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 Kitson, with 63 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
201	Kitson	63	0.090%	11.25x
202	Nolan	63	0.090%	6.59x
203	Tempest	63	0.090%	19.31x
204	Wells	63	0.090%	1.08x
205	Welsh	63	0.090%	2.27x
206	Crossley	62	0.090%	3.22x
207	Parkin	62	0.090%	3.29x
208	Swaine	62	0.090%	20.13x
209	Burns	61	0.090%	1.30x
210	Fenton	61	0.090%	4.36x
211	Terry	61	0.090%	3.41x
212	Bower	60	0.090%	4.67x
213	Buckley	60	0.090%	1.57x
214	Fawcett	60	0.090%	4.43x
215	Ramsden	60	0.090%	4.70x
216	Baines	59	0.080%	4.40x
217	Collinson	59	0.080%	7.17x
218	Dean	59	0.080%	1.21x
219	Keighley	59	0.080%	15.75x
220	Longbottom	59	0.080%	9.47x
221	Rawnsley	59	0.080%	25.75x
222	Varley	59	0.080%	6.13x
223	Wainwright	58	0.080%	3.91x
224	Wild	58	0.080%	2.03x
225	Brady	57	0.080%	4.59x
226	Hogan	57	0.080%	8.10x
227	Normington	57	0.080%	32.31x
228	Spence	57	0.080%	2.46x
229	Armstrong	56	0.080%	1.05x
230	Beck	56	0.080%	3.42x
231	Dalby	56	0.080%	9.87x
232	West	56	0.080%	0.83x
233	Whittaker	56	0.080%	1.69x
234	Yeadon	56	0.080%	29.15x
235	Armitage	55	0.080%	3.08x
236	Moss	55	0.080%	1.27x
237	Prince	55	0.080%	3.47x
238	Stansfield	55	0.080%	5.08x
239	Hammond	54	0.080%	1.35x
240	Petty	54	0.080%	7.79x
241	Woodhead	54	0.080%	4.11x
242	Banks	53	0.080%	1.47x
243	Delaney	53	0.080%	11.75x
244	Howarth	53	0.080%	1.57x
245	Moorhouse	53	0.080%	6.11x
246	North	53	0.080%	2.28x
247	Abbott	52	0.070%	1.68x
248	Boyes	52	0.070%	7.10x
249	Burton	52	0.070%	0.87x
250	Forrest	52	0.070%	2.88x
251	Foulds	52	0.070%	10.97x
252	Hinchcliffe	52	0.070%	12.16x
253	Mann	52	0.070%	1.41x
254	Calvert	51	0.070%	3.57x
255	Dyson	50	0.070%	2.20x
256	Kelley	50	0.070%	6.14x
257	Kitchen	50	0.070%	4.19x
258	Roper	50	0.070%	3.43x
259	Wilcock	50	0.070%	5.02x
260	Bannister	49	0.070%	4.05x
261	Lightfoot	48	0.070%	4.92x
262	Manning	48	0.070%	2.15x
263	Wallace	48	0.070%	1.00x
264	Brooke	47	0.070%	4.50x
265	Harker	47	0.070%	6.37x
266	Nuttall	47	0.070%	2.66x
267	Procter	47	0.070%	5.17x
268	Farrell	46	0.070%	3.46x
269	Helliwell	46	0.070%	7.12x
270	Hoyle	46	0.070%	2.84x
271	Lofthouse	46	0.070%	8.81x
272	Muff	46	0.070%	55.85x
273	Waite	46	0.070%	3.16x
274	Bibby	45	0.060%	5.95x
275	Dempsey	45	0.060%	10.24x
276	Egan	45	0.060%	7.74x
277	Casey	44	0.060%	4.26x
278	Lockwood	44	0.060%	2.84x
279	May	44	0.060%	0.99x
280	Ashworth	43	0.060%	1.54x
281	Brannan	43	0.060%	9.07x
282	Jordan	43	0.060%	1.39x
283	Lodge	43	0.060%	3.37x
284	Speight	43	0.060%	7.55x
285	Whiteley	43	0.060%	3.42x
286	Wigglesworth	43	0.060%	12.41x
287	Baldwin	42	0.060%	1.41x
288	Conway	42	0.060%	3.20x
289	Croft	42	0.060%	2.54x
290	Nelson	42	0.060%	1.24x
291	Tomlinson	42	0.060%	1.30x
292	Alderson	41	0.060%	4.22x
293	Connell	41	0.060%	3.37x
294	Newsome	41	0.060%	8.14x
295	Rayner	41	0.060%	2.35x
296	Sewell	41	0.060%	2.77x
297	Swithenbank	41	0.060%	45.87x
298	Thorpe	41	0.060%	1.48x
299	Brayshaw	40	0.060%	15.70x
300	Burrows	40	0.060%	1.30x