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 Ford, with 60 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
201	Ford	60	0.080%	0.81x
202	Murphy	60	0.080%	0.99x
203	Rothwell	60	0.080%	4.31x
204	Beswick	59	0.080%	7.97x
205	Dunkerley	59	0.080%	22.47x
206	Hardman	59	0.080%	3.87x
207	Porter	58	0.080%	1.02x
208	Shirt	58	0.080%	33.97x
209	Ball	57	0.080%	0.91x
210	Matley	57	0.080%	57.19x
211	Saville	57	0.080%	8.28x
212	Sutton	57	0.080%	1.18x
213	Warren	57	0.080%	1.13x
214	Fogg	56	0.070%	12.72x
215	Hanson	56	0.070%	2.29x
216	Horrocks	56	0.070%	6.02x
217	Wallwork	56	0.070%	12.71x
218	Stansfield	55	0.070%	4.70x
219	Barrett	54	0.070%	1.06x
220	Bayley	54	0.070%	4.42x
221	Pickering	54	0.070%	1.98x
222	Simister	54	0.070%	27.26x
223	Connor	53	0.070%	2.37x
224	Henshaw	53	0.070%	8.21x
225	Ousey	53	0.070%	131.78x
226	Parkinson	53	0.070%	1.46x
227	Earnshaw	52	0.070%	5.55x
228	Higham	52	0.070%	6.73x
229	Norton	52	0.070%	2.06x
230	Slack	52	0.070%	4.36x
231	Baxter	51	0.070%	1.13x
232	Broadhurst	51	0.070%	6.65x
233	Higson	51	0.070%	10.53x
234	Marsh	51	0.070%	0.94x
235	Mather	51	0.070%	2.72x
236	Shepley	51	0.070%	24.74x
237	Axon	50	0.070%	26.46x
238	Bowers	50	0.070%	3.62x
239	Jepson	50	0.070%	6.75x
240	Royle	50	0.070%	5.02x
241	Stringer	50	0.070%	3.31x
242	Beard	49	0.060%	2.46x
243	Birch	49	0.060%	1.58x
244	Dunn	49	0.060%	0.78x
245	Lester	49	0.060%	4.11x
246	Mottram	49	0.060%	11.94x
247	Walmsley	49	0.060%	3.13x
248	Wardle	49	0.060%	3.34x
249	Burrows	48	0.060%	1.45x
250	Carroll	48	0.060%	3.16x
251	Hayes	48	0.060%	1.02x
252	Hirst	48	0.060%	1.94x
253	Hopwood	48	0.060%	5.56x
254	Kennedy	48	0.060%	1.05x
255	Rodgers	48	0.060%	2.32x
256	Stopford	48	0.060%	29.88x
257	Woodcock	48	0.060%	2.22x
258	Hamer	47	0.060%	3.31x
259	Prestwich	47	0.060%	45.65x
260	Wadsworth	47	0.060%	4.45x
261	Cassidy	46	0.060%	4.97x
262	Nuttall	46	0.060%	2.41x
263	Quinn	46	0.060%	3.18x
264	Bentley	45	0.060%	1.40x
265	Crompton	45	0.060%	3.53x
266	Greenhalgh	45	0.060%	2.90x
267	Hallsworth	45	0.060%	31.48x
268	Healey	45	0.060%	3.64x
269	Housley	45	0.060%	24.43x
270	Moorhouse	45	0.060%	4.80x
271	Standring	45	0.060%	20.40x
272	Thorp	45	0.060%	4.38x
273	Bowden	44	0.060%	2.01x
274	Bray	44	0.060%	1.73x
275	Rose	44	0.060%	0.78x
276	Halliwell	43	0.060%	5.12x
277	North	43	0.060%	1.71x
278	Ryan	43	0.060%	1.83x
279	Swindells	43	0.060%	8.86x
280	Tomlinson	43	0.060%	1.23x
281	Whiteley	43	0.060%	3.16x
282	Ashcroft	42	0.060%	4.14x
283	Cocker	42	0.060%	6.76x
284	Davenport	42	0.060%	2.93x
285	Dewsnap	42	0.060%	36.73x
286	Hough	42	0.060%	3.22x
287	Thornton	42	0.060%	1.10x
288	Binns	41	0.050%	3.27x
289	Brady	41	0.050%	3.06x
290	Connolly	41	0.050%	4.66x
291	Daley	41	0.050%	4.60x
292	Dearden	41	0.050%	5.52x
293	Dodd	41	0.050%	1.33x
294	Lamb	41	0.050%	1.03x
295	Linney	41	0.050%	17.21x
296	Morton	41	0.050%	1.01x
297	Rowbottom	41	0.050%	9.08x
298	Smethurst	41	0.050%	7.07x
299	Ardern	40	0.050%	25.02x
300	Buckly	40	0.050%	43.20x