1881 census place

Dalton In Furness surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dalton In Furness, 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

558 surnames are listed for Dalton In Furness, Lancashire, covering 5,859 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thompson, with 171 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dalton In Furness

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	Thompson	171	1.28%	4.27x
2	Atkinson	160	1.20%	12.28x
3	Dixon	135	1.01%	9.21x
4	Park	80	0.600%	19.29x
5	Askew	79	0.590%	52.28x
6	Tyson	74	0.550%	42.42x
7	Benson	70	0.520%	19.29x
8	Newby	66	0.490%	49.32x
9	Slater	65	0.490%	8.02x
10	Preston	64	0.480%	9.58x
11	Hodgson	63	0.470%	6.79x
12	Fell	61	0.460%	32.45x
13	Barrow	59	0.440%	20.81x
14	Birkett	56	0.420%	43.37x
15	Kitchen	56	0.420%	24.57x
16	Hornby	55	0.410%	36.09x
17	Huddleston	50	0.370%	133.55x
18	Coward	49	0.370%	31.94x
19	Gardner	49	0.370%	5.39x
20	Burns	46	0.340%	5.12x
21	Rigg	46	0.340%	40.89x
22	Brocklebank	43	0.320%	131.82x
23	Ormandy	41	0.310%	315.38x
24	Myers	40	0.300%	11.46x
25	Brockbank	39	0.290%	82.26x
26	Denney	39	0.290%	120.74x
27	Gilchrist	38	0.280%	19.37x
28	Backhouse	36	0.270%	36.13x
29	Millican	36	0.270%	142.35x
30	Townson	34	0.250%	60.54x
31	Woodburn	33	0.250%	77.83x
32	Ashburner	32	0.240%	169.67x
33	Danson	31	0.230%	103.71x
34	Lindsay	31	0.230%	7.11x
35	Stables	30	0.220%	58.49x
36	Sandham	28	0.210%	81.40x
37	Docker	27	0.200%	102.78x
38	Forsyth	27	0.200%	9.46x
39	Nicholas	27	0.200%	10.33x
40	Towers	27	0.200%	17.41x
41	Storey	26	0.190%	7.65x
42	Allonby	25	0.190%	310.95x
43	Biggins	25	0.190%	77.50x
44	Blackwell	25	0.190%	10.25x
45	Postlethwaite	25	0.190%	49.21x
46	Seward	25	0.190%	34.01x
47	Bainbridge	24	0.180%	12.76x
48	Duke	24	0.180%	15.44x
49	Kellett	24	0.180%	20.62x
50	Kelley	24	0.180%	15.44x
51	Woodend	24	0.180%	177.25x
52	Gorman	23	0.170%	14.25x
53	Varcoe	23	0.170%	102.54x
54	Holme	22	0.160%	35.47x
55	Hosking	22	0.160%	22.02x
56	Satterthwaite	22	0.160%	95.78x
57	Vickers	22	0.160%	6.40x
58	Benjamin	21	0.160%	29.92x
59	Cain	21	0.160%	7.56x
60	Cairns	21	0.160%	7.26x
61	Ainsworth	20	0.150%	7.55x
62	Airey	20	0.150%	19.66x
63	Bateman	20	0.150%	5.78x
64	Deason	20	0.150%	230.68x
65	Lowther	20	0.150%	24.47x
66	Milligan	20	0.150%	12.70x
67	Oates	20	0.150%	9.59x
68	Rawlinson	20	0.150%	12.53x
69	Wren	20	0.150%	13.80x
70	Bayliff	19	0.140%	234.86x
71	Boulton	19	0.140%	7.88x
72	Dickenson	19	0.140%	9.37x
73	Pickthall	19	0.140%	109.32x
74	Burrow	18	0.130%	19.60x
75	Downham	18	0.130%	47.17x
76	Grenfell	18	0.130%	80.25x
77	Hind	18	0.130%	10.65x
78	Mingins	18	0.130%	509.92x
79	Raven	18	0.130%	16.02x
80	Swainson	18	0.130%	71.17x
81	Waiting	18	0.130%	366.60x
82	Corris	17	0.130%	139.34x
83	High	17	0.130%	28.10x
84	Kendall	17	0.130%	5.90x
85	Shuttleworth	17	0.130%	10.71x
86	Stackhouse	17	0.130%	103.41x
87	Wilcock	17	0.130%	8.93x
88	Farren	16	0.120%	58.89x
89	Helm	16	0.120%	26.76x
90	Hetherington	16	0.120%	9.49x
91	Holman	16	0.120%	8.42x
92	Leece	16	0.120%	72.04x
93	Newsham	16	0.120%	38.21x
94	Noall	16	0.120%	181.82x
95	Pattinson	16	0.120%	13.36x
96	Pennington	16	0.120%	8.08x
97	Spry	16	0.120%	40.56x
98	Birbeck	15	0.110%	71.91x
99	Corkill	15	0.110%	44.29x
100	Edyvean	15	0.110%	310.56x