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 Brierly, with 31 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
501	Brierly	31	0.030%	13.21x
502	Bunting	31	0.030%	2.48x
503	Cassidy	31	0.030%	2.27x
504	Charlesworth	31	0.030%	2.15x
505	Driver	31	0.030%	1.50x
506	Flaherty	31	0.030%	9.01x
507	Jepson	31	0.030%	2.83x
508	Lindley	31	0.030%	2.80x
509	Monks	31	0.030%	3.42x
510	Oldfield	31	0.030%	1.68x
511	Pilkington	31	0.030%	1.54x
512	Quinn	31	0.030%	1.45x
513	Sugden	31	0.030%	2.40x
514	Thewlis	31	0.030%	12.52x
515	Welch	31	0.030%	0.79x
516	Weston	31	0.030%	0.68x
517	Wilding	31	0.030%	2.36x
518	Boyd	30	0.030%	0.76x
519	Braddock	30	0.030%	9.40x
520	Diggle	30	0.030%	7.33x
521	Glynn	30	0.030%	6.07x
522	Hetherington	30	0.030%	2.13x
523	Jessop	30	0.030%	2.26x
524	Neal	30	0.030%	0.91x
525	Reeves	30	0.030%	0.65x
526	Rushworth	30	0.030%	3.24x
527	Waller	30	0.030%	1.06x
528	Aspinall	29	0.030%	1.88x
529	Birchall	29	0.030%	2.64x
530	Brocklehurst	29	0.030%	4.75x
531	Callaghan	29	0.030%	2.29x
532	Dickenson	29	0.030%	1.71x
533	Goodman	29	0.030%	0.89x
534	Hallas	29	0.030%	6.95x
535	Hawksworth	29	0.030%	5.75x
536	Hearne	29	0.030%	7.75x
537	Hindley	29	0.030%	3.15x
538	Hodgkinson	29	0.030%	1.51x
539	Kent	29	0.030%	0.62x
540	Lancashire	29	0.030%	10.84x
541	Livesey	29	0.030%	2.65x
542	Mulcrone	29	0.030%	172.52x
543	Ryder	29	0.030%	1.50x
544	Stopford	29	0.030%	12.22x
545	Waugh	29	0.030%	1.90x
546	Atkin	28	0.030%	1.87x
547	Barrott	28	0.030%	38.24x
548	Barry	28	0.030%	1.38x
549	Bramhall	28	0.030%	7.89x
550	Cavanagh	28	0.030%	3.32x
551	Farrell	28	0.030%	1.32x
552	Franklin	28	0.030%	0.75x
553	Hallam	28	0.030%	1.34x
554	Hayhurst	28	0.030%	5.73x
555	Hepworth	28	0.030%	2.19x
556	Heys	28	0.030%	3.43x
557	Kirkham	28	0.030%	1.79x
558	Meredith	28	0.030%	1.24x
559	Pennington	28	0.030%	1.69x
560	Roach	28	0.030%	1.70x
561	Roe	28	0.030%	1.28x
562	Townson	28	0.030%	5.96x
563	Truelove	28	0.030%	14.25x
564	Birtwistle	27	0.020%	4.39x
565	Broadhurst	27	0.020%	2.38x
566	Chew	27	0.020%	4.75x
567	Cummings	27	0.020%	1.57x
568	Daley	27	0.020%	2.05x
569	Durrans	27	0.020%	25.10x
570	Highton	27	0.020%	10.67x
571	Hopkinson	27	0.020%	1.48x
572	Kearsley	27	0.020%	10.34x
573	Lumley	27	0.020%	3.96x
574	Park	27	0.020%	0.78x
575	Ripley	27	0.020%	3.65x
576	Sharples	27	0.020%	1.38x
577	Shawcross	27	0.020%	7.28x
578	Slate	27	0.020%	27.48x
579	Stead	27	0.020%	1.18x
580	Steele	27	0.020%	0.90x
581	Waddington	27	0.020%	1.49x
582	Astin	26	0.020%	8.01x
583	Boden	26	0.020%	2.87x
584	Brogan	26	0.020%	6.89x
585	Chorley	26	0.020%	6.86x
586	Clare	26	0.020%	1.61x
587	Hulton	26	0.020%	11.70x
588	Lingard	26	0.020%	3.66x
589	Marlow	26	0.020%	1.98x
590	Mosley	26	0.020%	2.47x
591	Pickford	26	0.020%	2.85x
592	Roscoe	26	0.020%	3.74x
593	Walch	26	0.020%	15.16x
594	Whittle	26	0.020%	1.07x
595	Worrall	26	0.020%	1.83x
596	Anderton	25	0.020%	1.88x
597	Axon	25	0.020%	8.96x
598	Boothroyd	25	0.020%	4.33x
599	Brunt	25	0.020%	3.24x
600	Carey	25	0.020%	1.19x