1881 census place

Gorton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Gorton, 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

1,538 surnames are listed for Gorton, Lancashire, covering 15,058 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wood, with 208 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Gorton

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	Wood	208	0.640%	2.00x
2	Johnson	200	0.610%	1.83x
3	Harrison	153	0.470%	2.12x
4	Shaw	139	0.430%	2.32x
5	Booth	130	0.400%	4.04x
6	Barlow	118	0.360%	6.71x
7	Buckley	108	0.330%	6.09x
8	Grimshaw	103	0.320%	18.92x
9	Lowe	97	0.300%	3.97x
10	Lee	90	0.280%	1.69x
11	Williamson	90	0.280%	3.08x
12	Kelly	84	0.260%	2.35x
13	Chadwick	80	0.250%	5.61x
14	Worthington	78	0.240%	11.94x
15	Burgess	75	0.230%	3.31x
16	Garside	73	0.220%	15.53x
17	Warburton	72	0.220%	8.96x
18	Dean	70	0.210%	3.09x
19	Howarth	70	0.210%	4.47x
20	Higgins	64	0.200%	3.88x
21	Burke	61	0.190%	6.36x
22	Howard	61	0.190%	1.91x
23	Newton	60	0.180%	2.40x
24	Wild	59	0.180%	4.44x
25	Hayes	57	0.170%	2.81x
26	Knott	57	0.170%	8.82x
27	Oldham	56	0.170%	9.78x
28	Kenyon	55	0.170%	8.08x
29	Lomas	55	0.170%	9.14x
30	Mellor	54	0.170%	4.70x
31	Burns	51	0.160%	2.33x
32	Schofield	51	0.160%	2.89x
33	Hibbert	50	0.150%	10.47x
34	Pickford	50	0.150%	18.85x
35	Rhodes	50	0.150%	3.30x
36	Lamb	49	0.150%	2.85x
37	Shawcross	49	0.150%	45.35x
38	Stopford	47	0.140%	68.03x
39	Sutton	47	0.140%	2.27x
40	Moss	46	0.140%	2.29x
41	Royle	46	0.140%	10.73x
42	Andrew	45	0.140%	4.36x
43	Barber	45	0.140%	2.29x
44	Hobson	45	0.140%	5.32x
45	Beswick	44	0.140%	13.81x
46	Bowker	44	0.140%	13.85x
47	Lord	43	0.130%	2.86x
48	Hewitt	42	0.130%	2.65x
49	Leigh	42	0.130%	5.60x
50	Pennington	42	0.130%	8.71x
51	Bradshaw	39	0.120%	2.91x
52	Ogden	39	0.120%	4.23x
53	Potts	39	0.120%	3.59x
54	Birch	38	0.120%	2.85x
55	Cookson	38	0.120%	9.89x
56	Duffy	38	0.120%	5.34x
57	Bradbury	37	0.110%	3.93x
58	Collier	37	0.110%	3.40x
59	Hulme	37	0.110%	5.31x
60	Corcoran	36	0.110%	22.93x
61	Garner	36	0.110%	3.50x
62	Eyre	35	0.110%	8.96x
63	Norbury	35	0.110%	21.25x
64	Woodcock	35	0.110%	3.76x
65	Broadhurst	34	0.100%	10.30x
66	Cotton	34	0.100%	4.37x
67	Seddon	34	0.100%	6.42x
68	Stanley	34	0.100%	2.71x
69	Statham	34	0.100%	18.07x
70	Bowers	33	0.100%	5.55x
71	Fielding	33	0.100%	4.54x
72	Pike	33	0.100%	3.48x
73	Almond	32	0.100%	7.92x
74	Aspinall	32	0.100%	7.13x
75	Bancroft	32	0.100%	10.13x
76	Goddard	32	0.100%	2.44x
77	Herbert	32	0.100%	2.63x
78	Latham	32	0.100%	4.82x
79	Healey	31	0.100%	5.82x
80	Horrocks	31	0.100%	7.74x
81	Hurst	31	0.100%	2.66x
82	Kirkham	31	0.100%	6.82x
83	Mulryan	31	0.100%	662.39x
84	Bardsley	30	0.090%	12.15x
85	Eaton	30	0.090%	3.29x
86	Hadfield	30	0.090%	6.61x
87	Harrop	30	0.090%	8.09x
88	Lowndes	30	0.090%	27.38x
89	Greaves	29	0.090%	3.04x
90	Hyde	29	0.090%	2.89x
91	Mansfield	29	0.090%	4.74x
92	Mosley	29	0.090%	9.45x
93	Rowland	29	0.090%	3.13x
94	Valentine	29	0.090%	6.94x
95	Bottomley	28	0.090%	5.16x
96	Dutton	28	0.090%	3.80x
97	Garnett	28	0.090%	6.92x
98	Moores	28	0.090%	10.39x
99	Needham	28	0.090%	4.04x
100	Bamford	27	0.080%	5.50x