1881 census place

Widnes surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Widnes, 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

1,132 surnames are listed for Widnes, Lancashire, covering 12,276 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hughes, with 174 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Widnes

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	Hughes	174	0.700%	2.48x
2	Wright	148	0.590%	1.85x
3	Harrison	145	0.580%	2.61x
4	Hunt	137	0.550%	4.13x
5	Murphy	117	0.470%	5.86x
6	Burns	115	0.460%	6.85x
7	Houghton	106	0.420%	12.13x
8	Whitfield	105	0.420%	21.03x
9	Quinn	102	0.410%	21.34x
10	Murray	92	0.370%	2.97x
11	Kelly	91	0.360%	3.32x
12	Doyle	89	0.360%	14.62x
13	Burgess	75	0.300%	4.32x
14	Ashton	73	0.290%	5.96x
15	Moss	73	0.290%	4.74x
16	Lightfoot	70	0.280%	20.13x
17	Heyes	63	0.250%	32.54x
18	Atherton	60	0.240%	13.35x
19	Hewitt	57	0.230%	4.68x
20	Beesley	56	0.220%	27.87x
21	Ford	56	0.220%	2.30x
22	Harper	56	0.220%	3.50x
23	Farrell	53	0.210%	11.18x
24	Rigby	53	0.210%	7.31x
25	Burke	52	0.210%	7.07x
26	Ireland	52	0.210%	8.96x
27	Duffy	51	0.200%	9.34x
28	Prescott	51	0.200%	14.46x
29	Walsh	51	0.200%	3.83x
30	Holden	50	0.200%	3.65x
31	Welsh	49	0.200%	4.95x
32	Glover	48	0.190%	4.50x
33	Platt	48	0.190%	7.25x
34	Woods	48	0.190%	3.04x
35	Connor	46	0.180%	6.23x
36	Ryan	46	0.180%	5.93x
37	Hulme	45	0.180%	8.42x
38	Tobin	45	0.180%	44.92x
39	Kennedy	44	0.180%	2.92x
40	Mercer	44	0.180%	6.71x
41	Cain	42	0.170%	8.09x
42	Whelan	42	0.170%	24.79x
43	Dennett	41	0.160%	37.98x
44	Keating	41	0.160%	33.16x
45	Gallagher	40	0.160%	10.53x
46	Sparks	40	0.160%	10.58x
47	Unsworth	39	0.160%	13.57x
48	Carroll	38	0.150%	7.57x
49	Dutton	38	0.150%	6.71x
50	Conner	37	0.150%	19.13x
51	Leather	37	0.150%	21.67x
52	Mooney	37	0.150%	12.75x
53	Bradshaw	36	0.140%	3.51x
54	Brady	36	0.140%	8.13x
55	Hartles	36	0.140%	303.80x
56	Mannion	36	0.140%	55.43x
57	Tansey	36	0.140%	94.36x
58	Abbott	35	0.140%	3.17x
59	Byrne	35	0.140%	10.04x
60	Cowley	34	0.140%	7.39x
61	Lynch	34	0.140%	5.15x
62	Pennington	34	0.140%	9.18x
63	Gerrard	33	0.130%	10.33x
64	Goulding	33	0.130%	13.51x
65	Curley	32	0.130%	36.78x
66	Hartland	32	0.130%	29.13x
67	Lamb	32	0.130%	2.43x
68	Malone	32	0.130%	15.99x
69	Nolan	32	0.130%	9.39x
70	Boardman	31	0.120%	7.73x
71	Cosgrove	31	0.120%	25.45x
72	Dalton	31	0.120%	5.40x
73	Mullen	31	0.120%	12.97x
74	Stanley	31	0.120%	3.22x
75	Calland	30	0.120%	75.97x
76	Davenport	30	0.120%	6.33x
77	Dillon	30	0.120%	12.14x
78	Dwyer	30	0.120%	21.41x
79	Lunt	30	0.120%	18.64x
80	Newall	30	0.120%	20.92x
81	Beswick	29	0.120%	11.87x
82	Brannon	29	0.120%	41.70x
83	Connolly	29	0.120%	9.99x
84	Grayson	29	0.120%	15.55x
85	Horabin	29	0.120%	351.09x
86	Keogh	29	0.120%	50.79x
87	Cullen	28	0.110%	6.39x
88	Dolan	28	0.110%	12.87x
89	Gandy	28	0.110%	27.79x
90	Gleave	28	0.110%	26.60x
91	Lawton	28	0.110%	4.34x
92	Lea	28	0.110%	5.67x
93	Norris	28	0.110%	2.61x
94	Ratcliffe	28	0.110%	4.05x
95	Brassington	27	0.110%	27.09x
96	Dugan	27	0.110%	55.48x
97	Hignett	27	0.110%	53.64x
98	Jameson	27	0.110%	9.76x
99	Kelley	27	0.110%	9.30x
100	Leonard	27	0.110%	4.98x