1881 census place

Newton In Makerfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Newton In Makerfield, 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

476 surnames are listed for Newton In Makerfield, Lancashire, covering 3,395 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Naylor, with 90 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Newton In Makerfield

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	Naylor	90	0.850%	22.50x
2	Walton	62	0.580%	8.30x
3	Houghton	59	0.560%	15.91x
4	Appleton	56	0.530%	33.66x
5	Singleton	56	0.530%	26.69x
6	Williamson	55	0.520%	5.78x
7	Boardman	39	0.370%	22.90x
8	Critchley	36	0.340%	38.06x
9	Pennington	36	0.340%	22.91x
10	Mather	35	0.330%	13.30x
11	Worsley	32	0.300%	34.50x
12	Massey	28	0.260%	10.32x
13	Barr	27	0.250%	10.52x
14	Rigby	26	0.240%	8.44x
15	Fairclough	25	0.240%	22.57x
16	Parr	23	0.220%	8.67x
17	Turton	23	0.220%	19.29x
18	Dickens	22	0.210%	19.81x
19	Nuttall	22	0.210%	8.22x
20	Unsworth	22	0.210%	18.03x
21	Carlin	21	0.200%	38.92x
22	Kenny	21	0.200%	16.52x
23	Travis	21	0.200%	16.86x
24	Tunstall	20	0.190%	35.49x
25	Bunting	19	0.180%	16.04x
26	Hindley	19	0.180%	21.75x
27	Leather	19	0.180%	26.21x
28	Percival	19	0.180%	11.42x
29	Clare	18	0.170%	11.71x
30	Gorse	18	0.170%	120.89x
31	Bate	17	0.160%	9.45x
32	Eckersley	17	0.160%	25.61x
33	Ellam	17	0.160%	63.69x
34	Ellison	17	0.160%	7.58x
35	Sturgess	17	0.160%	27.92x
36	Watkinson	17	0.160%	13.67x
37	Birks	16	0.150%	22.74x
38	Gannon	16	0.150%	34.83x
39	Martindale	16	0.150%	26.26x
40	Millington	16	0.150%	9.95x
41	Sankey	16	0.150%	36.37x
42	Ashcroft	15	0.140%	10.56x
43	Aspinall	15	0.140%	10.27x
44	Astall	15	0.140%	522.65x
45	Glynn	15	0.140%	31.99x
46	Mullins	15	0.140%	14.77x
47	Sephton	15	0.140%	54.33x
48	Bassett	14	0.130%	8.45x
49	Bent	14	0.130%	18.10x
50	Dearden	14	0.130%	13.45x
51	Derbyshire	14	0.130%	12.65x
52	Gregson	14	0.130%	9.53x
53	Larkin	14	0.130%	14.68x
54	Pickup	14	0.130%	10.20x
55	Prescott	14	0.130%	9.35x
56	Carney	13	0.120%	13.54x
57	Egan	13	0.120%	14.76x
58	Holcroft	13	0.120%	56.77x
59	Large	13	0.120%	11.88x
60	Peak	13	0.120%	29.25x
61	Grice	12	0.110%	10.96x
62	Mottram	12	0.110%	20.87x
63	Sproston	12	0.110%	58.88x
64	Waterworth	12	0.110%	26.00x
65	Wolfe	12	0.110%	21.70x
66	Brammer	11	0.100%	43.34x
67	Clutterbuck	11	0.100%	29.79x
68	Coyne	11	0.100%	19.58x
69	Cunliffe	11	0.100%	8.32x
70	Delaney	11	0.100%	16.11x
71	Devereux	11	0.100%	38.26x
72	Dolan	11	0.100%	11.91x
73	Downes	11	0.100%	8.38x
74	Emmett	11	0.100%	12.38x
75	Flanagan	11	0.100%	13.22x
76	Hulmes	11	0.100%	79.77x
77	Molyneaux	11	0.100%	58.02x
78	Murrain	11	0.100%	1718.75x
79	Peet	11	0.100%	19.60x
80	Pilling	11	0.100%	8.59x
81	Rylance	11	0.100%	69.58x
82	Saul	11	0.100%	20.28x
83	Touhey	11	0.100%	887.10x
84	Broster	10	0.090%	57.01x
85	Cosgrove	10	0.090%	19.34x
86	Cronin	10	0.090%	26.15x
87	Dixson	10	0.090%	101.83x
88	Fahey	10	0.090%	80.13x
89	Garvey	10	0.090%	26.34x
90	Jolley	10	0.090%	17.88x
91	Lennox	10	0.090%	15.88x
92	Leyland	10	0.090%	15.42x
93	Liptrott	10	0.090%	178.57x
94	Martins	10	0.090%	57.57x
95	Nobbs	10	0.090%	22.72x
96	Peers	10	0.090%	16.15x
97	Waterman	10	0.090%	12.13x
98	Bartley	9	0.080%	17.63x
99	Battersby	9	0.080%	12.00x
100	Birkhead	9	0.080%	65.60x