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 Walsh, with 61 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
101	Walsh	61	0.150%	2.89x
102	Worrall	61	0.150%	12.12x
103	Sutcliffe	59	0.150%	3.77x
104	Greenwood	58	0.150%	1.89x
105	Porter	57	0.140%	1.92x
106	Whittam	56	0.140%	38.54x
107	Baron	54	0.140%	13.17x
108	Holland	54	0.140%	1.92x
109	Pickup	54	0.140%	10.55x
110	Woodcock	54	0.140%	4.78x
111	Birch	53	0.130%	3.27x
112	Heywood	53	0.130%	6.73x
113	Heaton	52	0.130%	5.49x
114	Ormerod	52	0.130%	16.42x
115	Barrett	51	0.130%	1.92x
116	Blomley	51	0.130%	130.30x
117	Frain	51	0.130%	97.89x
118	Grundy	51	0.130%	6.29x
119	Walmsley	51	0.130%	6.22x
120	Henry	49	0.120%	4.90x
121	Lees	48	0.120%	2.73x
122	Crawshaw	47	0.120%	15.26x
123	Halstead	46	0.120%	13.96x
124	Makin	46	0.120%	13.53x
125	Park	46	0.120%	3.75x
126	Crabtree	45	0.110%	5.64x
127	Pollard	45	0.110%	3.12x
128	Cass	44	0.110%	15.67x
129	Gregson	44	0.110%	8.03x
130	Maiden	44	0.110%	40.43x
131	Heys	43	0.110%	14.86x
132	Pilkington	43	0.110%	6.04x
133	Hanson	42	0.110%	3.29x
134	Isherwood	42	0.110%	9.17x
135	Wardle	42	0.110%	5.48x
136	Woodhead	42	0.110%	5.66x
137	Wrigley	42	0.110%	8.38x
138	Cottam	41	0.100%	17.02x
139	Lever	41	0.100%	11.49x
140	Olive	41	0.100%	28.76x
141	Rowland	41	0.100%	3.64x
142	Seddon	41	0.100%	6.37x
143	Baldwin	40	0.100%	2.37x
144	Catterall	40	0.100%	15.97x
145	Driver	40	0.100%	5.45x
146	Kirkman	40	0.100%	15.81x
147	Pollitt	40	0.100%	13.09x
148	Walkden	40	0.100%	22.44x
149	Banks	39	0.100%	1.92x
150	Bradshaw	39	0.100%	2.40x
151	Armstead	38	0.100%	61.14x
152	Horridge	38	0.100%	38.47x
153	Metcalf	38	0.100%	4.74x
154	Platt	38	0.100%	3.62x
155	Sedgwick	38	0.100%	13.22x
156	Tootill	38	0.100%	70.96x
157	Norris	37	0.090%	2.18x
158	Parr	36	0.090%	3.64x
159	Thorp	36	0.090%	6.71x
160	Ryan	35	0.090%	2.85x
161	Wroe	35	0.090%	21.45x
162	Law	34	0.090%	1.90x
163	Tweedale	34	0.090%	28.32x
164	Bradbury	33	0.080%	2.88x
165	Crowther	33	0.080%	2.79x
166	Grime	33	0.080%	15.88x
167	Kilkenny	33	0.080%	106.66x
168	Pickering	33	0.080%	2.31x
169	Farrow	32	0.080%	4.31x
170	Hayhurst	32	0.080%	18.49x
171	Hope	32	0.080%	2.37x
172	Settle	32	0.080%	23.52x
173	Alcock	31	0.080%	5.42x
174	Bolton	31	0.080%	1.82x
175	Crook	31	0.080%	2.73x
176	Kempster	31	0.080%	22.35x
177	Pemberton	31	0.080%	6.16x
178	Scholes	31	0.080%	6.75x
179	Eastwood	30	0.080%	3.20x
180	Griffin	30	0.080%	1.61x
181	Mahon	30	0.080%	17.08x
182	Mellor	30	0.080%	2.15x
183	Rawson	30	0.080%	6.94x
184	Rowley	30	0.080%	2.88x
185	Whatmough	30	0.080%	35.73x
186	Wilcock	30	0.080%	5.33x
187	Boardman	29	0.070%	4.56x
188	Nield	29	0.070%	10.67x
189	Wallwork	29	0.070%	12.59x
190	Carroll	28	0.070%	3.52x
191	Ellison	28	0.070%	3.35x
192	Garnett	28	0.070%	5.69x
193	Grimshaw	28	0.070%	4.23x
194	Milnes	28	0.070%	8.01x
195	Oldham	28	0.070%	4.02x
196	Scowcroft	28	0.070%	45.94x
197	Wolfenden	28	0.070%	15.13x
198	Worsley	28	0.070%	8.09x
199	Chatterley	27	0.070%	69.21x
200	Eccles	27	0.070%	4.26x