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 Clarkson, with 58 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
301	Clarkson	58	0.050%	1.96x
302	Entwistle	58	0.050%	2.98x
303	Houghton	58	0.050%	1.48x
304	Naylor	58	0.050%	1.38x
305	Ball	57	0.050%	0.62x
306	Etchells	57	0.050%	13.18x
307	Dobson	56	0.050%	1.13x
308	Frost	56	0.050%	0.89x
309	Meadowcroft	56	0.050%	13.78x
310	Walmsley	56	0.050%	2.42x
311	Renshaw	55	0.050%	5.20x
312	Simister	55	0.050%	18.80x
313	Brennan	54	0.050%	4.62x
314	Fallows	54	0.050%	10.07x
315	Parkin	54	0.050%	1.79x
316	Peel	54	0.050%	2.69x
317	Bird	53	0.050%	0.62x
318	Goodwin	53	0.050%	0.90x
319	Hutchinson	53	0.050%	0.83x
320	Lawson	53	0.050%	0.80x
321	Leech	53	0.050%	2.91x
322	Baxter	52	0.050%	0.78x
323	Grady	52	0.050%	7.05x
324	Haughton	52	0.050%	9.13x
325	Makin	52	0.050%	5.41x
326	Newby	52	0.050%	4.65x
327	Nicholls	52	0.050%	0.89x
328	Wade	52	0.050%	1.16x
329	Bancroft	51	0.050%	4.70x
330	Connolly	51	0.050%	3.93x
331	Sunderland	51	0.050%	3.97x
332	Swift	51	0.050%	1.48x
333	Eckersley	50	0.040%	7.15x
334	Gannon	50	0.040%	10.33x
335	Kennedy	50	0.040%	0.74x
336	Oliver	50	0.040%	0.63x
337	Pickup	50	0.040%	3.46x
338	Pilling	50	0.040%	3.70x
339	Cole	49	0.040%	0.48x
340	Fish	49	0.040%	2.35x
341	Hinchliffe	49	0.040%	5.08x
342	Mooney	49	0.040%	3.77x
343	Rushton	49	0.040%	2.12x
344	Casey	48	0.040%	2.91x
345	Coates	48	0.040%	1.15x
346	Duffy	48	0.040%	1.96x
347	Gledhill	48	0.040%	2.89x
348	Godfrey	48	0.040%	1.45x
349	Grimshaw	48	0.040%	2.57x
350	Neild	48	0.040%	16.86x
351	Smithies	48	0.040%	12.05x
352	Woodcock	48	0.040%	1.50x
353	Child	47	0.040%	2.47x
354	Guest	47	0.040%	1.97x
355	Power	47	0.040%	3.14x
356	Priestley	47	0.040%	2.48x
357	Rooney	47	0.040%	4.71x
358	Stringer	47	0.040%	2.11x
359	Waterhouse	47	0.040%	2.76x
360	Bromley	46	0.040%	2.67x
361	Brook	46	0.040%	1.07x
362	Earnshaw	46	0.040%	3.33x
363	Elson	46	0.040%	6.56x
364	Jacques	46	0.040%	4.85x
365	Murgatroyd	46	0.040%	5.47x
366	Nolan	46	0.040%	3.01x
367	Carroll	45	0.040%	2.00x
368	Cawley	45	0.040%	7.59x
369	Coupe	45	0.040%	5.76x
370	Flint	45	0.040%	2.24x
371	Fogg	45	0.040%	6.92x
372	Jennings	45	0.040%	0.79x
373	Lamb	45	0.040%	0.76x
374	Stevenson	45	0.040%	0.57x
375	Woolley	45	0.040%	2.03x
376	Durkin	44	0.040%	9.01x
377	Goodier	44	0.040%	11.00x
378	Mercer	44	0.040%	1.50x
379	Pickles	44	0.040%	1.94x
380	Rayner	44	0.040%	1.58x
381	Benson	43	0.040%	1.42x
382	Denton	43	0.040%	2.09x
383	Hough	43	0.040%	2.23x
384	Matley	43	0.040%	29.21x
385	Noble	43	0.040%	0.93x
386	Stocks	43	0.040%	3.53x
387	Sutton	43	0.040%	0.60x
388	Wells	43	0.040%	0.46x
389	Brearley	42	0.040%	6.01x
390	Briggs	42	0.040%	0.69x
391	Henry	42	0.040%	1.49x
392	Mannion	42	0.040%	14.45x
393	Pass	42	0.040%	7.69x
394	Patterson	42	0.040%	1.08x
395	Prestwich	42	0.040%	27.62x
396	Rostron	42	0.040%	6.30x
397	Welsh	42	0.040%	0.95x
398	Winterbottam	42	0.040%	190.56x
399	Brindle	41	0.040%	5.11x
400	Connell	41	0.040%	2.11x