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 Northrop, with 29 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
401	Northrop	29	0.040%	26.09x
402	Shires	29	0.040%	14.90x
403	Crossland	28	0.040%	4.55x
404	Handley	28	0.040%	2.37x
405	Kilburn	28	0.040%	7.75x
406	Raw	28	0.040%	11.06x
407	Rushforth	28	0.040%	12.58x
408	Waugh	28	0.040%	2.93x
409	Wildman	28	0.040%	6.54x
410	Brear	27	0.040%	25.64x
411	Brearton	27	0.040%	139.03x
412	Busfield	27	0.040%	20.94x
413	Dalton	27	0.040%	1.68x
414	England	27	0.040%	1.87x
415	Hellewell	27	0.040%	15.45x
416	Pedder	27	0.040%	10.97x
417	Richmond	27	0.040%	1.76x
418	Rodgers	27	0.040%	1.41x
419	Willey	27	0.040%	4.28x
420	Bateson	26	0.040%	5.93x
421	Benson	26	0.040%	1.37x
422	Bromley	26	0.040%	2.41x
423	Cain	26	0.040%	1.79x
424	Farrer	26	0.040%	5.60x
425	Fielding	26	0.040%	1.66x
426	Garside	26	0.040%	2.57x
427	Gaunt	26	0.040%	3.77x
428	Gott	26	0.040%	8.57x
429	Hardcastle	26	0.040%	4.20x
430	Holliday	26	0.040%	2.83x
431	Hollingworth	26	0.040%	4.59x
432	Lynch	26	0.040%	1.41x
433	Quigley	26	0.040%	7.24x
434	Seymour	26	0.040%	1.82x
435	Shoesmith	26	0.040%	12.46x
436	Shuttleworth	26	0.040%	3.13x
437	Singleton	26	0.040%	1.88x
438	Stocks	26	0.040%	3.41x
439	Tordoff	26	0.040%	15.74x
440	Walmsley	26	0.040%	1.79x
441	Watmuff	26	0.040%	83.55x
442	Bowes	25	0.040%	3.89x
443	Burrow	25	0.040%	5.20x
444	Gornall	25	0.040%	12.50x
445	Grayson	25	0.040%	4.78x
446	Kirby	25	0.040%	0.94x
447	Mudd	25	0.040%	8.45x
448	Precious	25	0.040%	17.18x
449	Stockdale	25	0.040%	4.58x
450	Thresh	25	0.040%	49.93x
451	Wadsworth	25	0.040%	2.56x
452	Waterworth	25	0.040%	8.21x
453	Bowers	24	0.030%	1.88x
454	Braithwaite	24	0.030%	2.95x
455	Duggan	24	0.030%	4.47x
456	Gannon	24	0.030%	7.91x
457	Halliwell	24	0.030%	3.09x
458	Heap	24	0.030%	2.02x
459	Horne	24	0.030%	1.57x
460	Ingleson	24	0.030%	45.39x
461	Leeming	24	0.030%	5.53x
462	Nichols	24	0.030%	1.05x
463	Pitts	24	0.030%	3.34x
464	Punt	24	0.030%	33.09x
465	Ripley	24	0.030%	5.19x
466	Roe	24	0.030%	1.76x
467	Rowntree	24	0.030%	11.62x
468	Thackray	24	0.030%	8.00x
469	Town	24	0.030%	6.91x
470	Waller	24	0.030%	1.36x
471	Wilde	24	0.030%	2.35x
472	Breen	23	0.030%	11.62x
473	Cansfield	23	0.030%	76.21x
474	Conwell	23	0.030%	99.31x
475	Doyle	23	0.030%	1.35x
476	Driver	23	0.030%	1.77x
477	Hattersley	23	0.030%	11.50x
478	Hobson	23	0.030%	1.27x
479	Horsfield	23	0.030%	4.89x
480	Kaye	23	0.030%	2.19x
481	Killerby	23	0.030%	89.36x
482	Land	23	0.030%	4.55x
483	Magson	23	0.030%	20.74x
484	Newsholme	23	0.030%	63.00x
485	Noddle	23	0.030%	118.43x
486	Pinder	23	0.030%	2.72x
487	Popplewell	23	0.030%	10.02x
488	Power	23	0.030%	2.45x
489	Pullan	23	0.030%	8.32x
490	Rastrick	23	0.030%	56.17x
491	Rawson	23	0.030%	3.01x
492	Renton	23	0.030%	5.35x
493	Rushton	23	0.030%	1.59x
494	Scurrah	23	0.030%	61.81x
495	Stubbs	23	0.030%	1.24x
496	Walshaw	23	0.030%	12.29x
497	Aspinall	22	0.030%	2.28x
498	Bamford	22	0.030%	2.09x
499	Barry	22	0.030%	1.74x
500	Batty	22	0.030%	2.05x