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 Speight, with 22 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
601	Speight	22	0.020%	2.93x
602	Standen	22	0.020%	4.23x
603	Warwick	22	0.020%	1.72x
604	Westall	22	0.020%	10.60x
605	Cosgrove	21	0.020%	4.67x
606	Crossland	21	0.020%	2.59x
607	Daley	21	0.020%	1.93x
608	Duffey	21	0.020%	6.35x
609	Gaskell	21	0.020%	2.22x
610	Gelder	21	0.020%	8.22x
611	Gibbons	21	0.020%	0.71x
612	Holme	21	0.020%	4.91x
613	Ironfield	21	0.020%	74.13x
614	Kenny	21	0.020%	1.90x
615	Kirkham	21	0.020%	1.63x
616	Lupton	21	0.020%	3.15x
617	Martland	21	0.020%	15.71x
618	Mashiter	21	0.020%	29.78x
619	Masterson	21	0.020%	10.86x
620	Newby	21	0.020%	2.28x
621	Oldfield	21	0.020%	1.38x
622	Pickles	21	0.020%	1.12x
623	Sayer	21	0.020%	1.74x
624	Stirrup	21	0.020%	15.12x
625	Tootell	21	0.020%	18.04x
626	Wharton	21	0.020%	1.63x
627	Woolfall	21	0.020%	35.34x
628	Caughey	20	0.020%	69.83x
629	Corbridge	20	0.020%	22.17x
630	Ellwood	20	0.020%	3.92x
631	Lowry	20	0.020%	5.37x
632	Madden	20	0.020%	2.51x
633	Mullineaux	20	0.020%	29.12x
634	Ohara	20	0.020%	3.77x
635	Railton	20	0.020%	8.21x
636	Worthington	20	0.020%	1.08x
637	Archibald	19	0.020%	2.39x
638	Barrow	19	0.020%	0.97x
639	Beck	19	0.020%	0.88x
640	Beet	19	0.020%	14.52x
641	Birkett	19	0.020%	2.13x
642	Boyes	19	0.020%	1.97x
643	Cain	19	0.020%	0.99x
644	Dolphin	19	0.020%	5.53x
645	Drinkwater	19	0.020%	2.09x
646	Fishwick	19	0.020%	4.13x
647	Harling	19	0.020%	4.79x
648	Kelley	19	0.020%	1.77x
649	Langtree	19	0.020%	45.71x
650	Lazenby	19	0.020%	4.36x
651	Longton	19	0.020%	14.55x
652	Mayor	19	0.020%	4.71x
653	Noblett	19	0.020%	21.50x
654	Rawstron	19	0.020%	17.73x
655	Shakeshaft	19	0.020%	11.66x
656	Shields	19	0.020%	1.33x
657	Tiplady	19	0.020%	8.45x
658	Wetherill	19	0.020%	15.58x
659	Woodhouse	19	0.020%	0.87x
660	Aldred	18	0.020%	2.27x
661	Avery	18	0.020%	1.16x
662	Breakell	18	0.020%	22.31x
663	Briscoe	18	0.020%	3.04x
664	Bromley	18	0.020%	1.27x
665	Canavan	18	0.020%	16.70x
666	Cassidy	18	0.020%	1.60x
667	Colman	18	0.020%	2.10x
668	Connell	18	0.020%	1.12x
669	Crowshaw	18	0.020%	29.08x
670	Delaney	18	0.020%	3.03x
671	Donnelly	18	0.020%	1.55x
672	Fyles	18	0.020%	29.52x
673	Gannon	18	0.020%	4.51x
674	Hatton	18	0.020%	0.99x
675	Horbury	18	0.020%	21.89x
676	Horrocks	18	0.020%	1.59x
677	Hosker	18	0.020%	20.87x
678	Mack	18	0.020%	1.94x
679	Mooney	18	0.020%	1.68x
680	Moorhouse	18	0.020%	1.58x
681	Stockdale	18	0.020%	2.51x
682	Tempest	18	0.020%	4.19x
683	Vernon	18	0.020%	1.19x
684	Willson	18	0.020%	1.74x
685	Addison	17	0.020%	1.33x
686	Armistead	17	0.020%	9.89x
687	Bispham	17	0.020%	31.72x
688	Collison	17	0.020%	4.50x
689	Compston	17	0.020%	41.82x
690	Cookson	17	0.020%	1.56x
691	Dickenson	17	0.020%	1.22x
692	Ducket	17	0.020%	36.09x
693	Fitzpatrick	17	0.020%	1.26x
694	Gillow	17	0.020%	24.64x
695	Hewson	17	0.020%	2.26x
696	Hoghton	17	0.020%	61.33x
697	Keighley	17	0.020%	3.45x
698	Lewtas	17	0.020%	34.29x
699	Livsey	17	0.020%	5.21x
700	Lofthouse	17	0.020%	2.47x