1881 census place

Barrow In Furness surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Barrow In Furness, 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

2,186 surnames are listed for Barrow In Furness, Lancashire, covering 26,555 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 373 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Barrow In Furness

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	Thompson	373	0.790%	2.64x
2	Wilson	360	0.760%	1.66x
3	Robinson	354	0.750%	2.35x
4	Jackson	287	0.610%	2.18x
5	Walker	243	0.520%	1.54x
6	Fisher	238	0.500%	4.31x
7	Bell	216	0.460%	2.44x
8	Turner	202	0.430%	1.54x
9	Atkinson	196	0.420%	4.27x
10	Martin	165	0.350%	1.42x
11	Harris	154	0.330%	1.29x
12	Campbell	149	0.320%	1.87x
13	Lewis	149	0.320%	1.20x
14	Clark	145	0.310%	1.02x
15	Holmes	142	0.300%	2.47x
16	Shaw	140	0.300%	1.62x
17	Dixon	138	0.290%	2.67x
18	Watson	136	0.290%	1.24x
19	Simpson	135	0.290%	1.64x
20	Harrison	133	0.280%	1.27x
21	Kelly	126	0.270%	2.44x
22	Dawson	125	0.270%	2.41x
23	Kendall	123	0.260%	12.12x
24	Postlethwaite	123	0.260%	68.72x
25	Tyson	121	0.260%	19.69x
26	Ward	119	0.250%	1.16x
27	Wilkinson	118	0.250%	1.64x
28	Richardson	112	0.240%	1.40x
29	Anderson	108	0.230%	1.16x
30	Miller	105	0.220%	1.24x
31	Carter	102	0.220%	1.29x
32	Hunter	102	0.220%	2.11x
33	Pearson	101	0.210%	1.84x
34	Park	96	0.200%	6.57x
35	Stewart	96	0.200%	1.30x
36	Dickinson	94	0.200%	4.67x
37	Riley	94	0.200%	2.52x
38	Edmondson	92	0.200%	16.88x
39	Brockbank	90	0.190%	53.88x
40	Hodgson	89	0.190%	2.72x
41	Boyd	86	0.180%	5.20x
42	Graham	86	0.180%	1.59x
43	Butler	83	0.180%	1.81x
44	Murray	83	0.180%	1.42x
45	Slater	81	0.170%	2.84x
46	Gibson	79	0.170%	1.38x
47	Mason	79	0.170%	1.25x
48	Murphy	72	0.150%	1.91x
49	Hartley	71	0.150%	2.40x
50	Reid	71	0.150%	1.43x
51	Myers	70	0.150%	5.69x
52	Nelson	70	0.150%	3.07x
53	Burns	68	0.140%	2.15x
54	Kerr	67	0.140%	2.61x
55	Shepherd	67	0.140%	1.94x
56	Fell	66	0.140%	9.97x
57	Nicholson	66	0.140%	1.97x
58	Parkinson	65	0.140%	2.87x
59	Sharp	65	0.140%	1.65x
60	Charnley	64	0.140%	29.18x
61	Noble	64	0.140%	3.27x
62	Newby	63	0.130%	13.36x
63	Poole	63	0.130%	2.77x
64	Williamson	63	0.130%	1.49x
65	Ashton	62	0.130%	2.68x
66	Benson	62	0.130%	4.85x
67	Pickthall	60	0.130%	97.98x
68	Whiteside	60	0.130%	15.99x
69	Bond	59	0.130%	2.36x
70	Gardner	59	0.130%	1.84x
71	Bradley	58	0.120%	1.53x
72	Harvey	58	0.120%	1.15x
73	Little	58	0.120%	2.60x
74	Casson	57	0.120%	20.34x
75	Porter	57	0.120%	1.61x
76	Todd	57	0.120%	2.38x
77	Ferguson	54	0.110%	1.62x
78	Morrison	54	0.110%	1.46x
79	Oneil	54	0.110%	11.41x
80	Black	53	0.110%	1.74x
81	Dunn	53	0.110%	1.35x
82	Hutchinson	53	0.110%	1.98x
83	Parsons	53	0.110%	1.48x
84	Vickers	53	0.110%	4.38x
85	Woods	53	0.110%	1.78x
86	Fleming	52	0.110%	2.65x
87	Helm	52	0.110%	24.69x
88	Waite	52	0.110%	5.31x
89	Whitehouse	52	0.110%	4.24x
90	Baines	50	0.110%	5.54x
91	Braithwaite	50	0.110%	9.14x
92	Douglas	50	0.110%	2.19x
93	Huddleston	50	0.110%	37.90x
94	Bolton	49	0.100%	2.41x
95	Singleton	49	0.100%	5.26x
96	Watts	47	0.100%	1.19x
97	Ashburner	46	0.100%	69.25x
98	Dobson	46	0.100%	2.21x
99	Dodd	46	0.100%	2.40x
100	Geldart	46	0.100%	61.91x