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 Lamb, with 46 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
101	Lamb	46	0.100%	1.85x
102	Oneill	46	0.100%	15.33x
103	Eccles	44	0.090%	5.83x
104	Kendal	44	0.090%	23.93x
105	Pennington	44	0.090%	6.30x
106	Quinn	44	0.090%	4.88x
107	Addison	43	0.090%	6.59x
108	Crawford	43	0.090%	1.86x
109	Ainsworth	42	0.090%	4.50x
110	Airey	42	0.090%	11.72x
111	Barrow	42	0.090%	4.20x
112	Patterson	42	0.090%	2.55x
113	Pratt	42	0.090%	1.55x
114	Backhouse	41	0.090%	11.68x
115	Boulton	40	0.080%	4.71x
116	Fallows	40	0.080%	17.69x
117	Harper	40	0.080%	1.33x
118	Iddon	40	0.080%	33.61x
119	Kitchen	40	0.080%	4.98x
120	Rigg	40	0.080%	10.09x
121	Rodger	40	0.080%	6.04x
122	Bannister	39	0.080%	4.79x
123	Bradshaw	39	0.080%	2.01x
124	Leach	39	0.080%	2.00x
125	Welch	39	0.080%	2.35x
126	Hickman	38	0.080%	4.79x
127	Beck	37	0.080%	3.36x
128	Guest	37	0.080%	3.67x
129	Kirkby	37	0.080%	13.86x
130	Tomlinson	37	0.080%	1.70x
131	Barnett	36	0.080%	1.69x
132	Doherty	36	0.080%	9.35x
133	Nicholls	36	0.080%	1.46x
134	Barr	35	0.070%	3.07x
135	Fish	35	0.070%	3.99x
136	Lord	35	0.070%	1.61x
137	Lynch	35	0.070%	2.81x
138	Winder	35	0.070%	11.31x
139	Bowden	34	0.070%	2.50x
140	Greaves	34	0.070%	2.46x
141	Kershaw	34	0.070%	2.24x
142	Rimmer	34	0.070%	4.52x
143	Smyth	34	0.070%	7.72x
144	Townson	34	0.070%	17.18x
145	Walmsley	34	0.070%	3.49x
146	Banks	33	0.070%	1.36x
147	Bartlett	33	0.070%	1.60x
148	Bray	33	0.070%	2.08x
149	Hindle	33	0.070%	4.98x
150	Woodend	33	0.070%	69.18x
151	Woodhouse	33	0.070%	2.95x
152	Blundell	32	0.070%	5.76x
153	Butcher	32	0.070%	1.61x
154	Duffy	32	0.070%	3.11x
155	Fenton	32	0.070%	3.40x
156	Gallagher	32	0.070%	4.47x
157	Keenan	32	0.070%	8.01x
158	Newsham	32	0.070%	21.69x
159	Strong	32	0.070%	4.55x
160	Gillespie	31	0.070%	4.15x
161	Jamieson	31	0.070%	2.36x
162	Lockley	31	0.070%	17.33x
163	Mullen	31	0.070%	6.88x
164	Sanderson	31	0.070%	1.59x
165	Sansom	31	0.070%	9.75x
166	Threlfall	31	0.070%	14.50x
167	Woodward	31	0.070%	1.33x
168	Dudson	30	0.060%	85.08x
169	Etheridge	30	0.060%	10.70x
170	Forshaw	30	0.060%	9.47x
171	Hackett	30	0.060%	5.40x
172	Henry	30	0.060%	2.52x
173	Mooney	30	0.060%	5.48x
174	Savage	30	0.060%	1.66x
175	Wharton	30	0.060%	4.54x
176	Basterfield	29	0.060%	109.68x
177	Buchanan	29	0.060%	2.38x
178	Clarkson	29	0.060%	2.32x
179	Corbett	29	0.060%	3.14x
180	Haslam	29	0.060%	4.05x
181	Moffat	29	0.060%	3.40x
182	Stainton	29	0.060%	18.78x
183	Troughton	29	0.060%	19.03x
184	Woodburn	29	0.060%	19.41x
185	Bamber	28	0.060%	7.70x
186	Clegg	28	0.060%	1.74x
187	Connor	28	0.060%	2.01x
188	Dyer	28	0.060%	1.53x
189	Irving	28	0.060%	2.67x
190	Keen	28	0.060%	2.96x
191	Maxwell	28	0.060%	2.50x
192	Rodgers	28	0.060%	2.17x
193	Shields	28	0.060%	3.84x
194	Stokes	28	0.060%	1.41x
195	Askew	27	0.060%	5.07x
196	Connolly	27	0.060%	4.93x
197	Cooksey	27	0.060%	25.04x
198	Cottam	27	0.060%	9.41x
199	Croft	27	0.060%	2.42x
200	Eaton	27	0.060%	2.05x