1881 census place

Great Little Marsden surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Great Little Marsden, 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

435 surnames are listed for Great Little Marsden, Lancashire, covering 10,010 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hartley, with 578 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Great Little Marsden

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	Hartley	578	3.64%	58.07x
2	Duerden	281	1.77%	471.48x
3	Greenwood	252	1.59%	20.43x
4	Nutter	252	1.59%	208.26x
5	Riley	208	1.31%	16.56x
6	Walton	202	1.27%	18.07x
7	Wilkinson	194	1.22%	8.01x
8	Blackburn	187	1.18%	31.23x
9	Hargreaves	176	1.11%	26.59x
10	Howarth	149	0.940%	19.53x
11	Clegg	142	0.890%	26.26x
12	Edmondson	129	0.810%	70.29x
13	Watson	128	0.810%	3.47x
14	Eastwood	115	0.720%	30.62x
15	Elliott	110	0.690%	8.16x
16	Burrows	108	0.680%	15.54x
17	Holden	105	0.660%	12.07x
18	Pickles	100	0.630%	30.99x
19	Rushton	99	0.620%	30.23x
20	Dixon	96	0.600%	5.52x
21	Berry	93	0.590%	7.38x
22	Bannister	92	0.580%	33.55x
23	Dyson	89	0.560%	17.30x
24	Sutcliffe	88	0.550%	14.03x
25	Whitaker	88	0.550%	19.62x
26	Driver	87	0.550%	29.57x
27	Halstead	82	0.520%	62.06x
28	Heap	80	0.500%	29.69x
29	Horsfall	78	0.490%	48.71x
30	Ashworth	77	0.480%	12.15x
31	Varley	77	0.480%	35.29x
32	Crabtree	76	0.480%	23.76x
33	Thornton	76	0.480%	9.52x
34	Bradshaw	74	0.470%	11.35x
35	Foulds	74	0.470%	68.88x
36	Chadwick	72	0.450%	10.37x
37	Holt	72	0.450%	6.77x
38	Whittaker	72	0.450%	9.58x
39	Atkinson	67	0.420%	4.33x
40	Pollard	67	0.420%	11.57x
41	Cowgill	64	0.400%	160.08x
42	Stuttard	63	0.400%	181.66x
43	Baldwin	62	0.390%	9.16x
44	Dewhurst	62	0.390%	32.90x
45	Rycroft	58	0.370%	127.50x
46	Dean	54	0.340%	4.90x
47	Hey	54	0.340%	38.39x
48	Ingham	54	0.340%	13.67x
49	Catlow	51	0.320%	77.76x
50	Slater	51	0.320%	5.30x
51	Bracewell	50	0.310%	87.31x
52	Heyworth	50	0.310%	68.28x
53	Whalley	48	0.300%	19.20x
54	Aldersley	46	0.290%	303.43x
55	Shackleton	46	0.290%	25.73x
56	Barrett	44	0.280%	4.13x
57	Pilling	43	0.270%	22.44x
58	Holgate	42	0.260%	31.89x
59	Lambert	42	0.260%	4.85x
60	Dugdale	41	0.260%	37.50x
61	Sagar	41	0.260%	63.59x
62	Haworth	39	0.250%	11.68x
63	Lord	39	0.250%	5.33x
64	Ainsworth	38	0.240%	12.08x
65	Clarkson	38	0.240%	9.03x
66	Emmott	38	0.240%	63.76x
67	Nuttall	38	0.240%	9.49x
68	Waddington	38	0.240%	14.73x
69	Wilmore	38	0.240%	191.15x
70	Cork	37	0.230%	31.43x
71	Dearden	36	0.230%	23.12x
72	Leaver	35	0.220%	34.18x
73	Hopkinson	34	0.210%	13.10x
74	Windle	34	0.210%	37.76x
75	Landless	33	0.210%	471.43x
76	Wildman	33	0.210%	34.01x
77	Duckworth	32	0.200%	10.42x
78	Grimshaw	32	0.200%	12.06x
79	Tattersall	32	0.200%	14.51x
80	Higson	31	0.200%	30.53x
81	Oddie	31	0.200%	102.75x
82	Crossley	29	0.180%	6.65x
83	Harker	29	0.180%	17.35x
84	Helliwell	29	0.180%	19.82x
85	Boothman	28	0.180%	46.04x
86	Crowther	28	0.180%	5.91x
87	Shuttleworth	28	0.180%	14.87x
88	Bullock	27	0.170%	5.23x
89	Horne	27	0.170%	7.81x
90	Broughton	26	0.160%	8.78x
91	Gott	26	0.160%	37.81x
92	Laycock	26	0.160%	11.92x
93	Speak	26	0.160%	47.06x
94	Altham	25	0.160%	126.39x
95	Fryer	25	0.160%	8.49x
96	Rawson	25	0.160%	14.42x
97	Riding	25	0.160%	23.36x
98	Blakeborough	24	0.150%	189.42x
99	Peel	24	0.150%	8.42x
100	Riddiough	24	0.150%	299.63x