbury	82	0.260%	38.77x
58	Sharples	82	0.260%	14.88x
59	Hodgson	80	0.250%	3.66x
60	Law	77	0.240%	5.40x
61	Bradley	76	0.240%	3.00x
62	Bradshaw	76	0.240%	5.87x
63	Holt	76	0.240%	3.60x
64	Spencer	75	0.240%	2.61x
65	Crabtree	74	0.230%	11.66x
66	Schofield	74	0.230%	4.33x
67	Barlow	72	0.230%	4.23x
68	Livesey	72	0.230%	23.33x
69	Crawshaw	70	0.220%	28.55x
70	Fielding	70	0.220%	9.95x
71	Hacking	70	0.220%	46.91x
72	Ainsworth	69	0.220%	11.05x
73	Clayton	69	0.220%	4.03x
74	Bond	68	0.220%	4.08x
75	Birtwell	67	0.210%	228.20x
76	Shuttleworth	64	0.200%	17.12x
77	Bentley	59	0.190%	4.43x
78	Whitehead	58	0.180%	2.72x
79	Maudsley	57	0.180%	63.72x
80	Woods	57	0.180%	2.87x
81	Holgate	56	0.180%	21.42x
82	Lancaster	56	0.180%	7.15x
83	Lonsdale	56	0.180%	21.42x
84	Catlow	55	0.170%	42.25x
85	Eccles	55	0.170%	10.91x
86	Whalley	55	0.170%	11.09x
87	Westwell	54	0.170%	85.38x
88	Kay	53	0.170%	3.24x
89	Ramsbottom	53	0.170%	24.90x
90	Warburton	53	0.170%	6.82x
91	Shorrock	52	0.170%	33.46x
92	Butterworth	51	0.160%	4.51x
93	Maden	51	0.160%	44.26x
94	Brindle	50	0.160%	22.11x
95	Boothman	49	0.160%	40.59x
96	Broadley	49	0.160%	22.97x
97	Frankland	49	0.160%	20.98x
98	Leach	49	0.160%	3.77x
99	Waddington	49	0.160%	9.57x
100	Aspden	47	0.150%	33.89x