1881 census county

Yorkshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Yorkshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

22,517 surnames are listed for Yorkshire, covering 2,654,453 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Crossley, with 3,640 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Yorkshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
101	Crossley	3,640	0.130%	4.58x
102	Milner	3,639	0.130%	5.48x
103	King	3,637	0.130%	0.58x
104	Gledhill	3,627	0.130%	8.44x
105	Allen	3,554	0.120%	0.65x
106	Binns	3,516	0.120%	7.33x
107	Bentley	3,504	0.120%	2.86x
108	Bennett	3,503	0.120%	0.74x
109	Woodhead	3,492	0.120%	6.43x
110	Dickinson	3,439	0.120%	2.78x
111	Hargreaves	3,429	0.120%	2.84x
112	Myers	3,406	0.120%	4.51x
113	Ramsden	3,395	0.120%	6.43x
114	Craven	3,385	0.120%	6.06x
115	Kaye	3,360	0.120%	7.74x
116	Broadbent	3,358	0.120%	5.41x
117	Burton	3,344	0.120%	1.36x
118	Priestley	3,341	0.120%	6.82x
119	Hobson	3,324	0.110%	4.43x
120	Gray	3,313	0.110%	0.80x
121	Berry	3,308	0.110%	1.44x
122	Young	3,284	0.110%	0.53x
123	Eastwood	3,273	0.110%	4.78x
124	Newton	3,236	0.110%	1.46x
125	Bottomley	3,229	0.110%	6.70x
126	Crabtree	3,091	0.110%	5.30x
127	Lambert	3,077	0.110%	1.95x
128	Anderson	2,990	0.100%	0.52x
129	Fawcett	2,988	0.100%	5.34x
130	Midgley	2,974	0.100%	7.67x
131	Martin	2,966	0.100%	0.42x
132	Morton	2,959	0.100%	1.91x
133	Wade	2,955	0.100%	2.55x
134	Buckley	2,942	0.100%	1.87x
135	Baker	2,923	0.100%	0.46x
136	Williamson	2,906	0.100%	1.12x
137	Kershaw	2,898	0.100%	3.10x
138	Slater	2,891	0.100%	1.65x
139	Ingham	2,859	0.100%	3.97x
140	Calvert	2,836	0.100%	4.80x
141	Hoyle	2,825	0.100%	4.23x
142	Greaves	2,803	0.100%	3.30x
143	Clegg	2,801	0.100%	2.84x
144	Illingworth	2,750	0.100%	8.39x
145	Parkinson	2,749	0.100%	1.98x
146	Shepherd	2,747	0.090%	1.29x
147	Thorpe	2,740	0.090%	2.39x
148	Mellor	2,731	0.090%	2.68x
149	Preston	2,712	0.090%	1.88x
150	Laycock	2,693	0.090%	6.77x
151	Farrar	2,687	0.090%	6.96x
152	Clarkson	2,683	0.090%	3.50x
153	Hunter	2,673	0.090%	0.90x
154	Barraclough	2,664	0.090%	9.30x
155	Graham	2,658	0.090%	0.80x
156	Jowett	2,650	0.090%	8.40x
157	Dean	2,646	0.090%	1.32x
158	Hepworth	2,605	0.090%	7.89x
159	Sugden	2,597	0.090%	7.76x
160	Barrett	2,568	0.090%	1.32x
161	Lawson	2,560	0.090%	1.50x
162	Pickering	2,548	0.090%	2.44x
163	Holroyd	2,541	0.090%	7.89x
164	Baxter	2,540	0.090%	1.47x
165	Swift	2,534	0.090%	2.83x
166	Tomlinson	2,522	0.090%	1.89x
167	Kay	2,515	0.090%	1.67x
168	Clough	2,508	0.090%	3.88x
169	Elliott	2,508	0.090%	1.02x
170	Butler	2,505	0.090%	0.89x
171	Horner	2,501	0.090%	4.54x
172	Noble	2,500	0.090%	2.08x
173	Bedford	2,468	0.090%	3.59x
174	North	2,459	0.080%	2.56x
175	Kelly	2,458	0.080%	0.78x
176	Ackroyd	2,451	0.080%	9.06x
177	Morris	2,446	0.080%	0.38x
178	Knowles	2,426	0.080%	1.57x
179	Lodge	2,410	0.080%	4.58x
180	Todd	2,408	0.080%	1.63x
181	Davis	2,391	0.080%	0.38x
182	Lumb	2,388	0.080%	8.74x
183	Drake	2,384	0.080%	2.83x
184	Day	2,380	0.080%	0.87x
185	Wadsworth	2,358	0.080%	5.84x
186	Batty	2,355	0.080%	5.32x
187	Evans	2,350	0.080%	0.19x
188	Stott	2,349	0.080%	2.60x
189	Brooke	2,342	0.080%	5.43x
190	Nelson	2,335	0.080%	1.67x
191	Sunderland	2,333	0.080%	7.02x
192	Shackleton	2,330	0.080%	7.15x
193	Robson	2,302	0.080%	1.21x
194	Collins	2,300	0.080%	0.55x
195	Waddington	2,296	0.080%	4.88x
196	Barnes	2,287	0.080%	0.66x
197	Helliwell	2,287	0.080%	8.57x
198	Heaton	2,257	0.080%	3.26x
199	Dunn	2,253	0.080%	0.94x
200	Pollard	2,247	0.080%	2.13x