1881 census place

Farnworth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Farnworth, 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

748 surnames are listed for Farnworth, Lancashire, covering 12,531 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Tonge, with 218 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Farnworth

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	Tonge	218	1.05%	164.83x
2	Crompton	194	0.930%	55.50x
3	Jackson	167	0.800%	2.88x
4	Stones	156	0.750%	63.15x
5	Longworth	152	0.730%	114.57x
6	Brooks	148	0.710%	7.29x
7	Berry	147	0.710%	8.92x
8	Partington	144	0.690%	48.87x
9	Nuttall	138	0.660%	26.35x
10	Green	137	0.660%	2.34x
11	Greenhalgh	137	0.660%	32.20x
12	Parkinson	137	0.660%	13.75x
13	Yates	130	0.630%	9.11x
14	Morris	128	0.620%	2.77x
15	Young	127	0.610%	2.85x
16	Grundy	125	0.600%	29.40x
17	Walsh	112	0.540%	10.13x
18	Worthington	111	0.530%	26.66x
19	Lawton	110	0.530%	20.55x
20	Hardman	109	0.520%	26.09x
21	Howarth	109	0.520%	10.92x
22	Booth	108	0.520%	5.27x
23	Lord	108	0.520%	11.28x
24	Schofield	107	0.520%	9.50x
25	Holt	106	0.510%	7.62x
26	Heathcote	101	0.490%	60.23x
27	Hurst	98	0.470%	13.21x
28	Seddon	89	0.430%	26.38x
29	Chadwick	88	0.420%	9.69x
30	Openshaw	87	0.420%	86.16x
31	Wolfendale	85	0.410%	506.56x
32	Ashton	84	0.400%	8.26x
33	Collier	84	0.400%	12.10x
34	Barlow	83	0.400%	7.40x
35	Entwistle	82	0.390%	22.67x
36	Eckersley	80	0.390%	61.59x
37	Kelly	80	0.390%	3.52x
38	Rigby	79	0.380%	13.11x
39	Lomax	77	0.370%	26.26x
40	Rushton	77	0.370%	17.98x
41	Kay	75	0.360%	6.95x
42	Roscoe	75	0.360%	58.17x
43	Boardman	74	0.360%	22.21x
44	Isherwood	73	0.350%	30.38x
45	Lever	68	0.330%	36.34x
46	Whittaker	67	0.320%	6.81x
47	Bridge	65	0.310%	15.45x
48	Hulme	64	0.310%	14.41x
49	Mort	62	0.300%	61.86x
50	Haslam	60	0.290%	19.02x
51	Hayes	59	0.280%	4.57x
52	Murphy	58	0.280%	3.50x
53	Walmsley	57	0.270%	13.26x
54	Warburton	57	0.270%	11.12x
55	Cooke	56	0.270%	4.89x
56	Hampson	56	0.270%	14.96x
57	Nelson	56	0.270%	5.57x
58	Howcroft	54	0.260%	81.95x
59	Horrocks	53	0.260%	20.77x
60	Thornley	53	0.260%	22.99x
61	Holden	52	0.250%	4.57x
62	Halliwell	50	0.240%	21.70x
63	Rostron	50	0.240%	40.39x
64	Smethurst	50	0.240%	31.44x
65	Mather	49	0.240%	9.52x
66	Sharples	48	0.230%	13.22x
67	Ashworth	47	0.230%	5.67x
68	Gerrard	47	0.230%	17.71x
69	Farnworth	46	0.220%	43.04x
70	Hindley	46	0.220%	26.91x
71	Massey	44	0.210%	8.28x
72	Rothwell	44	0.210%	11.52x
73	Wild	43	0.210%	5.08x
74	Duckworth	42	0.200%	10.46x
75	Crowther	41	0.200%	6.61x
76	Fielding	41	0.200%	8.84x
77	Clayton	40	0.190%	3.54x
78	Thomason	40	0.190%	33.00x
79	Almond	39	0.190%	15.15x
80	Unsworth	39	0.190%	16.34x
81	Cowsill	37	0.180%	262.78x
82	Gaskell	37	0.180%	17.38x
83	Entwisle	36	0.170%	290.09x
84	Hodgkiss	36	0.170%	45.98x
85	Potts	36	0.170%	5.19x
86	Royle	36	0.170%	13.17x
87	Dearden	35	0.170%	17.18x
88	Hodson	35	0.170%	8.14x
89	Vickers	35	0.170%	6.56x
90	Aspinall	34	0.160%	11.89x
91	Dyson	34	0.160%	5.05x
92	Hilton	34	0.160%	4.76x
93	Pennington	34	0.160%	11.06x
94	Southern	34	0.160%	17.75x
95	Burke	33	0.160%	5.40x
96	Heaton	33	0.160%	6.64x
97	Kershaw	33	0.160%	4.93x
98	Pendlebury	33	0.160%	24.77x
99	Porritt	33	0.160%	56.38x
100	Scowcroft	33	0.160%	103.22x