1881 census place

Wigan surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wigan, 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

1,668 surnames are listed for Wigan, Lancashire, covering 32,983 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Taylor, with 593 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wigan

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	593	1.22%	1.91x
2	Brown	386	0.800%	1.21x
3	Green	356	0.730%	2.61x
4	Atherton	332	0.690%	38.13x
5	Lowe	289	0.600%	7.96x
6	Wood	280	0.580%	1.81x
7	Walsh	272	0.560%	10.55x
8	Fairhurst	248	0.510%	62.53x
9	Halliwell	248	0.510%	46.14x
10	Winstanley	223	0.460%	45.82x
11	Johnson	214	0.440%	1.31x
12	Foster	202	0.420%	3.12x
13	Holland	200	0.410%	5.80x
14	Hart	198	0.410%	4.79x
15	Parkinson	196	0.400%	8.43x
16	Rigby	189	0.390%	13.45x
17	Harrison	187	0.390%	1.74x
18	Leyland	186	0.380%	62.83x
19	Mason	178	0.370%	2.73x
20	Hall	177	0.370%	1.24x
21	Hilton	176	0.360%	10.57x
22	Melling	175	0.360%	58.38x
23	Turner	174	0.360%	1.29x
24	Ashurst	173	0.360%	100.90x
25	Hurst	173	0.360%	10.00x
26	Ashton	172	0.360%	7.25x
27	Dawber	171	0.350%	159.20x
28	Heaton	169	0.350%	14.58x
29	Heyes	169	0.350%	45.05x
30	Higham	169	0.350%	34.23x
31	Hughes	167	0.340%	1.23x
32	Seddon	163	0.340%	20.71x
33	Hill	161	0.330%	1.30x
34	Houghton	159	0.330%	9.39x
35	Bolton	154	0.320%	7.38x
36	Dickinson	151	0.310%	7.30x
37	Gaskell	151	0.310%	30.41x
38	Marsh	143	0.300%	4.14x
39	Yates	142	0.290%	4.27x
40	Barton	138	0.280%	5.27x
41	Whittle	137	0.280%	12.98x
42	Derbyshire	136	0.280%	26.93x
43	Jolley	134	0.280%	52.50x
44	Molyneux	133	0.270%	35.95x
45	Wilkinson	131	0.270%	1.77x
46	Murphy	129	0.270%	3.33x
47	Barnes	128	0.260%	2.20x
48	Gibson	127	0.260%	2.16x
49	Bennett	126	0.260%	1.58x
50	Worthington	123	0.250%	12.66x
51	Aspinall	122	0.250%	18.30x
52	Pilkington	122	0.250%	14.02x
53	Topping	122	0.250%	36.59x
54	Birchall	121	0.250%	25.46x
55	Howarth	121	0.250%	5.20x
56	Fairclough	119	0.250%	23.54x
57	Leigh	118	0.240%	10.59x
58	Berry	117	0.240%	3.04x
59	Horrocks	117	0.240%	19.66x
60	Shaw	117	0.240%	1.31x
61	Clarke	115	0.240%	1.17x
62	Latham	115	0.240%	11.66x
63	Moss	113	0.230%	3.78x
64	Parr	112	0.230%	9.25x
65	Woods	111	0.230%	3.63x
66	Crompton	109	0.230%	13.37x
67	Cox	108	0.220%	1.47x
68	Riley	108	0.220%	2.82x
69	Baldwin	107	0.220%	5.18x
70	Barlow	106	0.220%	4.05x
71	Bibby	104	0.210%	19.89x
72	Kenyon	103	0.210%	10.18x
73	Baron	102	0.210%	20.34x
74	Banks	99	0.200%	3.98x
75	Boardman	99	0.200%	12.74x
76	Fisher	98	0.200%	1.73x
77	Roscoe	98	0.200%	32.59x
78	Hesketh	97	0.200%	20.92x
79	Crook	96	0.200%	6.90x
80	Dean	94	0.190%	2.80x
81	Prescott	94	0.190%	13.76x
82	Culshaw	93	0.190%	50.74x
83	Kelly	93	0.190%	1.75x
84	Connor	92	0.190%	6.43x
85	Shepherd	92	0.190%	2.59x
86	Atkinson	91	0.190%	1.93x
87	Naylor	91	0.190%	4.98x
88	Collier	90	0.190%	5.56x
89	Ellison	89	0.180%	8.70x
90	Barker	88	0.180%	1.39x
91	Burns	87	0.180%	2.68x
92	Darbyshire	87	0.180%	33.83x
93	Finch	85	0.180%	5.27x
94	Dunn	84	0.170%	2.09x
95	Gallagher	84	0.170%	11.41x
96	Ashcroft	82	0.170%	12.65x
97	Arrowsmith	81	0.170%	21.57x
98	Fitzpatrick	81	0.170%	11.43x
99	Swift	78	0.160%	5.21x
100	Forshaw	77	0.160%	23.65x