1881 census place

Ashton Under Lyne surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ashton Under Lyne, 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

2,375 surnames are listed for Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire, covering 58,846 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 1,311 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ashton Under Lyne

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	Taylor	1,311	1.73%	2.71x
2	Smith	1,010	1.33%	0.94x
3	Shaw	761	1.00%	5.47x
4	Lees	730	0.960%	21.73x
5	Buckley	698	0.920%	16.92x
6	Schofield	650	0.860%	15.83x
7	Wood	628	0.830%	2.60x
8	Walker	609	0.800%	2.40x
9	Andrew	530	0.700%	22.08x
10	Whitehead	480	0.630%	9.37x
11	Jackson	469	0.620%	2.22x
12	Mellor	443	0.580%	16.60x
13	Booth	412	0.540%	5.51x
14	Robinson	410	0.540%	1.70x
15	Hall	409	0.540%	1.84x
16	Newton	407	0.540%	7.01x
17	Howard	401	0.530%	5.39x
18	Broadbent	399	0.530%	24.56x
19	Hague	399	0.530%	33.49x
20	Ashton	375	0.500%	10.10x
21	Garside	363	0.480%	33.21x
22	Marland	344	0.450%	130.50x
23	Turner	343	0.450%	1.63x
24	Greenwood	330	0.440%	5.61x
25	Williamson	318	0.420%	4.68x
26	Ogden	307	0.410%	14.33x
27	Kershaw	297	0.390%	12.15x
28	Moss	296	0.390%	6.34x
29	Platt	290	0.380%	14.46x
30	Bardsley	285	0.380%	49.65x
31	Kenworthy	277	0.370%	54.94x
32	Lee	277	0.370%	2.24x
33	Chadwick	261	0.340%	7.88x
34	Slater	259	0.340%	5.65x
35	Hibbert	258	0.340%	23.24x
36	Brierley	256	0.340%	19.02x
37	Hill	256	0.340%	1.33x
38	Hilton	255	0.340%	9.79x
39	Winterbottom	253	0.330%	36.17x
40	Harrop	252	0.330%	29.25x
41	Wilde	252	0.330%	22.85x
42	Knott	249	0.330%	16.58x
43	Leech	248	0.330%	20.09x
44	Clayton	246	0.320%	5.97x
45	Mills	246	0.320%	2.50x
46	Wild	242	0.320%	7.84x
47	Wright	239	0.320%	0.98x
48	Roberts	233	0.310%	0.82x
49	Hadfield	230	0.300%	21.80x
50	Ashworth	225	0.300%	7.44x
51	Lawton	225	0.300%	11.52x
52	Johnson	220	0.290%	0.86x
53	Clough	218	0.290%	12.89x
54	Hulme	215	0.280%	13.27x
55	Harrison	212	0.280%	1.26x
56	Wrigley	209	0.280%	21.80x
57	Holt	208	0.270%	4.10x
58	Bennett	206	0.270%	1.65x
59	Sykes	202	0.270%	5.56x
60	Kenyon	200	0.260%	12.64x
61	Lomas	190	0.250%	13.57x
62	Hurst	187	0.250%	6.91x
63	Sidebottom	186	0.250%	42.80x
64	Thompson	181	0.240%	0.80x
65	Cooper	180	0.240%	0.98x
66	Carter	179	0.240%	1.41x
67	Howarth	179	0.240%	4.92x
68	Lowe	169	0.220%	2.98x
69	Greaves	166	0.220%	7.47x
70	Travis	162	0.210%	18.23x
71	Heap	159	0.210%	12.37x
72	Hampson	155	0.200%	11.35x
73	Rhodes	154	0.200%	4.38x
74	Hyde	152	0.200%	6.52x
75	Whittaker	150	0.200%	4.18x
76	Whitworth	150	0.200%	11.85x
77	Bradbury	148	0.200%	6.76x
78	Hollingworth	148	0.200%	24.18x
79	Miller	148	0.200%	1.09x
80	Saxon	147	0.190%	58.52x
81	Ward	147	0.190%	0.89x
82	Radcliffe	146	0.190%	16.59x
83	Dyson	143	0.190%	5.83x
84	Burgess	141	0.190%	2.68x
85	Green	141	0.190%	0.66x
86	Dawson	139	0.180%	1.66x
87	Bailey	138	0.180%	1.21x
88	Dean	138	0.180%	2.62x
89	Butterworth	134	0.180%	4.93x
90	Walton	134	0.180%	2.51x
91	Bradley	133	0.180%	2.19x
92	Nield	132	0.170%	25.38x
93	Cropper	129	0.170%	28.27x
94	Kay	129	0.170%	3.28x
95	Knight	128	0.170%	1.37x
96	Morris	128	0.170%	0.76x
97	Thorpe	128	0.170%	4.27x
98	Mayall	125	0.170%	54.24x
99	Cheetham	123	0.160%	10.49x
100	Fielding	122	0.160%	7.21x