1881 census place

Oldham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Oldham, 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

3,148 surnames are listed for Oldham, Lancashire, covering 92,791 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 2,866 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Oldham

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	2,866	2.56%	4.01x
2	Lees	1,613	1.44%	32.52x
3	Buckley	1,520	1.36%	24.96x
4	Smith	1,177	1.05%	0.75x
5	Whitehead	1,098	0.980%	14.52x
6	Wild	1,065	0.950%	23.36x
7	Mills	1,045	0.930%	7.20x
8	Schofield	988	0.880%	16.29x
9	Shaw	909	0.810%	4.42x
10	Jackson	888	0.790%	2.84x
11	Ogden	857	0.770%	27.09x
12	Wood	849	0.760%	2.38x
13	Kershaw	814	0.730%	22.56x
14	Mellor	801	0.720%	20.32x
15	Brierley	715	0.640%	35.98x
16	Hilton	687	0.610%	17.86x
17	Robinson	608	0.540%	1.70x
18	Wrigley	598	0.530%	42.24x
19	Hall	594	0.530%	1.80x
20	Winterbottom	591	0.530%	57.21x
21	Stott	577	0.520%	16.51x
22	Broadbent	531	0.470%	22.13x
23	Clegg	528	0.470%	13.86x
24	Butterworth	527	0.470%	13.12x
25	Newton	511	0.460%	5.96x
26	Whittaker	493	0.440%	9.31x
27	Wright	492	0.440%	1.37x
28	Howarth	490	0.440%	9.11x
29	Booth	478	0.430%	4.33x
30	Holt	471	0.420%	6.29x
31	Ashton	454	0.410%	8.28x
32	Chadwick	426	0.380%	8.71x
33	Dunkerley	424	0.380%	109.33x
34	Turner	422	0.380%	1.35x
35	Dawson	417	0.370%	3.38x
36	Harrison	409	0.370%	1.65x
37	Heywood	401	0.360%	18.01x
38	Bardsley	399	0.360%	47.07x
39	Platt	378	0.340%	12.76x
40	Andrew	374	0.330%	10.55x
41	Brown	373	0.330%	0.51x
42	Johnson	366	0.330%	0.97x
43	Gartside	357	0.320%	76.69x
44	Scholes	344	0.310%	26.52x
45	Fletcher	334	0.300%	2.61x
46	Bradbury	329	0.290%	10.18x
47	Needham	328	0.290%	13.78x
48	Greaves	326	0.290%	9.94x
49	Walker	316	0.280%	0.84x
50	Barlow	315	0.280%	5.21x
51	Ashworth	305	0.270%	6.83x
52	Greenwood	300	0.270%	3.45x
53	Cheetham	299	0.270%	17.27x
54	Cooper	292	0.260%	1.07x
55	Lord	290	0.260%	5.62x
56	Wilson	290	0.260%	0.56x
57	Green	282	0.250%	0.90x
58	Ward	273	0.240%	1.12x
59	Walsh	270	0.240%	4.53x
60	Howard	267	0.240%	2.43x
61	Fielding	266	0.240%	10.65x
62	Clough	262	0.230%	10.49x
63	Lawton	262	0.230%	9.09x
64	Fitton	261	0.230%	20.74x
65	Kay	259	0.230%	4.46x
66	Mayall	256	0.230%	75.22x
67	Thompson	255	0.230%	0.76x
68	Slater	252	0.230%	3.72x
69	Brooks	251	0.220%	2.29x
70	Holden	248	0.220%	4.05x
71	Hague	244	0.220%	13.87x
72	Berry	242	0.220%	2.73x
73	Crossley	242	0.220%	7.88x
74	Nield	242	0.220%	31.50x
75	Sutcliffe	242	0.220%	5.48x
76	Leach	241	0.220%	5.22x
77	Wolstencroft	236	0.210%	53.85x
78	Bradley	231	0.210%	2.57x
79	Simpson	231	0.210%	1.18x
80	Wolfenden	224	0.200%	42.83x
81	Wilkinson	221	0.200%	1.29x
82	Eastwood	220	0.200%	8.31x
83	Hill	220	0.200%	0.77x
84	Travis	218	0.190%	16.61x
85	Mitchell	217	0.190%	0.96x
86	Stansfield	208	0.190%	12.04x
87	Dyson	205	0.180%	5.66x
88	Bottomley	204	0.180%	10.95x
89	Hughes	204	0.180%	0.65x
90	Cocker	200	0.180%	21.80x
91	Smethurst	198	0.180%	23.11x
92	Marlor	197	0.180%	164.78x
93	Garside	194	0.170%	12.02x
94	Harrop	194	0.170%	15.25x
95	Riley	193	0.170%	2.18x
96	Collins	185	0.170%	1.15x
97	Chadderton	184	0.160%	67.74x
98	Dixon	184	0.160%	1.50x
99	Halliwell	184	0.160%	14.82x
100	Tetlow	182	0.160%	41.25x