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 Lisle, with 21 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
701	Lisle	21	0.020%	7.50x
702	Norbury	21	0.020%	3.71x
703	Saville	21	0.020%	2.07x
704	Smedley	21	0.020%	2.29x
705	Tierney	21	0.020%	4.55x
706	Trevitt	21	0.020%	17.62x
707	Whatmough	21	0.020%	8.85x
708	Wolstoncroft	21	0.020%	122.16x
709	Bayley	20	0.020%	1.11x
710	Belshaw	20	0.020%	9.38x
711	Bibby	20	0.020%	1.66x
712	Blagg	20	0.020%	9.86x
713	Boothby	20	0.020%	6.30x
714	Caffrey	20	0.020%	14.91x
715	Cash	20	0.020%	2.70x
716	Cliff	20	0.020%	2.04x
717	Elliot	20	0.020%	0.70x
718	Garth	20	0.020%	8.06x
719	Hardcastle	20	0.020%	2.02x
720	Hitchen	20	0.020%	2.63x
721	Hogan	20	0.020%	1.78x
722	Kaye	20	0.020%	1.19x
723	Keefe	20	0.020%	4.14x
724	Matthew	20	0.020%	2.37x
725	Merrick	20	0.020%	2.41x
726	Oconnor	20	0.020%	3.13x
727	Quarmby	20	0.020%	6.75x
728	Ridgway	20	0.020%	1.95x
729	Sneyd	20	0.020%	18.21x
730	Varley	20	0.020%	1.30x
731	Airey	19	0.020%	2.23x
732	Battersby	19	0.020%	2.40x
733	Batty	19	0.020%	1.11x
734	Broomhead	19	0.020%	3.80x
735	Churchill	19	0.020%	1.43x
736	Cliffe	19	0.020%	2.71x
737	Cohen	19	0.020%	1.08x
738	Connelly	19	0.020%	1.83x
739	Cooney	19	0.020%	4.09x
740	Cordingley	19	0.020%	4.92x
741	Cottom	19	0.020%	9.88x
742	Crowder	19	0.020%	4.27x
743	Doran	19	0.020%	2.04x
744	Downing	19	0.020%	0.98x
745	Edmundson	19	0.020%	5.99x
746	England	19	0.020%	0.82x
747	Forsyth	19	0.020%	0.80x
748	Gorman	19	0.020%	1.41x
749	Gorton	19	0.020%	2.74x
750	Gosling	19	0.020%	1.08x
751	Hallett	19	0.020%	1.38x
752	Harrington	19	0.020%	0.89x
753	Heathcote	19	0.020%	2.10x
754	Maiden	19	0.020%	6.18x
755	Metcalf	19	0.020%	0.84x
756	Ormerod	19	0.020%	2.12x
757	Quinlan	19	0.020%	7.71x
758	Rowson	19	0.020%	4.71x
759	Sankey	19	0.020%	4.10x
760	Seaton	19	0.020%	2.01x
761	Sedgwick	19	0.020%	2.34x
762	Steer	19	0.020%	1.45x
763	Vickers	19	0.020%	0.66x
764	Wheelhouse	19	0.020%	7.51x
765	Armstead	18	0.020%	10.25x
766	Ayres	18	0.020%	1.16x
767	Brady	18	0.020%	0.91x
768	Cahill	18	0.020%	3.50x
769	Casson	18	0.020%	2.71x
770	Cocks	18	0.020%	2.42x
771	Cowling	18	0.020%	1.83x
772	Coyne	18	0.020%	3.04x
773	Cullen	18	0.020%	0.92x
774	Eccles	18	0.020%	1.01x
775	Edge	18	0.020%	0.93x
776	Fearn	18	0.020%	2.15x
777	Fiddler	18	0.020%	7.45x
778	Galloway	18	0.020%	0.93x
779	Galvin	18	0.020%	7.48x
780	Gascoyne	18	0.020%	6.94x
781	Handley	18	0.020%	0.95x
782	Hines	18	0.020%	1.89x
783	Hulse	18	0.020%	2.54x
784	Illing	18	0.020%	32.56x
785	Jump	18	0.020%	9.37x
786	Lea	18	0.020%	0.81x
787	Linney	18	0.020%	5.11x
788	Meakin	18	0.020%	2.06x
789	Mulligan	18	0.020%	2.88x
790	Prescott	18	0.020%	1.14x
791	Rainford	18	0.020%	5.55x
792	Rourke	18	0.020%	3.26x
793	Sixsmith	18	0.020%	9.62x
794	Summersgill	18	0.020%	12.32x
795	Whipp	18	0.020%	4.99x
796	Whiteside	18	0.020%	2.02x
797	Winn	18	0.020%	1.66x
798	Anchor	17	0.020%	48.42x
799	Ashby	17	0.020%	0.91x
800	Bigwood	17	0.020%	10.41x