1881 census place

West Derby surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in West Derby, 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

4,809 surnames are listed for West Derby, Lancashire, covering 78,588 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 2,350 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in West Derby

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	Jones	2,350	2.32%	2.05x
2	Smith	1,340	1.32%	0.94x
3	Williams	1,250	1.23%	1.72x
4	Roberts	955	0.940%	2.50x
5	Hughes	890	0.880%	3.13x
6	Davies	810	0.800%	1.57x
7	Evans	695	0.690%	1.57x
8	Brown	528	0.520%	0.79x
9	Taylor	517	0.510%	0.80x
10	Wilson	509	0.500%	1.09x
11	Edwards	486	0.480%	1.72x
12	Johnson	465	0.460%	1.36x
13	Thompson	436	0.430%	1.44x
14	Robinson	432	0.430%	1.34x
15	Wright	421	0.420%	1.29x
16	Walker	389	0.380%	1.15x
17	Thomas	388	0.380%	0.93x
18	Parry	343	0.340%	4.44x
19	Griffiths	322	0.320%	1.94x
20	Green	309	0.300%	1.08x
21	Kelly	305	0.300%	2.75x
22	Murphy	294	0.290%	3.63x
23	Jackson	283	0.280%	1.00x
24	Wood	279	0.280%	0.86x
25	Morris	277	0.270%	1.23x
26	Moore	270	0.270%	1.33x
27	Harrison	269	0.270%	1.19x
28	Martin	249	0.250%	1.00x
29	Owen	248	0.240%	2.06x
30	Shaw	247	0.240%	1.33x
31	Hall	244	0.240%	0.82x
32	Turner	240	0.240%	0.85x
33	Richardson	236	0.230%	1.37x
34	White	225	0.220%	0.69x
35	Ward	222	0.220%	1.00x
36	Price	218	0.220%	1.23x
37	Lloyd	213	0.210%	1.80x
38	Parker	212	0.210%	1.10x
39	Lewis	203	0.200%	0.76x
40	Scott	203	0.200%	0.79x
41	Clarke	201	0.200%	0.98x
42	Bell	200	0.200%	1.05x
43	Woods	197	0.190%	3.08x
44	Hill	194	0.190%	0.75x
45	Graham	189	0.190%	1.62x
46	Fletcher	188	0.190%	1.62x
47	Pritchard	185	0.180%	3.39x
48	Ellis	183	0.180%	1.24x
49	Simpson	179	0.180%	1.01x
50	Allen	177	0.170%	0.92x
51	Foster	177	0.170%	1.31x
52	Cooper	174	0.170%	0.71x
53	Miller	172	0.170%	0.95x
54	Howard	170	0.170%	1.71x
55	Wilkinson	169	0.170%	1.09x
56	Clark	168	0.170%	0.55x
57	Spencer	165	0.160%	1.78x
58	Rogers	164	0.160%	1.25x
59	Webster	162	0.160%	1.84x
60	Davis	161	0.160%	0.72x
61	Gibson	159	0.160%	1.29x
62	Harris	157	0.150%	0.61x
63	Young	154	0.150%	0.71x
64	Lunt	153	0.150%	23.43x
65	Baker	152	0.150%	0.68x
66	Mason	152	0.150%	1.11x
67	Owens	152	0.150%	3.02x
68	Ashcroft	151	0.150%	11.13x
69	Yates	148	0.150%	2.12x
70	Anderson	147	0.140%	0.73x
71	Atkinson	147	0.140%	1.49x
72	Bailey	145	0.140%	0.95x
73	Watson	139	0.140%	0.59x
74	Carter	137	0.140%	0.80x
75	Banks	135	0.130%	2.60x
76	Bennett	135	0.130%	0.81x
77	King	134	0.130%	0.61x
78	Ashton	133	0.130%	2.68x
79	Mercer	133	0.130%	5.00x
80	Rigby	132	0.130%	4.49x
81	Riley	132	0.130%	1.65x
82	Houghton	130	0.130%	3.67x
83	Phillips	130	0.130%	0.72x
84	Swift	130	0.130%	4.15x
85	Doyle	127	0.130%	5.14x
86	Rimmer	125	0.120%	7.72x
87	Hayes	124	0.120%	1.97x
88	Hunter	122	0.120%	1.17x
89	Ball	120	0.120%	1.43x
90	Lowe	120	0.120%	1.58x
91	Burns	119	0.120%	1.75x
92	Ellison	119	0.120%	5.56x
93	Armstrong	118	0.120%	1.52x
94	Lamb	118	0.120%	2.21x
95	Murray	115	0.110%	0.91x
96	Campbell	114	0.110%	0.66x
97	Hodgson	114	0.110%	1.62x
98	Whitehead	113	0.110%	1.65x
99	Cook	112	0.110%	0.56x
100	Nicholson	112	0.110%	1.55x