1881 census place

Bingley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bingley, 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

575 surnames are listed for Bingley, Yorkshire, covering 11,306 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 239 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bingley

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	Greenwood	239	1.30%	16.69x
2	Bailey	226	1.23%	8.14x
3	Wood	224	1.22%	3.81x
4	Whitaker	180	0.980%	34.56x
5	Mitchell	168	0.910%	4.49x
6	Holmes	167	0.910%	7.44x
7	Rhodes	158	0.860%	18.46x
8	Wilkinson	158	0.860%	5.62x
9	Shackleton	157	0.850%	75.66x
10	Sunderland	156	0.850%	73.73x
11	Leach	150	0.810%	19.72x
12	Moore	149	0.810%	4.04x
13	Hartley	148	0.800%	12.81x
14	Butterfield	136	0.740%	55.20x
15	Heaton	134	0.730%	30.38x
16	Pickles	124	0.670%	33.10x
17	Waddington	123	0.670%	41.08x
18	Murgatroyd	122	0.660%	88.08x
19	Binns	119	0.650%	38.95x
20	Midgley	119	0.650%	48.17x
21	Lund	118	0.640%	59.09x
22	Briggs	114	0.620%	11.39x
23	Foster	112	0.610%	4.54x
24	Whitley	110	0.600%	72.87x
25	Hird	106	0.580%	74.51x
26	Sugden	102	0.550%	47.85x
27	Denby	100	0.540%	130.48x
28	Earnshaw	99	0.540%	43.43x
29	Lee	97	0.530%	3.22x
30	Wild	96	0.520%	12.78x
31	Foulds	95	0.520%	76.17x
32	Longbottom	93	0.500%	56.73x
33	Atkinson	92	0.500%	5.12x
34	Bancroft	83	0.450%	46.46x
35	Hargreaves	82	0.440%	10.67x
36	Laycock	79	0.430%	31.19x
37	Walbank	76	0.410%	297.46x
38	Spencer	73	0.400%	4.34x
39	Gill	72	0.390%	5.52x
40	Feather	70	0.380%	74.18x
41	Preston	70	0.380%	7.60x
42	Anderton	69	0.370%	31.54x
43	Bradley	69	0.370%	4.66x
44	Jowett	66	0.360%	32.85x
45	Crabtree	64	0.350%	17.24x
46	Hanson	62	0.340%	10.42x
47	Wade	62	0.340%	8.40x
48	Hodgson	61	0.330%	4.77x
49	Firth	59	0.320%	9.64x
50	Whittingham	59	0.320%	42.56x
51	Hudson	58	0.310%	3.84x
52	Barwick	57	0.310%	72.62x
53	Garnett	56	0.300%	24.46x
54	Craven	54	0.290%	15.17x
55	Crowther	53	0.290%	9.63x
56	Knowles	53	0.290%	5.38x
57	Wildman	53	0.290%	47.04x
58	Hey	52	0.280%	31.84x
59	Bower	51	0.280%	15.10x
60	Ratcliffe	51	0.280%	10.02x
61	Wadsworth	50	0.270%	19.45x
62	Royston	48	0.260%	88.01x
63	Milner	46	0.250%	10.88x
64	Rushworth	46	0.250%	30.18x
65	Slater	46	0.250%	4.12x
66	Bland	45	0.240%	11.77x
67	Lister	45	0.240%	8.56x
68	Sutcliffe	45	0.240%	6.18x
69	Halstead	44	0.240%	28.68x
70	Moorhouse	44	0.240%	19.29x
71	Metcalf	43	0.230%	11.52x
72	Ogden	43	0.230%	8.25x
73	Coulton	42	0.230%	64.92x
74	Widdop	42	0.230%	100.62x
75	Northrop	41	0.220%	140.22x
76	Ambler	38	0.210%	23.35x
77	Edmondson	38	0.210%	17.84x
78	Hollings	38	0.210%	54.87x
79	Raistrick	38	0.210%	87.20x
80	Snowden	38	0.210%	23.15x
81	Nutter	37	0.200%	26.34x
82	Pickard	37	0.200%	14.39x
83	Naylor	36	0.200%	5.18x
84	Waterhouse	36	0.200%	12.82x
85	Dickinson	35	0.190%	4.45x
86	Jennings	35	0.190%	3.74x
87	Ellison	34	0.180%	8.73x
88	Illingworth	34	0.180%	16.30x
89	Redman	34	0.180%	14.01x
90	Stansfield	32	0.170%	11.24x
91	Waite	32	0.170%	8.36x
92	Cryer	31	0.170%	30.56x
93	Pollard	31	0.170%	4.61x
94	Duxbury	30	0.160%	24.24x
95	Judson	30	0.160%	35.63x
96	Moulding	30	0.160%	67.60x
97	Robertshaw	30	0.160%	19.91x
98	Ackroyd	29	0.160%	16.83x
99	Baldwin	29	0.160%	3.69x
100	Collier	29	0.160%	4.71x