1881 census place

Wardleworth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wardleworth, 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

643 surnames are listed for Wardleworth, Lancashire, covering 11,563 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Butterworth, with 508 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wardleworth

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	Butterworth	508	2.56%	71.42x
2	Taylor	397	2.00%	3.13x
3	Lord	362	1.83%	39.63x
4	Holt	279	1.41%	21.04x
5	Clegg	263	1.33%	38.99x
6	Kershaw	258	1.30%	40.38x
7	Schofield	241	1.22%	22.44x
8	Brierley	239	1.21%	67.93x
9	Greenwood	204	1.03%	13.26x
10	Stott	204	1.03%	32.97x
11	Howarth	198	1.00%	20.80x
12	Ashworth	189	0.950%	23.91x
13	Turner	164	0.830%	2.97x
14	Whitehead	138	0.700%	10.31x
15	Leach	137	0.690%	16.76x
16	Chadwick	135	0.680%	15.58x
17	Bamford	128	0.650%	42.92x
18	Grindrod	125	0.630%	157.35x
19	Mills	123	0.620%	4.79x
20	Wild	121	0.610%	14.99x
21	Whitworth	110	0.560%	33.24x
22	Shepherd	106	0.540%	7.30x
23	Hoyle	104	0.530%	22.75x
24	Tweedale	104	0.530%	173.16x
25	Fielding	101	0.510%	22.84x
26	Fitton	95	0.480%	42.64x
27	Healey	90	0.450%	27.81x
28	Hartley	88	0.440%	7.09x
29	Kelly	86	0.430%	3.96x
30	Holden	79	0.400%	7.28x
31	Buckley	71	0.360%	6.58x
32	Sutcliffe	69	0.350%	8.82x
33	Crossley	66	0.330%	12.14x
34	Hardman	59	0.300%	14.81x
35	Travis	57	0.290%	24.53x
36	Walton	57	0.290%	4.09x
37	Shore	56	0.280%	26.28x
38	Rhodes	55	0.280%	5.98x
39	Law	54	0.270%	6.03x
40	Pickup	54	0.270%	21.08x
41	Ogden	52	0.260%	9.28x
42	Sladen	51	0.260%	149.12x
43	Stansfield	51	0.260%	16.67x
44	Burke	48	0.240%	8.23x
45	Kay	48	0.240%	4.66x
46	Collinge	47	0.240%	35.49x
47	Whitham	46	0.230%	39.94x
48	Cryer	45	0.230%	41.28x
49	Whatmough	45	0.230%	107.14x
50	Corcoran	43	0.220%	45.05x
51	Dearden	43	0.220%	22.13x
52	Duckworth	43	0.220%	11.23x
53	Nuttall	43	0.220%	8.61x
54	Tattersall	41	0.210%	14.91x
55	Rigg	39	0.200%	23.42x
56	Warburton	39	0.200%	7.98x
57	Crowther	38	0.190%	6.43x
58	Sharrocks	38	0.190%	163.23x
59	Hanson	37	0.190%	5.79x
60	Rothwell	37	0.190%	10.16x
61	Flynn	36	0.180%	9.49x
62	Pilling	35	0.180%	14.64x
63	Woolfenden	35	0.180%	123.07x
64	Crabtree	34	0.170%	8.52x
65	Hey	33	0.170%	18.80x
66	Ingham	33	0.170%	6.70x
67	Binns	32	0.160%	9.75x
68	Cropper	32	0.160%	26.82x
69	Fallon	32	0.160%	43.70x
70	Moran	32	0.160%	8.82x
71	Heywood	31	0.160%	7.87x
72	Heyworth	31	0.160%	33.94x
73	Whipp	31	0.160%	48.51x
74	Eastwood	30	0.150%	6.40x
75	Pickles	30	0.150%	7.45x
76	Winn	30	0.150%	15.59x
77	Wrigley	30	0.150%	11.97x
78	Duffy	29	0.150%	6.70x
79	Farrow	29	0.150%	7.80x
80	Mellor	29	0.150%	4.16x
81	Connor	28	0.140%	4.79x
82	Midgley	28	0.140%	10.55x
83	Coupe	27	0.140%	19.53x
84	Lynch	27	0.140%	5.17x
85	Adamson	26	0.130%	4.96x
86	Purdy	26	0.130%	23.01x
87	Ratcliffe	26	0.130%	4.75x
88	Sheridan	26	0.130%	21.81x
89	Cheetham	25	0.130%	8.16x
90	Earnshaw	25	0.130%	10.21x
91	Standring	25	0.130%	43.34x
92	Costello	24	0.120%	19.86x
93	Gledhill	24	0.120%	8.17x
94	Ingle	24	0.120%	29.67x
95	Logan	24	0.120%	5.11x
96	Nolan	24	0.120%	8.88x
97	Roach	24	0.120%	8.23x
98	Dowling	23	0.120%	10.48x
99	Fenton	23	0.120%	5.82x
100	Hilton	23	0.120%	3.38x