1881 census place

Newton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Newton, 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

1,153 surnames are listed for Newton, Lancashire, covering 13,328 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 447 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Newton

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	447	1.67%	2.62x
2	Robinson	264	0.990%	3.10x
3	Shaw	130	0.490%	2.65x
4	Booth	123	0.460%	4.67x
5	Allen	120	0.450%	2.38x
6	Dixon	118	0.440%	4.03x
7	Hilton	106	0.400%	11.54x
8	Dawson	103	0.390%	3.50x
9	Dean	101	0.380%	5.45x
10	Ogden	99	0.370%	13.11x
11	Hulme	96	0.360%	16.80x
12	Bailey	92	0.340%	2.29x
13	Whitehead	92	0.340%	5.09x
14	Howarth	89	0.330%	6.93x
15	Barlow	82	0.310%	5.68x
16	Holt	82	0.310%	4.58x
17	Whittaker	79	0.300%	6.24x
18	Wild	77	0.290%	7.07x
19	Ashworth	74	0.280%	6.94x
20	Bates	74	0.280%	4.35x
21	Walmsley	72	0.270%	13.02x
22	Clough	71	0.270%	11.90x
23	Berry	67	0.250%	3.16x
24	Chadwick	66	0.250%	5.65x
25	Lees	65	0.240%	5.49x
26	Rothwell	65	0.240%	13.23x
27	Etchells	64	0.240%	61.95x
28	Butterworth	63	0.240%	6.57x
29	Bradley	62	0.230%	2.89x
30	Kay	62	0.230%	4.47x
31	Walton	62	0.230%	3.30x
32	Yates	62	0.230%	3.38x
33	Pollitt	61	0.230%	29.59x
34	Tetlow	61	0.230%	57.90x
35	Travis	61	0.230%	19.46x
36	Hadfield	60	0.220%	16.13x
37	Williamson	55	0.210%	2.30x
38	Bowker	53	0.200%	20.34x
39	Tomlinson	53	0.200%	4.30x
40	Farrington	52	0.190%	22.65x
41	Hargreaves	51	0.190%	4.58x
42	Schofield	51	0.190%	3.52x
43	Davenport	50	0.190%	9.88x
44	Hardman	50	0.190%	9.30x
45	Barrett	49	0.180%	2.73x
46	Heywood	49	0.180%	9.22x
47	Stansfield	49	0.180%	11.88x
48	Ashton	48	0.180%	3.67x
49	Kenyon	48	0.180%	8.60x
50	Ramsbottom	48	0.180%	26.60x
51	Beswick	46	0.170%	17.62x
52	Hartley	46	0.170%	2.75x
53	Greenhalgh	45	0.170%	8.22x
54	Hyde	45	0.170%	5.48x
55	Garner	44	0.160%	5.21x
56	Whittle	44	0.160%	7.56x
57	Barratt	43	0.160%	7.93x
58	Lord	43	0.160%	3.49x
59	Partington	43	0.160%	11.34x
60	Rigby	43	0.160%	5.55x
61	Thorpe	43	0.160%	4.07x
62	Collinson	42	0.160%	13.39x
63	Fielding	40	0.150%	6.71x
64	Warburton	40	0.150%	6.07x
65	Bardsley	39	0.150%	19.27x
66	Boardman	39	0.150%	9.10x
67	Hopwood	39	0.150%	12.81x
68	Blackwell	38	0.140%	7.81x
69	Atherton	37	0.140%	7.70x
70	Blomeley	37	0.140%	326.57x
71	Worthington	37	0.140%	6.91x
72	Ainsworth	36	0.130%	6.80x
73	Grimshaw	36	0.130%	8.07x
74	Heald	36	0.130%	21.69x
75	Bolton	35	0.130%	3.04x
76	Hampson	35	0.130%	7.27x
77	Wroe	35	0.130%	31.79x
78	Critchley	34	0.130%	14.28x
79	Hewitt	34	0.130%	2.61x
80	Horrocks	34	0.130%	10.36x
81	Ratcliffe	34	0.130%	4.61x
82	Shawcross	34	0.130%	38.38x
83	Woodhead	34	0.130%	6.79x
84	Mellor	33	0.120%	3.51x
85	Andrew	32	0.120%	3.78x
86	Gradwell	32	0.120%	51.69x
87	Haslam	32	0.120%	7.88x
88	Hobson	32	0.120%	4.62x
89	Moores	32	0.120%	14.48x
90	Greaves	31	0.120%	3.96x
91	Mather	31	0.120%	4.68x
92	Oldham	31	0.120%	6.60x
93	Drinkwater	30	0.110%	11.38x
94	Stanley	30	0.110%	2.92x
95	Cheetham	29	0.110%	7.01x
96	Duckworth	29	0.110%	5.62x
97	Lomas	29	0.110%	5.87x
98	Wilde	28	0.100%	7.20x
99	Clegg	27	0.100%	2.97x
100	Cocker	27	0.100%	12.32x