1881 census place

Oswaldtwistle surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Oswaldtwistle, 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

408 surnames are listed for Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, covering 7,390 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Yates, with 314 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Oswaldtwistle

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	Yates	314	2.56%	37.30x
2	Haworth	299	2.44%	116.06x
3	Grimshaw	276	2.25%	134.89x
4	Duckworth	150	1.22%	63.36x
5	Hartley	146	1.19%	19.02x
6	Hargreaves	133	1.09%	26.05x
7	Tattersall	120	0.980%	70.57x
8	Clegg	119	0.970%	28.54x
9	Holden	115	0.940%	17.14x
10	Walsh	115	0.940%	17.64x
11	Kenyon	104	0.850%	40.67x
12	Pickup	103	0.840%	65.04x
13	Hindle	100	0.820%	58.11x
14	Riley	99	0.810%	10.22x
15	Smalley	99	0.810%	89.33x
16	Eccles	84	0.690%	42.86x
17	Pearson	79	0.650%	5.55x
18	Parkinson	77	0.630%	13.11x
19	Whittaker	77	0.630%	13.28x
20	Ratcliffe	76	0.620%	22.47x
21	Tomlinson	74	0.600%	13.10x
22	Walmsley	74	0.600%	29.20x
23	Whewell	73	0.600%	323.30x
24	Heap	70	0.570%	33.69x
25	Entwistle	68	0.560%	31.88x
26	Bentley	66	0.540%	12.74x
27	Greenwood	64	0.520%	6.73x
28	Fielding	63	0.510%	23.04x
29	Heys	63	0.510%	70.41x
30	Scholes	62	0.510%	43.66x
31	Cunliffe	60	0.490%	39.34x
32	Lomax	58	0.470%	33.54x
33	Crossley	55	0.450%	16.36x
34	Chambers	54	0.440%	7.75x
35	Catlow	52	0.420%	102.79x
36	Nuttall	51	0.420%	16.51x
37	Rigby	49	0.400%	13.79x
38	Sharples	49	0.400%	22.89x
39	Shuttleworth	49	0.400%	33.73x
40	Duxbury	48	0.390%	58.39x
41	Ainsworth	47	0.380%	19.38x
42	Houghton	46	0.380%	10.75x
43	Westall	46	0.380%	166.91x
44	Brindle	45	0.370%	51.20x
45	Butterworth	44	0.360%	10.01x
46	Preston	44	0.360%	7.19x
47	Whalley	43	0.350%	22.30x
48	Holding	42	0.340%	38.68x
49	Howarth	42	0.340%	7.14x
50	Townley	42	0.340%	54.39x
51	Lonsdale	41	0.330%	40.36x
52	Bury	39	0.320%	42.86x
53	Bradshaw	38	0.310%	7.55x
54	Crabtree	37	0.300%	15.00x
55	Rawcliffe	37	0.300%	75.59x
56	Woods	37	0.300%	4.79x
57	Crosley	36	0.290%	190.98x
58	Nuttal	34	0.280%	175.44x
59	Norris	33	0.270%	6.27x
60	Gregson	32	0.260%	18.88x
61	Hurst	32	0.260%	7.32x
62	Rushton	32	0.260%	12.67x
63	Cronshaw	31	0.250%	101.87x
64	Bolton	30	0.240%	5.69x
65	Crook	30	0.240%	8.53x
66	Gorton	30	0.240%	39.46x
67	Lord	30	0.240%	5.31x
68	Moulding	30	0.240%	101.73x
69	Pilkington	30	0.240%	13.63x
70	Farnworth	29	0.240%	46.02x
71	Holgate	29	0.240%	28.55x
72	Hacking	28	0.230%	48.28x
73	Walkden	27	0.220%	48.98x
74	Ashworth	26	0.210%	5.32x
75	Calvert	26	0.210%	10.41x
76	Rothwell	26	0.210%	11.55x
77	Wolstenholme	26	0.210%	26.60x
78	Lancaster	25	0.200%	8.21x
79	Savage	25	0.200%	5.31x
80	Baron	24	0.200%	18.93x
81	Dewhurst	24	0.200%	16.51x
82	Charnock	23	0.190%	39.33x
83	Sudall	23	0.190%	670.55x
84	Broughton	22	0.180%	9.63x
85	Woodworth	22	0.180%	118.73x
86	Cockshutt	21	0.170%	249.41x
87	Holdsworth	21	0.170%	10.18x
88	Lightbown	21	0.170%	141.03x
89	Oldham	21	0.170%	9.76x
90	Almond	19	0.160%	12.52x
91	Cocker	19	0.160%	18.92x
92	Fish	18	0.150%	7.89x
93	Lofthouse	18	0.150%	19.73x
94	Longton	18	0.150%	103.81x
95	Boardman	17	0.140%	8.65x
96	Duffy	17	0.140%	6.35x
97	Heyworth	17	0.140%	30.10x
98	Sagar	17	0.140%	34.18x
99	Sefton	17	0.140%	42.25x
100	Siddle	17	0.140%	64.96x