1881 census place

Colne surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Colne, 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

324 surnames are listed for Colne, Lancashire, covering 6,209 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hartley, with 477 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Colne

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	Hartley	477	4.62%	73.70x
2	Duerden	138	1.34%	356.04x
3	Riley	117	1.13%	14.32x
4	Pickles	116	1.12%	55.27x
5	Greenwood	113	1.09%	14.09x
6	Foulds	105	1.02%	150.30x
7	Hargreaves	103	1.00%	23.93x
8	Spencer	86	0.830%	9.12x
9	Whittaker	86	0.830%	17.59x
10	Baldwin	83	0.800%	18.85x
11	Rushton	83	0.800%	38.97x
12	Lonsdale	80	0.770%	93.39x
13	Stuttard	75	0.730%	332.59x
14	Thornton	75	0.730%	14.44x
15	Whitaker	71	0.690%	24.34x
16	Heap	68	0.660%	38.81x
17	Berry	64	0.620%	7.81x
18	Catlow	61	0.590%	142.99x
19	Crabtree	60	0.580%	28.85x
20	Nutter	60	0.580%	76.25x
21	Ridehalgh	60	0.580%	546.95x
22	Blackburn	59	0.570%	15.15x
23	Howarth	59	0.570%	11.89x
24	Knowles	59	0.570%	10.70x
25	Rycroft	59	0.570%	199.39x
26	Hey	57	0.550%	62.31x
27	Tillotson	57	0.550%	142.75x
28	Higson	54	0.520%	81.78x
29	Lund	54	0.520%	48.27x
30	Walton	53	0.510%	7.29x
31	Preston	52	0.500%	10.08x
32	Bracewell	51	0.490%	136.95x
33	Duxbury	50	0.480%	72.14x
34	Pilling	48	0.460%	38.52x
35	Ormerod	47	0.460%	56.91x
36	Parkinson	47	0.460%	9.49x
37	Whalley	47	0.460%	28.91x
38	Ashworth	46	0.450%	11.16x
39	Dugdale	46	0.450%	64.70x
40	Lord	45	0.440%	9.45x
41	Petty	45	0.440%	44.03x
42	Bullock	43	0.420%	12.80x
43	Lancaster	43	0.420%	16.75x
44	Varley	43	0.420%	30.30x
45	Hoyle	41	0.400%	17.20x
46	Pollard	41	0.400%	10.89x
47	Ingham	38	0.370%	14.80x
48	Dyson	37	0.360%	11.06x
49	Driver	36	0.350%	18.81x
50	Titherington	35	0.340%	377.16x
51	Laycock	34	0.330%	23.96x
52	Butterworth	33	0.320%	8.90x
53	Horsfield	33	0.320%	47.61x
54	Clegg	32	0.310%	9.10x
55	Metcalfe	31	0.300%	13.15x
56	Whittam	31	0.300%	81.79x
57	Boothman	30	0.290%	75.85x
58	Holgate	30	0.290%	35.02x
59	Waddington	30	0.290%	17.89x
60	Edmondson	29	0.280%	24.30x
61	Hardacre	29	0.280%	118.46x
62	Townson	29	0.280%	66.90x
63	Broughton	28	0.270%	14.54x
64	Bottomley	27	0.260%	15.70x
65	Calvert	27	0.260%	12.82x
66	Croasdale	27	0.260%	164.84x
67	Heyworth	27	0.260%	56.70x
68	Thornber	27	0.260%	106.68x
69	Heaton	26	0.250%	10.52x
70	Shackleton	26	0.250%	22.37x
71	Sugden	25	0.240%	20.93x
72	Stansfield	24	0.230%	15.05x
73	Bowker	23	0.220%	22.84x
74	Eastwood	23	0.220%	9.42x
75	Ratcliffe	23	0.220%	8.06x
76	Shutt	23	0.220%	61.76x
77	Shuttleworth	23	0.220%	18.78x
78	Wainman	23	0.220%	178.29x
79	Binns	22	0.210%	12.86x
80	Busfield	22	0.210%	115.79x
81	Crawshaw	22	0.210%	27.38x
82	Heys	22	0.210%	29.16x
83	Lowcock	22	0.210%	165.29x
84	Windle	21	0.200%	35.87x
85	Dalby	20	0.190%	23.92x
86	Halstead	20	0.190%	23.27x
87	Horsefield	20	0.190%	111.73x
88	Rushworth	20	0.190%	23.42x
89	Slinger	20	0.190%	64.08x
90	Cock	19	0.180%	16.73x
91	Cowgill	19	0.180%	73.08x
92	Gibbins	19	0.180%	24.01x
93	Higgin	19	0.180%	76.74x
94	Scholfield	19	0.180%	72.30x
95	Shoesmith	19	0.180%	61.77x
96	Barritt	18	0.170%	66.67x
97	Gregson	18	0.170%	12.60x
98	Veevers	18	0.170%	177.51x
99	Whitham	18	0.170%	29.99x
100	Wormwell	18	0.170%	293.16x