1881 census place

Bowling surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bowling, 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

1,089 surnames are listed for Bowling, Yorkshire, covering 17,483 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilkinson, with 391 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bowling

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	Wilkinson	391	1.36%	8.94x
2	Wood	230	0.800%	2.52x
3	Holmes	226	0.790%	6.47x
4	Robinson	225	0.780%	2.46x
5	Walker	195	0.680%	2.03x
6	Brook	167	0.580%	15.11x
7	Harrison	166	0.580%	2.61x
8	Hudson	164	0.570%	6.99x
9	Hartley	162	0.570%	9.01x
10	Wright	160	0.560%	1.74x
11	Hodgson	154	0.540%	7.75x
12	Atkinson	146	0.510%	5.23x
13	Mitchell	137	0.480%	2.36x
14	Firth	126	0.440%	13.23x
15	Clough	121	0.420%	18.90x
16	Thornton	121	0.420%	8.39x
17	Woodhead	118	0.410%	21.95x
18	Barker	115	0.400%	3.07x
19	Shaw	114	0.400%	2.16x
20	Sharp	113	0.390%	4.73x
21	Pearson	112	0.390%	3.36x
22	Holdsworth	111	0.390%	22.98x
23	Ackroyd	110	0.380%	41.05x
24	Ellis	107	0.370%	2.57x
25	Greenwood	102	0.360%	4.58x
26	Barraclough	97	0.340%	34.18x
27	Metcalfe	97	0.340%	14.82x
28	Sutcliffe	97	0.340%	8.56x
29	Schofield	94	0.330%	6.05x
30	Clayton	91	0.320%	5.84x
31	Priestley	87	0.300%	17.93x
32	Gill	86	0.300%	4.24x
33	Knowles	85	0.300%	5.55x
34	Booth	84	0.290%	2.97x
35	Pollard	82	0.290%	7.84x
36	Spencer	81	0.280%	3.09x
37	Midgley	80	0.280%	20.82x
38	Briggs	79	0.280%	5.07x
39	Broadbent	78	0.270%	12.68x
40	Dawson	77	0.270%	2.44x
41	Mortimer	77	0.270%	12.84x
42	Illingworth	75	0.260%	23.11x
43	Wells	75	0.260%	3.14x
44	Crowther	71	0.250%	8.29x
45	Webster	70	0.240%	2.81x
46	Bottomley	69	0.240%	14.45x
47	Peel	69	0.240%	13.41x
48	Laycock	68	0.240%	17.26x
49	Naylor	68	0.240%	6.29x
50	Myers	67	0.230%	8.96x
51	Kershaw	65	0.230%	7.03x
52	Rhodes	65	0.230%	4.88x
53	Lister	62	0.220%	7.58x
54	Shackleton	62	0.220%	19.21x
55	Holroyd	61	0.210%	19.13x
56	Jowett	61	0.210%	19.52x
57	Robertshaw	61	0.210%	26.03x
58	Sugden	61	0.210%	18.40x
59	Hopkinson	60	0.210%	12.80x
60	Armitage	59	0.210%	8.07x
61	Crossley	59	0.210%	7.50x
62	Dyson	59	0.210%	6.35x
63	Ingham	59	0.210%	8.27x
64	Stead	59	0.210%	10.06x
65	Muff	58	0.200%	172.11x
66	North	58	0.200%	6.10x
67	Sowden	58	0.200%	35.78x
68	Binns	57	0.200%	12.00x
69	Fearnley	55	0.190%	31.55x
70	Fieldhouse	55	0.190%	40.12x
71	Terry	53	0.180%	7.23x
72	Haley	52	0.180%	15.22x
73	Whiteley	52	0.180%	10.10x
74	Wilman	51	0.180%	88.05x
75	Pickles	50	0.170%	8.58x
76	Tordoff	50	0.170%	73.98x
77	Bean	49	0.170%	13.20x
78	Rotheray	49	0.170%	624.20x
79	Craven	48	0.170%	8.67x
80	Hanson	48	0.170%	5.19x
81	Whitehead	48	0.170%	2.48x
82	Waddington	47	0.160%	10.09x
83	Hainsworth	46	0.160%	25.23x
84	Swaine	46	0.160%	36.51x
85	Delaney	45	0.160%	24.39x
86	Hirst	45	0.160%	4.81x
87	Bastow	43	0.150%	45.41x
88	Hargreaves	43	0.150%	3.60x
89	Lambert	43	0.150%	2.75x
90	Lea	43	0.150%	7.60x
91	Wade	43	0.150%	3.75x
92	Whitaker	43	0.150%	5.31x
93	Drake	42	0.150%	5.03x
94	Murgatroyd	42	0.150%	19.50x
95	Bolton	41	0.140%	3.32x
96	Dickinson	41	0.140%	3.35x
97	Heaton	40	0.140%	5.83x
98	Ryan	40	0.140%	4.50x
99	Beanland	39	0.140%	66.34x
100	Clegg	39	0.140%	4.00x