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 Ford, with 57 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
301	Ford	57	0.060%	0.63x
302	Hornby	57	0.060%	5.43x
303	Houlker	57	0.060%	108.88x
304	Lund	57	0.060%	5.71x
305	Pinder	57	0.060%	5.13x
306	Blackshaw	56	0.060%	13.09x
307	Broughton	56	0.060%	3.26x
308	Byrom	56	0.060%	22.37x
309	Hadfield	56	0.060%	4.36x
310	Lamb	56	0.060%	1.15x
311	Mather	56	0.060%	2.45x
312	Oddie	56	0.060%	31.96x
313	Stevenson	56	0.060%	0.87x
314	Sutcliffe	56	0.060%	1.54x
315	Driver	55	0.060%	3.22x
316	Dunn	55	0.060%	0.72x
317	Eatough	55	0.060%	51.47x
318	Fairbrother	55	0.060%	10.49x
319	Kershaw	55	0.060%	1.85x
320	Peel	55	0.060%	3.32x
321	Scholes	55	0.060%	5.14x
322	Warburton	55	0.060%	2.42x
323	Beardwood	54	0.060%	72.46x
324	Flynn	54	0.060%	3.06x
325	Bannister	53	0.060%	3.33x
326	Barlow	53	0.060%	1.06x
327	Bleasdale	53	0.060%	18.75x
328	Brennan	53	0.060%	5.50x
329	Duffy	53	0.060%	2.63x
330	Nelson	53	0.060%	1.19x
331	Swarbrick	53	0.060%	14.72x
332	Atherton	52	0.060%	3.14x
333	Cliffe	52	0.060%	8.98x
334	Connolly	52	0.060%	4.86x
335	Ditchfield	52	0.060%	16.51x
336	Hesketh	52	0.060%	5.89x
337	Holgate	52	0.060%	6.80x
338	Howorth	52	0.060%	12.61x
339	Morton	52	0.060%	1.05x
340	Reynolds	52	0.060%	0.65x
341	Stanley	52	0.060%	1.47x
342	Cort	51	0.060%	47.18x
343	Hamer	51	0.060%	2.95x
344	Hart	51	0.060%	0.65x
345	Bulcock	50	0.050%	31.96x
346	Burke	50	0.050%	1.84x
347	Cumpstey	50	0.050%	203.00x
348	Maudsley	50	0.050%	19.10x
349	Partington	50	0.050%	3.82x
350	Stott	50	0.050%	1.74x
351	Craven	49	0.050%	2.75x
352	Mellor	49	0.050%	1.51x
353	Morley	49	0.050%	1.33x
354	Stancliffe	49	0.050%	50.04x
355	Fairclough	48	0.050%	4.99x
356	Fawcett	48	0.050%	2.69x
357	Guest	48	0.050%	2.44x
358	Heald	48	0.050%	8.38x
359	Rhodes	48	0.050%	1.12x
360	Rimmer	48	0.050%	3.26x
361	Wearden	48	0.050%	77.93x
362	Alston	47	0.050%	7.82x
363	Conroy	47	0.050%	6.87x
364	Field	47	0.050%	1.02x
365	Gardner	47	0.050%	0.75x
366	Halliday	47	0.050%	2.47x
367	Kendal	47	0.050%	13.07x
368	Mellody	47	0.050%	141.31x
369	Norris	47	0.050%	1.19x
370	Sharratt	47	0.050%	16.45x
371	Wilcock	47	0.050%	3.58x
372	Bamber	46	0.050%	6.46x
373	Brennand	46	0.050%	32.90x
374	Grundy	46	0.050%	2.44x
375	Prescott	46	0.050%	3.54x
376	Radcliffe	46	0.050%	4.29x
377	Varley	46	0.050%	3.63x
378	Garstang	45	0.050%	35.13x
379	Goodwin	45	0.050%	0.93x
380	Hope	45	0.050%	1.43x
381	Lister	45	0.050%	1.71x
382	Tipping	45	0.050%	8.56x
383	Worden	45	0.050%	17.23x
384	Bertwistle	44	0.050%	74.04x
385	Fender	44	0.050%	31.26x
386	Halstead	44	0.050%	5.73x
387	Rose	44	0.050%	0.64x
388	Brierley	43	0.050%	2.63x
389	Ireland	43	0.050%	2.01x
390	Lightbown	43	0.050%	38.36x
391	Singleton	43	0.050%	2.36x
392	Topping	43	0.050%	6.77x
393	Brandwood	42	0.050%	35.79x
394	Collinson	42	0.050%	3.88x
395	Douglas	42	0.050%	0.94x
396	Heaps	42	0.050%	10.46x
397	Hoole	42	0.050%	14.07x
398	Hopwood	42	0.050%	4.00x
399	Rogerson	42	0.050%	3.70x
400	Wareing	42	0.050%	7.03x