1881 census place

Heaton Norris surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Heaton Norris, 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

875 surnames are listed for Heaton Norris, Lancashire, covering 8,454 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Leigh, with 128 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Heaton Norris

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	Leigh	128	0.650%	28.19x
2	Burgess	111	0.560%	8.10x
3	Bennett	97	0.490%	2.99x
4	Lowe	91	0.460%	6.15x
5	Massey	89	0.450%	17.64x
6	Royle	84	0.430%	32.36x
7	Hulme	83	0.420%	19.67x
8	Dean	79	0.400%	5.77x
9	Williamson	78	0.400%	4.41x
10	Wild	70	0.350%	8.71x
11	Bardsley	69	0.350%	46.16x
12	Oldham	68	0.340%	19.61x
13	Bowden	59	0.300%	10.36x
14	Potts	58	0.290%	8.81x
15	Pickering	56	0.280%	7.87x
16	Walsh	54	0.270%	5.14x
17	Ashton	53	0.270%	5.48x
18	Barlow	51	0.260%	4.79x
19	Worthington	51	0.260%	12.89x
20	Sykes	50	0.250%	5.28x
21	Goddard	49	0.250%	6.18x
22	Lomas	48	0.240%	13.17x
23	Swindells	48	0.240%	37.98x
24	Beswick	47	0.240%	24.37x
25	Goodwin	47	0.240%	4.52x
26	Ridgway	47	0.240%	25.97x
27	Kershaw	46	0.230%	7.23x
28	Moss	46	0.230%	3.78x
29	Pollitt	46	0.230%	30.21x
30	Chadwick	45	0.230%	5.22x
31	Hough	45	0.230%	13.25x
32	Kitchen	45	0.230%	13.39x
33	Barber	44	0.220%	3.70x
34	Cheetham	44	0.220%	14.41x
35	Hopwood	43	0.220%	19.13x
36	Hampson	42	0.210%	11.81x
37	Mellor	42	0.210%	6.04x
38	Wilks	42	0.210%	13.53x
39	Whitaker	41	0.210%	7.36x
40	Boswell	39	0.200%	21.05x
41	Chorlton	39	0.200%	60.83x
42	Hibbert	39	0.200%	13.49x
43	Stokes	37	0.190%	4.44x
44	Whalley	37	0.190%	11.91x
45	Cooke	36	0.180%	3.31x
46	Gibbons	36	0.180%	5.68x
47	Lambert	36	0.180%	3.34x
48	Shawcross	35	0.180%	53.50x
49	Alcock	34	0.170%	11.94x
50	Andrew	34	0.170%	5.44x
51	Ratcliffe	34	0.170%	6.24x
52	Downs	33	0.170%	9.40x
53	Hammond	33	0.170%	2.94x
54	Hope	33	0.170%	4.91x
55	Kemp	33	0.170%	3.02x
56	Rigby	33	0.170%	5.77x
57	Derbyshire	32	0.160%	15.56x
58	Hodkinson	32	0.160%	22.98x
59	Hurst	31	0.160%	4.40x
60	Warburton	31	0.160%	6.37x
61	Barratt	30	0.150%	7.50x
62	Firth	30	0.150%	4.58x
63	Atherton	29	0.150%	8.18x
64	Gosling	29	0.150%	9.39x
65	Rayner	29	0.150%	5.89x
66	Mather	28	0.140%	5.72x
67	Moores	28	0.140%	17.16x
68	Ashworth	27	0.140%	3.43x
69	Broadhurst	27	0.140%	13.51x
70	Heywood	27	0.140%	6.88x
71	Needham	26	0.130%	6.19x
72	Wrigley	26	0.130%	10.42x
73	Bethell	25	0.130%	34.34x
74	Collier	25	0.130%	3.79x
75	Longson	25	0.130%	112.92x
76	Pickford	25	0.130%	15.56x
77	Smalley	25	0.130%	14.00x
78	Worsley	25	0.130%	14.50x
79	Axon	24	0.120%	48.76x
80	Grimes	24	0.120%	10.53x
81	Marsland	24	0.120%	20.88x
82	Perkin	24	0.120%	22.58x
83	Adam	23	0.120%	6.79x
84	Bromley	23	0.120%	7.57x
85	Grimshaw	23	0.120%	6.98x
86	Horrocks	23	0.120%	9.49x
87	Mottershead	23	0.120%	34.74x
88	Nield	23	0.120%	16.98x
89	Platt	23	0.120%	4.40x
90	Redfern	23	0.120%	8.37x
91	Travis	23	0.120%	9.94x
92	Yarwood	23	0.120%	28.66x
93	Bowers	22	0.110%	6.11x
94	Henshaw	22	0.110%	13.08x
95	Sharpe	22	0.110%	3.78x
96	Wakefield	22	0.110%	6.23x
97	Adamson	21	0.110%	4.02x
98	Brickhill	21	0.110%	297.87x
99	Chappell	21	0.110%	6.31x
100	Faulkner	21	0.110%	3.93x