1881 census place

Great Bolton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Great Bolton, 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

1,585 surnames are listed for Great Bolton, Lancashire, covering 32,379 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 680 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Great Bolton

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	Smith	680	1.48%	1.05x
2	Taylor	552	1.20%	1.88x
3	Greenhalgh	381	0.830%	40.51x
4	Morris	338	0.740%	3.31x
5	Haslam	326	0.710%	46.74x
6	Entwistle	300	0.650%	37.51x
7	Yates	265	0.580%	8.40x
8	Wood	246	0.540%	1.68x
9	Booth	243	0.530%	5.37x
10	Kay	225	0.490%	9.43x
11	Howarth	212	0.460%	9.61x
12	Holden	211	0.460%	8.39x
13	Holt	206	0.450%	6.70x
14	Jackson	203	0.440%	1.58x
15	Crompton	195	0.420%	25.24x
16	Crook	193	0.420%	14.64x
17	Boardman	190	0.410%	25.79x
18	Lee	187	0.410%	2.49x
19	Walsh	183	0.400%	7.49x
20	Hilton	181	0.390%	11.47x
21	Horrocks	179	0.390%	31.73x
22	Schofield	172	0.370%	6.91x
23	Hall	166	0.360%	1.23x
24	Barnes	160	0.350%	2.89x
25	Unsworth	159	0.350%	30.13x
26	Fletcher	157	0.340%	3.00x
27	Thornley	157	0.340%	30.81x
28	Hardman	156	0.340%	16.89x
29	Lever	155	0.340%	37.47x
30	Ward	152	0.330%	1.52x
31	Parkinson	149	0.320%	6.77x
32	Hamer	148	0.320%	17.21x
33	Mather	147	0.320%	12.91x
34	Lomax	146	0.320%	22.52x
35	Shaw	145	0.320%	1.72x
36	Harrison	144	0.310%	1.41x
37	Rothwell	144	0.310%	17.06x
38	Brooks	142	0.310%	3.16x
39	Kirkman	141	0.310%	48.05x
40	Green	139	0.300%	1.08x
41	Cooper	137	0.300%	1.23x
42	Rigby	137	0.300%	10.29x
43	Nuttall	136	0.300%	11.75x
44	Flitcroft	135	0.290%	151.55x
45	Atkinson	132	0.290%	2.95x
46	Marsh	131	0.290%	4.00x
47	Barlow	128	0.280%	5.16x
48	Grundy	125	0.270%	13.30x
49	Whittle	124	0.270%	12.39x
50	Makin	122	0.270%	30.94x
51	Miller	122	0.270%	1.49x
52	Halliwell	119	0.260%	23.36x
53	Atherton	118	0.260%	14.30x
54	Foster	116	0.250%	1.89x
55	Isherwood	115	0.250%	21.65x
56	Banks	114	0.250%	4.84x
57	Hampson	114	0.250%	13.78x
58	Knowles	114	0.250%	4.65x
59	Seddon	114	0.250%	15.28x
60	Hunt	113	0.250%	1.85x
61	Orrell	112	0.240%	65.57x
62	Heyes	111	0.240%	31.22x
63	Berry	109	0.240%	2.99x
64	Dawson	108	0.240%	2.13x
65	Partington	108	0.240%	16.58x
66	Norris	107	0.230%	5.43x
67	Hart	104	0.230%	2.66x
68	Owen	104	0.230%	1.91x
69	Chadwick	103	0.220%	5.13x
70	Lowe	102	0.220%	2.96x
71	Bolton	101	0.220%	5.11x
72	Warburton	101	0.220%	8.92x
73	Moss	100	0.220%	3.53x
74	Worthington	100	0.220%	10.86x
75	Hough	97	0.210%	12.27x
76	Hulme	96	0.210%	9.78x
77	Kelly	95	0.210%	1.89x
78	Nelson	95	0.210%	4.27x
79	Pilkington	92	0.200%	11.15x
80	Shepherd	92	0.200%	2.73x
81	Vickers	92	0.200%	7.80x
82	Walmsley	90	0.200%	9.47x
83	Edge	85	0.190%	10.75x
84	Ashton	84	0.180%	3.73x
85	Collier	84	0.180%	5.47x
86	Riley	84	0.180%	2.31x
87	Woods	84	0.180%	2.90x
88	Pendlebury	83	0.180%	28.18x
89	Sharples	83	0.180%	10.34x
90	Leach	80	0.170%	4.22x
91	Clegg	76	0.170%	4.86x
92	Higson	76	0.170%	25.88x
93	Ainsworth	74	0.160%	8.14x
94	Hodson	74	0.160%	7.79x
95	Holland	74	0.160%	2.26x
96	Aspinall	73	0.160%	11.55x
97	Fielding	72	0.160%	7.02x
98	Leyland	72	0.160%	25.66x
99	Whalley	72	0.160%	9.96x
100	Grimshaw	71	0.150%	9.26x