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 Colley, with 25 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
601	Colley	25	0.020%	1.76x
602	Donoghue	25	0.020%	6.74x
603	Easthope	25	0.020%	19.01x
604	Garnett	25	0.020%	1.80x
605	Godfry	25	0.020%	37.80x
606	Hewson	25	0.020%	2.74x
607	Hird	25	0.020%	2.90x
608	Hollis	25	0.020%	1.61x
609	Horsfall	25	0.020%	2.22x
610	Lang	25	0.020%	1.00x
611	Leigh	25	0.020%	0.97x
612	Lunn	25	0.020%	1.73x
613	Lyons	25	0.020%	1.00x
614	Malone	25	0.020%	2.79x
615	Milligan	25	0.020%	1.90x
616	Race	25	0.020%	4.10x
617	Royds	25	0.020%	13.66x
618	Royle	25	0.020%	1.70x
619	Tate	25	0.020%	1.16x
620	Tither	25	0.020%	45.22x
621	Beesley	24	0.020%	2.67x
622	Bloomer	24	0.020%	7.16x
623	Carney	24	0.020%	2.37x
624	Cope	24	0.020%	0.95x
625	Critchley	24	0.020%	2.41x
626	Curley	24	0.020%	6.16x
627	Delaney	24	0.020%	3.33x
628	Downs	24	0.020%	1.21x
629	Egerton	24	0.020%	4.37x
630	Gilmore	24	0.020%	3.66x
631	Gradwell	24	0.020%	9.26x
632	Higham	24	0.020%	2.10x
633	Mannock	24	0.020%	82.36x
634	Mellodew	24	0.020%	71.39x
635	Millington	24	0.020%	1.42x
636	Rigg	24	0.020%	2.55x
637	Seal	24	0.020%	2.97x
638	Slattery	24	0.020%	12.45x
639	Smallwood	24	0.020%	2.33x
640	Stanton	24	0.020%	1.08x
641	Steeple	24	0.020%	35.69x
642	Swallow	24	0.020%	2.13x
643	Thorp	24	0.020%	1.58x
644	Warrener	24	0.020%	12.47x
645	Whalley	24	0.020%	1.36x
646	Allison	23	0.020%	0.72x
647	Appleton	23	0.020%	1.31x
648	Blythe	23	0.020%	2.71x
649	Cadd	23	0.020%	19.61x
650	Cannon	23	0.020%	1.14x
651	Corbitt	23	0.020%	23.77x
652	Cryer	23	0.020%	3.74x
653	Duffey	23	0.020%	5.73x
654	Finney	23	0.020%	2.37x
655	Foley	23	0.020%	1.63x
656	Geraghty	23	0.020%	22.39x
657	Giblin	23	0.020%	10.61x
658	Goulding	23	0.020%	2.10x
659	Hick	23	0.020%	4.41x
660	Holgate	23	0.020%	2.48x
661	Kinder	23	0.020%	4.90x
662	Kirkman	23	0.020%	3.22x
663	Loftus	23	0.020%	3.77x
664	Sampson	23	0.020%	1.21x
665	Storey	23	0.020%	0.81x
666	Thornley	23	0.020%	1.85x
667	Vernon	23	0.020%	1.25x
668	Ashcroft	22	0.020%	1.47x
669	Brannan	22	0.020%	2.91x
670	Cropper	22	0.020%	3.26x
671	Dillon	22	0.020%	1.99x
672	Farrington	22	0.020%	2.29x
673	Flanagan	22	0.020%	2.51x
674	Forrest	22	0.020%	0.76x
675	Haworth	22	0.020%	0.93x
676	Hey	22	0.020%	2.22x
677	Hobson	22	0.020%	0.76x
678	Hornby	22	0.020%	1.73x
679	Irving	22	0.020%	0.88x
680	Kidger	22	0.020%	14.47x
681	Langfield	22	0.020%	18.01x
682	Maloney	22	0.020%	2.38x
683	Spivey	22	0.020%	8.88x
684	Summerscales	22	0.020%	16.36x
685	Suthers	22	0.020%	16.92x
686	Swindles	22	0.020%	21.73x
687	Whitham	22	0.020%	3.38x
688	Bright	21	0.020%	0.93x
689	Byrom	21	0.020%	6.91x
690	Cockcroft	21	0.020%	6.56x
691	Coope	21	0.020%	9.45x
692	Dewhurst	21	0.020%	1.58x
693	Foy	21	0.020%	2.27x
694	Gillespie	21	0.020%	1.18x
695	Hampshire	21	0.020%	3.31x
696	Heaps	21	0.020%	4.31x
697	Hindle	21	0.020%	1.34x
698	Hodson	21	0.020%	0.91x
699	Holdsworth	21	0.020%	1.11x
700	Leicester	21	0.020%	8.35x