1881 census place

Chester St Oswald surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Chester St Oswald, Cheshire 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

491 surnames are listed for Chester St Oswald, Cheshire, covering 4,440 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 657 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Chester St Oswald

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	Jones	657	5.63%	4.97x
2	Hughes	191	1.64%	5.84x
3	Price	111	0.950%	5.43x
4	Lloyd	95	0.810%	6.97x
5	Parry	72	0.620%	8.10x
6	Powell	72	0.620%	4.94x
7	Dodd	66	0.570%	13.90x
8	Dutton	63	0.540%	23.83x
9	Edge	56	0.480%	27.84x
10	Griffith	50	0.430%	13.14x
11	Darlington	48	0.410%	60.49x
12	Humphreys	44	0.380%	10.70x
13	Coppack	43	0.370%	519.95x
14	Pritchard	38	0.330%	6.04x
15	Rowlands	33	0.280%	11.34x
16	Denson	29	0.250%	214.34x
17	Hibbert	28	0.240%	16.36x
18	Vernon	28	0.240%	14.57x
19	Wilbraham	27	0.230%	156.34x
20	Wainwright	26	0.220%	10.52x
21	Lightfoot	25	0.210%	15.39x
22	Astle	24	0.210%	63.19x
23	Millington	24	0.210%	13.57x
24	Ledsham	22	0.190%	205.22x
25	Meacock	20	0.170%	126.66x
26	Peers	20	0.170%	29.36x
27	Shone	20	0.170%	42.08x
28	Nield	19	0.160%	23.70x
29	Catherall	18	0.150%	84.23x
30	Draycott	18	0.150%	46.26x
31	Ellson	18	0.150%	92.50x
32	Maddock	18	0.150%	16.87x
33	Over	18	0.150%	65.57x
34	Pate	18	0.150%	37.23x
35	Sands	18	0.150%	13.76x
36	Higginson	17	0.150%	14.54x
37	Huxley	17	0.150%	32.32x
38	Minshull	17	0.150%	68.03x
39	Pullin	17	0.150%	40.97x
40	Speed	17	0.150%	18.12x
41	Wildig	17	0.150%	427.14x
42	Bebbington	16	0.140%	30.92x
43	Boulton	16	0.140%	7.60x
44	Bowers	16	0.140%	7.51x
45	Oldfield	16	0.140%	8.29x
46	Burghall	15	0.130%	533.81x
47	Challinor	15	0.130%	36.46x
48	Charmley	15	0.130%	549.45x
49	Hallmark	15	0.130%	196.34x
50	Haswell	15	0.130%	39.75x
51	Kelley	15	0.130%	11.06x
52	Pickavance	15	0.130%	171.04x
53	Tushingham	15	0.130%	289.02x
54	Carline	14	0.120%	66.86x
55	Edward	14	0.120%	12.92x
56	Gregg	14	0.120%	17.03x
57	Killick	14	0.120%	23.51x
58	Littler	14	0.120%	18.07x
59	Lythgoe	14	0.120%	38.99x
60	Moulton	14	0.120%	24.18x
61	Bellis	13	0.110%	19.60x
62	Bradburn	13	0.110%	27.95x
63	Cliffe	13	0.110%	17.74x
64	Dawes	13	0.110%	8.18x
65	Dunning	13	0.110%	13.12x
66	Foulkes	13	0.110%	11.95x
67	Hulse	13	0.110%	17.59x
68	Manley	13	0.110%	9.94x
69	Poynton	13	0.110%	66.80x
70	Siddall	13	0.110%	15.19x
71	Whitby	13	0.110%	18.29x
72	Allmark	12	0.100%	103.63x
73	Chaloner	12	0.100%	62.57x
74	Clutton	12	0.100%	56.15x
75	Done	12	0.100%	29.82x
76	Gorst	12	0.100%	47.13x
77	Grantham	12	0.100%	16.69x
78	Hindley	12	0.100%	12.49x
79	Minns	12	0.100%	23.37x
80	Mottershead	12	0.100%	30.62x
81	Royle	12	0.100%	7.81x
82	Wilding	12	0.100%	8.74x
83	Wynne	12	0.100%	10.66x
84	Astbury	11	0.090%	20.14x
85	Boswell	11	0.090%	10.03x
86	Bowyer	11	0.090%	8.64x
87	Caldicott	11	0.090%	47.50x
88	Clays	11	0.090%	261.28x
89	Corderoy	11	0.090%	124.29x
90	Crowder	11	0.090%	23.71x
91	Hallows	11	0.090%	47.97x
92	Henshaw	11	0.090%	11.05x
93	Howley	11	0.090%	43.67x
94	Phoenix	11	0.090%	70.69x
95	Reade	11	0.090%	31.35x
96	Stonely	11	0.090%	216.96x
97	Tennyson	11	0.090%	266.34x
98	Woodfin	11	0.090%	178.57x
99	Batchlor	10	0.090%	148.37x
100	Billington	10	0.090%	7.88x