1881 census place

Bradford surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bradford, 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

2,795 surnames are listed for Bradford, Yorkshire, covering 54,128 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,211 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bradford

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	Smith	1,211	1.73%	1.22x
2	Wilson	496	0.710%	1.54x
3	Brown	493	0.700%	1.07x
4	Taylor	465	0.660%	1.04x
5	Wood	459	0.660%	2.06x
6	Robinson	392	0.560%	1.75x
7	Wilkinson	380	0.540%	3.55x
8	Harrison	374	0.530%	2.40x
9	Rhodes	310	0.440%	9.53x
10	Walker	304	0.430%	1.30x
11	Greenwood	303	0.430%	5.57x
12	Hudson	300	0.430%	5.23x
13	Sutcliffe	292	0.420%	10.55x
14	Firth	285	0.410%	12.25x
15	Thompson	273	0.390%	1.30x
16	Holmes	271	0.390%	3.18x
17	Lee	269	0.380%	2.35x
18	Wright	262	0.370%	1.17x
19	Mitchell	255	0.360%	1.79x
20	Jackson	253	0.360%	1.29x
21	Simpson	248	0.350%	2.02x
22	Hill	247	0.350%	1.38x
23	Hodgson	239	0.340%	4.92x
24	Marshall	239	0.340%	2.03x
25	Hartley	226	0.320%	5.15x
26	Holdsworth	226	0.320%	19.14x
27	Johnson	224	0.320%	0.95x
28	Clark	214	0.310%	1.02x
29	Hall	214	0.310%	1.04x
30	Spencer	209	0.300%	3.27x
31	Jowett	207	0.300%	27.10x
32	Bell	204	0.290%	1.55x
33	Barker	196	0.280%	2.14x
34	Whitaker	195	0.280%	9.85x
35	Ackroyd	190	0.270%	29.01x
36	Binns	190	0.270%	16.36x
37	Shaw	188	0.270%	1.46x
38	Hargreaves	187	0.270%	6.40x
39	Scott	187	0.270%	1.05x
40	Turner	186	0.270%	0.95x
41	Watson	183	0.260%	1.13x
42	Dawson	181	0.260%	2.34x
43	Moore	181	0.260%	1.29x
44	Thornton	180	0.260%	5.11x
45	Ward	178	0.250%	1.16x
46	Priestley	176	0.250%	14.84x
47	Atkinson	174	0.250%	2.55x
48	White	173	0.250%	0.77x
49	Green	171	0.240%	0.87x
50	Nicholson	170	0.240%	3.41x
51	Clayton	166	0.240%	4.36x
52	Parker	166	0.240%	1.25x
53	Pickles	159	0.230%	11.16x
54	Sharp	159	0.230%	2.72x
55	Stead	159	0.230%	11.09x
56	Naylor	158	0.230%	5.98x
57	Brook	151	0.220%	5.59x
58	Gill	151	0.220%	3.05x
59	Sugden	151	0.220%	18.63x
60	Barraclough	150	0.210%	21.63x
61	Foster	149	0.210%	1.59x
62	Shackleton	149	0.210%	18.89x
63	Laycock	148	0.210%	15.37x
64	Robertshaw	148	0.210%	25.84x
65	Riley	147	0.210%	2.65x
66	Booth	141	0.200%	2.04x
67	Cooper	136	0.190%	0.80x
68	Briggs	135	0.190%	3.55x
69	Hanson	135	0.190%	5.97x
70	Illingworth	134	0.190%	16.90x
71	Lister	134	0.190%	6.71x
72	Walsh	132	0.190%	3.54x
73	Pearson	131	0.190%	1.61x
74	Jennings	130	0.190%	3.66x
75	Kelly	128	0.180%	1.67x
76	Carroll	127	0.180%	9.03x
77	Fearnley	127	0.180%	29.80x
78	Lambert	127	0.180%	3.32x
79	Sykes	127	0.180%	3.78x
80	Knowles	126	0.180%	3.37x
81	Dixon	125	0.180%	1.63x
82	Dobson	124	0.180%	4.01x
83	Farrar	124	0.180%	13.27x
84	Murgatroyd	124	0.180%	23.55x
85	Whitehead	123	0.180%	2.60x
86	Bradley	122	0.170%	2.17x
87	Butler	122	0.170%	1.79x
88	Bottomley	120	0.170%	10.28x
89	Crowther	120	0.170%	5.74x
90	Fletcher	120	0.170%	1.50x
91	Dunn	119	0.170%	2.04x
92	Webster	119	0.170%	1.95x
93	Myers	118	0.170%	6.45x
94	Raistrick	118	0.170%	71.22x
95	Kershaw	117	0.170%	5.18x
96	Dewhirst	116	0.170%	34.86x
97	Murphy	116	0.170%	2.07x
98	Drake	114	0.160%	5.58x
99	Haley	112	0.160%	13.41x
100	Hirst	112	0.160%	4.90x