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 Oldham, with 23 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
101	Oldham	23	0.120%	6.61x
102	Rushton	23	0.120%	5.63x
103	Beard	22	0.110%	4.22x
104	Dillon	22	0.110%	11.23x
105	Highton	22	0.110%	49.13x
106	Ormerod	22	0.110%	13.89x
107	Rowan	22	0.110%	17.25x
108	Stock	22	0.110%	8.93x
109	Clough	21	0.110%	4.75x
110	Donnelly	21	0.110%	8.42x
111	Heap	21	0.110%	6.25x
112	Helliwell	21	0.110%	11.51x
113	Hollows	21	0.110%	54.18x
114	Maloney	21	0.110%	12.85x
115	Petrie	21	0.110%	8.92x
116	Swain	21	0.110%	5.50x
117	Carroll	20	0.100%	5.03x
118	Farrar	20	0.100%	7.57x
119	Hamer	20	0.100%	5.39x
120	Southwell	20	0.100%	16.12x
121	Eccles	19	0.100%	5.99x
122	Halliwell	19	0.100%	8.64x
123	Tolan	19	0.100%	171.02x
124	Woodhouse	19	0.100%	4.05x
125	Carey	18	0.090%	4.82x
126	Hickey	18	0.090%	14.59x
127	Loftus	18	0.090%	16.66x
128	Manock	18	0.090%	156.39x
129	Meadowcroft	18	0.090%	25.01x
130	Milnes	18	0.090%	10.29x
131	Shackleton	18	0.090%	8.07x
132	Woodhead	18	0.090%	4.85x
133	Cain	17	0.090%	4.13x
134	Curran	17	0.090%	10.25x
135	Deasy	17	0.090%	279.15x
136	Henthorn	17	0.090%	70.22x
137	Hesketh	17	0.090%	8.97x
138	Heys	17	0.090%	11.75x
139	Hopwood	17	0.090%	7.53x
140	Mooney	17	0.090%	7.39x
141	Nield	17	0.090%	12.50x
142	Brogden	16	0.080%	24.46x
143	Cawley	16	0.080%	15.25x
144	Cockcroft	16	0.080%	28.22x
145	Conroy	16	0.080%	10.89x
146	Feeney	16	0.080%	23.78x
147	Fielden	16	0.080%	13.85x
148	Laycock	16	0.080%	5.88x
149	Maden	16	0.080%	22.09x
150	Uttley	16	0.080%	16.75x
151	Worrall	16	0.080%	6.35x
152	Brennan	15	0.080%	7.25x
153	Coyne	15	0.080%	14.31x
154	Lye	15	0.080%	28.00x
155	Madden	15	0.080%	8.76x
156	Meeks	15	0.080%	44.12x
157	Radcliffe	15	0.080%	6.52x
158	Ridings	15	0.080%	34.10x
159	Tansey	15	0.080%	49.62x
160	Walkden	15	0.080%	16.82x
161	Blomley	14	0.070%	71.50x
162	Collingwood	14	0.070%	12.83x
163	Connolly	14	0.070%	6.09x
164	Cudworth	14	0.070%	48.21x
165	Deer	14	0.070%	45.22x
166	Donoghue	14	0.070%	21.32x
167	Garside	14	0.070%	4.90x
168	Hacking	14	0.070%	14.93x
169	Topper	14	0.070%	124.56x
170	Brearley	13	0.070%	10.50x
171	Carney	13	0.070%	7.26x
172	Greenhalgh	13	0.070%	3.20x
173	Hadfield	13	0.070%	4.71x
174	Higgin	13	0.070%	27.37x
175	Hinchliffe	13	0.070%	7.61x
176	Horrocks	13	0.070%	5.34x
177	Judge	13	0.070%	6.07x
178	Kenny	13	0.070%	5.48x
179	Mathew	13	0.070%	17.48x
180	Mullins	13	0.070%	6.86x
181	Wolfenden	13	0.070%	14.04x
182	Ayrton	12	0.060%	36.80x
183	Bracewell	12	0.060%	16.80x
184	Byrne	12	0.060%	4.34x
185	Gartside	12	0.060%	14.56x
186	Heneghan	12	0.060%	336.13x
187	Malone	12	0.060%	7.57x
188	Matthew	12	0.060%	8.02x
189	Newill	12	0.060%	70.30x
190	Sweeney	12	0.060%	4.52x
191	Tibbs	12	0.060%	27.32x
192	Tynan	12	0.060%	51.24x
193	Armstead	11	0.060%	35.38x
194	Bardsley	11	0.060%	7.33x
195	Barnish	11	0.060%	133.01x
196	Boal	11	0.060%	139.77x
197	Brazil	11	0.060%	117.90x
198	Cody	11	0.060%	95.57x
199	Devaney	11	0.060%	44.46x
200	Dewhirst	11	0.060%	11.69x