1881 census place

Armley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Armley, 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

535 surnames are listed for Armley, Yorkshire, covering 5,751 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walker, with 174 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Armley

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	Walker	174	1.36%	4.07x
2	Wilkinson	108	0.850%	5.54x
3	Gaunt	101	0.790%	80.36x
4	Holdsworth	95	0.740%	44.17x
5	Broadbent	82	0.640%	29.94x
6	Brook	82	0.640%	16.66x
7	Briggs	81	0.630%	11.68x
8	Bannister	80	0.630%	36.29x
9	Stead	80	0.630%	30.64x
10	Myers	78	0.610%	23.42x
11	Whitaker	72	0.560%	19.96x
12	Hudson	69	0.540%	6.60x
13	Rhodes	64	0.500%	10.80x
14	Lister	60	0.470%	16.48x
15	Hartley	59	0.460%	7.37x
16	Wade	56	0.440%	10.96x
17	Windsor	55	0.430%	51.66x
18	Oddy	53	0.420%	67.52x
19	Worsnop	52	0.410%	193.89x
20	Haywood	48	0.380%	17.92x
21	Abbott	44	0.340%	7.81x
22	Beecroft	42	0.330%	78.13x
23	Binks	42	0.330%	55.75x
24	Naylor	41	0.320%	8.52x
25	Armitage	40	0.310%	12.28x
26	Greaves	40	0.310%	10.69x
27	Mawson	40	0.310%	38.84x
28	Pickard	40	0.310%	22.46x
29	Appleyard	38	0.300%	32.55x
30	Craven	38	0.300%	15.42x
31	Hiley	38	0.300%	116.82x
32	Settle	37	0.290%	84.34x
33	Woodhead	36	0.280%	15.04x
34	Dickinson	34	0.270%	6.24x
35	Mortimer	33	0.260%	12.36x
36	Pollard	33	0.260%	7.09x
37	Fawcett	32	0.250%	12.96x
38	Gledhill	32	0.250%	16.89x
39	Blackburn	31	0.240%	6.44x
40	Child	31	0.240%	14.28x
41	Musgrave	31	0.240%	40.13x
42	Cliff	30	0.240%	26.88x
43	Raper	30	0.240%	56.02x
44	Calvert	29	0.230%	11.14x
45	Clarkson	29	0.230%	8.57x
46	Davey	29	0.230%	5.52x
47	Whiteley	29	0.230%	12.64x
48	Grimshaw	28	0.220%	13.13x
49	Beaumont	27	0.210%	7.13x
50	Best	26	0.200%	7.56x
51	Garnett	26	0.200%	16.40x
52	Swallow	26	0.200%	20.19x
53	Asquith	25	0.200%	33.47x
54	Hardcastle	25	0.200%	22.15x
55	Senior	25	0.200%	8.55x
56	Wainwright	25	0.200%	9.25x
57	Lupton	24	0.190%	26.00x
58	Rigg	24	0.190%	22.36x
59	Tetley	24	0.190%	46.79x
60	Eastwood	23	0.180%	7.62x
61	Midgley	23	0.180%	13.44x
62	Tempest	23	0.180%	38.70x
63	Braithwaite	21	0.160%	14.17x
64	Cromack	21	0.160%	129.95x
65	Rayner	21	0.160%	6.59x
66	Scarlett	21	0.160%	48.48x
67	Dufton	20	0.160%	87.03x
68	Guy	20	0.160%	7.15x
69	Hainsworth	20	0.160%	24.64x
70	Tordoff	20	0.160%	66.45x
71	Buckle	19	0.150%	13.67x
72	Hellewell	19	0.150%	59.65x
73	Hollings	19	0.150%	39.62x
74	Oates	19	0.150%	9.55x
75	Rawling	19	0.150%	40.81x
76	Thrippleton	19	0.150%	340.50x
77	Akeroyd	18	0.140%	115.38x
78	Batty	18	0.140%	9.23x
79	Kaye	18	0.140%	9.41x
80	Lobley	18	0.140%	70.48x
81	Renton	18	0.140%	22.98x
82	Speight	18	0.140%	17.35x
83	Sunderland	18	0.140%	12.28x
84	Gatehouse	17	0.130%	60.05x
85	Laycock	17	0.130%	9.69x
86	Peck	17	0.130%	7.88x
87	Ratcliff	17	0.130%	20.66x
88	Thorp	17	0.130%	9.82x
89	Towler	17	0.130%	29.85x
90	Wigglesworth	17	0.130%	26.92x
91	Boynton	16	0.130%	61.63x
92	Broadley	16	0.130%	18.51x
93	Denison	16	0.130%	32.95x
94	Galloway	16	0.130%	7.28x
95	Lodge	16	0.130%	6.89x
96	Pickles	16	0.130%	6.17x
97	Pinder	16	0.130%	10.40x
98	Pullan	16	0.130%	31.78x
99	Sugden	16	0.130%	10.84x
100	Thackray	16	0.130%	29.27x