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 Harling, with 59 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
101	Harling	59	0.150%	35.62x
102	Cropper	57	0.150%	24.55x
103	Lees	57	0.150%	3.34x
104	Meadowcroft	57	0.150%	40.71x
105	Pickles	56	0.150%	7.15x
106	Clough	55	0.140%	6.39x
107	Haworth	54	0.140%	6.66x
108	Ratcliffe	54	0.140%	5.07x
109	Rigg	54	0.140%	16.66x
110	Briggs	51	0.130%	2.44x
111	Kenyon	49	0.130%	6.09x
112	Mercer	47	0.120%	4.65x
113	Scholfield	47	0.120%	47.93x
114	Varley	47	0.120%	8.88x
115	Duckworth	46	0.120%	6.17x
116	Hacking	45	0.120%	24.66x
117	Midgley	43	0.110%	8.33x
118	Barrett	42	0.110%	1.62x
119	Norris	42	0.110%	2.54x
120	Firth	41	0.110%	3.20x
121	Heywood	41	0.110%	5.35x
122	Hutchinson	41	0.110%	1.87x
123	Rawstron	41	0.110%	91.56x
124	Standring	41	0.110%	36.54x
125	Wolfenden	41	0.110%	22.76x
126	Charnley	39	0.100%	21.76x
127	Clayton	38	0.100%	1.81x
128	Healey	38	0.100%	6.04x
129	Livsey	38	0.100%	27.88x
130	Stanworth	38	0.100%	61.91x
131	Bridge	37	0.100%	4.74x
132	Eccles	37	0.100%	6.00x
133	Mellor	37	0.100%	2.73x
134	Robertshaw	37	0.100%	11.74x
135	Stock	37	0.100%	7.72x
136	Waugh	37	0.100%	7.04x
137	Cheetham	36	0.090%	6.04x
138	Cunliffe	36	0.090%	7.50x
139	Dyson	36	0.090%	2.88x
140	Hitchen	36	0.090%	13.72x
141	Oldfield	35	0.090%	5.50x
142	Barnish	34	0.090%	211.44x
143	Isherwood	34	0.090%	7.62x
144	Whatmough	34	0.090%	41.61x
145	Birtwistle	32	0.080%	15.12x
146	Pollard	32	0.080%	2.28x
147	Whipp	32	0.080%	25.74x
148	Hicks	31	0.080%	1.92x
149	Holroyd	31	0.080%	7.23x
150	Shackleton	31	0.080%	7.15x
151	Widdup	31	0.080%	69.23x
152	Bartle	30	0.080%	13.22x
153	Cryer	30	0.080%	14.15x
154	Stafford	30	0.080%	3.66x
155	Lumb	28	0.070%	7.70x
156	Chaffer	27	0.070%	51.93x
157	Lomax	27	0.070%	4.96x
158	Maguire	27	0.070%	6.85x
159	Oddy	27	0.070%	11.40x
160	Starkie	27	0.070%	21.90x
161	Altham	26	0.070%	54.17x
162	Holgate	26	0.070%	8.13x
163	Hopwood	26	0.070%	5.92x
164	Hough	26	0.070%	3.92x
165	Kenny	26	0.070%	5.63x
166	Walmsley	26	0.070%	3.26x
167	Gorton	25	0.060%	10.45x
168	Grandidge	25	0.060%	255.62x
169	Pilkington	25	0.060%	3.61x
170	Worrall	25	0.060%	5.10x
171	Wrigley	25	0.060%	5.13x
172	Barrell	24	0.060%	16.42x
173	Calverley	24	0.060%	29.42x
174	Cockcroft	24	0.060%	21.76x
175	Garside	24	0.060%	4.32x
176	Maxim	24	0.060%	87.15x
177	Pollitt	24	0.060%	8.07x
178	Robinshaw	24	0.060%	196.40x
179	Rushworth	24	0.060%	7.53x
180	Disley	23	0.060%	29.74x
181	Durkin	23	0.060%	13.67x
182	Hopkinson	23	0.060%	3.65x
183	Lawton	23	0.060%	2.32x
184	Whiteley	23	0.060%	3.32x
185	Adshead	22	0.060%	13.12x
186	Bently	22	0.060%	22.09x
187	Binns	22	0.060%	3.44x
188	Crane	22	0.060%	2.71x
189	Crompton	22	0.060%	3.39x
190	Gledhill	22	0.060%	3.85x
191	Gregson	22	0.060%	4.13x
192	Newall	22	0.060%	9.95x
193	Threlfall	22	0.060%	12.59x
194	Trickett	22	0.060%	13.15x
195	Aspinall	21	0.050%	3.96x
196	Carroll	21	0.050%	2.71x
197	Gartside	21	0.050%	13.10x
198	Waddington	21	0.050%	3.35x
199	Sagar	20	0.050%	12.78x
200	Suthers	20	0.050%	44.66x