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 Peers, with 14 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
501	Peers	14	0.030%	4.95x
502	Prescot	14	0.030%	22.96x
503	Southern	14	0.030%	3.13x
504	Strong	14	0.030%	1.94x
505	Town	14	0.030%	5.83x
506	Wignall	14	0.030%	5.66x
507	Wilkie	14	0.030%	2.03x
508	Airey	13	0.030%	3.53x
509	Bennet	13	0.030%	1.94x
510	Bithel	13	0.030%	55.44x
511	Bolderson	13	0.030%	61.35x
512	Brennan	13	0.030%	2.57x
513	Burley	13	0.030%	2.83x
514	Coughlin	13	0.030%	16.17x
515	Cowburn	13	0.030%	7.37x
516	Cuncliffe	13	0.030%	71.12x
517	Devine	13	0.030%	2.70x
518	Ditchfield	13	0.030%	7.86x
519	Golden	13	0.030%	6.37x
520	Grady	13	0.030%	4.07x
521	Greenlees	13	0.030%	13.79x
522	Haran	13	0.030%	52.19x
523	Hibbert	13	0.030%	1.83x
524	Hoy	13	0.030%	4.67x
525	Kendrick	13	0.030%	2.79x
526	Maloy	13	0.030%	17.43x
527	Mawdsley	13	0.030%	8.50x
528	Molloy	13	0.030%	4.92x
529	Nugent	13	0.030%	5.06x
530	Ormrod	13	0.030%	8.35x
531	Pincock	13	0.030%	94.55x
532	Priest	13	0.030%	2.05x
533	Procter	13	0.030%	2.07x
534	Rawlinson	13	0.030%	2.25x
535	Rynn	13	0.030%	191.46x
536	Shacklady	13	0.030%	28.10x
537	Standish	13	0.030%	13.76x
538	Tuttle	13	0.030%	20.88x
539	Westhead	13	0.030%	11.55x
540	Wolstenholme	13	0.030%	3.36x
541	Abram	12	0.020%	6.90x
542	Boden	12	0.020%	3.06x
543	Burchall	12	0.020%	24.57x
544	Burnet	12	0.020%	6.77x
545	Coffey	12	0.020%	8.12x
546	Corrigan	12	0.020%	5.53x
547	Coyne	12	0.020%	4.68x
548	Danson	12	0.020%	11.09x
549	Duddle	12	0.020%	82.42x
550	Fazackerley	12	0.020%	22.48x
551	Galvin	12	0.020%	11.52x
552	German	12	0.020%	5.31x
553	Grindley	12	0.020%	8.90x
554	Gummerson	12	0.020%	76.48x
555	Hammill	12	0.020%	23.93x
556	Harker	12	0.020%	2.35x
557	Hatch	12	0.020%	2.88x
558	Langton	12	0.020%	3.12x
559	Lomax	12	0.020%	1.75x
560	Markey	12	0.020%	13.87x
561	Mayor	12	0.020%	5.67x
562	Meade	12	0.020%	8.67x
563	Meadow	12	0.020%	40.54x
564	Mooney	12	0.020%	2.13x
565	Pickup	12	0.020%	1.92x
566	Ratchford	12	0.020%	37.46x
567	Rooney	12	0.020%	2.78x
568	Rorke	12	0.020%	28.00x
569	Scholes	12	0.020%	2.14x
570	Sherington	12	0.020%	103.00x
571	Speed	12	0.020%	3.08x
572	Strickland	12	0.020%	3.11x
573	Sudworth	12	0.020%	32.12x
574	Swann	12	0.020%	2.27x
575	Walpole	12	0.020%	6.30x
576	Warden	12	0.020%	3.47x
577	Watmough	12	0.020%	10.18x
578	Ablett	11	0.020%	10.78x
579	Alstead	11	0.020%	90.68x
580	Baggaley	11	0.020%	11.72x
581	Bryne	11	0.020%	14.35x
582	Bulpitt	11	0.020%	30.63x
583	Bustin	11	0.020%	25.00x
584	Carrington	11	0.020%	2.16x
585	Carrol	11	0.020%	5.01x
586	Chisnall	11	0.020%	12.73x
587	Christopher	11	0.020%	3.86x
588	Christy	11	0.020%	10.76x
589	Conlin	11	0.020%	12.21x
590	Crawshaw	11	0.020%	2.92x
591	Critchly	11	0.020%	101.48x
592	Delaney	11	0.020%	3.53x
593	Dix	11	0.020%	2.30x
594	Ducker	11	0.020%	9.67x
595	Duyer	11	0.020%	200.00x
596	Faster	11	0.020%	98.57x
597	Gilligan	11	0.020%	8.90x
598	Healy	11	0.020%	3.43x
599	Hitchin	11	0.020%	9.39x
600	Livesley	11	0.020%	16.27x