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 Sandham, with 14 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
801	Sandham	14	0.020%	5.90x
802	Saul	14	0.020%	2.97x
803	Spink	14	0.020%	1.88x
804	Tinsley	14	0.020%	2.50x
805	Tool	14	0.020%	26.28x
806	Toole	14	0.020%	2.81x
807	Tyson	14	0.020%	1.16x
808	Walne	14	0.020%	24.18x
809	Airy	13	0.010%	42.21x
810	Altham	13	0.010%	11.32x
811	Biddle	13	0.010%	1.96x
812	Bowling	13	0.010%	3.82x
813	Brannon	13	0.010%	5.07x
814	Clement	13	0.010%	1.40x
815	Coward	13	0.010%	1.23x
816	Disley	13	0.010%	7.02x
817	Fallon	13	0.010%	3.81x
818	Farrer	13	0.010%	2.13x
819	Flannagan	13	0.010%	6.94x
820	Garside	13	0.010%	0.98x
821	Geldart	13	0.010%	8.94x
822	Gore	13	0.010%	1.25x
823	Harkin	13	0.010%	13.75x
824	Hastings	13	0.010%	1.11x
825	Hollis	13	0.010%	1.02x
826	Horsfall	13	0.010%	1.40x
827	Hurley	13	0.010%	1.21x
828	Keeney	13	0.010%	46.90x
829	Lassey	13	0.010%	16.55x
830	Lawrenson	13	0.010%	5.01x
831	Leighton	13	0.010%	1.31x
832	Lever	13	0.010%	1.56x
833	Meikle	13	0.010%	1.96x
834	Moor	13	0.010%	1.01x
835	Murphey	13	0.010%	6.75x
836	Nottingham	13	0.010%	5.26x
837	Nowell	13	0.010%	3.00x
838	Obrien	13	0.010%	0.95x
839	Parrington	13	0.010%	10.66x
840	Pickersgill	13	0.010%	2.68x
841	Proudlove	13	0.010%	9.93x
842	Simpkin	13	0.010%	3.76x
843	Strickland	13	0.010%	1.77x
844	Sweeney	13	0.010%	1.05x
845	Thornby	13	0.010%	26.72x
846	Tyrer	13	0.010%	3.20x
847	Wain	13	0.010%	1.68x
848	Whittam	13	0.010%	3.84x
849	Winterbottom	13	0.010%	1.53x
850	Balderston	12	0.010%	14.27x
851	Battle	12	0.010%	4.24x
852	Bentham	12	0.010%	2.85x
853	Blakley	12	0.010%	16.30x
854	Boswell	12	0.010%	1.39x
855	Brandon	12	0.010%	2.56x
856	Brooke	12	0.010%	0.87x
857	Bunting	12	0.010%	1.17x
858	Callis	12	0.010%	10.39x
859	Calverley	12	0.010%	6.15x
860	Cawley	12	0.010%	2.46x
861	Coppock	12	0.010%	6.22x
862	Coyle	12	0.010%	1.92x
863	Feeley	12	0.010%	14.82x
864	Francies	12	0.010%	22.39x
865	Gavin	12	0.010%	2.63x
866	Goldsborough	12	0.010%	17.02x
867	Hand	12	0.010%	1.08x
868	Heslop	12	0.010%	1.52x
869	Janson	12	0.010%	7.98x
870	Kirwin	12	0.010%	22.01x
871	Lamonby	12	0.010%	41.01x
872	Lavell	12	0.010%	11.49x
873	Malone	12	0.010%	1.63x
874	Margison	12	0.010%	28.24x
875	Mayson	12	0.010%	13.92x
876	Newsome	12	0.010%	1.81x
877	Quinlan	12	0.010%	5.90x
878	Raby	12	0.010%	2.71x
879	Ridsdale	12	0.010%	4.96x
880	Rushworth	12	0.010%	1.57x
881	Sant	12	0.010%	6.52x
882	Silcock	12	0.010%	3.11x
883	Simcoe	12	0.010%	23.05x
884	Tillotson	12	0.010%	3.36x
885	Tootle	12	0.010%	19.88x
886	Wilby	12	0.010%	2.22x
887	Adshead	11	0.010%	2.74x
888	Ainscow	11	0.010%	10.12x
889	Armstead	11	0.010%	7.60x
890	Barret	11	0.010%	4.20x
891	Beecroft	11	0.010%	2.83x
892	Bradburn	11	0.010%	2.99x
893	Caine	11	0.010%	2.85x
894	Cardwell	11	0.010%	2.48x
895	Carmichael	11	0.010%	0.83x
896	Clitheroe	11	0.010%	7.71x
897	Crankshaw	11	0.010%	8.82x
898	Curran	11	0.010%	1.42x
899	Farmery	11	0.010%	6.68x
900	Feilding	11	0.010%	18.90x