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 Snailham, with 35 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
501	Snailham	35	0.040%	64.95x
502	Birchall	34	0.040%	3.74x
503	Brandwood	34	0.040%	28.82x
504	Carlisle	34	0.040%	6.96x
505	Casson	34	0.040%	6.17x
506	Coates	34	0.040%	0.98x
507	Cummings	34	0.040%	2.38x
508	Heys	34	0.040%	5.02x
509	Kerfoot	34	0.040%	18.58x
510	Kilner	34	0.040%	8.77x
511	Regan	34	0.040%	3.58x
512	Dent	33	0.040%	1.87x
513	Huntington	33	0.040%	12.25x
514	Kenny	33	0.040%	2.97x
515	Littlefair	33	0.040%	24.95x
516	Pinder	33	0.040%	2.95x
517	Redhead	33	0.040%	6.55x
518	Rimmer	33	0.040%	2.23x
519	Rushton	33	0.040%	1.73x
520	Swales	33	0.040%	5.09x
521	Townley	33	0.040%	5.64x
522	Unsworth	33	0.040%	3.10x
523	Ascroft	32	0.030%	24.14x
524	Braithwaite	32	0.030%	2.97x
525	Crompton	32	0.030%	2.05x
526	Edmondson	32	0.030%	2.99x
527	Frankland	32	0.030%	4.66x
528	Gorton	32	0.030%	5.56x
529	Hacking	32	0.030%	7.29x
530	Pritt	32	0.030%	54.96x
531	Rawsthorn	32	0.030%	64.99x
532	Rodgers	32	0.030%	1.26x
533	Savage	32	0.030%	0.90x
534	Sharrock	32	0.030%	11.06x
535	Sweeney	32	0.030%	2.58x
536	Westray	32	0.030%	82.69x
537	Wiggans	32	0.030%	41.33x
538	Battle	31	0.030%	10.90x
539	Birkett	31	0.030%	3.46x
540	Calderbank	31	0.030%	14.76x
541	Foy	31	0.030%	4.05x
542	Maddock	31	0.030%	3.66x
543	Salthouse	31	0.030%	23.61x
544	Shakeshaft	31	0.030%	18.92x
545	Winders	31	0.030%	35.37x
546	Woodcock	31	0.030%	1.17x
547	Bee	30	0.030%	5.74x
548	Bland	30	0.030%	1.56x
549	Chippendale	30	0.030%	14.95x
550	Cranshaw	30	0.030%	17.71x
551	Gee	30	0.030%	1.27x
552	Holliday	30	0.030%	2.47x
553	Howson	30	0.030%	5.19x
554	Lockwood	30	0.030%	1.46x
555	Lyons	30	0.030%	1.45x
556	Moulding	30	0.030%	13.44x
557	Quick	30	0.030%	2.89x
558	Stanton	30	0.030%	1.62x
559	Travis	30	0.030%	2.76x
560	Troughton	30	0.030%	10.01x
561	Welch	30	0.030%	0.92x
562	Westhead	30	0.030%	13.92x
563	Wilks	30	0.030%	2.06x
564	Barrow	29	0.030%	1.48x
565	Brockbank	29	0.030%	8.83x
566	Crane	29	0.030%	1.48x
567	Crombleholme	29	0.030%	82.15x
568	Dodd	29	0.030%	0.77x
569	Garnett	29	0.030%	2.52x
570	Harling	29	0.030%	7.28x
571	Pedder	29	0.030%	8.90x
572	Sherliker	29	0.030%	203.51x
573	Smellie	29	0.030%	7.06x
574	Westby	29	0.030%	28.04x
575	Best	28	0.030%	1.12x
576	Blackhurst	28	0.030%	17.25x
577	Daggers	28	0.030%	137.05x
578	Darlington	28	0.030%	4.44x
579	Dearden	28	0.030%	3.08x
580	Derham	28	0.030%	17.16x
581	Dugdale	28	0.030%	4.38x
582	Duxbury	28	0.030%	4.50x
583	Fitchie	28	0.030%	192.44x
584	Harkness	28	0.030%	5.39x
585	Roskell	28	0.030%	27.74x
586	Wearden	28	0.030%	45.21x
587	Woodhead	28	0.030%	1.61x
588	Bickerstaffe	27	0.030%	34.06x
589	Chew	27	0.030%	5.72x
590	Collison	27	0.030%	7.10x
591	Corbishley	27	0.030%	18.63x
592	Guest	27	0.030%	1.36x
593	Howorth	27	0.030%	6.51x
594	Lyon	27	0.030%	1.39x
595	Makin	27	0.030%	3.39x
596	Markland	27	0.030%	13.01x
597	Rossall	27	0.030%	29.96x
598	Standen	27	0.030%	5.16x
599	Bashall	26	0.030%	115.04x
600	Bretherton	26	0.030%	10.93x