1881 census place

Hindley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hindley, 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

521 surnames are listed for Hindley, Lancashire, covering 8,289 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Green, with 200 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hindley

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	Green	200	1.35%	4.81x
2	Rigby	184	1.24%	42.92x
3	Marsh	152	1.03%	14.42x
4	Prescott	131	0.890%	62.84x
5	Atherton	117	0.790%	44.04x
6	Meadows	117	0.790%	56.61x
7	Gerrard	114	0.770%	60.36x
8	Whittle	100	0.680%	31.05x
9	Yates	93	0.630%	9.16x
10	Hilton	87	0.590%	17.12x
11	Aspinall	86	0.580%	42.28x
12	Walls	83	0.560%	46.69x
13	Lowe	79	0.530%	7.13x
14	Farrimond	78	0.530%	280.27x
15	Heyes	74	0.500%	64.66x
16	Pendlebury	73	0.490%	77.00x
17	Howarth	71	0.480%	10.00x
18	Ashton	70	0.470%	9.67x
19	Southern	69	0.470%	50.62x
20	Rothwell	67	0.450%	24.66x
21	Hampson	66	0.450%	24.78x
22	Cowburn	65	0.440%	120.84x
23	Cunliffe	65	0.440%	35.32x
24	Glover	62	0.420%	9.84x
25	Sharrock	60	0.410%	130.18x
26	Ingram	59	0.400%	13.07x
27	Oakes	59	0.400%	27.56x
28	Parr	59	0.400%	15.98x
29	Berry	58	0.390%	4.95x
30	Derbyshire	56	0.380%	36.34x
31	Collier	55	0.370%	11.13x
32	Grundy	55	0.370%	18.18x
33	Houghton	55	0.370%	10.65x
34	Knowles	55	0.370%	6.97x
35	Hayes	54	0.370%	5.88x
36	Ashurst	53	0.360%	101.32x
37	Higson	53	0.360%	56.08x
38	Makinson	53	0.360%	125.33x
39	Battersby	52	0.350%	49.82x
40	Bullough	51	0.350%	112.46x
41	Eccleston	51	0.350%	68.84x
42	Partington	51	0.350%	24.32x
43	Seddon	51	0.350%	21.24x
44	Anderton	44	0.300%	25.09x
45	Worthington	44	0.300%	14.85x
46	Aldred	43	0.290%	33.87x
47	Eatock	43	0.290%	363.18x
48	Eckersley	42	0.280%	45.43x
49	Gore	42	0.280%	25.17x
50	Hardman	42	0.280%	14.13x
51	Pilkington	42	0.280%	15.82x
52	Unsworth	42	0.280%	24.72x
53	Ashcroft	41	0.280%	20.73x
54	Darbyshire	41	0.280%	52.25x
55	Topping	41	0.280%	40.31x
56	Charnock	40	0.270%	56.68x
57	Halliwell	40	0.270%	24.39x
58	Heaton	40	0.270%	11.31x
59	Ramsdale	40	0.270%	113.06x
60	Higham	38	0.260%	25.23x
61	Holme	38	0.260%	55.47x
62	Parkinson	38	0.260%	5.36x
63	Eastham	36	0.240%	47.71x
64	Hodgkinson	35	0.240%	13.78x
65	Rosbottom	35	0.240%	417.16x
66	Crook	34	0.230%	8.01x
67	Dootson	34	0.230%	159.47x
68	Abbott	33	0.220%	5.06x
69	Bromilow	33	0.220%	161.13x
70	Chisnall	33	0.220%	125.24x
71	Hurst	33	0.220%	6.25x
72	Kearsley	33	0.220%	95.65x
73	Sumner	33	0.220%	13.79x
74	Boardman	32	0.220%	13.49x
75	Fairhurst	32	0.220%	26.44x
76	Monks	32	0.220%	26.75x
77	Sharples	32	0.220%	12.39x
78	Tyrer	31	0.210%	47.55x
79	Winstanley	31	0.210%	20.88x
80	Baxendale	30	0.200%	39.84x
81	Butterworth	29	0.200%	5.46x
82	Entwistle	29	0.200%	11.27x
83	Westhead	29	0.200%	84.43x
84	Mort	28	0.190%	39.27x
85	Rudd	28	0.190%	12.02x
86	Walkden	28	0.190%	42.09x
87	Critchley	27	0.180%	20.50x
88	Crompton	27	0.180%	10.85x
89	Isherwood	27	0.180%	15.79x
90	Walmsley	27	0.180%	8.83x
91	Birchall	26	0.180%	17.93x
92	Kenyon	26	0.180%	8.43x
93	Mather	26	0.180%	7.10x
94	Greenough	25	0.170%	67.01x
95	Grimshaw	25	0.170%	10.13x
96	Hodkinson	25	0.170%	23.96x
97	Lomax	25	0.170%	11.98x
98	Molyneaux	25	0.170%	94.70x
99	Openshaw	25	0.170%	34.79x
100	Platt	25	0.170%	6.39x