1881 census place

Radcliffe surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Radcliffe, 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

511 surnames are listed for Radcliffe, Lancashire, covering 10,488 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 376 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Radcliffe

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
1	Taylor	376	2.25%	3.52x
2	Allen	312	1.87%	9.88x
3	Lord	296	1.77%	38.42x
4	Greenhalgh	231	1.38%	67.49x
5	Mills	224	1.34%	10.34x
6	Hardman	208	1.24%	61.88x
7	Walker	202	1.21%	3.61x
8	Barlow	198	1.18%	21.94x
9	Kay	193	1.16%	22.23x
10	Ashworth	190	1.14%	28.50x
11	Davenport	183	1.10%	57.80x
12	Fletcher	172	1.03%	9.02x
13	Yates	163	0.980%	14.19x
14	Holt	157	0.940%	14.03x
15	Howarth	149	0.890%	18.56x
16	Nuttall	135	0.810%	32.04x
17	Booth	125	0.750%	7.58x
18	Openshaw	122	0.730%	150.17x
19	Lomax	110	0.660%	46.63x
20	Hampson	105	0.630%	34.87x
21	Crompton	100	0.600%	35.56x
22	Sandiford	98	0.590%	219.29x
23	Kirkman	96	0.570%	89.89x
24	Buckley	94	0.560%	10.33x
25	Olive	93	0.560%	154.61x
26	Butterworth	90	0.540%	15.00x
27	Pendlebury	88	0.530%	82.10x
28	Rothwell	86	0.510%	28.00x
29	Hamer	84	0.500%	26.84x
30	Hilton	84	0.500%	14.62x
31	Scholes	82	0.490%	42.33x
32	Brooks	81	0.480%	4.96x
33	Boardman	74	0.440%	27.60x
34	Hoyle	72	0.430%	18.67x
35	Partington	70	0.420%	29.53x
36	Siddall	70	0.420%	57.16x
37	Wolstenholme	70	0.420%	52.49x
38	Isherwood	69	0.410%	35.69x
39	Howcroft	68	0.410%	128.28x
40	Whittaker	65	0.390%	8.21x
41	Massey	63	0.380%	14.74x
42	Bowker	62	0.370%	38.05x
43	Entwistle	62	0.370%	21.30x
44	Ainsworth	61	0.370%	18.43x
45	Haslam	60	0.360%	23.64x
46	Kenyon	59	0.350%	16.91x
47	Whitehead	59	0.350%	5.22x
48	Clough	57	0.340%	15.28x
49	Sharples	57	0.340%	19.51x
50	Fielding	56	0.340%	15.01x
51	Holland	56	0.340%	4.71x
52	Ogden	56	0.340%	11.85x
53	Chadwick	53	0.320%	7.25x
54	Bleakley	51	0.310%	145.09x
55	Clegg	48	0.290%	8.44x
56	Eastwood	48	0.290%	12.15x
57	Horrocks	48	0.290%	23.38x
58	Rostron	47	0.280%	47.19x
59	Bradshaw	46	0.280%	6.70x
60	Smethurst	44	0.260%	34.39x
61	Holden	43	0.260%	4.70x
62	Warburton	43	0.260%	10.43x
63	Lever	42	0.250%	27.90x
64	Roscow	42	0.250%	187.25x
65	Makin	41	0.250%	28.57x
66	Mather	41	0.250%	9.90x
67	Kershaw	40	0.240%	7.42x
68	Thornley	39	0.230%	21.03x
69	Grundy	37	0.220%	10.82x
70	Lomas	37	0.220%	11.98x
71	Wallwork	36	0.220%	37.04x
72	Pickstone	35	0.210%	230.57x
73	Walkden	35	0.210%	46.54x
74	Duckworth	34	0.200%	10.53x
75	Halliwell	34	0.200%	18.34x
76	Heywood	34	0.200%	10.23x
77	Eckersley	33	0.200%	31.58x
78	Melling	33	0.200%	31.92x
79	Seddon	33	0.200%	12.16x
80	Monks	32	0.190%	23.66x
81	Heaton	31	0.190%	7.75x
82	Redford	31	0.190%	34.42x
83	Horridge	30	0.180%	71.98x
84	Bradbury	29	0.170%	6.01x
85	Diggle	29	0.170%	47.46x
86	Emerson	29	0.170%	25.05x
87	Leach	29	0.170%	4.21x
88	Gee	28	0.170%	6.57x
89	Garner	27	0.160%	5.11x
90	Flitcroft	26	0.160%	80.20x
91	Tunnah	25	0.150%	191.42x
92	Dearden	24	0.140%	14.64x
93	Gregson	24	0.140%	10.38x
94	Mort	24	0.140%	29.77x
95	Vose	24	0.140%	89.05x
96	Hesketh	23	0.140%	14.38x
97	Lyons	23	0.140%	6.19x
98	Rimmer	23	0.140%	8.62x
99	Tonge	23	0.140%	21.62x
100	Fitton	22	0.130%	11.71x