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 Spencer, with 167 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
101	Spencer	167	0.180%	1.97x
102	Kelly	164	0.180%	1.61x
103	Martin	162	0.170%	0.71x
104	Foster	159	0.170%	1.28x
105	Park	159	0.170%	5.53x
106	Rawcliffe	159	0.170%	42.89x
107	Bailey	154	0.170%	1.10x
108	Booth	154	0.170%	1.68x
109	Kellett	154	0.170%	19.09x
110	Chadwick	153	0.170%	3.77x
111	Higginson	153	0.170%	16.48x
112	Nightingale	153	0.170%	9.79x
113	Pilkington	153	0.170%	9.18x
114	Greenwood	152	0.160%	2.11x
115	Dobson	150	0.160%	3.67x
116	Norris	150	0.160%	3.77x
117	Butler	149	0.160%	1.65x
118	Charnley	148	0.160%	34.31x
119	Coupe	148	0.160%	22.87x
120	Morris	147	0.160%	0.71x
121	Whitehead	147	0.160%	2.35x
122	Hunt	145	0.160%	1.18x
123	Anderton	144	0.160%	13.08x
124	Barker	144	0.160%	1.19x
125	Brindle	144	0.160%	21.64x
126	Mercer	144	0.160%	5.92x
127	Davis	143	0.150%	0.70x
128	Hayes	141	0.150%	2.44x
129	Ashworth	138	0.150%	3.73x
130	Cook	137	0.150%	0.74x
131	Hull	137	0.150%	7.07x
132	Worden	137	0.150%	52.17x
133	Topping	134	0.140%	20.99x
134	Kenyon	133	0.140%	6.87x
135	Hodgkinson	132	0.140%	8.28x
136	Bibby	131	0.140%	13.08x
137	Preston	130	0.140%	2.81x
138	Ball	129	0.140%	1.68x
139	Webster	128	0.140%	1.59x
140	Atherton	126	0.140%	7.56x
141	Kirkham	126	0.140%	9.74x
142	Proctor	126	0.140%	5.53x
143	Williamson	126	0.140%	1.52x
144	Heaton	125	0.130%	5.63x
145	Mason	125	0.130%	1.00x
146	Shuttleworth	125	0.130%	11.36x
147	Alston	123	0.130%	20.36x
148	Threlfall	123	0.130%	29.25x
149	Helm	122	0.130%	29.44x
150	Lancaster	122	0.130%	5.29x
151	Mayor	122	0.130%	30.10x
152	Calvert	121	0.130%	6.40x
153	Cottam	121	0.130%	21.44x
154	Houghton	121	0.130%	3.73x
155	Hardman	120	0.130%	6.43x
156	Bond	119	0.130%	2.42x
157	Leeming	119	0.130%	20.71x
158	Hesketh	118	0.130%	13.29x
159	Holland	118	0.130%	1.79x
160	Leach	117	0.130%	3.06x
161	Pye	117	0.130%	8.44x
162	Ratcliffe	117	0.130%	4.57x
163	Salisbury	116	0.130%	12.59x
164	Lund	115	0.120%	11.45x
165	Towers	115	0.120%	10.70x
166	Ashcroft	112	0.120%	9.03x
167	Eccleston	112	0.120%	24.09x
168	Lambert	111	0.120%	2.19x
169	Cowell	108	0.120%	8.13x
170	Metcalf	108	0.120%	5.75x
171	Bleasdale	107	0.120%	37.64x
172	Graham	107	0.120%	1.00x
173	Saul	107	0.120%	22.58x
174	Marshall	106	0.110%	0.68x
175	Newton	105	0.110%	1.48x
176	Riding	105	0.110%	16.80x
177	Jolly	104	0.110%	7.91x
178	Moore	104	0.110%	0.56x
179	Coward	103	0.110%	9.69x
180	Dilworth	103	0.110%	38.54x
181	Hornby	102	0.110%	9.66x
182	Fairclough	101	0.110%	10.44x
183	Holt	100	0.110%	1.61x
184	Waddington	100	0.110%	6.64x
185	Clarke	99	0.110%	0.53x
186	Hothersall	98	0.110%	84.83x
187	Tipping	98	0.110%	18.54x
188	Swindlehurst	97	0.100%	51.77x
189	Finch	96	0.100%	3.11x
190	Moon	96	0.100%	4.91x
191	Forrest	95	0.100%	3.97x
192	Garstang	95	0.100%	73.75x
193	Forshaw	94	0.100%	15.08x
194	King	93	0.100%	0.46x
195	Gray	92	0.100%	0.69x
196	Heaps	91	0.100%	22.53x
197	Dunn	89	0.100%	1.15x
198	Howard	89	0.100%	0.98x
199	Myerscough	89	0.100%	64.44x
200	Nicholson	89	0.100%	1.35x