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 Lupton, with 46 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
401	Lupton	46	0.050%	6.86x
402	Monks	46	0.050%	6.13x
403	Worsley	46	0.050%	5.68x
404	Baxendale	45	0.050%	9.52x
405	Croft	45	0.050%	2.05x
406	France	45	0.050%	3.19x
407	Jenkinson	45	0.050%	2.77x
408	Tattersall	45	0.050%	3.49x
409	Wainman	45	0.050%	38.85x
410	Askew	44	0.050%	4.20x
411	Carroll	44	0.050%	2.36x
412	Cartmell	44	0.050%	23.60x
413	Clough	44	0.050%	2.13x
414	Duffy	44	0.050%	2.17x
415	Hampson	44	0.050%	2.63x
416	Higgins	44	0.050%	0.94x
417	Leigh	44	0.050%	2.06x
418	Oddie	44	0.050%	24.97x
419	Ogden	44	0.050%	1.68x
420	Allanson	43	0.050%	23.66x
421	Beesley	43	0.050%	5.77x
422	Bonney	43	0.050%	18.49x
423	Fryer	43	0.050%	2.50x
424	Lomax	43	0.050%	3.28x
425	Mounsey	43	0.050%	16.16x
426	Pickering	43	0.050%	1.29x
427	Schofield	43	0.050%	0.86x
428	Whittam	43	0.050%	12.63x
429	Blundell	42	0.050%	3.85x
430	Flintoff	42	0.050%	42.38x
431	Haworth	42	0.050%	2.15x
432	Rainford	42	0.050%	15.62x
433	Seddon	42	0.050%	2.79x
434	Sudell	42	0.050%	102.76x
435	Talbot	42	0.050%	1.82x
436	Chambers	41	0.040%	0.78x
437	Cowburn	41	0.040%	12.15x
438	Farmer	41	0.040%	1.41x
439	Haydock	41	0.040%	14.02x
440	Hibbert	41	0.040%	3.02x
441	Hogarth	41	0.040%	6.70x
442	Baxter	40	0.040%	0.72x
443	Connor	40	0.040%	1.46x
444	Curwen	40	0.040%	20.41x
445	Gradwell	40	0.040%	18.61x
446	Massey	40	0.040%	1.69x
447	Norcross	40	0.040%	40.11x
448	Speight	40	0.040%	5.31x
449	Strickland	40	0.040%	5.41x
450	Varley	40	0.040%	3.14x
451	Bateman	39	0.040%	1.63x
452	Beck	39	0.040%	1.80x
453	Brade	39	0.040%	53.82x
454	Cartmel	39	0.040%	37.71x
455	Coulthurst	39	0.040%	36.50x
456	Etherington	39	0.040%	5.57x
457	Glover	39	0.040%	0.99x
458	Ormerod	39	0.040%	5.26x
459	Titterington	39	0.040%	29.02x
460	Akers	38	0.040%	8.43x
461	Baron	38	0.040%	3.96x
462	Bickerstaff	38	0.040%	19.54x
463	Conroy	38	0.040%	5.52x
464	Cornall	38	0.040%	28.34x
465	Fiddler	38	0.040%	18.96x
466	Garlick	38	0.040%	4.65x
467	Hopkinson	38	0.040%	2.51x
468	Horn	38	0.040%	1.80x
469	Leaver	38	0.040%	6.35x
470	Leonard	38	0.040%	1.89x
471	Martindale	38	0.040%	7.14x
472	Appleby	37	0.040%	2.44x
473	Balshaw	37	0.040%	19.30x
474	Birch	37	0.040%	0.97x
475	Cornwell	37	0.040%	6.92x
476	Crabtree	37	0.040%	1.98x
477	Dimmock	37	0.040%	10.89x
478	Edge	37	0.040%	2.32x
479	Fazackerly	37	0.040%	105.74x
480	Irvin	37	0.040%	13.59x
481	Manley	37	0.040%	3.56x
482	Milner	37	0.040%	1.74x
483	Platt	37	0.040%	1.51x
484	Poulton	37	0.040%	4.97x
485	Ribchester	37	0.040%	85.35x
486	Tyrer	37	0.040%	9.04x
487	Woodburn	37	0.040%	12.59x
488	Butterworth	36	0.040%	1.08x
489	Connell	36	0.040%	2.23x
490	Farrington	36	0.040%	4.52x
491	Hardiker	36	0.040%	74.52x
492	Willacy	36	0.040%	37.50x
493	Winder	36	0.040%	5.91x
494	Cardwell	35	0.040%	7.84x
495	Garner	35	0.040%	1.19x
496	Hewitt	35	0.040%	0.77x
497	Holding	35	0.040%	4.26x
498	Hulme	35	0.040%	1.76x
499	Mather	35	0.040%	1.52x
500	Pollard	35	0.040%	1.03x