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 Bowden, with 27 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
101	Bowden	27	0.080%	2.87x
102	Butterworth	27	0.080%	2.31x
103	Higham	27	0.080%	8.13x
104	Maddocks	27	0.080%	13.57x
105	Oldfield	27	0.080%	5.01x
106	Pickles	27	0.080%	4.08x
107	Rushton	27	0.080%	4.02x
108	Ainsworth	26	0.080%	4.03x
109	Alderson	26	0.080%	5.75x
110	Boardman	26	0.080%	4.97x
111	Brady	26	0.080%	4.51x
112	Brierley	26	0.080%	4.49x
113	Cheetham	26	0.080%	5.16x
114	Dooley	26	0.080%	12.94x
115	Eastwood	26	0.080%	3.37x
116	Higginbottom	26	0.080%	12.21x
117	Wolstencroft	26	0.080%	20.37x
118	Wrigley	26	0.080%	6.31x
119	Faulkner	25	0.080%	2.83x
120	Lyons	25	0.080%	3.45x
121	Massey	25	0.080%	3.00x
122	Aldcroft	24	0.070%	55.27x
123	Bartley	24	0.070%	15.32x
124	Beech	24	0.070%	4.99x
125	Bowler	24	0.070%	6.03x
126	Heap	24	0.070%	4.34x
127	Heaton	24	0.070%	3.08x
128	Higson	24	0.070%	11.52x
129	Hilton	24	0.070%	2.14x
130	Power	24	0.070%	5.50x
131	Rider	24	0.070%	7.56x
132	Stafford	24	0.070%	3.46x
133	Street	24	0.070%	3.15x
134	Stubbs	24	0.070%	2.79x
135	Barratt	23	0.070%	3.48x
136	Bullock	23	0.070%	2.17x
137	Buxton	23	0.070%	4.70x
138	Edge	23	0.070%	4.10x
139	Heathcote	23	0.070%	8.74x
140	Lawton	23	0.070%	2.74x
141	Livesey	23	0.070%	7.21x
142	Maher	23	0.070%	19.20x
143	Parkin	23	0.070%	2.62x
144	Brett	22	0.070%	3.56x
145	Brindley	22	0.070%	8.83x
146	Chew	22	0.070%	13.28x
147	Fidler	22	0.070%	10.55x
148	Gannon	22	0.070%	15.60x
149	Hambleton	22	0.070%	16.61x
150	Hampson	22	0.070%	3.75x
151	Hopkinson	22	0.070%	4.13x
152	Regan	22	0.070%	6.58x
153	Tipping	22	0.070%	11.84x
154	Bibby	21	0.060%	5.97x
155	Clough	21	0.060%	2.89x
156	Crompton	21	0.060%	3.83x
157	Dakin	21	0.060%	8.98x
158	Dalton	21	0.060%	2.81x
159	Garlick	21	0.060%	7.32x
160	Haslam	21	0.060%	4.24x
161	Orme	21	0.060%	7.72x
162	Scholes	21	0.060%	5.56x
163	Siddall	21	0.060%	8.79x
164	Stringer	21	0.060%	3.24x
165	Travis	21	0.060%	5.49x
166	Chorlton	20	0.060%	18.89x
167	Cunliffe	20	0.060%	4.93x
168	Doherty	20	0.060%	7.52x
169	Fitzgerald	20	0.060%	3.51x
170	Greenhalgh	20	0.060%	3.00x
171	Hallam	20	0.060%	3.29x
172	Haughton	20	0.060%	12.06x
173	Holcroft	20	0.060%	28.45x
174	Hulse	20	0.060%	9.70x
175	Ormerod	20	0.060%	7.67x
176	Procter	20	0.060%	4.73x
177	Thornley	20	0.060%	5.53x
178	Aldred	19	0.060%	6.79x
179	Daley	19	0.060%	4.95x
180	Fitton	19	0.060%	5.18x
181	Gorton	19	0.060%	9.39x
182	Gratton	19	0.060%	14.64x
183	Hamer	19	0.060%	3.11x
184	Hardman	19	0.060%	2.90x
185	Horridge	19	0.060%	23.38x
186	Hough	19	0.060%	3.39x
187	Keighley	19	0.060%	10.91x
188	Maskell	19	0.060%	8.29x
189	Thorp	19	0.060%	4.30x
190	Twiss	19	0.060%	42.59x
191	Yeomans	19	0.060%	7.07x
192	Beresford	18	0.060%	7.50x
193	Boothroyd	18	0.060%	10.69x
194	Brennan	18	0.060%	5.29x
195	Campion	18	0.060%	7.88x
196	Carroll	18	0.060%	2.75x
197	Courtney	18	0.060%	7.70x
198	Grundy	18	0.060%	2.70x
199	Gunn	18	0.060%	2.26x
200	Haworth	18	0.060%	2.63x