1881 census place

Almondbury surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Almondbury, Yorkshire 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

396 surnames are listed for Almondbury, Yorkshire, covering 9,214 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Sykes, with 353 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Almondbury

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	Sykes	353	2.52%	52.55x
2	Shaw	348	2.49%	13.53x
3	Beaumont	258	1.84%	62.17x
4	Brook	258	1.84%	47.81x
5	Kaye	232	1.66%	110.59x
6	Wood	207	1.48%	4.64x
7	Hirst	191	1.36%	41.82x
8	Armitage	175	1.25%	49.02x
9	Boothroyd	174	1.24%	240.63x
10	Lodge	144	1.03%	56.58x
11	Mellor	141	1.01%	28.60x
12	Lockwood	135	0.960%	43.67x
13	Eastwood	123	0.880%	37.16x
14	Bradley	122	0.870%	10.86x
15	Dyson	113	0.810%	24.92x
16	North	110	0.790%	23.71x
17	Ramsden	109	0.780%	42.70x
18	Dawson	108	0.770%	7.00x
19	Noble	105	0.750%	18.07x
20	Littlewood	104	0.740%	57.64x
21	Lee	101	0.720%	4.42x
22	Roebuck	99	0.710%	104.44x
23	Senior	90	0.640%	28.07x
24	Berry	88	0.630%	7.92x
25	Broadbent	86	0.610%	28.65x
26	Horsfall	84	0.600%	59.51x
27	Oldfield	83	0.590%	35.89x
28	Stringer	81	0.580%	29.05x
29	Thornton	81	0.580%	11.51x
30	Ellis	79	0.560%	3.89x
31	Liversidge	79	0.560%	224.43x
32	Blackburn	75	0.540%	14.21x
33	Dearnley	73	0.520%	290.84x
34	Stocks	73	0.520%	47.92x
35	Woodhouse	68	0.490%	20.50x
36	Mallinson	63	0.450%	54.55x
37	Schofield	63	0.450%	8.30x
38	Vickerman	60	0.430%	241.25x
39	France	59	0.420%	27.72x
40	Midgley	57	0.410%	30.39x
41	Gledhill	56	0.400%	26.97x
42	Day	55	0.390%	4.17x
43	Hanson	54	0.390%	11.95x
44	Jepson	54	0.390%	39.43x
45	Liversedge	54	0.390%	211.19x
46	Hinchliffe	53	0.380%	43.88x
47	Heeley	52	0.370%	84.40x
48	Jessop	52	0.370%	31.29x
49	Moorhouse	51	0.360%	29.44x
50	Crowther	47	0.340%	11.25x
51	Oldham	47	0.340%	19.11x
52	Crossley	46	0.330%	11.97x
53	Spivey	46	0.330%	148.44x
54	Waddington	43	0.310%	18.91x
55	Donkersley	41	0.290%	522.29x
56	Milnes	40	0.290%	32.37x
57	Sheard	40	0.290%	31.20x
58	Dobson	39	0.280%	6.32x
59	Hardcastle	37	0.260%	29.91x
60	Townend	37	0.260%	30.87x
61	Hallas	36	0.260%	68.95x
62	Ainley	35	0.250%	63.14x
63	Battye	35	0.250%	69.53x
64	Calvert	35	0.250%	12.26x
65	Charlesworth	35	0.250%	19.37x
66	Fearnley	35	0.250%	41.12x
67	Goddard	35	0.250%	6.22x
68	Jenkinson	35	0.250%	14.28x
69	Whiteley	35	0.250%	13.92x
70	Crosland	34	0.240%	67.05x
71	Winterbottom	33	0.240%	25.53x
72	Bottomley	31	0.220%	13.30x
73	Crow	30	0.210%	14.20x
74	Holroyd	30	0.210%	19.27x
75	Garside	29	0.210%	14.36x
76	Stansfield	29	0.210%	13.42x
77	Stead	29	0.210%	10.13x
78	Woodcock	29	0.210%	7.26x
79	Lumb	28	0.200%	21.19x
80	Parkin	28	0.200%	7.44x
81	Bray	27	0.190%	5.74x
82	Kitchen	27	0.190%	11.32x
83	Moorehouse	27	0.190%	268.66x
84	Bower	26	0.190%	10.14x
85	Dodson	26	0.190%	24.00x
86	Hobson	26	0.190%	7.16x
87	Swallow	26	0.190%	18.42x
88	Varley	26	0.190%	13.52x
89	Brooke	25	0.180%	11.99x
90	Heywood	25	0.180%	8.98x
91	Rollinson	25	0.180%	33.10x
92	Thewlis	25	0.180%	80.67x
93	Wimpenny	25	0.180%	127.36x
94	Crawshaw	24	0.170%	22.04x
95	Donaldson	24	0.170%	6.01x
96	Hampshire	24	0.170%	30.26x
97	Hinchcliffe	24	0.170%	28.09x
98	Jagger	24	0.170%	21.65x
99	Rayner	23	0.160%	6.59x
100	Castle	21	0.150%	7.55x