1881 census place

Over Darwen surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Over Darwen, 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

682 surnames are listed for Over Darwen, Lancashire, covering 19,081 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Holden, with 721 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Over Darwen

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	Holden	721	2.60%	47.54x
2	Entwistle	610	2.20%	126.49x
3	Bury	524	1.89%	254.72x
4	Walsh	518	1.87%	35.14x
5	Harwood	476	1.72%	64.21x
6	Fish	448	1.62%	86.88x
7	Taylor	420	1.52%	2.37x
8	Kay	393	1.42%	27.32x
9	Ainsworth	365	1.32%	66.56x
10	Eccles	365	1.32%	82.38x
11	Shorrock	304	1.10%	222.61x
12	Aspden	291	1.05%	238.80x
13	Yates	291	1.05%	15.29x
14	Briggs	253	0.910%	16.82x
15	Cooper	252	0.910%	3.74x
16	Duxbury	252	0.910%	135.60x
17	Haworth	245	0.880%	42.07x
18	Leach	245	0.880%	21.44x
19	Jepson	226	0.820%	83.43x
20	Knowles	199	0.720%	13.46x
21	Hargreaves	196	0.710%	16.98x
22	Lomax	185	0.670%	47.33x
23	Kirkham	182	0.660%	47.11x
24	Watson	172	0.620%	2.68x
25	Whittaker	168	0.610%	12.81x
26	Waddicor	163	0.590%	835.47x
27	Grime	156	0.560%	107.33x
28	Duckworth	150	0.540%	28.02x
29	Almond	148	0.530%	43.12x
30	Kershaw	147	0.530%	16.46x
31	Pilkington	145	0.520%	29.14x
32	Isherwood	135	0.490%	42.14x
33	Baron	132	0.480%	46.05x
34	Ward	122	0.440%	2.02x
35	Nuttall	120	0.430%	17.19x
36	Lightbown	118	0.430%	350.67x
37	Walkden	115	0.420%	92.27x
38	Cocker	114	0.410%	50.20x
39	Riley	114	0.410%	5.20x
40	Walmsley	110	0.400%	19.20x
41	Hindle	109	0.390%	28.02x
42	Whalley	105	0.380%	24.09x
43	Chadwick	101	0.360%	8.34x
44	Gibson	101	0.360%	3.01x
45	Hacking	99	0.360%	75.51x
46	Lowe	99	0.360%	4.77x
47	Howarth	96	0.350%	7.22x
48	Sharples	96	0.350%	19.83x
49	Riding	95	0.340%	50.92x
50	Bentley	93	0.340%	7.94x
51	Greenhalgh	93	0.340%	16.40x
52	Ashworth	90	0.330%	8.15x
53	Livesey	85	0.310%	31.34x
54	Holt	79	0.290%	4.26x
55	Pickup	79	0.290%	22.07x
56	Brindle	76	0.270%	38.25x
57	Fielding	75	0.270%	12.13x
58	Clegg	72	0.260%	7.64x
59	Nightingale	68	0.250%	14.57x
60	Rostron	66	0.240%	39.99x
61	Crook	65	0.230%	8.17x
62	Ratcliffe	65	0.230%	8.50x
63	Ashton	63	0.230%	4.64x
64	Parkinson	63	0.230%	4.74x
65	Whewell	63	0.230%	123.43x
66	Cockshoot	62	0.220%	465.82x
67	Slater	62	0.220%	3.70x
68	Heap	59	0.210%	12.56x
69	Pickering	59	0.210%	5.91x
70	Townley	59	0.210%	33.80x
71	Whittle	59	0.210%	9.78x
72	Hutchinson	58	0.210%	3.69x
73	Kenyon	56	0.200%	9.69x
74	Rigby	56	0.200%	6.97x
75	West	56	0.200%	2.10x
76	Mather	55	0.200%	8.01x
77	Butterworth	54	0.200%	5.43x
78	Wild	54	0.200%	4.79x
79	Dewhurst	53	0.190%	16.13x
80	Beckett	52	0.190%	9.42x
81	Shuttleworth	52	0.190%	15.83x
82	Singleton	52	0.190%	9.50x
83	Grimshaw	51	0.180%	11.03x
84	Smalley	51	0.180%	20.35x
85	Southworth	51	0.180%	35.96x
86	Whitehead	51	0.180%	2.73x
87	Catlow	49	0.180%	42.84x
88	Longworth	48	0.170%	27.14x
89	Tattersall	48	0.170%	12.49x
90	Ellison	47	0.170%	8.04x
91	Heys	45	0.160%	22.24x
92	Scholes	45	0.160%	14.02x
93	Wade	45	0.160%	4.06x
94	Woodcock	45	0.160%	5.70x
95	Bradshaw	44	0.160%	3.87x
96	Farnworth	44	0.160%	30.88x
97	Halliwell	44	0.160%	14.32x
98	Leaver	44	0.160%	24.64x
99	Woods	44	0.160%	2.52x
100	Tomlinson	43	0.160%	3.37x