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 Lovell, with 17 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
701	Lovell	17	0.020%	0.88x
702	Middlebrook	17	0.020%	10.04x
703	Moffatt	17	0.020%	2.86x
704	Nichol	17	0.020%	1.71x
705	Reilly	17	0.020%	1.74x
706	Renwick	17	0.020%	2.70x
707	Seddon	17	0.020%	1.13x
708	Sellars	17	0.020%	2.97x
709	Ware	17	0.020%	1.12x
710	Wilcox	17	0.020%	0.98x
711	Winder	17	0.020%	2.81x
712	Askew	16	0.020%	1.54x
713	Backhouse	16	0.020%	2.33x
714	Bass	16	0.020%	1.53x
715	Blakey	16	0.020%	2.16x
716	Bonney	16	0.020%	6.92x
717	Brady	16	0.020%	0.98x
718	Butterfield	16	0.020%	1.30x
719	Carlisle	16	0.020%	3.29x
720	Cocking	16	0.020%	3.58x
721	Corry	16	0.020%	8.88x
722	Coup	16	0.020%	24.28x
723	Dempsey	16	0.020%	2.77x
724	Dodgson	16	0.020%	3.57x
725	Helme	16	0.020%	10.56x
726	Hoskin	16	0.020%	3.87x
727	Huntingdon	16	0.020%	24.98x
728	Martindale	16	0.020%	3.02x
729	Pedder	16	0.020%	4.94x
730	Pennington	16	0.020%	1.17x
731	Roscoe	16	0.020%	2.79x
732	Spedding	16	0.020%	5.60x
733	Thwaites	16	0.020%	2.90x
734	Tracy	16	0.020%	6.29x
735	Wallwork	16	0.020%	2.98x
736	Winstanley	16	0.020%	1.73x
737	Balderstone	15	0.020%	26.05x
738	Carney	15	0.020%	1.80x
739	Coar	15	0.020%	60.90x
740	Coddington	15	0.020%	16.85x
741	Coggins	15	0.020%	6.23x
742	Connelly	15	0.020%	1.75x
743	Durkin	15	0.020%	3.73x
744	Fazackerley	15	0.020%	14.76x
745	Fogerty	15	0.020%	29.70x
746	Gudgeon	15	0.020%	6.66x
747	Hawarth	15	0.020%	30.44x
748	Kilner	15	0.020%	3.89x
749	Liptrot	15	0.020%	8.23x
750	Littlewood	15	0.020%	1.26x
751	Mackereth	15	0.020%	17.46x
752	Mayo	15	0.020%	2.12x
753	Meadowcroft	15	0.020%	4.48x
754	Mitchel	15	0.020%	1.66x
755	Muns	15	0.020%	64.96x
756	Murry	15	0.020%	3.08x
757	Orrell	15	0.020%	4.37x
758	Osbaldeston	15	0.020%	22.45x
759	Ralph	15	0.020%	1.07x
760	Rawlingson	15	0.020%	25.64x
761	Roarke	15	0.020%	87.01x
762	Rooney	15	0.020%	1.82x
763	Ryder	15	0.020%	0.94x
764	Sefton	15	0.020%	4.95x
765	Sherry	15	0.020%	4.63x
766	Tierney	15	0.020%	3.94x
767	Wildman	15	0.020%	2.66x
768	Wray	15	0.020%	1.21x
769	Abram	14	0.020%	4.23x
770	Astin	14	0.020%	5.23x
771	Baguley	14	0.020%	5.43x
772	Birtwell	14	0.020%	16.29x
773	Boland	14	0.020%	7.73x
774	Caffery	14	0.020%	19.10x
775	Callender	14	0.020%	7.48x
776	Cavanagh	14	0.020%	2.01x
777	Chatburn	14	0.020%	12.66x
778	Constantine	14	0.020%	5.23x
779	Cornall	14	0.020%	10.50x
780	Cornthwaite	14	0.020%	8.84x
781	Cottom	14	0.020%	8.83x
782	Cowpe	14	0.020%	28.78x
783	Dagg	14	0.020%	12.42x
784	Dawes	14	0.020%	1.12x
785	Egan	14	0.020%	1.83x
786	Ellery	14	0.020%	5.59x
787	Farrar	14	0.020%	1.14x
788	Feeney	14	0.020%	4.47x
789	Gillam	14	0.020%	3.94x
790	Godwin	14	0.020%	1.17x
791	Huddleston	14	0.020%	5.42x
792	Margerson	14	0.020%	43.29x
793	Mitton	14	0.020%	5.18x
794	Noon	14	0.020%	2.11x
795	Nurton	14	0.020%	36.96x
796	Nutter	14	0.020%	1.99x
797	Openshaw	14	0.020%	3.12x
798	Parkins	14	0.020%	2.82x
799	Parkinton	14	0.020%	110.85x
800	Ryden	14	0.020%	43.72x