1881 census place

Newchurch surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Newchurch, 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

782 surnames are listed for Newchurch, Lancashire, covering 19,300 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Ashworth, with 1,044 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Newchurch

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	1,044	3.68%	92.27x
2	Taylor	851	3.00%	4.69x
3	Lord	836	2.95%	63.94x
4	Hargreaves	449	1.58%	37.98x
5	Greenwood	398	1.40%	18.07x
6	Nuttall	381	1.34%	53.28x
7	Pilling	336	1.18%	98.18x
8	Law	328	1.16%	25.57x
9	Haworth	297	1.05%	49.79x
10	Holt	296	1.04%	15.59x
11	Pickup	294	1.04%	80.18x
12	Hoyle	269	0.950%	41.10x
13	Howorth	265	0.930%	208.99x
14	Tattersall	247	0.870%	62.73x
15	Whittaker	243	0.860%	18.10x
16	Heyworth	238	0.840%	182.00x
17	Stott	229	0.810%	25.85x
18	Ormerod	213	0.750%	93.92x
19	Riley	206	0.730%	9.18x
20	Sutcliffe	191	0.670%	17.05x
21	Maden	181	0.640%	174.56x
22	Barnes	173	0.610%	5.07x
23	Mitchell	171	0.600%	2.97x
24	Cunliffe	160	0.560%	45.31x
25	Spencer	155	0.550%	5.99x
26	Cropper	152	0.540%	88.98x
27	Ingham	152	0.540%	21.55x
28	Heap	144	0.510%	29.93x
29	Shepherd	144	0.510%	6.93x
30	Schofield	135	0.480%	8.78x
31	Kershaw	131	0.460%	14.32x
32	Harrison	130	0.460%	2.07x
33	Walsh	130	0.460%	8.61x
34	Clegg	128	0.450%	13.26x
35	Hamer	117	0.410%	22.03x
36	Stansfield	116	0.410%	26.49x
37	Hitchen	113	0.400%	58.53x
38	Crabtree	112	0.390%	19.61x
39	Wilkinson	112	0.390%	2.59x
40	Hartley	108	0.380%	6.08x
41	Hardman	104	0.370%	18.23x
42	Collinge	103	0.360%	54.33x
43	Heys	100	0.350%	48.26x
44	Parkinson	100	0.350%	7.35x
45	Halstead	97	0.340%	41.11x
46	Fielding	94	0.330%	14.85x
47	Buckley	93	0.330%	6.02x
48	Butterworth	93	0.330%	9.13x
49	Howarth	93	0.330%	6.82x
50	Barlow	92	0.320%	6.01x
51	Rothwell	89	0.310%	17.07x
52	Ogden	78	0.280%	9.73x
53	Crowther	76	0.270%	8.98x
54	Eastwood	75	0.260%	11.18x
55	Holden	73	0.260%	4.70x
56	Duckworth	71	0.250%	12.95x
57	Bridge	69	0.240%	12.01x
58	Trickett	69	0.240%	56.05x
59	Hindle	68	0.240%	17.06x
60	Whitehead	68	0.240%	3.55x
61	Crossley	67	0.240%	8.61x
62	Warburton	66	0.230%	9.43x
63	Lonsdale	60	0.210%	25.51x
64	Rushton	60	0.210%	10.26x
65	Birtwistle	58	0.200%	37.23x
66	Bolton	57	0.200%	4.67x
67	Pickles	55	0.190%	9.54x
68	Dearden	53	0.190%	19.06x
69	Bentley	52	0.180%	4.34x
70	Barcroft	51	0.180%	190.30x
71	Burke	49	0.170%	5.87x
72	Ratcliffe	49	0.170%	6.26x
73	Entwistle	46	0.160%	9.31x
74	Tomlinson	46	0.160%	3.52x
75	Crankshaw	45	0.160%	117.34x
76	Sunderland	45	0.160%	13.83x
77	Grimshaw	44	0.160%	9.29x
78	Pilkington	44	0.160%	8.64x
79	Platt	44	0.160%	5.86x
80	Kay	42	0.150%	2.85x
81	Whitworth	42	0.150%	8.87x
82	Worswick	42	0.150%	112.57x
83	Hanson	40	0.140%	4.37x
84	Greaves	39	0.140%	4.69x
85	Wallwork	39	0.140%	23.64x
86	Chadwick	38	0.130%	3.06x
87	Pollard	38	0.130%	3.67x
88	Blackburn	37	0.130%	3.46x
89	Coupe	37	0.130%	18.70x
90	Lambert	37	0.130%	2.39x
91	Lancaster	37	0.130%	5.25x
92	Hollows	36	0.130%	64.88x
93	Scholes	36	0.130%	10.95x
94	Walmsley	36	0.130%	6.13x
95	Woodhead	36	0.130%	6.77x
96	Crawshaw	35	0.120%	15.86x
97	Daley	35	0.120%	10.49x
98	Laycock	35	0.120%	8.98x
99	Priestley	34	0.120%	7.08x
100	Redman	34	0.120%	9.11x