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 Murray, with 93 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
201	Murray	93	0.080%	0.67x
202	Tattersall	93	0.080%	5.99x
203	Walton	93	0.080%	1.18x
204	Burns	92	0.080%	1.22x
205	Beaumont	91	0.080%	2.74x
206	Bates	89	0.080%	1.25x
207	Burke	89	0.080%	2.70x
208	Coop	88	0.080%	24.06x
209	Dearden	87	0.080%	7.93x
210	Fenton	87	0.080%	3.90x
211	Ellis	86	0.080%	0.53x
212	Rothwell	86	0.080%	4.18x
213	Saxon	86	0.080%	23.18x
214	Dickinson	85	0.080%	1.78x
215	Hirst	85	0.080%	2.33x
216	Duckworth	84	0.080%	3.88x
217	Moran	84	0.080%	4.10x
218	Stafford	83	0.070%	3.49x
219	Baron	82	0.070%	7.08x
220	Gill	82	0.070%	1.04x
221	Firth	81	0.070%	2.18x
222	Gibson	81	0.070%	0.60x
223	Siddall	81	0.070%	9.88x
224	Bowden	80	0.070%	2.48x
225	Bowers	80	0.070%	3.92x
226	Raynor	80	0.070%	10.31x
227	Shepley	79	0.070%	25.95x
228	Collier	78	0.070%	2.09x
229	Ainsworth	77	0.070%	3.47x
230	Hayes	77	0.070%	1.11x
231	Moores	77	0.070%	8.32x
232	Oldham	77	0.070%	3.92x
233	Pollitt	77	0.070%	8.92x
234	Hodgson	76	0.070%	0.98x
235	Murphy	76	0.070%	0.85x
236	Matthews	75	0.070%	0.77x
237	Reynolds	75	0.070%	0.77x
238	Rodgers	75	0.070%	2.45x
239	Whiteley	75	0.070%	3.73x
240	Burton	74	0.070%	0.78x
241	Palmer	74	0.070%	0.56x
242	Partington	74	0.070%	4.66x
243	Russell	74	0.070%	0.54x
244	Bracewell	73	0.070%	18.09x
245	Hibbert	73	0.070%	4.45x
246	Ford	72	0.060%	0.66x
247	Garforth	72	0.060%	22.97x
248	Barber	71	0.060%	1.05x
249	Hollingworth	71	0.060%	7.86x
250	Hyde	71	0.060%	2.06x
251	Knight	71	0.060%	0.51x
252	Rigby	71	0.060%	2.19x
253	Wroe	71	0.060%	15.40x
254	Connor	70	0.060%	2.12x
255	Grundy	70	0.060%	3.06x
256	Heaton	70	0.060%	2.61x
257	Hawkins	69	0.060%	0.85x
258	Wolstenholme	69	0.060%	7.73x
259	Doyle	68	0.060%	2.50x
260	Fleming	68	0.060%	1.46x
261	Rennie	68	0.060%	3.48x
262	Cooke	67	0.060%	1.09x
263	Dunn	67	0.060%	0.72x
264	Jagger	67	0.060%	7.56x
265	Bowker	66	0.060%	6.05x
266	Tomlinson	66	0.060%	1.28x
267	Carr	65	0.060%	0.81x
268	Haslam	65	0.060%	3.82x
269	Hewitt	65	0.060%	1.19x
270	Fox	64	0.060%	0.62x
271	Goddard	64	0.060%	1.42x
272	Marsh	64	0.060%	0.80x
273	Binns	63	0.060%	3.40x
274	Faulkner	63	0.060%	2.08x
275	Beech	62	0.060%	3.75x
276	Conway	62	0.060%	2.96x
277	Dean	62	0.060%	0.80x
278	Hampson	62	0.060%	3.07x
279	Massey	62	0.060%	2.17x
280	Morton	62	0.060%	1.04x
281	Blackburn	61	0.050%	1.45x
282	Bridge	61	0.050%	2.69x
283	Dodd	61	0.050%	1.34x
284	Wolstenhulme	61	0.050%	126.58x
285	Broome	60	0.050%	10.79x
286	Cunliffe	60	0.050%	4.31x
287	Isherwood	60	0.050%	4.63x
288	Knowles	60	0.050%	1.00x
289	May	60	0.050%	0.84x
290	Percival	60	0.050%	3.42x
291	Wardle	60	0.050%	2.77x
292	Woodhead	60	0.050%	2.86x
293	Calvert	59	0.050%	2.59x
294	Farrar	59	0.050%	3.96x
295	Flynn	59	0.050%	2.76x
296	Grindrod	59	0.050%	13.15x
297	Mallalieu	59	0.050%	69.27x
298	Nelson	59	0.050%	1.09x
299	Nichols	59	0.050%	1.62x
300	Pickering	59	0.050%	1.46x