1881 census place

Preston surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Preston, 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

2,586 surnames are listed for Preston, Lancashire, covering 76,161 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,176 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Preston

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	Smith	1,176	1.27%	0.90x
2	Taylor	707	0.760%	1.19x
3	Robinson	646	0.700%	2.18x
4	Parkinson	613	0.660%	13.78x
5	Brown	585	0.630%	0.96x
6	Harrison	571	0.620%	2.77x
7	Wilkinson	568	0.610%	4.01x
8	Wilson	554	0.600%	1.30x
9	Turner	546	0.590%	2.11x
10	Jackson	535	0.580%	2.06x
11	Hall	493	0.530%	1.81x
12	Gardner	449	0.480%	7.13x
13	Thompson	447	0.480%	1.61x
14	Walmsley	446	0.480%	23.24x
15	Green	429	0.460%	1.64x
16	Woods	409	0.440%	6.99x
17	Whittle	387	0.420%	19.15x
18	Rigby	381	0.410%	14.16x
19	Ward	372	0.400%	1.84x
20	Carter	360	0.390%	2.31x
21	Livesey	359	0.390%	39.52x
22	Parker	355	0.380%	2.01x
23	Singleton	353	0.380%	19.25x
24	Yates	350	0.380%	5.49x
25	Sumner	344	0.370%	22.91x
26	Bamber	341	0.370%	47.65x
27	Eccles	341	0.370%	22.98x
28	Wareing	336	0.360%	55.90x
29	Johnson	323	0.350%	1.04x
30	Miller	322	0.350%	1.94x
31	Dewhurst	320	0.350%	29.07x
32	Sharples	320	0.350%	19.74x
33	Gregson	314	0.340%	24.47x
34	Atkinson	312	0.340%	3.45x
35	Holden	308	0.330%	6.06x
36	Clarkson	305	0.330%	12.40x
37	Crook	292	0.310%	10.96x
38	Howarth	292	0.310%	6.55x
39	Watson	292	0.310%	1.36x
40	Seed	290	0.310%	43.29x
41	Simpson	290	0.310%	1.79x
42	Billington	283	0.310%	28.08x
43	Whiteside	277	0.300%	37.52x
44	Wilding	277	0.300%	25.40x
45	Wignall	268	0.290%	56.60x
46	Slater	260	0.280%	4.63x
47	Moss	257	0.280%	4.50x
48	Eastham	255	0.270%	53.85x
49	Pearson	250	0.270%	2.32x
50	Swarbrick	243	0.260%	67.12x
51	Walker	243	0.260%	0.78x
52	Wilcock	241	0.260%	18.27x
53	Ainsworth	240	0.260%	13.07x
54	Dixon	240	0.260%	2.36x
55	Barnes	239	0.260%	2.14x
56	Worthington	238	0.260%	12.80x
57	Ashton	235	0.250%	5.17x
58	Fletcher	234	0.250%	2.21x
59	Knowles	234	0.250%	4.72x
60	Bennett	231	0.250%	1.52x
61	Clayton	225	0.240%	4.46x
62	Cookson	224	0.240%	20.48x
63	Hodson	222	0.240%	11.57x
64	Kirby	221	0.240%	6.28x
65	Walsh	219	0.240%	4.44x
66	Bradshaw	218	0.240%	5.72x
67	Porter	218	0.240%	3.13x
68	Melling	213	0.230%	37.12x
69	Richardson	213	0.230%	1.35x
70	Banks	211	0.230%	4.44x
71	Bolton	209	0.230%	5.23x
72	Hindle	208	0.220%	15.96x
73	Blackburn	206	0.220%	5.89x
74	Tomlinson	206	0.220%	4.82x
75	Dickinson	202	0.220%	5.10x
76	Bradley	201	0.220%	2.70x
77	Dawson	200	0.220%	1.96x
78	Riley	200	0.220%	2.73x
79	Kay	199	0.210%	4.13x
80	Cooper	198	0.210%	0.88x
81	Bell	197	0.210%	1.13x
82	Hartley	196	0.210%	3.37x
83	Carr	194	0.210%	2.90x
84	Shaw	192	0.210%	1.13x
85	Southworth	188	0.200%	39.57x
86	Nelson	187	0.200%	4.16x
87	Duckworth	185	0.200%	10.32x
88	Holmes	183	0.200%	1.62x
89	Barton	182	0.200%	3.63x
90	Lee	182	0.200%	1.20x
91	Baines	180	0.190%	10.14x
92	Catterall	180	0.190%	30.69x
93	Newsham	179	0.190%	61.69x
94	Walton	178	0.190%	2.73x
95	Hodgson	176	0.190%	2.74x
96	Hunter	176	0.190%	1.85x
97	Berry	169	0.180%	2.30x
98	Whalley	169	0.180%	11.58x
99	Shorrock	168	0.180%	36.73x
100	Fisher	167	0.180%	1.54x