1881 census place

Eccleston In Prescot surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Eccleston In Prescot, 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

713 surnames are listed for Eccleston In Prescot, Lancashire, covering 8,695 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Rigby, with 145 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Eccleston In Prescot

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	Rigby	145	0.830%	28.72x
2	Ashcroft	106	0.610%	45.52x
3	Glover	97	0.560%	13.07x
4	Garner	90	0.520%	16.36x
5	Lyon	90	0.520%	24.68x
6	Owen	90	0.520%	4.36x
7	Critchley	87	0.500%	56.09x
8	Tickle	81	0.470%	104.10x
9	Prescott	79	0.450%	32.18x
10	Bridge	77	0.440%	21.85x
11	Naylor	77	0.440%	11.74x
12	Molyneux	75	0.430%	56.43x
13	Anders	74	0.430%	234.55x
14	Burrows	73	0.420%	9.58x
15	Platt	68	0.390%	14.76x
16	Webster	68	0.390%	4.49x
17	Houghton	67	0.390%	11.02x
18	Pennington	67	0.390%	26.00x
19	Forber	66	0.380%	705.13x
20	Seddon	65	0.370%	22.99x
21	Hunter	64	0.370%	3.58x
22	Woodward	64	0.370%	7.46x
23	Ashall	62	0.360%	251.62x
24	Howard	62	0.360%	3.63x
25	Marsh	62	0.360%	4.99x
26	Mather	61	0.350%	14.14x
27	Murphy	61	0.350%	4.39x
28	Halsall	60	0.340%	65.43x
29	Parr	60	0.340%	13.80x
30	Chadwick	59	0.340%	7.75x
31	Hayes	55	0.320%	5.08x
32	Martindale	55	0.320%	55.06x
33	Swift	54	0.310%	10.05x
34	Friar	53	0.300%	199.55x
35	Lawrenson	52	0.300%	106.14x
36	Appleton	51	0.290%	18.70x
37	Rimmer	51	0.290%	18.35x
38	Roughley	51	0.290%	168.15x
39	Case	50	0.290%	28.76x
40	Fairclough	49	0.280%	26.98x
41	Hewitt	48	0.280%	5.66x
42	Penketh	48	0.280%	301.51x
43	Middlehurst	46	0.260%	194.01x
44	Pye	46	0.260%	17.68x
45	Atherton	45	0.260%	14.39x
46	Ryan	44	0.250%	8.15x
47	Birchall	42	0.240%	24.60x
48	Ashton	41	0.240%	4.81x
49	Eccleston	41	0.240%	47.01x
50	Boardman	39	0.220%	13.97x
51	Twist	39	0.220%	45.32x
52	Wharton	39	0.220%	16.00x
53	Edmundson	38	0.220%	77.02x
54	Fairhurst	38	0.220%	26.67x
55	Latham	38	0.220%	10.73x
56	Aspinall	37	0.210%	15.45x
57	Travis	37	0.210%	18.12x
58	Abbott	36	0.210%	4.69x
59	Adamson	36	0.210%	7.82x
60	Ellison	36	0.210%	9.79x
61	Grundy	35	0.200%	9.82x
62	Sephton	35	0.200%	77.31x
63	Gee	34	0.200%	7.66x
64	Fishwick	33	0.190%	38.01x
65	Mercer	33	0.190%	7.23x
66	Winstanley	33	0.190%	18.87x
67	Gore	31	0.180%	15.78x
68	Leather	31	0.180%	26.09x
69	Groves	30	0.170%	6.13x
70	Holme	30	0.170%	37.19x
71	Pemberton	30	0.170%	13.57x
72	Vose	30	0.170%	106.88x
73	Dagnall	29	0.170%	76.90x
74	Hesketh	29	0.170%	17.41x
75	Stanley	29	0.170%	4.33x
76	Waterworth	29	0.170%	38.33x
77	Alcock	28	0.160%	11.15x
78	Pickavance	28	0.160%	214.23x
79	Ratcliffe	28	0.160%	5.83x
80	Dingsdale	27	0.160%	380.82x
81	Wilcock	27	0.160%	10.91x
82	Crompton	26	0.150%	8.88x
83	Greenall	26	0.150%	49.22x
84	Lomax	26	0.150%	10.58x
85	Traverse	26	0.150%	264.77x
86	Worthington	26	0.150%	7.45x
87	Cunliffe	25	0.140%	11.54x
88	Roscoe	25	0.140%	23.14x
89	Anderton	24	0.140%	11.62x
90	Barrow	24	0.140%	6.51x
91	Carney	24	0.140%	15.25x
92	Gibbon	24	0.140%	13.62x
93	Lea	24	0.140%	6.99x
94	Clare	23	0.130%	9.13x
95	Entwistle	23	0.130%	7.59x
96	Fildes	23	0.130%	55.13x
97	Jameson	23	0.130%	11.94x
98	Lynch	23	0.130%	5.01x
99	Rowson	23	0.130%	36.65x
100	Beddows	22	0.130%	65.50x