1881 census place

Heap surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Heap, 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

565 surnames are listed for Heap, Lancashire, covering 11,691 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 395 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Heap

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	Taylor	395	2.15%	3.36x
2	Howarth	337	1.83%	38.14x
3	Ashworth	290	1.58%	39.53x
4	Schofield	281	1.53%	28.19x
5	Butterworth	256	1.39%	38.78x
6	Chadwick	251	1.37%	31.22x
7	Greenhalgh	239	1.30%	63.46x
8	Holt	229	1.25%	18.60x
9	Ashton	227	1.23%	25.20x
10	Fletcher	186	1.01%	8.86x
11	Mills	175	0.950%	7.34x
12	Wild	173	0.940%	23.10x
13	Barlow	164	0.890%	16.52x
14	Stott	163	0.890%	28.38x
15	Lee	158	0.860%	5.26x
16	Kay	144	0.780%	15.07x
17	Diggle	143	0.780%	212.73x
18	Fitton	142	0.770%	68.68x
19	Booth	139	0.760%	7.66x
20	Whitworth	138	0.750%	44.93x
21	Lord	130	0.710%	15.34x
22	Nuttall	127	0.690%	27.40x
23	Kershaw	120	0.650%	20.24x
24	Clegg	118	0.640%	18.85x
25	Heywood	112	0.610%	30.62x
26	Whittaker	111	0.600%	12.75x
27	Wolstenholme	110	0.600%	74.97x
28	Aspinall	108	0.590%	42.68x
29	Dawson	108	0.590%	5.33x
30	Ogden	107	0.580%	20.58x
31	Leach	103	0.560%	13.58x
32	Hardman	101	0.550%	27.31x
33	Ingham	96	0.520%	20.99x
34	Partington	93	0.510%	35.65x
35	Hilton	88	0.480%	13.92x
36	Warburton	87	0.470%	19.18x
37	Rhodes	86	0.470%	10.07x
38	Crabtree	85	0.460%	22.96x
39	Fenton	81	0.440%	22.07x
40	Holden	77	0.420%	7.65x
41	Hamer	74	0.400%	21.49x
42	Crossley	72	0.390%	14.27x
43	Greenwood	72	0.390%	5.04x
44	Yates	66	0.360%	5.22x
45	Horrocks	65	0.350%	28.78x
46	Shepherd	64	0.350%	4.75x
47	Bridge	61	0.330%	16.38x
48	Livsey	59	0.320%	90.76x
49	Walsh	59	0.320%	6.03x
50	Duckworth	57	0.310%	16.04x
51	Rothwell	57	0.310%	16.87x
52	Standring	56	0.300%	104.61x
53	Brierley	55	0.300%	16.84x
54	Connolly	55	0.300%	25.76x
55	Buckley	54	0.290%	5.40x
56	Lomax	54	0.290%	20.80x
57	Dearden	52	0.280%	28.84x
58	Ramsbottom	51	0.280%	41.06x
59	Collinge	50	0.270%	40.68x
60	Meadowcroft	50	0.270%	74.85x
61	Royds	48	0.260%	159.57x
62	Horrox	47	0.260%	332.86x
63	Tetlow	47	0.260%	64.82x
64	Boyle	45	0.240%	9.43x
65	Manock	45	0.240%	421.35x
66	Coupe	41	0.220%	31.95x
67	Hargreaves	41	0.220%	5.35x
68	Openshaw	41	0.220%	45.87x
69	Rostron	40	0.220%	36.50x
70	Tattersall	39	0.210%	15.28x
71	Gee	36	0.200%	7.67x
72	Ridings	35	0.190%	85.72x
73	Wrigley	35	0.190%	15.05x
74	Cropper	33	0.180%	29.80x
75	Fairbrother	33	0.180%	31.56x
76	Birch	32	0.170%	4.25x
77	Davenport	32	0.170%	9.19x
78	Dutson	32	0.170%	172.04x
79	Maden	32	0.170%	47.60x
80	Pollitt	32	0.170%	22.55x
81	Bamford	31	0.170%	11.20x
82	Entwistle	31	0.170%	9.68x
83	Pickup	30	0.160%	12.62x
84	Whalley	30	0.160%	10.37x
85	Jacques	29	0.160%	18.60x
86	Kenyon	29	0.160%	7.55x
87	Ramsden	29	0.160%	8.65x
88	Ryan	29	0.160%	5.09x
89	Farrow	28	0.150%	8.12x
90	Grindrod	28	0.150%	37.98x
91	Hanson	27	0.150%	4.55x
92	Hope	27	0.150%	4.32x
93	Pilkington	27	0.150%	8.17x
94	Walmsley	27	0.150%	7.10x
95	Healey	26	0.140%	8.66x
96	Howorth	26	0.140%	31.63x
97	Molyneux	26	0.140%	18.52x
98	Rigby	26	0.140%	4.88x
99	Wolfenden	26	0.140%	30.25x
100	Broadbent	25	0.140%	6.34x