1881 census place

Spotland surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Spotland, 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

956 surnames are listed for Spotland, Lancashire, covering 27,191 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Lord, with 1,030 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Spotland

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	Lord	1,030	2.67%	57.96x
2	Taylor	926	2.40%	3.76x
3	Ashworth	784	2.03%	50.99x
4	Butterworth	588	1.53%	42.49x
5	Howarth	517	1.34%	27.92x
6	Clegg	513	1.33%	39.10x
7	Holt	510	1.32%	19.77x
8	Greenwood	496	1.29%	16.57x
9	Jackson	488	1.27%	4.53x
10	Mills	483	1.25%	9.66x
11	Schofield	430	1.12%	20.58x
12	Stott	408	1.06%	33.89x
13	Brierley	381	0.990%	55.66x
14	Hill	350	0.910%	3.57x
15	Hoyle	348	0.900%	39.12x
16	Kershaw	340	0.880%	27.35x
17	Buckley	310	0.800%	14.78x
18	Howorth	301	0.780%	174.68x
19	Turner	262	0.680%	2.44x
20	Chadwick	261	0.680%	15.49x
21	Nuttall	249	0.650%	25.62x
22	Grindrod	239	0.620%	154.63x
23	Maden	228	0.590%	161.81x
24	Crabtree	225	0.580%	28.99x
25	Leach	224	0.580%	14.09x
26	Pilling	224	0.580%	48.16x
27	Sutcliffe	224	0.580%	14.71x
28	Shepherd	218	0.570%	7.72x
29	Crossley	200	0.520%	18.90x
30	Heyworth	191	0.500%	107.47x
31	Sanderson	188	0.490%	11.81x
32	Tweedale	186	0.480%	159.18x
33	Whitworth	180	0.470%	27.96x
34	Holden	175	0.450%	8.29x
35	Tattersall	162	0.420%	30.27x
36	Riley	150	0.390%	4.92x
37	Stansfield	150	0.390%	25.21x
38	Hargreaves	146	0.380%	9.09x
39	Hartley	146	0.380%	6.04x
40	Dearden	145	0.380%	38.36x
41	Pickup	145	0.380%	29.10x
42	Barker	142	0.370%	2.82x
43	Crowther	142	0.370%	12.34x
44	Fielding	141	0.370%	16.39x
45	Law	141	0.370%	8.09x
46	Harrison	140	0.360%	1.64x
47	Simpson	140	0.360%	2.08x
48	Kay	137	0.360%	6.84x
49	Wild	137	0.360%	8.73x
50	Hardman	132	0.340%	17.03x
51	Earnshaw	130	0.340%	27.28x
52	Eastwood	126	0.330%	13.83x
53	Wilkinson	120	0.310%	2.04x
54	Coupe	117	0.300%	43.50x
55	Rhodes	110	0.290%	6.15x
56	Rothwell	110	0.290%	15.53x
57	Walton	110	0.290%	4.06x
58	Mitchell	109	0.280%	1.39x
59	Whitehead	109	0.280%	4.18x
60	Heys	107	0.280%	38.00x
61	Hollows	107	0.280%	141.89x
62	Ogden	106	0.280%	9.73x
63	Fletcher	105	0.270%	2.39x
64	Fielden	104	0.270%	46.29x
65	Bamford	101	0.260%	17.41x
66	Hamer	100	0.260%	13.86x
67	Farrow	99	0.260%	13.69x
68	Collinge	98	0.250%	38.04x
69	Ormerod	97	0.250%	31.47x
70	Ingham	93	0.240%	9.70x
71	Sharrocks	93	0.240%	205.30x
72	Uttley	93	0.240%	50.05x
73	Heap	87	0.230%	13.31x
74	Barlow	86	0.220%	4.13x
75	Whittaker	84	0.220%	4.60x
76	Woodhead	84	0.220%	11.63x
77	Bentley	83	0.220%	5.09x
78	Dawson	83	0.220%	1.95x
79	Rudman	83	0.220%	107.14x
80	Sunderland	80	0.210%	18.09x
81	Baron	79	0.210%	19.80x
82	Whitaker	76	0.200%	6.98x
83	Barnes	74	0.190%	1.60x
84	Cudworth	73	0.190%	129.23x
85	Walsh	73	0.190%	3.56x
86	Woolfenden	73	0.190%	131.91x
87	Fitton	72	0.190%	16.61x
88	Horsfall	72	0.190%	18.53x
89	Shore	72	0.190%	17.37x
90	Brearley	71	0.180%	29.49x
91	Howard	71	0.180%	1.88x
92	Royds	71	0.180%	112.59x
93	Warburton	71	0.180%	7.47x
94	Rushton	68	0.180%	8.56x
95	Halstead	66	0.170%	20.58x
96	Greenhalgh	65	0.170%	8.23x
97	Ramsbottom	62	0.160%	23.82x
98	Whittles	62	0.160%	102.07x
99	Bolton	61	0.160%	3.68x
100	Greaves	61	0.160%	5.40x