1881 census place

Openshaw surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Openshaw, 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

734 surnames are listed for Openshaw, Lancashire, covering 5,635 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Ogden, with 79 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Openshaw

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
1	Ogden	79	0.490%	17.21x
2	Ryder	72	0.440%	25.62x
3	Bradshaw	67	0.410%	10.05x
4	Leigh	62	0.380%	16.60x
5	Andrew	54	0.330%	10.50x
6	Mellor	50	0.310%	8.74x
7	Barlow	46	0.280%	5.25x
8	Schofield	46	0.280%	5.23x
9	Wild	44	0.270%	6.65x
10	Renshaw	41	0.250%	26.70x
11	Heywood	40	0.250%	12.38x
12	Chadwick	39	0.240%	5.49x
13	Chorlton	36	0.220%	68.25x
14	Grimshaw	34	0.210%	12.54x
15	Potts	34	0.210%	6.27x
16	Hibbert	32	0.200%	13.45x
17	Ingham	32	0.200%	7.93x
18	Worthington	32	0.200%	9.83x
19	Smellie	31	0.190%	43.13x
20	Lomas	30	0.180%	10.00x
21	Atherton	29	0.180%	9.94x
22	Lawton	29	0.180%	6.93x
23	Parkes	29	0.180%	8.72x
24	Selby	29	0.180%	14.96x
25	Whittle	29	0.180%	8.20x
26	Hampson	28	0.170%	9.57x
27	Harrop	28	0.170%	15.16x
28	Hulme	27	0.170%	7.78x
29	Etchells	26	0.160%	41.41x
30	Gee	26	0.160%	6.28x
31	Massey	25	0.150%	6.02x
32	Stansfield	24	0.150%	9.57x
33	Beswick	23	0.140%	14.49x
34	Leah	23	0.140%	39.99x
35	Openshaw	23	0.140%	29.14x
36	Rushton	23	0.140%	6.87x
37	Sharples	23	0.140%	8.10x
38	Warburton	23	0.140%	5.74x
39	Withington	23	0.140%	53.64x
40	Gilmore	22	0.140%	23.12x
41	Royle	22	0.140%	10.30x
42	Stafford	22	0.140%	6.37x
43	Alker	21	0.130%	70.19x
44	Ashcroft	21	0.130%	9.67x
45	Bardsley	21	0.130%	17.07x
46	Dunkerley	21	0.130%	37.32x
47	Horrocks	21	0.130%	10.53x
48	Saxon	21	0.130%	39.01x
49	Thornley	21	0.130%	11.65x
50	Bowers	20	0.120%	6.75x
51	Buxton	20	0.120%	8.20x
52	Jervis	20	0.120%	16.03x
53	Boardman	19	0.120%	7.29x
54	Bowker	19	0.120%	12.00x
55	Haughton	19	0.120%	23.00x
56	Scholes	19	0.120%	10.09x
57	Woodhouse	19	0.120%	4.94x
58	Cheetham	18	0.110%	7.17x
59	Collinson	18	0.110%	9.45x
60	Cottrell	18	0.110%	12.45x
61	Pilkington	18	0.110%	6.17x
62	Pixton	18	0.110%	169.49x
63	Swindells	18	0.110%	17.31x
64	Travis	18	0.110%	9.45x
65	Vernon	18	0.110%	6.74x
66	Wharton	18	0.110%	7.91x
67	Hague	17	0.100%	6.66x
68	Heaps	17	0.100%	24.05x
69	Mottershead	17	0.100%	31.20x
70	Oldham	17	0.100%	5.96x
71	Bottomley	16	0.100%	5.92x
72	Cavanagh	16	0.100%	13.07x
73	Chadderton	16	0.100%	40.60x
74	Doxey	16	0.100%	61.23x
75	Kirkham	16	0.100%	7.06x
76	Roebuck	16	0.100%	14.55x
77	Sunderland	16	0.100%	8.59x
78	Acton	15	0.090%	15.96x
79	Braddock	15	0.090%	32.40x
80	Brierley	15	0.090%	5.20x
81	Callaghan	15	0.090%	8.16x
82	Carlisle	15	0.090%	17.55x
83	Cassidy	15	0.090%	7.56x
84	Farrington	15	0.090%	10.75x
85	Monks	15	0.090%	11.41x
86	Pollitt	15	0.090%	11.97x
87	Rowbottom	15	0.090%	15.50x
88	Urmston	15	0.090%	112.02x
89	Wray	15	0.090%	6.87x
90	Brownhill	14	0.090%	24.62x
91	Clapham	14	0.090%	10.01x
92	Halliwell	14	0.090%	7.77x
93	Hawkesworth	14	0.090%	108.02x
94	Oates	14	0.090%	5.53x
95	Seaborn	14	0.090%	89.97x
96	Southern	14	0.090%	9.35x
97	Unsworth	14	0.090%	7.50x
98	Wilkes	14	0.090%	4.98x
99	Wooley	14	0.090%	13.48x
100	Worth	14	0.090%	9.60x