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 Hosker, with 21 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
701	Hosker	21	0.020%	24.22x
702	Mee	21	0.020%	2.98x
703	Montgomery	21	0.020%	1.43x
704	Moorby	21	0.020%	16.34x
705	Morrow	21	0.020%	5.56x
706	Pape	21	0.020%	7.54x
707	Petty	21	0.020%	2.29x
708	Prince	21	0.020%	1.00x
709	Raby	21	0.020%	4.72x
710	Rothwell	21	0.020%	1.23x
711	Sankey	21	0.020%	5.46x
712	Toulmin	21	0.020%	51.76x
713	Turley	21	0.020%	4.20x
714	Woan	21	0.020%	85.85x
715	Ambler	20	0.020%	2.44x
716	Bowling	20	0.020%	5.84x
717	Byrnes	20	0.020%	12.14x
718	Cahill	20	0.020%	4.69x
719	Charnock	20	0.020%	4.52x
720	Cleminson	20	0.020%	14.68x
721	Costello	20	0.020%	3.53x
722	Farrell	20	0.020%	1.14x
723	Gillibrand	20	0.020%	10.62x
724	Goodair	20	0.020%	37.11x
725	Gorst	20	0.020%	9.89x
726	Harrington	20	0.020%	1.14x
727	Horrocks	20	0.020%	1.76x
728	Lofthouse	20	0.020%	2.89x
729	Mansley	20	0.020%	22.90x
730	Middlebrook	20	0.020%	11.74x
731	Oneill	20	0.020%	3.39x
732	Stopford	20	0.020%	10.17x
733	Stuart	20	0.020%	0.90x
734	Usher	20	0.020%	1.95x
735	Wadeson	20	0.020%	24.65x
736	Wesley	20	0.020%	5.54x
737	Willan	20	0.020%	7.78x
738	Ainscough	19	0.020%	7.61x
739	Beech	19	0.020%	1.39x
740	Blakey	19	0.020%	2.55x
741	Bowker	19	0.020%	2.10x
742	Brogden	19	0.020%	6.20x
743	Connolly	19	0.020%	1.76x
744	Crewe	19	0.020%	7.84x
745	Dempsey	19	0.020%	3.27x
746	Gorman	19	0.020%	1.70x
747	Goulding	19	0.020%	2.10x
748	Halton	19	0.020%	5.36x
749	Heskin	19	0.020%	100.64x
750	Heywood	19	0.020%	1.03x
751	Hoghton	19	0.020%	68.17x
752	Kendall	19	0.020%	0.95x
753	Madden	19	0.020%	2.37x
754	Maloney	19	0.020%	2.48x
755	Mawdsley	19	0.020%	6.49x
756	Moorhouse	19	0.020%	1.66x
757	Partington	19	0.020%	1.44x
758	Pimley	19	0.020%	95.86x
759	Polding	19	0.020%	45.45x
760	Pownall	19	0.020%	4.75x
761	Roocroft	19	0.020%	102.26x
762	Tinsley	19	0.020%	3.37x
763	Tullis	19	0.020%	21.99x
764	Waterworth	19	0.020%	4.71x
765	Worn	19	0.020%	57.35x
766	Alker	18	0.020%	10.53x
767	Bainbridge	18	0.020%	1.38x
768	Bimson	18	0.020%	33.03x
769	Broadbent	18	0.020%	0.90x
770	Brocklehurst	18	0.020%	3.56x
771	Colley	18	0.020%	1.53x
772	Fleetwood	18	0.020%	5.57x
773	Flood	18	0.020%	2.21x
774	Gore	18	0.020%	1.72x
775	Marston	18	0.020%	2.08x
776	Parish	18	0.020%	1.26x
777	Philipson	18	0.020%	6.95x
778	Pyke	18	0.020%	5.62x
779	Rae	18	0.020%	0.85x
780	Redmayne	18	0.020%	14.68x
781	Sandiford	18	0.020%	7.26x
782	Sedgwick	18	0.020%	2.67x
783	Starkie	18	0.020%	6.07x
784	Stringfellow	18	0.020%	7.45x
785	Twist	18	0.020%	3.92x
786	Watmough	18	0.020%	7.97x
787	Aaron	17	0.020%	11.75x
788	Albert	17	0.020%	11.86x
789	Bagwell	17	0.020%	22.05x
790	Bancroft	17	0.020%	1.89x
791	Bramley	17	0.020%	2.01x
792	Brennand	17	0.020%	12.09x
793	Bryning	17	0.020%	34.32x
794	Corner	17	0.020%	2.52x
795	Dolan	17	0.020%	2.11x
796	Dunbar	17	0.020%	1.60x
797	Dwyer	17	0.020%	3.27x
798	Earnshaw	17	0.020%	1.48x
799	Edmundson	17	0.020%	6.47x
800	Finn	17	0.020%	2.01x