1881 census place

Lower Booths surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Lower Booths, 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

242 surnames are listed for Lower Booths, Lancashire, covering 3,201 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Ashworth, with 206 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Lower Booths

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	Ashworth	206	3.32%	83.13x
2	Haworth	121	1.95%	92.62x
3	Nuttall	121	1.95%	77.27x
4	Whittaker	107	1.72%	36.38x
5	Barnes	106	1.71%	14.18x
6	Ingham	105	1.69%	67.97x
7	Lord	82	1.32%	28.63x
8	Greenwood	71	1.14%	14.72x
9	Hargreaves	64	1.03%	24.72x
10	Rothwell	63	1.01%	55.18x
11	Cunliffe	61	0.980%	78.87x
12	Ormerod	55	0.890%	110.73x
13	Tattersall	55	0.890%	63.78x
14	Holden	54	0.870%	15.87x
15	Duckworth	50	0.810%	41.65x
16	Parkinson	48	0.770%	16.11x
17	Heys	45	0.720%	99.16x
18	Sutcliffe	45	0.720%	18.34x
19	Hindle	44	0.710%	50.42x
20	Tomlinson	43	0.690%	15.01x
21	Ramsbottom	41	0.660%	97.71x
22	Bridge	40	0.640%	31.80x
23	Pickup	37	0.600%	46.08x
24	Crabtree	31	0.500%	24.78x
25	Hanson	31	0.500%	15.47x
26	Hardman	31	0.500%	24.81x
27	Pilling	31	0.500%	41.36x
28	Hoyle	28	0.450%	19.53x
29	Stansfield	28	0.450%	29.20x
30	Butterworth	27	0.430%	12.11x
31	Coupe	27	0.430%	62.28x
32	Eastwood	27	0.430%	18.38x
33	Riding	27	0.430%	64.52x
34	Heap	26	0.420%	24.67x
35	Entwistle	25	0.400%	23.11x
36	Birtwistle	23	0.370%	67.41x
37	Boothman	23	0.370%	96.68x
38	Terry	21	0.340%	13.23x
39	Maden	20	0.320%	88.07x
40	Chalk	18	0.290%	43.95x
41	Heyworth	18	0.290%	62.85x
42	Ireland	18	0.290%	12.48x
43	Lonsdale	18	0.290%	34.94x
44	Shadlock	18	0.290%	684.41x
45	Workman	18	0.290%	44.05x
46	Foulds	17	0.270%	40.46x
47	Hamer	17	0.270%	14.62x
48	Pilkington	17	0.270%	15.23x
49	Golding	15	0.240%	13.70x
50	Gregson	14	0.230%	16.29x
51	Collinge	13	0.210%	31.31x
52	Fort	13	0.210%	89.04x
53	Maudsley	13	0.210%	73.74x
54	Nowell	13	0.210%	44.58x
55	Redhead	13	0.210%	38.53x
56	Speak	13	0.210%	60.16x
57	Sagar	12	0.190%	47.58x
58	Wooff	12	0.190%	355.03x
59	Cardus	11	0.180%	335.37x
60	Dewhurst	11	0.180%	14.92x
61	Frankland	11	0.180%	23.90x
62	Jefferson	11	0.180%	16.30x
63	Mahon	11	0.180%	39.94x
64	Peaton	11	0.180%	1100.00x
65	Plunkett	11	0.180%	66.95x
66	Wallwork	11	0.180%	30.45x
67	Winslow	11	0.180%	145.31x
68	Bice	10	0.160%	321.54x
69	Chadband	10	0.160%	581.40x
70	Gavin	10	0.160%	32.56x
71	Levell	10	0.160%	200.00x
72	Longland	10	0.160%	101.32x
73	Rackstraw	10	0.160%	199.20x
74	Standring	10	0.160%	55.31x
75	Walmesley	10	0.160%	135.87x
76	Altham	9	0.140%	116.28x
77	Bobbins	9	0.140%	737.70x
78	Cosgrove	9	0.140%	29.74x
79	Duane	9	0.140%	1666.67x
80	Gorham	9	0.140%	72.23x
81	Harling	9	0.140%	33.72x
82	Lupton	9	0.140%	20.04x
83	Moulds	9	0.140%	83.64x
84	Smyth	9	0.140%	15.51x
85	Aspden	8	0.130%	29.27x
86	Catlow	8	0.130%	31.19x
87	Chew	8	0.130%	25.32x
88	Coope	8	0.130%	64.83x
89	Hitchen	8	0.130%	18.92x
90	Hollows	8	0.130%	65.84x
91	Hyslop	8	0.130%	22.40x
92	Purcell	8	0.130%	18.52x
93	Ready	8	0.130%	51.35x
94	Sandham	8	0.130%	50.09x
95	Scaife	8	0.130%	29.05x
96	Trickett	8	0.130%	29.67x
97	Westwell	8	0.130%	64.21x
98	Woodburn	8	0.130%	40.65x
99	Aykroyd	7	0.110%	299.15x
100	Cawley	7	0.110%	21.28x