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 Dickinson, with 165 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
101	Dickinson	165	0.180%	4.19x
102	Chadwick	163	0.180%	4.04x
103	Clark	163	0.180%	0.59x
104	Counsell	163	0.180%	71.05x
105	Halliwell	163	0.180%	15.93x
106	Waring	163	0.180%	14.07x
107	Eddleston	162	0.180%	91.48x
108	Eastham	160	0.170%	33.98x
109	Leach	160	0.170%	4.20x
110	Anderton	157	0.170%	14.34x
111	Moore	152	0.160%	0.82x
112	Earnshaw	151	0.160%	13.24x
113	Fish	151	0.160%	8.79x
114	Kelly	151	0.160%	1.49x
115	Duerden	149	0.160%	43.04x
116	Kay	147	0.160%	3.07x
117	Southworth	145	0.160%	30.69x
118	Ellison	144	0.160%	7.39x
119	Carr	142	0.150%	2.13x
120	Coupe	142	0.150%	22.06x
121	Riding	142	0.150%	22.85x
122	Cronshaw	141	0.150%	61.54x
123	Cottam	140	0.150%	24.95x
124	Eastwood	138	0.150%	6.33x
125	Grime	138	0.150%	28.50x
126	Margerison	138	0.150%	80.74x
127	Gallagher	136	0.150%	9.71x
128	Marsh	136	0.150%	2.07x
129	Ratcliffe	135	0.150%	5.30x
130	Moran	134	0.150%	7.94x
131	Fielden	133	0.140%	24.73x
132	Lang	133	0.140%	6.47x
133	Waddington	133	0.140%	8.88x
134	Pemberton	132	0.140%	11.27x
135	Talbot	132	0.140%	5.75x
136	Dean	131	0.140%	2.05x
137	Catlow	130	0.140%	34.12x
138	Dixon	130	0.140%	1.29x
139	Proctor	128	0.140%	5.65x
140	Rostron	128	0.140%	23.28x
141	Pilkington	127	0.140%	7.66x
142	Seed	126	0.140%	18.91x
143	Rothwell	123	0.130%	7.26x
144	Rushton	123	0.130%	6.47x
145	Lord	121	0.130%	2.85x
146	Wolstenholme	121	0.130%	16.44x
147	Atkinson	120	0.130%	1.34x
148	Crompton	120	0.130%	7.73x
149	Howson	120	0.130%	20.86x
150	Spencer	120	0.130%	1.43x
151	Wilding	120	0.130%	11.07x
152	Baldwin	119	0.130%	3.03x
153	Calvert	118	0.130%	6.27x
154	Gill	117	0.130%	1.79x
155	King	117	0.130%	0.58x
156	Lomax	116	0.130%	8.91x
157	Clarkson	115	0.120%	4.70x
158	Read	115	0.120%	1.93x
159	Brooks	114	0.120%	1.26x
160	Whitehead	114	0.120%	1.83x
161	Simpson	113	0.120%	0.70x
162	Boardman	111	0.120%	7.50x
163	Chew	111	0.120%	23.67x
164	Longworth	111	0.120%	18.84x
165	Townley	111	0.120%	19.09x
166	West	110	0.120%	1.24x
167	Murray	109	0.120%	0.95x
168	Catterall	108	0.120%	18.52x
169	Grogan	108	0.120%	32.08x
170	Hunt	108	0.120%	0.88x
171	Monk	108	0.120%	5.57x
172	Charnley	107	0.120%	24.94x
173	Nightingale	107	0.120%	6.88x
174	Dobson	106	0.110%	2.61x
175	Ingham	105	0.110%	4.58x
176	Hodson	104	0.110%	5.45x
177	Foster	103	0.110%	0.84x
178	Stones	103	0.110%	9.39x
179	Ramsbottom	100	0.110%	16.05x
180	Sellers	99	0.110%	13.96x
181	Crossley	98	0.110%	3.87x
182	Holmes	98	0.110%	0.87x
183	Burns	97	0.110%	1.57x
184	Blackburn	96	0.100%	2.76x
185	Heyes	96	0.100%	13.44x
186	Oldham	96	0.100%	5.92x
187	Birtwistle	95	0.100%	18.75x
188	Hodgson	95	0.100%	1.49x
189	Tattersall	95	0.100%	7.42x
190	Walkden	95	0.100%	22.88x
191	Rawcliffe	94	0.100%	25.50x
192	Fairhurst	91	0.100%	12.05x
193	Hilton	91	0.100%	2.87x
194	Porter	91	0.100%	1.31x
195	Whewell	91	0.100%	53.53x
196	Boothman	90	0.100%	25.48x
197	Gibson	90	0.100%	0.80x
198	Armstrong	89	0.100%	1.26x
199	Lonsdale	87	0.090%	11.37x
200	Cowburn	86	0.090%	25.62x