1881 census place

Little Bolton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Little 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

1,524 surnames are listed for Little Bolton, Lancashire, covering 30,377 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 535 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Little 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	Taylor	535	1.20%	1.88x
2	Greenhalgh	478	1.07%	52.36x
3	Morris	339	0.760%	3.42x
4	Crompton	282	0.630%	37.60x
5	Howarth	282	0.630%	13.17x
6	Entwistle	279	0.630%	35.94x
7	Kay	273	0.610%	11.79x
8	Wood	268	0.600%	1.89x
9	Jackson	255	0.570%	2.05x
10	Holt	253	0.570%	8.48x
11	Horrocks	247	0.550%	45.11x
12	Haslam	243	0.550%	35.89x
13	Lee	220	0.490%	3.02x
14	Lomax	208	0.470%	33.06x
15	Walker	200	0.450%	1.34x
16	Hamer	198	0.440%	23.72x
17	Hall	189	0.420%	1.44x
18	Crook	188	0.420%	14.69x
19	Booth	181	0.410%	4.12x
20	Hardman	176	0.390%	19.63x
21	Yates	172	0.390%	5.62x
22	Holden	168	0.380%	6.88x
23	Rothwell	168	0.380%	20.51x
24	Pendlebury	167	0.370%	58.41x
25	Rostron	166	0.370%	62.49x
26	Barlow	165	0.370%	6.86x
27	Brooks	162	0.360%	3.72x
28	Knowles	160	0.360%	6.72x
29	Fletcher	157	0.350%	3.09x
30	Berry	153	0.340%	4.33x
31	Isherwood	152	0.340%	29.48x
32	Whittle	152	0.340%	15.65x
33	Walsh	149	0.330%	6.28x
34	Hargreaves	148	0.330%	7.97x
35	Mather	141	0.320%	12.76x
36	Thornley	137	0.310%	27.69x
37	Parkinson	136	0.310%	6.36x
38	Cooper	133	0.300%	1.23x
39	Lever	133	0.300%	33.12x
40	Heyes	126	0.280%	36.51x
41	Vickers	124	0.280%	10.84x
42	Warburton	122	0.270%	11.10x
43	Hart	120	0.270%	3.16x
44	Grundy	119	0.270%	13.04x
45	Ramsden	117	0.260%	14.40x
46	Leach	113	0.250%	6.14x
47	Nuttall	111	0.250%	9.88x
48	Fielding	110	0.250%	11.05x
49	Hulme	110	0.250%	11.54x
50	Pilkington	110	0.250%	13.74x
51	Bennett	109	0.240%	1.49x
52	Bradshaw	109	0.240%	5.95x
53	Pilling	109	0.240%	20.27x
54	Chadwick	108	0.240%	5.54x
55	Halliwell	107	0.240%	21.64x
56	Nightingale	106	0.240%	14.11x
57	Barnes	104	0.230%	1.94x
58	Smethurst	103	0.230%	30.18x
59	Ashworth	102	0.230%	5.74x
60	Boardman	98	0.220%	13.70x
61	Orrell	95	0.210%	57.30x
62	Rigby	94	0.210%	7.27x
63	Hampson	92	0.210%	11.45x
64	Bradley	91	0.200%	2.54x
65	Dawson	91	0.200%	1.85x
66	Marsh	91	0.200%	2.86x
67	Dickinson	89	0.200%	4.68x
68	Lowe	88	0.200%	2.63x
69	Brindle	86	0.190%	26.89x
70	Heywood	85	0.190%	9.59x
71	Thomasson	85	0.190%	104.99x
72	Ainsworth	84	0.190%	9.52x
73	Rushton	84	0.190%	9.14x
74	Foster	83	0.190%	1.39x
75	Scholes	83	0.190%	16.06x
76	Sharples	83	0.190%	10.65x
77	Ashton	82	0.180%	3.76x
78	Schofield	82	0.180%	3.39x
79	Partington	81	0.180%	12.81x
80	Russell	81	0.180%	1.49x
81	Hilton	80	0.180%	5.22x
82	Blackburn	79	0.180%	4.70x
83	Draper	79	0.180%	7.53x
84	Kelly	79	0.180%	1.62x
85	Openshaw	79	0.180%	36.46x
86	Woods	79	0.180%	2.81x
87	Mason	78	0.180%	1.30x
88	Hartley	77	0.170%	2.76x
89	Tonge	76	0.170%	26.78x
90	Webster	75	0.170%	1.93x
91	Hutchinson	74	0.170%	2.92x
92	Pollitt	74	0.170%	21.51x
93	Seddon	74	0.170%	10.22x
94	Tong	74	0.170%	47.04x
95	Bromiley	72	0.160%	124.37x
96	Bentley	71	0.160%	3.77x
97	Eckersley	71	0.160%	25.47x
98	Grime	70	0.160%	29.92x
99	Platt	70	0.160%	5.93x
100	Davenport	68	0.150%	8.05x