1881 census place

Pilkington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Pilkington, 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

370 surnames are listed for Pilkington, Lancashire, covering 7,772 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hilton, with 322 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Pilkington

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	Hilton	322	2.45%	71.13x
2	Walker	208	1.58%	4.72x
3	Barlow	194	1.47%	27.28x
4	Jackson	178	1.35%	4.84x
5	Holt	173	1.31%	19.62x
6	Allen	147	1.12%	5.91x
7	Wardle	141	1.07%	55.34x
8	Davenport	131	0.990%	52.51x
9	Hardman	129	0.980%	48.70x
10	Eckersall	124	0.940%	756.10x
11	Howarth	122	0.930%	19.28x
12	Dawson	121	0.920%	8.34x
13	Yates	114	0.870%	12.60x
14	Bleakley	112	0.850%	404.33x
15	Lomax	104	0.790%	55.94x
16	Fletcher	98	0.740%	6.52x
17	Hampson	97	0.740%	40.87x
18	Berry	95	0.720%	9.09x
19	Lord	94	0.710%	15.48x
20	Redford	90	0.680%	126.81x
21	Bradshaw	89	0.680%	16.46x
22	Chadwick	84	0.640%	14.59x
23	Kay	84	0.640%	12.28x
24	Seddon	83	0.630%	38.80x
25	Mather	80	0.610%	24.50x
26	Ashworth	79	0.600%	15.04x
27	Holland	78	0.590%	8.32x
28	Sandiford	73	0.550%	207.27x
29	Schofield	73	0.550%	10.23x
30	Briggs	72	0.550%	10.07x
31	Riley	72	0.550%	6.91x
32	Greenhalgh	71	0.540%	26.32x
33	Heywood	70	0.530%	26.72x
34	Entwistle	69	0.520%	30.09x
35	Barratt	68	0.520%	25.46x
36	Grimshaw	67	0.510%	30.46x
37	Warburton	67	0.510%	20.62x
38	Haslam	66	0.500%	33.00x
39	Ramsbottom	64	0.490%	71.95x
40	Crompton	63	0.480%	28.43x
41	Hulme	63	0.480%	22.37x
42	Ogden	62	0.470%	16.65x
43	Butterworth	61	0.460%	12.90x
44	Marsh	60	0.460%	6.39x
45	Grundy	58	0.440%	21.51x
46	Nuttall	58	0.440%	17.47x
47	Crossley	57	0.430%	15.77x
48	Horrocks	53	0.400%	32.76x
49	Pickstone	53	0.400%	443.14x
50	Fitton	52	0.390%	35.11x
51	Royle	49	0.370%	28.28x
52	Scholes	49	0.370%	32.10x
53	Ashton	46	0.350%	7.13x
54	Bentley	45	0.340%	8.08x
55	Greaves	45	0.340%	11.66x
56	Emerson	43	0.330%	47.13x
57	Kirkman	43	0.330%	51.09x
58	Cranshaw	41	0.310%	170.48x
59	Isherwood	41	0.310%	26.91x
60	Wolstenholme	40	0.300%	38.06x
61	Whitworth	38	0.290%	17.27x
62	Fray	37	0.280%	166.97x
63	Norris	37	0.280%	6.54x
64	Smethurst	37	0.280%	36.70x
65	Rothwell	36	0.270%	14.87x
66	Longworth	35	0.270%	41.61x
67	Bleackley	34	0.260%	564.78x
68	Leach	34	0.260%	6.26x
69	Farrar	31	0.240%	17.66x
70	Lever	30	0.230%	25.29x
71	Ainsworth	28	0.210%	10.74x
72	Atherton	28	0.210%	11.83x
73	Bamford	27	0.210%	13.62x
74	Duckers	27	0.210%	191.90x
75	Lindley	27	0.210%	20.75x
76	Brierley	26	0.200%	11.12x
77	Heaton	26	0.200%	8.25x
78	Partington	26	0.200%	13.92x
79	Cunliffe	25	0.190%	15.25x
80	Renshaw	25	0.190%	20.07x
81	Drinnan	24	0.180%	277.14x
82	Peatfield	24	0.180%	243.65x
83	Pickup	24	0.180%	14.10x
84	Prestwich	24	0.180%	134.08x
85	Catterall	23	0.170%	27.62x
86	Guest	23	0.170%	8.18x
87	Mayor	23	0.170%	39.96x
88	Astley	22	0.170%	25.19x
89	Eckersley	22	0.170%	26.71x
90	Roscow	22	0.170%	124.43x
91	Siddall	21	0.160%	21.76x
92	Walkden	21	0.160%	35.43x
93	Crawshaw	20	0.150%	19.52x
94	Worrall	19	0.140%	11.35x
95	Devenport	18	0.140%	73.50x
96	Fielding	18	0.140%	6.12x
97	Pendlebury	18	0.140%	21.31x
98	Pennington	18	0.140%	9.23x
99	Walch	18	0.140%	89.20x
100	Blunt	17	0.130%	15.98x