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 Moran, with 77 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
101	Moran	77	0.160%	8.68x
102	Knowles	76	0.160%	2.94x
103	Lea	76	0.160%	7.95x
104	Chadwick	75	0.150%	3.54x
105	Howard	74	0.150%	1.56x
106	Grundy	72	0.150%	7.26x
107	Lynch	72	0.150%	5.63x
108	Catterall	70	0.140%	22.85x
109	Glover	70	0.140%	3.39x
110	Kay	70	0.140%	2.78x
111	Armstrong	69	0.140%	1.86x
112	Farrimond	68	0.140%	74.54x
113	Stuart	68	0.140%	5.88x
114	Critchley	67	0.140%	15.52x
115	Matthews	67	0.140%	1.59x
116	Austin	66	0.140%	2.79x
117	France	66	0.140%	8.96x
118	Simm	66	0.140%	35.21x
119	Gerrard	65	0.130%	10.50x
120	Ramsdale	65	0.130%	56.04x
121	Ball	64	0.130%	1.60x
122	Carr	64	0.130%	1.83x
123	Ainscough	63	0.130%	48.32x
124	Kelley	63	0.130%	11.19x
125	Tickle	63	0.130%	29.09x
126	Alker	62	0.130%	69.44x
127	Owens	62	0.130%	2.58x
128	Rimmer	62	0.130%	8.01x
129	Tarbuck	62	0.130%	76.81x
130	Baxendale	61	0.130%	24.71x
131	Bradshaw	60	0.120%	3.02x
132	Buckley	60	0.120%	2.28x
133	Ryan	60	0.120%	3.99x
134	Sherrington	60	0.120%	59.25x
135	Porter	58	0.120%	1.60x
136	Duffy	57	0.120%	5.39x
137	Mather	57	0.120%	4.75x
138	Unsworth	57	0.120%	10.24x
139	Arkwright	56	0.120%	49.18x
140	Belshaw	56	0.120%	60.63x
141	Bentham	56	0.120%	25.29x
142	Gorman	56	0.120%	9.58x
143	Hampson	56	0.120%	6.41x
144	Martindale	56	0.120%	20.14x
145	Sharples	56	0.120%	6.61x
146	Fishwick	55	0.110%	22.76x
147	Goulding	55	0.110%	11.62x
148	Bannister	53	0.110%	6.34x
149	Gee	53	0.110%	4.29x
150	Henry	53	0.110%	4.33x
151	Liptrot	53	0.110%	55.35x
152	Milligan	53	0.110%	9.30x
153	Harmer	52	0.110%	10.83x
154	Hodson	52	0.110%	5.19x
155	Holcroft	52	0.110%	49.77x
156	Hodkinson	51	0.110%	14.91x
157	Tinsley	51	0.110%	17.33x
158	Gill	50	0.100%	1.46x
159	Highton	50	0.100%	45.66x
160	Platt	50	0.100%	3.90x
161	Whalley	50	0.100%	6.56x
162	Birch	49	0.100%	2.47x
163	Charnock	49	0.100%	21.18x
164	Holden	49	0.100%	1.85x
165	Maloney	49	0.100%	12.26x
166	Myers	49	0.100%	3.88x
167	Quinn	49	0.100%	5.29x
168	Cain	48	0.100%	4.77x
169	Coyle	48	0.100%	14.59x
170	Eckersley	48	0.100%	15.84x
171	Calderbank	47	0.100%	42.86x
172	Kearsley	47	0.100%	41.57x
173	Livesey	47	0.100%	9.91x
174	Sharrock	47	0.100%	31.11x
175	Walls	47	0.100%	8.07x
176	Blackburn	46	0.100%	2.52x
177	Littler	46	0.100%	14.31x
178	Mears	46	0.100%	10.07x
179	Ascroft	45	0.090%	65.00x
180	Smalley	45	0.090%	10.27x
181	Southworth	45	0.090%	18.14x
182	Tyrer	45	0.090%	21.06x
183	Doherty	44	0.090%	11.13x
184	Kennedy	44	0.090%	1.51x
185	Lyon	44	0.090%	4.33x
186	Brindle	43	0.090%	12.37x
187	Peet	43	0.090%	16.79x
188	Bootle	42	0.090%	111.94x
189	Clough	42	0.090%	3.88x
190	Gore	42	0.090%	7.68x
191	Rudd	42	0.090%	5.50x
192	Schofield	42	0.090%	1.60x
193	Caldwell	41	0.080%	5.41x
194	Major	41	0.080%	6.27x
195	Ratcliffe	41	0.080%	3.06x
196	Shannon	41	0.080%	10.93x
197	Underwood	41	0.080%	3.14x
198	Blackledge	40	0.080%	30.64x
199	Duckworth	40	0.080%	4.27x
200	Markland	40	0.080%	36.91x