1881 census place

Bury surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bury, 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

1,252 surnames are listed for Bury, Lancashire, covering 28,016 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 730 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bury

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	Taylor	730	1.84%	2.88x
2	Smith	679	1.71%	1.21x
3	Holt	436	1.10%	16.45x
4	Howarth	422	1.07%	22.18x
5	Kay	421	1.06%	20.46x
6	Hall	406	1.03%	3.49x
7	Chadwick	401	1.01%	23.16x
8	Nuttall	352	0.890%	35.25x
9	Ashworth	351	0.890%	22.22x
10	Turner	299	0.760%	2.71x
11	Booth	283	0.710%	7.25x
12	Greenhalgh	275	0.690%	33.91x
13	Barlow	270	0.680%	12.63x
14	Wood	265	0.670%	2.10x
15	Lord	251	0.630%	13.75x
16	Jackson	237	0.600%	2.14x
17	Spencer	237	0.600%	6.56x
18	Warburton	236	0.600%	24.16x
19	Walker	235	0.590%	1.77x
20	Whittaker	219	0.550%	11.68x
21	Fletcher	217	0.550%	4.80x
22	Hardman	211	0.530%	26.49x
23	Rothwell	210	0.530%	28.85x
24	Hamer	208	0.530%	28.05x
25	Yates	204	0.520%	7.50x
26	Wolstenholme	196	0.500%	62.02x
27	Hoyle	192	0.480%	21.01x
28	Duckworth	181	0.460%	23.65x
29	Openshaw	181	0.460%	94.02x
30	Horrocks	176	0.440%	36.18x
31	Wild	176	0.440%	10.91x
32	Entwistle	175	0.440%	25.37x
33	Bridge	169	0.430%	21.07x
34	Lomax	164	0.410%	29.34x
35	Shaw	164	0.410%	2.25x
36	Ingham	160	0.400%	16.25x
37	Whitehead	159	0.400%	5.94x
38	Riley	154	0.390%	4.92x
39	Kershaw	150	0.380%	11.74x
40	Brierley	144	0.360%	20.47x
41	Rigby	137	0.350%	11.93x
42	Schofield	135	0.340%	6.29x
43	Dawson	133	0.340%	3.05x
44	Rostron	132	0.330%	55.93x
45	Davenport	131	0.330%	17.46x
46	Holden	131	0.330%	6.04x
47	Kenyon	131	0.330%	15.84x
48	Butterworth	129	0.330%	9.07x
49	Hopkinson	127	0.320%	19.62x
50	Simpson	127	0.320%	1.83x
51	Hargreaves	126	0.320%	7.63x
52	Ogden	125	0.320%	11.17x
53	Barnes	123	0.310%	2.58x
54	Hartley	123	0.310%	4.96x
55	Hutchinson	123	0.310%	5.47x
56	Ramsbottom	123	0.310%	45.98x
57	Morris	122	0.310%	1.38x
58	Crompton	114	0.290%	17.11x
59	Clegg	112	0.280%	8.31x
60	Mills	110	0.280%	2.14x
61	Pilling	109	0.280%	22.81x
62	Berry	108	0.270%	3.44x
63	Brooks	108	0.270%	2.79x
64	Parker	106	0.270%	1.41x
65	Haworth	105	0.270%	12.61x
66	Howard	105	0.270%	2.70x
67	Pearson	105	0.270%	2.28x
68	Buckley	103	0.260%	4.78x
69	Leach	96	0.240%	5.88x
70	Livsey	96	0.240%	68.56x
71	Mather	96	0.240%	9.78x
72	Crossley	95	0.240%	8.74x
73	Stott	94	0.240%	7.60x
74	Barker	92	0.230%	1.78x
75	Bentley	92	0.230%	5.49x
76	Ratcliffe	91	0.230%	8.32x
77	Diggle	89	0.220%	61.47x
78	Fitton	83	0.210%	18.64x
79	Ainsworth	82	0.210%	10.46x
80	Whitworth	81	0.200%	12.24x
81	Shepherd	78	0.200%	2.69x
82	Houghton	75	0.190%	5.42x
83	Hilton	73	0.180%	5.36x
84	Haslam	72	0.180%	11.97x
85	Standring	72	0.180%	62.45x
86	Tattersall	71	0.180%	12.91x
87	Unsworth	71	0.180%	15.60x
88	Meadowcroft	70	0.180%	48.66x
89	Nabb	68	0.170%	284.16x
90	Ashton	67	0.170%	3.45x
91	Clough	67	0.170%	7.58x
92	Dearden	66	0.170%	17.00x
93	Birtwistle	64	0.160%	29.42x
94	Sharples	64	0.160%	9.25x
95	Smethurst	63	0.160%	20.78x
96	Burns	62	0.160%	2.33x
97	Heap	62	0.160%	9.23x
98	Parkinson	62	0.160%	3.26x
99	Hayes	61	0.150%	2.48x
100	Murphy	61	0.150%	1.93x