1881 census place

Royton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Royton, 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

326 surnames are listed for Royton, Lancashire, covering 5,806 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 364 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Royton

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	364	3.43%	5.37x
2	Mellor	252	2.38%	67.47x
3	Butterworth	246	2.32%	64.61x
4	Kershaw	163	1.54%	47.66x
5	Buckley	156	1.47%	27.03x
6	Schofield	138	1.30%	24.01x
7	Cooper	130	1.23%	5.04x
8	Hilton	127	1.20%	34.84x
9	Stott	125	1.18%	37.74x
10	Mills	117	1.10%	8.51x
11	Wild	104	0.980%	24.07x
12	Whittaker	103	0.970%	20.51x
13	Fitton	102	0.960%	85.53x
14	Lowe	98	0.920%	12.33x
15	Ogden	95	0.900%	31.69x
16	Holden	87	0.820%	14.98x
17	Lees	83	0.780%	17.65x
18	Greenwood	73	0.690%	8.86x
19	Gartside	71	0.670%	160.92x
20	Whitworth	64	0.600%	36.13x
21	Greaves	60	0.570%	19.30x
22	Holt	57	0.540%	8.03x
23	Ashworth	55	0.520%	13.00x
24	Beswick	55	0.520%	53.07x
25	Lord	55	0.520%	11.25x
26	Howarth	52	0.490%	10.20x
27	Whitehead	51	0.480%	7.12x
28	Heywood	50	0.470%	23.70x
29	Sutcliffe	50	0.470%	11.94x
30	Wolfenden	48	0.450%	96.83x
31	Winterbottom	47	0.440%	48.01x
32	Cocker	46	0.430%	52.90x
33	Moores	44	0.410%	50.17x
34	Travis	44	0.410%	35.37x
35	Chadwick	41	0.390%	8.84x
36	Platt	39	0.370%	13.89x
37	Brierley	38	0.360%	20.18x
38	Dunkerley	38	0.360%	103.40x
39	Stansfield	38	0.360%	23.21x
40	Tattersall	35	0.330%	23.77x
41	Scholes	34	0.320%	27.66x
42	Wrigley	33	0.310%	24.60x
43	Baron	32	0.300%	29.15x
44	Farrow	32	0.300%	16.08x
45	Livsey	30	0.280%	80.00x
46	Wolstencroft	30	0.280%	72.24x
47	Bottomley	29	0.270%	16.42x
48	Bradbury	29	0.270%	9.47x
49	Hadfield	29	0.270%	19.64x
50	Shirt	29	0.270%	121.34x
51	Crossley	28	0.260%	9.62x
52	Nield	28	0.260%	38.46x
53	Andrew	27	0.250%	8.04x
54	Duckworth	27	0.250%	13.17x
55	Jobson	24	0.230%	38.51x
56	Bardsley	23	0.220%	28.63x
57	Broadbent	23	0.220%	10.11x
58	Cheetham	23	0.220%	14.02x
59	Eastwood	23	0.220%	9.17x
60	Cleaver	20	0.190%	22.25x
61	Duxbury	20	0.190%	28.10x
62	Fish	20	0.190%	10.13x
63	Knott	20	0.190%	9.51x
64	Loynd	20	0.190%	297.18x
65	Seville	20	0.190%	117.92x
66	Cave	19	0.180%	12.49x
67	Bamford	18	0.170%	11.28x
68	Fielding	18	0.170%	7.60x
69	Lyon	18	0.170%	8.10x
70	Sheard	18	0.170%	18.53x
71	Whittle	18	0.170%	7.79x
72	Eccles	17	0.160%	10.02x
73	Lomas	17	0.160%	8.68x
74	Standring	17	0.160%	55.05x
75	Stock	17	0.160%	12.89x
76	Halliwell	16	0.150%	13.60x
77	Heap	16	0.150%	8.89x
78	Smethurst	16	0.150%	19.71x
79	Wolstenholme	16	0.150%	18.91x
80	Kenworthy	15	0.140%	21.26x
81	Longbottom	15	0.140%	15.91x
82	Nolan	15	0.140%	10.37x
83	Radcliffe	15	0.140%	12.18x
84	Stalker	15	0.140%	28.74x
85	Thwaite	15	0.140%	62.76x
86	Blomley	14	0.130%	133.59x
87	Costello	14	0.130%	21.64x
88	Garlick	14	0.130%	14.99x
89	Deane	13	0.120%	14.68x
90	Entwistle	13	0.120%	7.04x
91	Pickles	13	0.120%	6.03x
92	Scanlon	13	0.120%	51.71x
93	Starkey	13	0.120%	12.36x
94	Barrott	12	0.110%	172.91x
95	Grime	12	0.110%	21.56x
96	Lever	12	0.110%	12.56x
97	Mccarthy	12	0.110%	23.60x
98	Wellock	12	0.110%	100.84x
99	Coupe	11	0.100%	14.86x
100	Dronsfield	11	0.100%	109.78x