1881 census place

Castleton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Castleton, 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

975 surnames are listed for Castleton, Lancashire, covering 22,997 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Butterworth, with 850 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Castleton

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	Butterworth	850	2.46%	68.38x
2	Taylor	739	2.13%	3.34x
3	Lord	527	1.52%	33.02x
4	Holt	512	1.48%	22.09x
5	Schofield	502	1.45%	26.75x
6	Kershaw	452	1.31%	40.48x
7	Howarth	437	1.26%	26.27x
8	Ashworth	387	1.12%	28.02x
9	Clegg	382	1.10%	32.41x
10	Mills	346	1.00%	7.71x
11	Brierley	332	0.960%	53.99x
12	Wild	324	0.940%	22.97x
13	Chadwick	310	0.900%	20.48x
14	Stott	307	0.890%	28.39x
15	Sutcliffe	295	0.850%	21.57x
16	Turner	290	0.840%	3.01x
17	Leach	274	0.790%	19.18x
18	Greenwood	266	0.770%	9.89x
19	Whitehead	243	0.700%	10.39x
20	Nuttall	191	0.550%	21.88x
21	Shepherd	190	0.550%	7.49x
22	Fitton	189	0.550%	48.54x
23	Dawson	183	0.530%	4.80x
24	Hoyle	183	0.530%	22.90x
25	Jackson	180	0.520%	1.86x
26	Ogden	169	0.490%	17.27x
27	Buckley	168	0.490%	8.91x
28	Fletcher	167	0.480%	4.23x
29	Whitworth	167	0.480%	28.88x
30	Lee	157	0.450%	2.77x
31	Bamford	141	0.410%	27.06x
32	Collinge	136	0.390%	58.77x
33	Hartley	133	0.380%	6.13x
34	Crossley	130	0.380%	13.68x
35	Booth	127	0.370%	3.72x
36	Simpson	127	0.370%	2.10x
37	Stansfield	125	0.360%	23.38x
38	Fielding	123	0.360%	15.91x
39	Holden	122	0.350%	6.43x
40	Rhodes	117	0.340%	7.28x
41	Spencer	110	0.320%	3.48x
42	Howard	107	0.310%	3.15x
43	Crabtree	105	0.300%	15.06x
44	Law	105	0.300%	6.70x
45	Grindrod	104	0.300%	74.91x
46	Barlow	102	0.290%	5.46x
47	Rothwell	100	0.290%	15.71x
48	Woolfenden	100	0.290%	201.17x
49	Lees	98	0.280%	6.38x
50	Greenhalgh	96	0.280%	13.54x
51	Standring	96	0.280%	95.24x
52	Partington	95	0.270%	19.34x
53	Dyson	94	0.270%	8.38x
54	Tattersall	91	0.260%	18.93x
55	Blomley	89	0.260%	260.16x
56	Kay	89	0.260%	4.95x
57	Riley	85	0.250%	3.10x
58	Heywood	84	0.240%	12.20x
59	Whatmough	83	0.240%	113.08x
60	Shore	78	0.230%	20.95x
61	Oldham	77	0.220%	12.66x
62	Hilton	75	0.220%	6.30x
63	Tweedale	75	0.220%	71.46x
64	Hargreaves	74	0.210%	5.13x
65	Hardman	73	0.210%	10.48x
66	Eastwood	71	0.210%	8.67x
67	Pilling	71	0.210%	16.99x
68	Hanson	70	0.200%	6.27x
69	Wrigley	70	0.200%	15.98x
70	Livsey	66	0.190%	53.91x
71	Brearley	63	0.180%	29.13x
72	Wolfenden	63	0.180%	38.93x
73	Greaves	62	0.180%	6.11x
74	Bridge	61	0.180%	8.70x
75	Earnshaw	61	0.180%	14.25x
76	Hollows	60	0.170%	88.57x
77	Baron	59	0.170%	16.46x
78	Garside	59	0.170%	11.81x
79	Clayton	57	0.160%	3.03x
80	Whiteley	57	0.160%	9.17x
81	Clough	56	0.160%	7.25x
82	Sykes	56	0.160%	3.37x
83	Hamer	55	0.160%	8.48x
84	Mellor	54	0.160%	4.43x
85	Cockcroft	53	0.150%	53.50x
86	Heap	53	0.150%	9.02x
87	Kenyon	53	0.150%	7.33x
88	Ormerod	53	0.150%	19.14x
89	Cunliffe	52	0.150%	12.06x
90	Walton	52	0.150%	2.13x
91	Walsh	51	0.150%	2.77x
92	Duckworth	50	0.140%	7.47x
93	Wolstenholme	50	0.140%	18.10x
94	Cryer	48	0.140%	25.20x
95	Marcroft	48	0.140%	141.22x
96	Healey	47	0.140%	8.31x
97	Lomax	47	0.140%	9.62x
98	Fielden	46	0.130%	22.79x
99	Ashton	45	0.130%	2.65x
100	Dearden	45	0.130%	13.25x