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 Mason, with 121 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
101	Mason	121	0.160%	1.19x
102	Thornley	121	0.160%	14.39x
103	Barber	118	0.160%	2.59x
104	Hargreaves	118	0.160%	3.74x
105	Knowles	118	0.160%	2.92x
106	Bates	117	0.150%	2.43x
107	Holland	116	0.150%	2.15x
108	Worthington	115	0.150%	7.57x
109	Cook	114	0.150%	0.76x
110	Chadderton	113	0.150%	61.44x
111	Grimshaw	113	0.150%	8.93x
112	Ingham	113	0.150%	6.00x
113	Richardson	112	0.150%	0.87x
114	Bottomley	111	0.150%	8.80x
115	Kelly	109	0.140%	1.31x
116	Brooks	108	0.140%	1.46x
117	Barker	107	0.140%	1.08x
118	Stafford	107	0.140%	6.64x
119	Barlow	106	0.140%	2.59x
120	Clarke	106	0.140%	0.69x
121	Haughton	105	0.140%	27.23x
122	Ellis	104	0.140%	0.95x
123	Wilkinson	104	0.140%	0.90x
124	Goddard	103	0.140%	3.38x
125	Tetlow	103	0.140%	34.47x
126	Higginbottom	101	0.130%	20.40x
127	Marshall	101	0.130%	0.79x
128	Ratcliffe	101	0.130%	4.83x
129	Clegg	100	0.130%	3.88x
130	Oldham	98	0.130%	7.36x
131	Pearson	98	0.130%	1.11x
132	Collins	94	0.120%	0.86x
133	Hoyle	94	0.120%	5.38x
134	Batty	93	0.120%	8.03x
135	Fletcher	93	0.120%	1.08x
136	Kinder	93	0.120%	29.25x
137	Riley	93	0.120%	1.55x
138	Warhurst	93	0.120%	43.76x
139	Charlesworth	91	0.120%	9.30x
140	Eastwood	91	0.120%	5.08x
141	Barnes	90	0.120%	0.99x
142	Hulley	90	0.120%	51.04x
143	Sutcliffe	90	0.120%	3.01x
144	Cooke	89	0.120%	2.13x
145	Makin	89	0.120%	13.68x
146	Adams	86	0.110%	0.77x
147	Burns	86	0.110%	1.69x
148	Street	86	0.110%	4.86x
149	Lord	84	0.110%	2.40x
150	Hallam	83	0.110%	5.88x
151	Bradshaw	82	0.110%	2.64x
152	Armitage	81	0.110%	4.19x
153	Fitton	81	0.110%	9.51x
154	Yates	81	0.110%	1.56x
155	Gee	80	0.110%	4.14x
156	Marsland	79	0.100%	17.90x
157	Bridge	78	0.100%	5.08x
158	Oldfield	78	0.100%	6.23x
159	Siddall	77	0.100%	13.87x
160	Crossley	76	0.100%	3.65x
161	Butler	75	0.100%	1.02x
162	France	75	0.100%	6.51x
163	Partington	75	0.100%	6.98x
164	Duckworth	74	0.100%	5.05x
165	Etchells	74	0.100%	25.26x
166	Stott	74	0.100%	3.13x
167	Hobson	73	0.100%	3.71x
168	Needham	73	0.100%	4.53x
169	Burton	72	0.100%	1.12x
170	Moores	72	0.100%	11.49x
171	Bowker	71	0.090%	9.61x
172	Burke	71	0.090%	3.18x
173	Stanley	71	0.090%	2.44x
174	Aspinall	70	0.090%	6.71x
175	Potter	70	0.090%	1.42x
176	Potts	70	0.090%	2.77x
177	Woolley	70	0.090%	4.66x
178	Collier	69	0.090%	2.72x
179	Fish	69	0.090%	4.89x
180	Heywood	69	0.090%	4.58x
181	Nicholson	69	0.090%	1.28x
182	Wolfenden	69	0.090%	19.48x
183	Holden	68	0.090%	1.64x
184	Gartside	67	0.090%	21.26x
185	Walsh	67	0.090%	1.66x
186	Redfern	66	0.090%	6.25x
187	Waterhouse	66	0.090%	5.72x
188	Beaumont	65	0.090%	2.89x
189	Berry	65	0.090%	1.08x
190	Gledhill	65	0.090%	5.78x
191	Bromley	64	0.080%	5.49x
192	Frost	64	0.080%	1.50x
193	Grundy	64	0.080%	4.13x
194	Hewitt	64	0.080%	1.73x
195	Leigh	64	0.080%	3.67x
196	Ramsden	64	0.080%	4.63x
197	Bamforth	63	0.080%	18.65x
198	Ellison	61	0.080%	3.81x
199	Gill	61	0.080%	1.14x
200	Lindley	61	0.080%	8.15x