1881 census place

Warrington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Warrington, 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

1,611 surnames are listed for Warrington, Lancashire, covering 25,932 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 453 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Warrington

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	453	1.10%	1.72x
2	Warburton	215	0.520%	21.21x
3	Hill	214	0.520%	2.04x
4	Richardson	207	0.500%	2.96x
5	Shaw	204	0.500%	2.70x
6	Bate	199	0.480%	28.58x
7	Massey	181	0.440%	17.22x
8	Jackson	178	0.430%	1.55x
9	Houghton	175	0.430%	12.19x
10	Wright	175	0.430%	1.33x
11	Leigh	172	0.420%	18.19x
12	Woods	168	0.410%	6.48x
13	Lawton	165	0.400%	15.58x
14	Hughes	160	0.390%	1.39x
15	Lowe	158	0.380%	5.13x
16	Gleave	151	0.370%	87.27x
17	Clare	148	0.360%	24.88x
18	Allen	147	0.360%	1.89x
19	Harrison	138	0.340%	1.51x
20	Clarke	137	0.330%	1.65x
21	Lee	127	0.310%	1.89x
22	Whittaker	127	0.310%	6.53x
23	Barton	126	0.310%	5.68x
24	Howard	126	0.310%	3.12x
25	Ward	125	0.300%	1.39x
26	Mather	120	0.290%	11.78x
27	Monks	118	0.290%	35.47x
28	Dutton	117	0.280%	12.58x
29	Harding	116	0.280%	3.90x
30	Berry	115	0.280%	3.53x
31	Hatton	115	0.280%	14.26x
32	Higham	115	0.280%	27.46x
33	Spencer	115	0.280%	3.07x
34	Owen	114	0.280%	2.34x
35	Morris	113	0.280%	1.24x
36	Walsh	112	0.270%	5.12x
37	Bennett	111	0.270%	1.64x
38	Dagnall	111	0.270%	124.64x
39	Hewitt	108	0.260%	5.40x
40	Kelly	107	0.260%	2.38x
41	Hardman	103	0.250%	12.46x
42	Marsh	101	0.250%	3.45x
43	Miller	101	0.250%	1.37x
44	Atherton	99	0.240%	13.40x
45	Bibby	98	0.240%	22.09x
46	Burke	97	0.240%	8.02x
47	Forster	97	0.240%	7.20x
48	Booth	95	0.230%	2.34x
49	Ashton	94	0.230%	4.67x
50	Broadhurst	94	0.230%	22.59x
51	Buckley	92	0.220%	4.11x
52	Rigby	90	0.220%	7.55x
53	Birchall	89	0.220%	22.08x
54	Ford	89	0.220%	2.22x
55	Caldwell	87	0.210%	13.53x
56	Lawless	87	0.210%	58.81x
57	Lloyd	85	0.210%	1.77x
58	Boardman	83	0.200%	12.59x
59	Burns	83	0.200%	3.01x
60	Bradshaw	82	0.200%	4.86x
61	Naylor	82	0.200%	5.29x
62	Barlow	79	0.190%	3.56x
63	Whitfield	78	0.190%	9.50x
64	Burrows	77	0.190%	4.28x
65	Daniels	76	0.180%	5.89x
66	Gibson	76	0.180%	1.52x
67	Worrall	75	0.180%	14.36x
68	Appleton	74	0.180%	11.49x
69	Potter	74	0.180%	2.78x
70	Hankinson	73	0.180%	54.06x
71	Hayes	73	0.180%	2.86x
72	Wilcock	73	0.180%	12.49x
73	Yates	72	0.180%	2.55x
74	Knight	70	0.170%	1.38x
75	Thomason	70	0.170%	29.18x
76	Ratcliffe	68	0.170%	5.99x
77	Williamson	67	0.160%	1.82x
78	Mannion	66	0.160%	61.82x
79	Chadwick	65	0.160%	3.62x
80	Jolley	65	0.160%	30.02x
81	Oxley	65	0.160%	11.29x
82	Stringer	64	0.160%	7.82x
83	Gibbons	63	0.150%	4.77x
84	Pritchard	63	0.150%	2.85x
85	Unsworth	63	0.150%	13.34x
86	Dolan	62	0.150%	17.34x
87	Pemberton	61	0.150%	11.69x
88	Riley	61	0.150%	1.88x
89	Stockton	61	0.150%	24.45x
90	Isherwood	60	0.150%	12.62x
91	Maguire	60	0.150%	14.28x
92	Newton	60	0.150%	1.91x
93	Burton	59	0.140%	1.69x
94	Ball	58	0.140%	1.71x
95	Connor	58	0.140%	4.78x
96	Ellison	58	0.140%	6.68x
97	Lea	57	0.140%	7.03x
98	Molyneux	57	0.140%	18.16x
99	Hough	55	0.130%	7.77x
100	Lightfoot	55	0.130%	9.62x