1881 census place

Chorley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Chorley, 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

624 surnames are listed for Chorley, Lancashire, covering 11,549 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jolly, with 197 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Chorley

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	Jolly	197	1.01%	71.45x
2	Baxendale	180	0.930%	181.60x
3	Brindle	158	0.810%	113.20x
4	Berry	155	0.800%	10.04x
5	Heald	143	0.740%	118.37x
6	Gent	119	0.610%	71.26x
7	Norris	119	0.610%	14.24x
8	Whittle	111	0.570%	26.19x
9	Howarth	109	0.560%	11.66x
10	Blackledge	108	0.560%	206.03x
11	Catterall	108	0.560%	87.79x
12	Rigby	108	0.560%	19.14x
13	Sharples	105	0.540%	30.88x
14	Tootell	104	0.530%	423.63x
15	Gillett	102	0.520%	49.66x
16	Hart	101	0.520%	6.09x
17	Worthington	95	0.490%	24.36x
18	Dickinson	89	0.460%	10.71x
19	Parkinson	89	0.460%	9.54x
20	Hough	88	0.450%	26.28x
21	Bibby	82	0.420%	39.05x
22	Calderbank	82	0.420%	186.19x
23	Crook	81	0.420%	14.50x
24	Derbyshire	81	0.420%	39.94x
25	Blackburn	80	0.410%	10.91x
26	Farnworth	80	0.410%	79.93x
27	Heaton	79	0.410%	16.97x
28	Holden	78	0.400%	7.32x
29	Hindle	77	0.400%	28.17x
30	Whalley	76	0.390%	24.82x
31	Hargreaves	75	0.390%	9.25x
32	Warburton	75	0.390%	15.63x
33	Nightingale	72	0.370%	21.96x
34	Waring	72	0.370%	29.47x
35	Moss	69	0.350%	5.76x
36	Gaskell	68	0.350%	34.10x
37	Southworth	68	0.350%	68.25x
38	Atherton	67	0.340%	19.16x
39	Holding	66	0.340%	38.27x
40	Ince	66	0.340%	68.10x
41	Lowe	66	0.340%	4.53x
42	Whittaker	65	0.330%	7.06x
43	Gillibrand	64	0.330%	162.07x
44	Clarkson	62	0.320%	12.02x
45	Ellison	62	0.320%	15.09x
46	Slater	62	0.320%	5.26x
47	Yates	62	0.320%	4.64x
48	Higham	61	0.310%	30.77x
49	Woods	59	0.300%	4.81x
50	Livesey	58	0.300%	30.44x
51	Fairbrother	57	0.290%	51.53x
52	Bamber	56	0.290%	37.31x
53	Collinson	56	0.290%	24.53x
54	Kellett	56	0.290%	33.10x
55	Roscoe	56	0.290%	46.38x
56	Walmsley	56	0.290%	13.91x
57	Holt	54	0.280%	4.15x
58	Clayton	53	0.270%	5.01x
59	Hartley	53	0.270%	4.35x
60	Pilkington	53	0.270%	15.16x
61	Walsh	53	0.270%	5.12x
62	Ashton	52	0.270%	5.46x
63	Fairclough	51	0.260%	25.13x
64	Fishwick	51	0.260%	52.56x
65	Grime	50	0.260%	48.97x
66	Halliwell	50	0.260%	23.17x
67	Ratcliffe	48	0.250%	8.93x
68	Sumner	48	0.250%	15.24x
69	Platt	47	0.240%	9.13x
70	Read	47	0.240%	3.75x
71	Chadwick	46	0.240%	5.41x
72	Welch	45	0.230%	6.58x
73	Charnock	44	0.230%	47.37x
74	Entwistle	44	0.230%	12.99x
75	Kenyon	44	0.230%	10.83x
76	Leach	44	0.230%	5.48x
77	Harling	43	0.220%	51.44x
78	Longworth	43	0.220%	34.60x
79	Moon	43	0.220%	10.48x
80	Nelson	43	0.220%	4.56x
81	Brimley	42	0.220%	244.04x
82	Cocker	42	0.220%	26.33x
83	Riding	42	0.220%	32.04x
84	Critchley	41	0.210%	23.65x
85	Gilman	41	0.210%	70.45x
86	Mather	41	0.210%	8.50x
87	Monk	41	0.210%	10.03x
88	Wilding	41	0.210%	17.93x
89	Anderton	40	0.210%	17.33x
90	Croasdale	40	0.210%	129.66x
91	Hodgkinson	40	0.210%	11.97x
92	Ainsworth	39	0.200%	10.12x
93	Brownley	39	0.200%	314.52x
94	Ainscough	38	0.200%	72.59x
95	Bromiley	37	0.190%	146.42x
96	Isherwood	37	0.190%	16.44x
97	Joyce	37	0.190%	7.75x
98	Langton	37	0.190%	23.97x
99	Lister	37	0.190%	6.67x
100	Rainford	37	0.190%	65.63x