1881 census place

Windle surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Windle, 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

735 surnames are listed for Windle, Lancashire, covering 10,175 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Rigby, with 176 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Windle

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	Rigby	176	0.900%	31.11x
2	Swift	166	0.850%	27.56x
3	Harrison	156	0.800%	3.60x
4	Webster	152	0.780%	8.96x
5	Fairclough	144	0.740%	70.75x
6	Leyland	142	0.730%	119.14x
7	Houghton	139	0.710%	20.39x
8	Marsh	126	0.650%	9.06x
9	Glover	121	0.620%	14.55x
10	Anders	112	0.570%	316.74x
11	Appleton	111	0.570%	36.31x
12	Parr	107	0.550%	21.96x
13	Mather	106	0.540%	21.92x
14	Foster	93	0.480%	3.57x
15	Kelly	90	0.460%	4.21x
16	Burrows	87	0.450%	10.19x
17	Rimmer	85	0.440%	27.29x
18	Sephton	84	0.430%	165.55x
19	Yates	82	0.420%	6.12x
20	Ashton	75	0.380%	7.85x
21	Seddon	73	0.370%	23.04x
22	Pennington	72	0.370%	24.93x
23	Twist	72	0.370%	74.64x
24	Woods	72	0.370%	5.85x
25	Middlehurst	70	0.360%	263.46x
26	Ashcroft	67	0.340%	25.67x
27	Critchley	67	0.340%	38.54x
28	Mercer	67	0.340%	13.09x
29	Winstanley	67	0.340%	34.19x
30	Hunter	66	0.340%	3.30x
31	Pilkington	66	0.340%	18.83x
32	Birchall	65	0.330%	33.97x
33	Topping	63	0.320%	46.93x
34	Greenall	62	0.320%	104.73x
35	Bradbury	61	0.310%	10.82x
36	Vose	60	0.310%	190.72x
37	Fairhurst	59	0.300%	36.94x
38	Bibby	58	0.300%	27.54x
39	Whittle	58	0.300%	13.65x
40	Ashall	57	0.290%	206.37x
41	Boardman	57	0.290%	18.21x
42	Naylor	57	0.290%	7.75x
43	Pye	57	0.290%	19.54x
44	Hewitt	56	0.290%	5.89x
45	Knowles	56	0.290%	5.38x
46	Frodsham	55	0.280%	226.99x
47	Bridge	54	0.280%	13.67x
48	Halsall	54	0.280%	52.54x
49	Littler	53	0.270%	40.96x
50	Barton	50	0.260%	4.75x
51	Bickerstaffe	50	0.260%	299.94x
52	Unsworth	47	0.240%	20.97x
53	Grundy	46	0.240%	11.52x
54	Bate	45	0.230%	13.61x
55	Holland	45	0.230%	3.24x
56	Platt	45	0.230%	8.71x
57	Almond	44	0.230%	18.20x
58	Pickavance	44	0.230%	300.34x
59	Eccleston	43	0.220%	43.99x
60	Gallagher	43	0.220%	14.51x
61	Bold	42	0.220%	77.69x
62	Ellison	42	0.220%	10.20x
63	Lyon	42	0.220%	10.28x
64	Huyton	41	0.210%	171.55x
65	Lynch	41	0.210%	7.97x
66	Southward	40	0.210%	97.94x
67	Case	38	0.190%	19.50x
68	Fildes	38	0.190%	81.27x
69	Gerrard	38	0.190%	15.25x
70	Hatton	38	0.190%	9.92x
71	Anderton	37	0.190%	15.98x
72	Gregson	37	0.190%	13.71x
73	Barrow	35	0.180%	8.47x
74	Heaton	35	0.180%	7.50x
75	Woodward	35	0.180%	3.64x
76	Bradshaw	34	0.170%	4.24x
77	Chisnall	34	0.170%	97.76x
78	Molyneux	34	0.170%	22.83x
79	Litherland	33	0.170%	74.63x
80	Whalley	33	0.170%	10.75x
81	Leather	32	0.160%	24.03x
82	Summer	32	0.160%	71.52x
83	Eden	31	0.160%	15.65x
84	Gleave	31	0.160%	37.75x
85	Hurst	31	0.160%	4.45x
86	Atherton	30	0.150%	8.56x
87	Bolton	30	0.150%	3.57x
88	Cunliffe	30	0.150%	12.35x
89	Prescott	30	0.150%	10.90x
90	Heyes	29	0.150%	19.20x
91	Costello	28	0.140%	23.53x
92	Fillingham	28	0.140%	69.46x
93	Welding	28	0.140%	211.80x
94	Baines	27	0.140%	7.23x
95	Cullen	27	0.140%	7.90x
96	Forrest	27	0.140%	5.37x
97	Leigh	27	0.140%	6.02x
98	Penketh	27	0.140%	151.26x
99	Dennett	26	0.130%	30.88x
100	Haslam	26	0.130%	8.78x