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 Reynolds, with 89 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
201	Reynolds	89	0.100%	1.11x
202	Richmond	89	0.100%	4.38x
203	Bateson	87	0.090%	14.99x
204	Breakell	87	0.090%	107.24x
205	Caton	87	0.090%	19.58x
206	Iddon	87	0.090%	37.16x
207	Monk	87	0.090%	4.47x
208	Whittaker	87	0.090%	1.98x
209	Abbott	86	0.090%	2.10x
210	Almond	86	0.090%	7.48x
211	Shepherd	86	0.090%	1.27x
212	Rhodes	85	0.090%	1.97x
213	Swift	85	0.090%	2.97x
214	Brooks	84	0.090%	0.93x
215	Eaves	84	0.090%	16.64x
216	Hoole	84	0.090%	27.99x
217	Rogerson	84	0.090%	7.36x
218	Barlow	83	0.090%	1.66x
219	Dunderdale	83	0.090%	50.19x
220	Nickson	83	0.090%	30.08x
221	Snape	82	0.090%	9.59x
222	Standing	82	0.090%	13.86x
223	Bamford	81	0.090%	5.80x
224	Cuerden	81	0.090%	146.95x
225	Craven	80	0.090%	4.47x
226	Murphy	80	0.090%	1.08x
227	Welsh	80	0.090%	2.18x
228	Brewer	79	0.090%	3.21x
229	Grime	79	0.090%	16.23x
230	Noblett	79	0.090%	88.88x
231	Sharp	79	0.090%	1.02x
232	Smalley	79	0.090%	9.41x
233	Garth	78	0.080%	37.93x
234	Hargreaves	78	0.080%	2.02x
235	Ingham	77	0.080%	3.34x
236	Murray	77	0.080%	0.67x
237	Bilsborough	76	0.080%	79.17x
238	Burke	76	0.080%	2.78x
239	Lang	76	0.080%	3.68x
240	Sandham	76	0.080%	31.87x
241	Sergeant	76	0.080%	17.21x
242	Aspden	75	0.080%	18.37x
243	Clitheroe	74	0.080%	51.61x
244	Crossley	74	0.080%	2.91x
245	Duckett	74	0.080%	12.50x
246	Holderness	74	0.080%	45.78x
247	Vickers	74	0.080%	3.11x
248	Waring	74	0.080%	6.35x
249	Waterhouse	74	0.080%	5.24x
250	Ellison	73	0.080%	3.73x
251	Farnworth	73	0.080%	15.30x
252	Todd	73	0.080%	1.55x
253	Airey	72	0.080%	10.21x
254	Bannister	72	0.080%	4.50x
255	Hamer	72	0.080%	4.15x
256	Hilton	71	0.080%	2.23x
257	Lamb	71	0.080%	1.45x
258	Lowe	71	0.080%	1.02x
259	Woodruff	71	0.080%	16.27x
260	Armstrong	70	0.080%	0.99x
261	Burns	70	0.080%	1.12x
262	Cragg	70	0.080%	11.90x
263	Fell	70	0.080%	5.37x
264	Lawson	70	0.080%	1.28x
265	Battersby	69	0.070%	10.53x
266	Morley	69	0.070%	1.86x
267	Gibson	68	0.070%	0.60x
268	Halsall	68	0.070%	13.91x
269	Johnston	68	0.070%	0.91x
270	Sanderson	68	0.070%	1.77x
271	Greenhalgh	67	0.070%	3.53x
272	Kitchen	67	0.070%	4.24x
273	Leyland	67	0.070%	11.82x
274	Poole	67	0.070%	1.50x
275	Prescott	67	0.070%	5.12x
276	Blackledge	66	0.070%	26.41x
277	Fishwick	66	0.070%	14.26x
278	Naylor	66	0.070%	1.89x
279	Critchley	65	0.070%	7.86x
280	Fawcett	65	0.070%	3.62x
281	Fielding	65	0.070%	3.14x
282	Helme	65	0.070%	42.66x
283	Pickup	65	0.070%	5.42x
284	Isherwood	64	0.070%	5.96x
285	Lingard	64	0.070%	10.88x
286	Pomfret	64	0.070%	20.06x
287	Potter	64	0.070%	1.06x
288	Reid	64	0.070%	0.66x
289	Aspinall	63	0.070%	4.94x
290	Beckett	63	0.070%	3.41x
291	Burrows	63	0.070%	1.55x
292	Higham	63	0.070%	6.67x
293	Hind	63	0.070%	5.38x
294	Nixon	63	0.070%	2.23x
295	Watkinson	63	0.070%	5.80x
296	Buck	62	0.070%	3.12x
297	Hood	62	0.070%	2.41x
298	Hopkins	62	0.070%	1.11x
299	Ryding	62	0.070%	49.07x
300	Elliott	61	0.070%	0.78x