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 Edleston, with 30 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
501	Edleston	30	0.030%	59.39x
502	Embley	30	0.030%	37.18x
503	Jenkinson	30	0.030%	1.86x
504	Kilroy	30	0.030%	19.14x
505	Nield	30	0.030%	4.74x
506	Wallbank	30	0.030%	10.47x
507	Cranshaw	29	0.030%	17.21x
508	Foley	29	0.030%	2.50x
509	Heap	29	0.030%	1.85x
510	Helm	29	0.030%	7.04x
511	Horsefield	29	0.030%	18.14x
512	Maloney	29	0.030%	3.81x
513	Quinn	29	0.030%	1.64x
514	Roe	29	0.030%	1.61x
515	Wadsworth	29	0.030%	2.25x
516	Bramwell	28	0.030%	5.38x
517	Caton	28	0.030%	6.34x
518	Cliff	28	0.030%	3.47x
519	Critchley	28	0.030%	3.41x
520	Gabbott	28	0.030%	47.11x
521	Thorpe	28	0.030%	0.77x
522	Weall	28	0.030%	79.77x
523	Battersby	27	0.030%	4.15x
524	Feilden	27	0.030%	109.62x
525	Fitzmaurice	27	0.030%	31.65x
526	Fort	27	0.030%	12.45x
527	Irwin	27	0.030%	3.48x
528	Joyce	27	0.030%	1.19x
529	Nolan	27	0.030%	2.15x
530	Sergeant	27	0.030%	6.15x
531	Sheffield	27	0.030%	5.58x
532	Witton	27	0.030%	14.54x
533	Adcroft	26	0.030%	71.55x
534	Cannon	26	0.030%	1.56x
535	Carruthers	26	0.030%	2.13x
536	Cockshutt	26	0.030%	40.98x
537	Forshaw	26	0.030%	4.19x
538	Garner	26	0.030%	0.89x
539	Holliday	26	0.030%	2.15x
540	Kitchen	26	0.030%	1.65x
541	Leonard	26	0.030%	1.30x
542	Lundy	26	0.030%	16.24x
543	Lyons	26	0.030%	1.27x
544	Myers	26	0.030%	1.08x
545	Neild	26	0.030%	11.08x
546	Patefield	26	0.030%	49.67x
547	Roach	26	0.030%	1.91x
548	Varey	26	0.030%	18.39x
549	Witherington	26	0.030%	25.35x
550	Woodruff	26	0.030%	5.99x
551	Abbot	25	0.030%	5.74x
552	Alty	25	0.030%	14.79x
553	Cafferty	25	0.030%	46.65x
554	Cocker	25	0.030%	3.31x
555	Duckett	25	0.030%	4.25x
556	Eccleston	25	0.030%	5.41x
557	Hopper	25	0.030%	1.90x
558	Meadows	25	0.030%	1.94x
559	Oates	25	0.030%	1.74x
560	Prest	25	0.030%	8.77x
561	Burrow	24	0.030%	3.79x
562	Crawshaw	24	0.030%	3.34x
563	Cullen	24	0.030%	1.48x
564	Doughty	24	0.030%	2.05x
565	Etherington	24	0.030%	3.45x
566	Foulds	24	0.030%	3.85x
567	Hampson	24	0.030%	1.44x
568	Hinchcliffe	24	0.030%	4.26x
569	Hitchen	24	0.030%	3.82x
570	Hyde	24	0.030%	0.85x
571	Kilshaw	24	0.030%	19.58x
572	Omalley	24	0.030%	26.78x
573	Rishton	24	0.030%	27.54x
574	Roney	24	0.030%	13.08x
575	Willacy	24	0.030%	25.14x
576	Wrigley	24	0.030%	2.06x
577	Buck	23	0.020%	1.16x
578	Croston	23	0.020%	13.15x
579	Dunkerley	23	0.020%	7.19x
580	Garsden	23	0.020%	95.75x
581	Heard	23	0.020%	2.35x
582	Herd	23	0.020%	3.40x
583	Illingworth	23	0.020%	2.20x
584	Markham	23	0.020%	2.09x
585	Munroe	23	0.020%	9.22x
586	Poulton	23	0.020%	3.11x
587	Stansfield	23	0.020%	1.62x
588	Tennant	23	0.020%	2.34x
589	Braithwaite	22	0.020%	2.06x
590	Dilworth	22	0.020%	8.28x
591	Draper	22	0.020%	1.01x
592	Farron	22	0.020%	32.32x
593	Gifford	22	0.020%	2.74x
594	Halton	22	0.020%	6.24x
595	Hetherington	22	0.020%	1.89x
596	Hulme	22	0.020%	1.12x
597	Hutton	22	0.020%	0.80x
598	Kearsley	22	0.020%	10.22x
599	Newsham	22	0.020%	7.62x
600	Rainford	22	0.020%	8.23x