1881 census place

North Meols surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in North Meols, 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

1,625 surnames are listed for North Meols, Lancashire, covering 17,940 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Rimmer, with 1,017 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in North Meols

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	Rimmer	1,017	3.00%	187.66x
2	Wright	825	2.43%	7.58x
3	Ball	627	1.85%	22.37x
4	Johnson	575	1.69%	5.04x
5	Howard	515	1.52%	15.47x
6	Taylor	342	1.01%	1.58x
7	Blundell	313	0.920%	78.34x
8	Halsall	280	0.830%	156.60x
9	Wareing	250	0.740%	113.67x
10	Jackson	249	0.730%	2.63x
11	Marshall	212	0.620%	3.72x
12	Sutton	207	0.610%	9.58x
13	Rigby	198	0.580%	20.12x
14	Robinson	196	0.580%	1.81x
15	Abram	180	0.530%	147.78x
16	Brookfield	152	0.450%	155.80x
17	Gregson	130	0.380%	27.69x
18	Lloyd	126	0.370%	3.18x
19	Aughton	120	0.350%	423.73x
20	Watkinson	118	0.350%	29.69x
21	Barton	110	0.320%	6.00x
22	Hunt	105	0.310%	2.33x
23	Sumner	105	0.310%	19.11x
24	Wilkinson	101	0.300%	1.95x
25	Todd	98	0.290%	5.68x
26	Bond	97	0.290%	5.40x
27	Carr	92	0.270%	3.76x
28	Peet	90	0.270%	50.18x
29	Cropper	85	0.250%	41.58x
30	Linaker	84	0.250%	286.20x
31	Ainscough	82	0.240%	89.79x
32	Spencer	80	0.240%	2.58x
33	Hodge	78	0.230%	9.12x
34	Whitehead	78	0.230%	3.40x
35	Fletcher	75	0.220%	1.94x
36	Seddon	71	0.210%	12.88x
37	Porter	70	0.210%	2.75x
38	Tomlinson	69	0.200%	4.41x
39	Dean	65	0.190%	2.76x
40	Southworth	63	0.190%	36.25x
41	Holden	62	0.180%	3.34x
42	Tasker	60	0.180%	16.63x
43	Bridge	56	0.170%	8.15x
44	Butterworth	56	0.170%	4.60x
45	Hesketh	56	0.170%	17.24x
46	Aspinall	55	0.160%	11.78x
47	Ryding	55	0.160%	118.97x
48	Baxter	54	0.160%	2.67x
49	Cadwell	52	0.150%	152.49x
50	Keen	52	0.150%	7.65x
51	Threlfall	52	0.150%	33.79x
52	Kershaw	51	0.150%	4.66x
53	Wignall	51	0.150%	29.44x
54	Hargreaves	50	0.150%	3.54x
55	Bolton	49	0.140%	3.35x
56	Lawson	48	0.140%	2.40x
57	Rothwell	47	0.140%	7.53x
58	Parkinson	46	0.140%	2.83x
59	Alty	45	0.130%	72.35x
60	Culshaw	45	0.130%	35.05x
61	Howarth	45	0.130%	2.76x
62	Walmsley	45	0.130%	6.41x
63	Chadwick	44	0.130%	2.97x
64	Kay	44	0.130%	2.50x
65	Pye	44	0.130%	8.67x
66	Twist	44	0.130%	26.22x
67	Leadbetter	43	0.130%	24.45x
68	Dyson	42	0.120%	3.82x
69	Buck	41	0.120%	5.64x
70	Heaton	41	0.120%	5.05x
71	Hodson	41	0.120%	5.84x
72	Houghton	41	0.120%	3.46x
73	Sykes	41	0.120%	2.52x
74	Buckley	40	0.120%	2.17x
75	Hewitt	40	0.120%	2.42x
76	Hooton	40	0.120%	34.14x
77	Hurst	40	0.120%	3.30x
78	Meadows	40	0.120%	8.43x
79	Stansfield	40	0.120%	7.63x
80	Banks	39	0.110%	2.24x
81	Cheetham	39	0.110%	7.43x
82	Heywood	38	0.110%	5.63x
83	Lawton	38	0.110%	4.34x
84	Ashworth	37	0.110%	2.73x
85	Forshaw	37	0.110%	16.22x
86	Thomason	37	0.110%	18.68x
87	Ashcroft	36	0.110%	7.93x
88	Leigh	36	0.110%	4.61x
89	Hilton	35	0.100%	3.00x
90	Lunt	35	0.100%	16.02x
91	Sawyer	35	0.100%	5.59x
92	Blackburn	32	0.090%	2.50x
93	Eaton	31	0.090%	3.26x
94	Mawdesley	31	0.090%	160.04x
95	Pennington	31	0.090%	6.17x
96	Collier	30	0.090%	2.65x
97	Heap	30	0.090%	5.21x
98	Leach	30	0.090%	2.14x
99	Fielding	29	0.090%	3.83x
100	Barrow	28	0.080%	3.89x