1881 census place

Batley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Batley, 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

976 surnames are listed for Batley, Yorkshire, covering 17,573 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Whitaker, with 44 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Batley

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
101	Whitaker	44	0.160%	5.66x
102	Whiteley	44	0.160%	8.90x
103	Naylor	43	0.160%	4.15x
104	Balmforth	42	0.150%	40.31x
105	Benson	42	0.150%	5.63x
106	Crossland	42	0.150%	17.37x
107	Lynch	42	0.150%	5.79x
108	Norton	42	0.150%	4.59x
109	Chappel	41	0.150%	33.86x
110	Haley	41	0.150%	12.51x
111	Tolson	41	0.150%	52.32x
112	Wharton	41	0.150%	10.64x
113	Barraclough	40	0.150%	14.69x
114	Peace	40	0.150%	16.04x
115	Kemp	39	0.140%	2.56x
116	Purdy	39	0.140%	24.86x
117	Rothery	38	0.140%	37.47x
118	Cordingley	37	0.130%	38.95x
119	Oldfield	37	0.130%	8.14x
120	Thorpe	37	0.130%	3.40x
121	Avison	36	0.130%	90.50x
122	Calvert	36	0.130%	6.42x
123	Lumb	36	0.130%	13.86x
124	Scargill	36	0.130%	79.80x
125	Teale	36	0.130%	35.46x
126	Broadley	35	0.130%	18.80x
127	Clough	35	0.130%	5.70x
128	Hallas	35	0.130%	34.11x
129	Pyrah	35	0.130%	70.68x
130	Lobley	34	0.120%	61.78x
131	Smithson	34	0.120%	12.89x
132	Coates	33	0.120%	3.22x
133	Dransfield	33	0.120%	34.12x
134	Hinchcliffe	33	0.120%	19.65x
135	Land	33	0.120%	16.64x
136	Oxley	33	0.120%	8.57x
137	Peel	33	0.120%	6.68x
138	Holroyd	32	0.120%	10.46x
139	Parr	32	0.120%	4.66x
140	Ryan	32	0.120%	3.75x
141	Wailes	32	0.120%	120.12x
142	Wainwright	32	0.120%	5.50x
143	Bromley	31	0.110%	7.32x
144	Ainley	30	0.110%	27.54x
145	Connor	30	0.110%	3.69x
146	Duffy	30	0.110%	4.99x
147	Garner	30	0.110%	3.45x
148	Goldthorpe	30	0.110%	44.43x
149	Holdsworth	30	0.110%	6.47x
150	Jessop	29	0.110%	8.88x
151	Wigglesworth	29	0.110%	21.32x
152	Charlesworth	28	0.100%	7.88x
153	Drake	28	0.100%	3.49x
154	Windle	28	0.100%	17.95x
155	Wormald	28	0.100%	22.46x
156	Jagger	27	0.100%	12.39x
157	Metcalfe	27	0.100%	4.30x
158	Verity	27	0.100%	23.03x
159	Ackroyd	26	0.090%	10.11x
160	Brannan	26	0.090%	13.98x
161	Craven	26	0.090%	4.90x
162	Ellwood	26	0.090%	17.07x
163	Jenkinson	26	0.090%	5.40x
164	Kellett	26	0.090%	10.86x
165	Kitson	26	0.090%	11.83x
166	Leech	26	0.090%	5.80x
167	Speight	26	0.090%	11.63x
168	Almond	25	0.090%	7.33x
169	Greaves	25	0.090%	3.10x
170	Hardwick	25	0.090%	5.94x
171	Clarkson	24	0.090%	3.29x
172	Pickersgill	24	0.090%	16.60x
173	Brennan	23	0.080%	8.00x
174	Coldwell	23	0.080%	19.10x
175	Gomersall	23	0.080%	34.34x
176	Hoyle	23	0.080%	3.62x
177	Lovell	23	0.080%	4.00x
178	Oddy	23	0.080%	13.60x
179	Pinder	23	0.080%	6.94x
180	Scholefield	23	0.080%	29.25x
181	Waite	23	0.080%	4.03x
182	Whitworth	23	0.080%	5.00x
183	Willans	23	0.080%	87.85x
184	Conyers	22	0.080%	67.09x
185	Dearnley	22	0.080%	44.60x
186	Dolan	22	0.080%	9.19x
187	Eastwood	22	0.080%	3.38x
188	Townsley	22	0.080%	40.94x
189	Appleyard	21	0.080%	8.35x
190	Bedford	21	0.080%	3.22x
191	Collinson	21	0.080%	6.50x
192	Gannon	21	0.080%	17.64x
193	Gaunt	21	0.080%	7.75x
194	Gavaghan	21	0.080%	289.66x
195	Gomersal	21	0.080%	108.36x
196	Horn	21	0.080%	3.36x
197	Keighley	21	0.080%	14.28x
198	Kelley	21	0.080%	6.57x
199	Metcalf	21	0.080%	3.77x
200	Wales	21	0.080%	9.42x