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 Farnworth, with 68 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
101	Farnworth	68	0.150%	29.65x
102	Ryder	68	0.150%	8.81x
103	Settle	68	0.150%	44.40x
104	Collier	67	0.150%	4.50x
105	Cunliffe	67	0.150%	12.07x
106	Haworth	67	0.150%	7.15x
107	Kenyon	67	0.150%	7.20x
108	Birch	65	0.150%	3.56x
109	Howard	65	0.150%	1.49x
110	Nicholson	65	0.150%	2.05x
111	Atherton	64	0.140%	7.99x
112	Duxbury	64	0.140%	21.39x
113	Bleakley	63	0.140%	67.19x
114	Eccles	63	0.140%	8.83x
115	Ashcroft	62	0.140%	10.40x
116	Gregson	62	0.140%	10.05x
117	Leyland	62	0.140%	22.76x
118	Clough	61	0.140%	6.13x
119	Riley	61	0.140%	1.73x
120	Kirkman	60	0.130%	21.06x
121	Ratcliffe	60	0.130%	4.87x
122	Worsley	59	0.130%	15.15x
123	Hindle	58	0.130%	9.26x
124	Shepherd	58	0.130%	1.78x
125	Walmsley	58	0.130%	6.29x
126	Clegg	57	0.130%	3.76x
127	Dewhurst	57	0.130%	10.78x
128	Monks	57	0.130%	15.80x
129	Murphy	57	0.130%	1.60x
130	Stott	57	0.130%	4.09x
131	Whitehead	56	0.130%	1.86x
132	Bromley	55	0.120%	8.01x
133	Harwood	55	0.120%	4.61x
134	Heaton	55	0.120%	5.16x
135	France	54	0.120%	7.97x
136	Higson	54	0.120%	18.95x
137	Baxendale	52	0.120%	22.90x
138	Brierley	52	0.120%	6.57x
139	Duckworth	52	0.120%	6.04x
140	Farrington	52	0.120%	13.58x
141	Patterson	52	0.120%	3.35x
142	Aspinall	51	0.110%	8.31x
143	Barton	51	0.110%	2.12x
144	Beswick	51	0.110%	11.71x
145	Higginson	51	0.110%	11.43x
146	Hough	51	0.110%	6.65x
147	Hoyle	51	0.110%	4.96x
148	Whittaker	51	0.110%	2.42x
149	Winward	51	0.110%	108.10x
150	Markland	50	0.110%	50.15x
151	Brownlow	49	0.110%	36.46x
152	Diggle	49	0.110%	30.07x
153	Nelson	49	0.110%	2.27x
154	Porter	49	0.110%	1.47x
155	Hewitt	48	0.110%	2.21x
156	Hurst	48	0.110%	3.02x
157	Anderton	47	0.110%	8.89x
158	Clarkson	47	0.110%	3.98x
159	Delaney	47	0.110%	16.39x
160	Leigh	47	0.110%	4.58x
161	Shuttleworth	47	0.110%	8.89x
162	Slater	47	0.110%	1.74x
163	Banks	46	0.100%	2.01x
164	Briggs	46	0.100%	1.90x
165	Fairhurst	46	0.100%	12.61x
166	Mort	46	0.100%	21.39x
167	Naylor	46	0.100%	2.74x
168	Gerrard	45	0.100%	7.90x
169	Houghton	45	0.100%	2.89x
170	Longworth	45	0.100%	15.81x
171	Ogden	45	0.100%	3.57x
172	Ridings	45	0.100%	45.47x
173	Balshaw	44	0.100%	47.76x
174	Beddows	44	0.100%	51.15x
175	Bibby	44	0.100%	9.14x
176	Carroll	44	0.100%	4.92x
177	Flitcroft	44	0.100%	50.88x
178	Hodgkinson	44	0.100%	5.75x
179	Parr	44	0.100%	3.95x
180	Waddington	44	0.100%	6.08x
181	Baron	43	0.100%	9.32x
182	Glover	43	0.100%	2.26x
183	Harper	43	0.100%	1.51x
184	Horrobin	43	0.100%	85.23x
185	Aldred	42	0.090%	10.97x
186	Brockbank	42	0.090%	26.60x
187	Broughton	42	0.090%	5.05x
188	Buckley	42	0.090%	1.73x
189	Bolton	41	0.090%	2.14x
190	Hodson	41	0.090%	4.44x
191	Scowcroft	41	0.090%	59.76x
192	Battersby	39	0.090%	12.39x
193	Cheetham	39	0.090%	5.65x
194	Dearden	39	0.090%	8.92x
195	Fish	39	0.090%	4.70x
196	Fogg	39	0.090%	15.06x
197	Makin	39	0.090%	10.19x
198	Singleton	39	0.090%	4.43x
199	Smedley	39	0.090%	10.70x
200	Southern	39	0.090%	9.49x