1881 census place

Blackburn surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Blackburn, 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

2,377 surnames are listed for Blackburn, Lancashire, covering 75,841 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,532 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Blackburn

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	Smith	1,532	1.66%	1.18x
2	Haworth	1,266	1.37%	65.26x
3	Holden	933	1.01%	18.47x
4	Sharples	792	0.860%	49.12x
5	Walsh	762	0.830%	15.52x
6	Walmsley	707	0.770%	37.04x
7	Hargreaves	613	0.660%	15.95x
8	Duckworth	611	0.660%	34.27x
9	Hindle	591	0.640%	45.60x
10	Kenyon	587	0.640%	30.48x
11	Thompson	585	0.630%	2.12x
12	Whalley	561	0.610%	38.64x
13	Ainsworth	542	0.590%	29.67x
14	Taylor	535	0.580%	0.91x
15	Robinson	533	0.580%	1.81x
16	Bolton	531	0.580%	13.37x
17	Slater	469	0.510%	8.40x
18	Yates	463	0.500%	7.30x
19	Shorrock	459	0.500%	100.91x
20	Parkinson	449	0.490%	10.15x
21	Wilkinson	448	0.490%	3.18x
22	Riley	445	0.480%	6.10x
23	Wilson	439	0.480%	1.04x
24	Dewhurst	438	0.470%	40.02x
25	Harrison	437	0.470%	2.13x
26	Brown	420	0.460%	0.69x
27	Pickup	407	0.440%	34.13x
28	Aspin	401	0.430%	107.97x
29	Whittaker	383	0.420%	8.77x
30	Shaw	381	0.410%	2.25x
31	Grimshaw	372	0.400%	24.14x
32	Leaver	360	0.390%	60.53x
33	Cook	357	0.390%	1.95x
34	Hartley	357	0.390%	6.18x
35	Parker	357	0.390%	2.04x
36	Livesey	341	0.370%	37.75x
37	Ward	333	0.360%	1.65x
38	Duxbury	332	0.360%	53.63x
39	Mercer	326	0.350%	13.47x
40	Jackson	324	0.350%	1.26x
41	Gregson	312	0.340%	24.45x
42	Holt	310	0.340%	5.02x
43	Hacking	307	0.330%	70.30x
44	Hayhurst	302	0.330%	74.91x
45	Turner	294	0.320%	1.15x
46	Green	283	0.310%	1.09x
47	Ashton	282	0.310%	6.24x
48	Johnson	280	0.300%	0.90x
49	Pickering	275	0.300%	8.26x
50	Barnes	274	0.300%	2.47x
51	Abbott	273	0.300%	6.71x
52	Tomlinson	272	0.290%	6.39x
53	Harwood	268	0.290%	10.85x
54	Greenwood	267	0.290%	3.73x
55	Howarth	266	0.290%	6.00x
56	Ormerod	266	0.290%	36.06x
57	Entwistle	262	0.280%	16.31x
58	Bury	257	0.280%	37.51x
59	Hall	255	0.280%	0.94x
60	Carter	247	0.270%	1.60x
61	Walton	245	0.270%	3.77x
62	Almond	244	0.260%	21.34x
63	Astley	244	0.260%	39.89x
64	Knowles	244	0.260%	4.95x
65	Baron	242	0.260%	25.35x
66	Eccles	239	0.260%	16.19x
67	Morris	235	0.250%	1.14x
68	Fielding	234	0.250%	11.36x
69	Cooper	232	0.250%	1.03x
70	Bradley	227	0.250%	3.07x
71	Walker	223	0.240%	0.72x
72	Cowell	222	0.240%	16.81x
73	Woods	222	0.240%	3.82x
74	Booth	220	0.240%	2.42x
75	Forrest	219	0.240%	9.21x
76	Fletcher	215	0.230%	2.04x
77	Watson	212	0.230%	0.99x
78	Crook	208	0.230%	7.85x
79	Barker	207	0.220%	1.72x
80	Pomfret	206	0.220%	64.94x
81	Wood	205	0.220%	0.70x
82	Briggs	200	0.220%	3.99x
83	Brindle	196	0.210%	29.61x
84	Preston	196	0.210%	4.25x
85	Pearson	194	0.210%	1.81x
86	Bell	192	0.210%	1.11x
87	Clayton	192	0.210%	3.83x
88	Ashworth	188	0.200%	5.11x
89	Dawson	188	0.200%	1.85x
90	Butterworth	183	0.200%	5.53x
91	Barton	179	0.190%	3.59x
92	Haydock	179	0.190%	61.57x
93	Aspden	178	0.190%	43.85x
94	Isherwood	178	0.190%	16.68x
95	Smalley	178	0.190%	21.33x
96	Houghton	177	0.190%	5.49x
97	Miller	176	0.190%	1.07x
98	Edmundson	175	0.190%	66.93x
99	Cunliffe	169	0.180%	14.72x
100	Graham	166	0.180%	1.57x