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 Wolstenholme, with 47 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
101	Wolstenholme	47	0.150%	18.69x
102	Duckett	46	0.150%	22.87x
103	Gregson	46	0.150%	10.55x
104	Wigglesworth	46	0.150%	29.52x
105	Oldham	45	0.140%	8.13x
106	Pilling	45	0.140%	11.83x
107	Smalley	45	0.140%	15.78x
108	Ashton	44	0.140%	2.85x
109	Bury	44	0.140%	18.79x
110	Scholes	44	0.140%	12.04x
111	Heaton	43	0.140%	5.70x
112	Lang	43	0.140%	6.12x
113	Birch	42	0.130%	3.25x
114	Heywood	42	0.130%	6.70x
115	Tasker	42	0.130%	12.53x
116	Eatough	41	0.130%	112.30x
117	Greenhalgh	41	0.130%	6.35x
118	Harwood	39	0.120%	4.62x
119	Varley	39	0.120%	9.01x
120	Coupe	38	0.120%	17.28x
121	Crook	38	0.120%	4.20x
122	Holding	38	0.120%	13.60x
123	Houlker	38	0.120%	212.41x
124	Broderick	37	0.120%	35.48x
125	Monk	37	0.120%	5.59x
126	Woodcock	37	0.120%	4.11x
127	Myers	36	0.110%	4.38x
128	Pratt	36	0.110%	1.99x
129	Ratcliffe	36	0.110%	4.14x
130	Stanton	36	0.110%	5.73x
131	Bamber	35	0.110%	14.39x
132	Dickinson	35	0.110%	2.60x
133	Hirst	35	0.110%	3.40x
134	Lawson	35	0.110%	1.88x
135	Anderton	34	0.110%	9.09x
136	Baines	34	0.110%	5.63x
137	Dugdale	34	0.110%	15.67x
138	Lambert	34	0.110%	1.98x
139	Rishton	34	0.110%	114.17x
140	Halstead	33	0.100%	12.58x
141	Moorhouse	33	0.100%	8.46x
142	Pickles	33	0.100%	5.15x
143	Ridehalgh	33	0.100%	98.63x
144	Calvert	32	0.100%	4.98x
145	Pemberton	32	0.100%	7.99x
146	Waterworth	32	0.100%	23.35x
147	Broughton	31	0.100%	5.27x
148	Greaves	31	0.100%	3.36x
149	Phillipson	31	0.100%	26.51x
150	Riding	31	0.100%	14.60x
151	Wild	31	0.100%	2.41x
152	Bibby	30	0.100%	8.82x
153	Leeming	30	0.100%	15.37x
154	Redman	30	0.100%	7.23x
155	Storey	30	0.100%	3.75x
156	Bainbridge	29	0.090%	6.55x
157	Blackledge	29	0.090%	34.15x
158	Croasdale	29	0.090%	58.01x
159	Edmundson	29	0.090%	32.46x
160	Ellison	29	0.090%	4.36x
161	Fell	29	0.090%	6.55x
162	Lupton	29	0.090%	12.73x
163	Singleton	29	0.090%	4.65x
164	Stott	29	0.090%	2.95x
165	Burke	28	0.090%	3.02x
166	Nuttal	28	0.090%	56.13x
167	Aspin	27	0.090%	21.27x
168	Blundell	27	0.090%	7.28x
169	Bowker	27	0.090%	8.79x
170	Eglin	27	0.090%	90.33x
171	Horrocks	27	0.090%	6.97x
172	Slinger	27	0.090%	28.35x
173	Tootell	27	0.090%	67.87x
174	Vickers	27	0.090%	3.34x
175	Waterhouse	27	0.090%	5.62x
176	Ecroyd	26	0.080%	268.60x
177	Gudgeon	26	0.080%	33.80x
178	Heyworth	26	0.080%	17.89x
179	Rigby	26	0.080%	2.84x
180	Bulcock	25	0.080%	46.76x
181	Duff	25	0.080%	4.46x
182	Kirkbright	25	0.080%	73.77x
183	Kitchen	25	0.080%	4.66x
184	Rothwell	25	0.080%	4.32x
185	Calverley	24	0.080%	35.97x
186	Chippindale	24	0.080%	162.93x
187	Dodgson	24	0.080%	15.67x
188	Fishwick	24	0.080%	15.27x
189	Hogan	24	0.080%	7.58x
190	Breaks	23	0.070%	114.43x
191	Brennand	23	0.070%	48.14x
192	Grime	23	0.070%	13.90x
193	Hallworth	23	0.070%	28.13x
194	Salt	23	0.070%	4.91x
195	Southworth	23	0.070%	14.25x
196	Bridge	22	0.070%	3.45x
197	Cottam	22	0.070%	11.47x
198	Addison	21	0.070%	4.81x
199	Dooley	21	0.070%	10.81x
200	Hitchen	21	0.070%	9.79x