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 Littlewood, with 55 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
101	Littlewood	55	0.130%	10.38x
102	Critchley	54	0.130%	14.74x
103	Norman	54	0.130%	2.84x
104	Potts	53	0.130%	3.86x
105	Dobson	52	0.130%	2.87x
106	Reynolds	52	0.130%	1.46x
107	Welsby	52	0.130%	49.35x
108	Whittle	52	0.130%	5.81x
109	Bridge	51	0.120%	6.13x
110	Mellor	51	0.120%	3.52x
111	Moss	51	0.120%	2.01x
112	Rowland	51	0.120%	4.37x
113	Foy	50	0.120%	14.73x
114	Tickle	50	0.120%	27.21x
115	Glover	49	0.120%	2.80x
116	Helsby	49	0.120%	64.23x
117	Holbrook	49	0.120%	16.55x
118	Howell	49	0.120%	2.83x
119	Kirkham	49	0.120%	8.55x
120	Ryder	49	0.120%	6.89x
121	Bolton	48	0.120%	2.71x
122	Finch	48	0.120%	3.51x
123	Lythgoe	48	0.120%	37.98x
124	Peers	48	0.120%	20.02x
125	Heath	47	0.110%	2.30x
126	Hopkins	47	0.110%	1.90x
127	Burgess	46	0.110%	1.61x
128	Gallop	46	0.110%	35.14x
129	Gandy	46	0.110%	27.77x
130	Gill	46	0.110%	1.58x
131	Lomax	46	0.110%	7.93x
132	Whitehouse	46	0.110%	4.30x
133	Holden	45	0.110%	2.00x
134	Boyle	44	0.110%	4.13x
135	Dickenson	44	0.110%	7.06x
136	Higgins	44	0.110%	2.12x
137	Timmins	44	0.110%	13.31x
138	Baxter	43	0.100%	1.76x
139	Dodd	43	0.100%	2.57x
140	Kenwright	43	0.100%	156.71x
141	Knowles	43	0.100%	1.96x
142	Longshaw	43	0.100%	59.92x
143	Sutton	43	0.100%	1.64x
144	Travis	43	0.100%	8.92x
145	Cotton	42	0.100%	4.28x
146	Kay	42	0.100%	1.97x
147	Noon	42	0.100%	14.22x
148	Fogg	41	0.100%	17.17x
149	Thornley	41	0.100%	8.99x
150	Thornton	41	0.100%	1.98x
151	Davenport	40	0.100%	5.14x
152	Cain	39	0.090%	4.57x
153	Fairhurst	39	0.090%	11.59x
154	Farrell	39	0.090%	5.00x
155	Gorst	39	0.090%	43.53x
156	Grounds	39	0.090%	56.17x
157	Kinsey	39	0.090%	14.49x
158	Leather	39	0.090%	13.90x
159	Quinn	39	0.090%	4.96x
160	Wainwright	39	0.090%	4.49x
161	Clayton	38	0.090%	1.70x
162	Dykes	38	0.090%	13.44x
163	Bradbury	37	0.090%	3.12x
164	Glynn	37	0.090%	20.38x
165	Griffin	37	0.090%	1.91x
166	Jefferson	37	0.090%	8.29x
167	Maddock	37	0.090%	9.86x
168	Nolan	37	0.090%	6.60x
169	Rudge	37	0.090%	11.48x
170	Sankey	37	0.090%	21.73x
171	Sudlow	37	0.090%	107.43x
172	Ashcroft	36	0.090%	6.55x
173	Clough	36	0.090%	3.92x
174	Farrington	36	0.090%	10.20x
175	Flynn	36	0.090%	4.58x
176	Looker	36	0.090%	29.61x
177	Millington	36	0.090%	5.79x
178	Pennington	36	0.090%	5.92x
179	Vernon	36	0.090%	5.32x
180	Conway	35	0.090%	4.55x
181	Hankey	35	0.090%	35.82x
182	Percival	35	0.090%	5.44x
183	Povey	35	0.090%	14.07x
184	Swindells	35	0.090%	13.30x
185	Alcock	34	0.080%	5.73x
186	Banner	34	0.080%	15.15x
187	Dennett	34	0.080%	19.16x
188	Derbyshire	34	0.080%	7.94x
189	Drinkwater	34	0.080%	8.39x
190	Goulden	34	0.080%	23.46x
191	Rowson	34	0.080%	22.94x
192	Walmsley	34	0.080%	4.00x
193	Weaver	34	0.080%	3.18x
194	Brookes	33	0.080%	3.42x
195	Garnett	33	0.080%	6.47x
196	Rutter	33	0.080%	5.27x
197	Worsley	33	0.080%	9.19x
198	Cotterill	32	0.080%	8.89x
199	Coyne	32	0.080%	14.71x
200	Holloway	32	0.080%	2.54x