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 Heys, with 45 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
101	Heys	45	0.130%	17.79x
102	Ingham	45	0.130%	5.23x
103	Tetlow	45	0.130%	32.96x
104	Farrow	43	0.120%	6.62x
105	Hirst	43	0.120%	3.81x
106	Meadowcroft	43	0.120%	34.19x
107	Parkinson	43	0.120%	2.59x
108	Briggs	42	0.120%	2.23x
109	Burke	42	0.120%	4.12x
110	Hurst	42	0.120%	3.40x
111	Whittaker	42	0.120%	2.56x
112	Fenton	41	0.120%	5.93x
113	Holroyd	41	0.120%	10.65x
114	Hutchinson	41	0.120%	2.08x
115	Haslam	40	0.120%	7.61x
116	Isherwood	40	0.120%	9.99x
117	Sidebottom	38	0.110%	19.13x
118	Diggle	37	0.110%	29.23x
119	Helliwell	37	0.110%	11.60x
120	Crowther	36	0.100%	3.48x
121	Metcalf	36	0.100%	5.13x
122	Eccles	35	0.100%	6.32x
123	Firth	35	0.100%	3.04x
124	Lawton	35	0.100%	3.92x
125	Bradbury	34	0.100%	3.40x
126	Collingwood	34	0.100%	17.84x
127	Travis	34	0.100%	8.37x
128	Collier	33	0.100%	2.85x
129	Halliwell	33	0.100%	8.59x
130	Hopkinson	33	0.100%	5.83x
131	Matthew	33	0.100%	12.63x
132	Radcliffe	33	0.100%	8.21x
133	Warburton	33	0.100%	3.86x
134	Whalley	33	0.100%	6.06x
135	Bottomley	32	0.090%	5.55x
136	Kenny	32	0.090%	7.72x
137	Tatham	32	0.090%	27.38x
138	Aspinall	31	0.090%	6.51x
139	Bolton	31	0.090%	2.08x
140	Haworth	31	0.090%	4.26x
141	Stock	31	0.090%	7.20x
142	Wallwork	31	0.090%	15.39x
143	Oddy	30	0.090%	14.10x
144	Petrie	30	0.090%	7.29x
145	Wilcock	30	0.090%	6.09x
146	Calvert	29	0.080%	4.11x
147	Driver	29	0.080%	4.52x
148	Gledhill	29	0.080%	5.65x
149	Halkyard	29	0.080%	73.14x
150	Heaton	29	0.080%	3.50x
151	Whitaker	29	0.080%	2.97x
152	Cheetham	28	0.080%	5.23x
153	Melia	28	0.080%	33.69x
154	Pilkington	28	0.080%	4.50x
155	Sladen	28	0.080%	46.85x
156	Ackroyd	27	0.080%	8.34x
157	Cropper	27	0.080%	12.95x
158	Duffy	27	0.080%	3.57x
159	Moran	27	0.080%	4.26x
160	Scholfield	27	0.080%	30.65x
161	Bardsley	26	0.080%	9.91x
162	Horrocks	26	0.080%	6.11x
163	Potts	26	0.080%	2.25x
164	Wilde	26	0.080%	5.16x
165	Bunting	25	0.070%	6.47x
166	Kiernan	25	0.070%	71.14x
167	Manock	25	0.070%	124.32x
168	Rushton	25	0.070%	3.50x
169	Sugden	25	0.070%	6.24x
170	Wareing	25	0.070%	11.14x
171	Whitham	25	0.070%	12.42x
172	Worrall	25	0.070%	5.68x
173	Alletson	24	0.070%	166.09x
174	Elton	24	0.070%	17.24x
175	Grey	24	0.070%	3.20x
176	Maskew	24	0.070%	194.02x
177	Priestley	24	0.070%	4.10x
178	Binns	23	0.070%	4.01x
179	Dewhirst	23	0.070%	13.99x
180	Farrar	23	0.070%	4.98x
181	Horsfall	23	0.070%	6.59x
182	Hough	23	0.070%	3.86x
183	Pickles	23	0.070%	3.27x
184	Maden	22	0.060%	17.38x
185	Maxwell	22	0.060%	2.67x
186	Nall	22	0.060%	54.07x
187	Rigg	22	0.060%	7.56x
188	Rush	22	0.060%	5.92x
189	Wormald	22	0.060%	14.02x
190	Boyle	21	0.060%	2.34x
191	Denton	21	0.060%	3.30x
192	Towers	21	0.060%	5.24x
193	Woodhead	21	0.060%	3.24x
194	Ashley	20	0.060%	3.45x
195	Bamber	20	0.060%	7.49x
196	Bedford	20	0.060%	2.43x
197	Cudworth	20	0.060%	39.41x
198	Fogg	20	0.060%	9.94x
199	Halstead	20	0.060%	6.94x
200	Hampson	20	0.060%	3.21x