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 Conroy, with 41 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
401	Conroy	41	0.040%	4.94x
402	France	41	0.040%	2.41x
403	Lever	41	0.040%	4.07x
404	Ormrod	41	0.040%	11.41x
405	Ridings	41	0.040%	16.50x
406	Rowbottom	41	0.040%	6.15x
407	Sellers	41	0.040%	4.77x
408	Stuttard	41	0.040%	16.78x
409	Buckly	40	0.040%	29.25x
410	Coleman	40	0.040%	0.72x
411	Grime	40	0.040%	6.81x
412	Hinchcliffe	40	0.040%	5.86x
413	Lomax	40	0.040%	2.53x
414	Lynch	40	0.040%	1.35x
415	Preston	40	0.040%	0.72x
416	Yardley	40	0.040%	5.63x
417	Ackroyd	39	0.030%	3.73x
418	Chester	39	0.030%	2.85x
419	Dunkerly	39	0.030%	58.66x
420	Emmott	39	0.030%	9.29x
421	Fitzpatrick	39	0.030%	2.38x
422	Freeman	39	0.030%	0.55x
423	Leeming	39	0.030%	5.63x
424	Longley	39	0.030%	5.13x
425	Mortimer	39	0.030%	1.67x
426	Oates	39	0.030%	2.24x
427	Potts	39	0.030%	1.04x
428	Chambers	38	0.030%	0.60x
429	Collin	38	0.030%	6.52x
430	Hallsworth	38	0.030%	18.00x
431	Hulley	38	0.030%	14.59x
432	Lister	38	0.030%	1.19x
433	Livsey	38	0.030%	9.60x
434	Pogson	38	0.030%	8.95x
435	Prince	38	0.030%	1.50x
436	Pritchard	38	0.030%	0.63x
437	Shore	38	0.030%	3.16x
438	Toole	38	0.030%	6.29x
439	Tupman	38	0.030%	39.12x
440	Banks	37	0.030%	0.64x
441	Drinkwater	37	0.030%	3.35x
442	Field	37	0.030%	0.66x
443	Mather	37	0.030%	1.33x
444	Wimpenny	37	0.030%	23.58x
445	Adamson	36	0.030%	1.22x
446	Collings	36	0.030%	2.70x
447	Duxbury	36	0.030%	4.79x
448	Hodkinson	36	0.030%	4.56x
449	Jinks	36	0.030%	7.68x
450	Joyce	36	0.030%	1.31x
451	Littlewood	36	0.030%	2.50x
452	Wadsworth	36	0.030%	2.31x
453	Wainwright	36	0.030%	1.52x
454	Whitaker	36	0.030%	1.14x
455	Wilcock	36	0.030%	2.26x
456	Wormald	36	0.030%	7.10x
457	Beard	35	0.030%	1.19x
458	Brett	35	0.030%	1.65x
459	Gallagher	35	0.030%	2.06x
460	Mann	35	0.030%	0.59x
461	Milner	35	0.030%	1.36x
462	Mitton	35	0.030%	10.68x
463	Moorhouse	35	0.030%	2.53x
464	Sandiford	35	0.030%	11.70x
465	Todd	35	0.030%	0.61x
466	Unsworth	35	0.030%	2.72x
467	Whithead	35	0.030%	22.36x
468	Blakeman	34	0.030%	10.34x
469	Fell	34	0.030%	2.16x
470	Gee	34	0.030%	1.19x
471	Horton	34	0.030%	0.82x
472	Ireland	34	0.030%	1.31x
473	Laycock	34	0.030%	2.21x
474	Leonard	34	0.030%	1.40x
475	Orme	34	0.030%	3.64x
476	Senior	34	0.030%	1.33x
477	Shackleton	34	0.030%	2.70x
478	Singleton	34	0.030%	1.54x
479	Stubbs	34	0.030%	1.15x
480	Swindells	34	0.030%	4.74x
481	Urmson	34	0.030%	47.40x
482	Walkden	34	0.030%	6.75x
483	Costello	33	0.030%	4.83x
484	Daltry	33	0.030%	57.74x
485	Devenport	33	0.030%	15.86x
486	Fernley	33	0.030%	21.28x
487	Hooley	33	0.030%	6.15x
488	Kenny	33	0.030%	2.46x
489	Mullin	33	0.030%	6.58x
490	Tweedale	33	0.030%	9.73x
491	Wareing	33	0.030%	4.55x
492	Dale	32	0.030%	0.68x
493	Hilditch	32	0.030%	9.90x
494	Jenkinson	32	0.030%	1.63x
495	Norton	32	0.030%	0.86x
496	Shuttleworth	32	0.030%	2.41x
497	Sidebottom	32	0.030%	4.99x
498	Wall	32	0.030%	0.82x
499	Windle	32	0.030%	5.04x
500	Bannister	31	0.030%	1.60x