1881 census place

Billinge Higher End surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Billinge Higher End, 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

54 surnames are listed for Billinge Higher End, Lancashire, covering 851 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Melling, with 132 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Billinge Higher End

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	Melling	132	9.40%	1518.99x
2	Unsworth	54	3.85%	334.57x
3	Rigby	38	2.71%	93.30x
4	Hurst	36	2.56%	71.80x
5	Barton	34	2.42%	44.83x
6	Gaskell	30	2.14%	208.48x
7	Hilton	29	2.07%	60.09x
8	Pennington	29	2.07%	139.49x
9	Winstanley	22	1.57%	155.92x
10	Wilcock	21	1.50%	105.16x
11	Ascroft	20	1.42%	995.02x
12	Peet	19	1.35%	256.06x
13	Silcock	19	1.35%	323.13x
14	Anderton	18	1.28%	108.04x
15	Ashall	18	1.28%	904.52x
16	Petty	18	1.28%	129.50x
17	Beesley	17	1.21%	150.71x
18	Hitchen	17	1.21%	177.82x
19	Roby	17	1.21%	500.00x
20	Fairhurst	16	1.14%	139.13x
21	Moyers	16	1.14%	4705.88x
22	Makin	14	1.00%	116.09x
23	Ashurst	13	0.930%	261.57x
24	Halliwell	13	0.930%	83.44x
25	Winstanly	12	0.850%	2033.90x
26	Downham	11	0.780%	275.00x
27	Fishwick	11	0.780%	157.14x
28	Laithwaite	11	0.780%	924.37x
29	Liptrot	11	0.780%	395.68x
30	Halewood	10	0.710%	757.58x
31	Highton	9	0.640%	283.91x
32	Limm	9	0.640%	2500.00x
33	Middlehurst	9	0.640%	471.20x
34	Alker	8	0.570%	308.88x
35	Coxhead	8	0.570%	262.30x
36	Makinson	7	0.500%	174.13x
37	Eastham	6	0.430%	83.68x
38	Minton	6	0.430%	126.32x
39	Ormandy	6	0.430%	441.18x
40	Ackers	5	0.360%	200.80x
41	Crank	5	0.360%	174.83x
42	Germain	5	0.360%	403.23x
43	Grounds	5	0.360%	210.97x
44	Sunner	5	0.360%	3125.00x
45	Taberner	5	0.360%	304.88x
46	Tickle	5	0.360%	79.62x
47	Haden	4	0.280%	89.29x
48	Lythgoe	4	0.280%	92.59x
49	Maken	4	0.280%	1739.13x
50	Simm	4	0.280%	73.66x
51	Fildes	2	0.140%	59.35x
52	Hallewell	2	0.140%	168.07x
53	Breakell	1	0.070%	81.30x
54	Farrimond	1	0.070%	37.88x