1881 census place

Burnley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Burnley, 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

995 surnames are listed for Burnley, Lancashire, covering 19,182 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 890 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Burnley

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
1	Smith	890	3.05%	2.16x
2	Hartley	395	1.35%	21.59x
3	Hargreaves	362	1.24%	29.75x
4	Wilkinson	303	1.04%	6.80x
5	Clegg	276	0.950%	27.77x
6	Pollard	269	0.920%	25.27x
7	Howarth	257	0.880%	18.32x
8	Sutcliffe	254	0.870%	22.03x
9	Harrison	237	0.810%	3.66x
10	Greenwood	214	0.730%	9.44x
11	Heap	213	0.730%	43.01x
12	Spencer	211	0.720%	7.92x
13	Riley	192	0.660%	8.31x
14	Robinson	190	0.650%	2.04x
15	Whitaker	181	0.620%	21.95x
16	Jackson	179	0.610%	2.19x
17	Berry	170	0.580%	7.34x
18	Tattersall	168	0.580%	41.45x
19	Watson	157	0.540%	2.32x
20	Duerden	156	0.530%	142.37x
21	Ashworth	155	0.530%	13.31x
22	Lord	154	0.530%	11.44x
23	Baldwin	148	0.510%	11.89x
24	Whittaker	148	0.510%	10.71x
25	Holt	141	0.480%	7.21x
26	Simpson	139	0.480%	2.72x
27	Parker	136	0.470%	2.45x
28	Holden	135	0.460%	8.44x
29	Lee	134	0.460%	2.81x
30	Dean	131	0.450%	6.46x
31	Nutter	129	0.440%	57.99x
32	Thornton	123	0.420%	8.38x
33	Waddington	120	0.410%	25.31x
34	Walton	119	0.410%	5.79x
35	Halstead	118	0.400%	48.58x
36	Nuttall	116	0.400%	15.76x
37	Pickles	112	0.380%	18.88x
38	Duckworth	106	0.360%	18.78x
39	Crossley	102	0.350%	12.73x
40	Proctor	101	0.350%	14.08x
41	Slater	100	0.340%	5.66x
42	Burrows	98	0.340%	7.67x
43	Atkinson	97	0.330%	3.41x
44	Bannister	96	0.330%	19.05x
45	Starkie	96	0.330%	102.79x
46	Stuttard	95	0.330%	149.02x
47	Bradshaw	93	0.320%	7.76x
48	Clough	93	0.320%	14.27x
49	Shackleton	92	0.320%	28.00x
50	Hirst	89	0.300%	9.35x
51	Barker	88	0.300%	2.30x
52	Whitehead	88	0.300%	4.46x
53	Dixon	87	0.300%	2.72x
54	Edmondson	87	0.300%	25.79x
55	Holgate	85	0.290%	35.10x
56	Walsh	78	0.270%	5.02x
57	Schofield	77	0.260%	4.87x
58	Astin	76	0.260%	89.72x
59	Cunliffe	76	0.260%	20.91x
60	Chadwick	73	0.250%	5.72x
61	Eastwood	73	0.250%	10.57x
62	Procter	73	0.250%	19.27x
63	Barnes	72	0.250%	2.05x
64	Bridge	72	0.250%	12.18x
65	Kay	70	0.240%	4.62x
66	Emmett	68	0.230%	27.83x
67	Sagar	66	0.230%	55.68x
68	Ingham	64	0.220%	8.82x
69	Stanworth	64	0.220%	137.63x
70	Bracewell	63	0.220%	59.84x
71	Crabtree	63	0.220%	10.72x
72	Knowles	63	0.220%	4.04x
73	Rawlinson	63	0.220%	18.10x
74	Haworth	62	0.210%	10.10x
75	Latham	62	0.210%	10.43x
76	Varley	62	0.210%	15.46x
77	Hudson	61	0.210%	2.55x
78	Layfield	61	0.210%	114.62x
79	Dyson	60	0.210%	6.35x
80	Pate	59	0.200%	48.81x
81	Blakey	58	0.200%	24.77x
82	Kippax	58	0.200%	201.67x
83	Briggs	54	0.190%	3.41x
84	Durkin	54	0.190%	42.39x
85	Greenhalgh	54	0.190%	9.03x
86	Lawson	54	0.190%	3.14x
87	Whittam	54	0.190%	50.41x
88	Rushton	53	0.180%	8.80x
89	Butterworth	51	0.170%	4.87x
90	Laycock	51	0.170%	12.71x
91	Higson	50	0.170%	26.79x
92	Crook	49	0.170%	5.85x
93	Crowther	49	0.170%	5.62x
94	Parkinson	49	0.170%	3.50x
95	Dugdale	48	0.160%	23.88x
96	Rawson	48	0.160%	15.06x
97	Barrett	47	0.160%	2.40x
98	Blackburn	47	0.160%	4.27x
99	Bullock	47	0.160%	4.95x
100	Townson	46	0.160%	37.54x