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 Whalley, with 46 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
101	Whalley	46	0.160%	10.01x
102	Catlow	45	0.150%	37.32x
103	Calvert	44	0.150%	7.39x
104	Gallagher	44	0.150%	9.92x
105	Heaton	44	0.150%	6.30x
106	Kershaw	44	0.150%	4.67x
107	Gill	43	0.150%	2.08x
108	Towler	43	0.150%	33.02x
109	Veevers	43	0.150%	150.03x
110	Dent	42	0.140%	7.55x
111	Leaver	42	0.140%	22.31x
112	Thistlethwaite	42	0.140%	88.83x
113	Binns	41	0.140%	8.47x
114	Lancaster	41	0.140%	5.65x
115	Moorhouse	41	0.140%	11.35x
116	Nelson	41	0.140%	2.90x
117	Pickup	41	0.140%	10.86x
118	Quinn	41	0.140%	7.35x
119	Thornber	41	0.140%	57.30x
120	Hanson	40	0.140%	4.25x
121	Bancroft	39	0.130%	13.79x
122	Broughton	39	0.130%	7.16x
123	Farrer	39	0.130%	20.17x
124	Foulds	39	0.130%	19.75x
125	Stansfield	39	0.130%	8.65x
126	Tomlinson	39	0.130%	2.90x
127	Aspden	38	0.130%	29.58x
128	Bland	38	0.130%	6.28x
129	Broxup	37	0.130%	260.01x
130	Dickinson	37	0.130%	2.97x
131	Shoesmith	37	0.130%	42.55x
132	Buck	36	0.120%	5.75x
133	Collinge	36	0.120%	18.45x
134	Connor	36	0.120%	4.18x
135	Dearden	36	0.120%	12.57x
136	Stott	36	0.120%	3.95x
137	Fielding	35	0.120%	5.37x
138	Harker	35	0.120%	11.39x
139	Preston	35	0.120%	2.40x
140	Tillotson	35	0.120%	31.01x
141	Redman	33	0.110%	8.59x
142	Shuttleworth	33	0.110%	9.53x
143	Pilkington	32	0.110%	6.10x
144	Salmon	32	0.110%	4.81x
145	Coates	31	0.110%	2.85x
146	Myers	31	0.110%	4.07x
147	Cowgill	30	0.100%	40.82x
148	Heys	30	0.100%	14.07x
149	Hindle	30	0.100%	7.31x
150	Ohara	30	0.100%	17.88x
151	Peel	30	0.100%	5.73x
152	Pounder	30	0.100%	31.47x
153	Radcliffe	29	0.100%	8.55x
154	Bulcock	28	0.100%	56.54x
155	Carroll	28	0.100%	4.78x
156	Driver	28	0.100%	5.18x
157	Halsted	28	0.100%	133.02x
158	Ormerod	27	0.090%	11.57x
159	Healey	26	0.090%	5.45x
160	Horner	26	0.090%	4.68x
161	Metcalfe	26	0.090%	3.90x
162	Riding	26	0.090%	13.22x
163	Rushworth	26	0.090%	10.77x
164	Boothman	25	0.090%	22.36x
165	Higgin	25	0.090%	35.72x
166	Hoyle	25	0.090%	3.71x
167	Wallwork	25	0.090%	14.72x
168	Bamford	24	0.080%	5.46x
169	Chew	24	0.080%	16.17x
170	Coupe	24	0.080%	11.78x
171	Egan	24	0.080%	9.91x
172	Hardacre	24	0.080%	34.68x
173	Ratcliffe	24	0.080%	2.98x
174	Robertshaw	24	0.080%	10.06x
175	Singleton	24	0.080%	4.16x
176	Walmsley	24	0.080%	3.97x
177	Duffy	23	0.080%	3.61x
178	Fell	23	0.080%	5.61x
179	Folds	23	0.080%	180.11x
180	Hey	23	0.080%	8.89x
181	Daley	22	0.080%	6.40x
182	Lacy	22	0.080%	11.56x
183	Rukin	22	0.080%	237.58x
184	Whitham	22	0.080%	12.96x
185	Whittiker	22	0.080%	451.75x
186	Flynn	21	0.070%	3.76x
187	Grey	21	0.070%	3.32x
188	Manley	21	0.070%	6.42x
189	Shorrock	21	0.070%	14.59x
190	Tempest	21	0.070%	15.45x
191	Wiseman	21	0.070%	5.24x
192	Edmonson	20	0.070%	63.92x
193	Heyworth	20	0.070%	14.86x
194	Loftus	20	0.070%	12.56x
195	Lupton	20	0.070%	9.48x
196	Mulrooney	20	0.070%	116.62x
197	Richmond	20	0.070%	3.13x
198	Sharples	20	0.070%	3.92x
199	Shutt	20	0.070%	19.00x
200	Wray	20	0.070%	5.10x