1881 census place

Cleckheaton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cleckheaton, 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

351 surnames are listed for Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, covering 5,962 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Bentley, with 249 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cleckheaton

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	Bentley	249	2.34%	55.20x
2	Wood	177	1.66%	5.21x
3	Haley	158	1.48%	124.32x
4	Pearson	139	1.30%	11.22x
5	Firth	134	1.26%	37.84x
6	Stead	127	1.19%	58.23x
7	Clough	108	1.01%	45.36x
8	Naylor	108	1.01%	26.87x
9	Brooke	106	0.990%	66.73x
10	Hodgson	104	0.980%	14.07x
11	Blamires	101	0.950%	775.13x
12	Hirst	100	0.940%	28.74x
13	Mortimer	91	0.850%	40.81x
14	Thornton	88	0.830%	16.41x
15	Blackburn	86	0.810%	21.39x
16	Law	79	0.740%	16.38x
17	Brook	72	0.680%	17.51x
18	Peel	71	0.670%	37.10x
19	Briggs	70	0.660%	12.09x
20	Priestley	66	0.620%	36.57x
21	Clayton	61	0.570%	10.52x
22	Sellers	58	0.540%	70.72x
23	Sugden	57	0.530%	46.23x
24	Asquith	55	0.520%	88.16x
25	Hanson	54	0.510%	15.69x
26	Crowther	53	0.500%	16.65x
27	Scholefield	52	0.490%	170.60x
28	Gomersall	50	0.470%	192.60x
29	Armitage	49	0.460%	18.02x
30	Drake	49	0.460%	15.77x
31	Heaton	48	0.450%	18.81x
32	Collinson	47	0.440%	37.55x
33	Earnshaw	46	0.430%	34.89x
34	Squire	44	0.410%	34.80x
35	Whiteley	44	0.410%	22.97x
36	Womersley	43	0.400%	129.83x
37	Broadley	41	0.380%	56.80x
38	Holdsworth	41	0.380%	22.82x
39	Eastwood	40	0.380%	15.86x
40	Gledhill	40	0.380%	25.28x
41	Binns	39	0.370%	22.07x
42	Elsworth	39	0.370%	99.74x
43	Pinder	38	0.360%	29.58x
44	Rayner	37	0.350%	13.91x
45	Sykes	37	0.350%	7.23x
46	Alderson	36	0.340%	24.33x
47	Barraclough	36	0.340%	34.11x
48	Woodcock	36	0.340%	11.83x
49	Ramsden	35	0.330%	18.00x
50	Hoyle	34	0.320%	13.81x
51	Burnhill	33	0.310%	753.42x
52	Fearnley	32	0.300%	49.35x
53	Holroyd	31	0.290%	26.14x
54	Midgley	31	0.290%	21.69x
55	Gomersal	30	0.280%	399.47x
56	Metcalfe	30	0.280%	12.32x
57	Bateman	29	0.270%	10.52x
58	Kershaw	29	0.270%	8.43x
59	North	29	0.270%	8.20x
60	Butterfield	28	0.260%	19.65x
61	Wooller	28	0.260%	248.01x
62	Birkett	27	0.250%	26.24x
63	Hepworth	27	0.250%	22.20x
64	Avison	26	0.240%	168.61x
65	Clay	26	0.240%	11.88x
66	Garside	26	0.240%	16.90x
67	Kellett	26	0.240%	28.03x
68	Sowden	24	0.230%	39.81x
69	Porritt	23	0.220%	76.54x
70	Speight	23	0.220%	26.54x
71	Swires	23	0.220%	482.18x
72	Balmforth	22	0.210%	54.48x
73	Dewhirst	22	0.210%	43.45x
74	Farrar	22	0.210%	15.48x
75	Longbottom	21	0.200%	22.14x
76	Holdroyd	20	0.190%	204.29x
77	Parkin	20	0.190%	6.97x
78	Shackleton	20	0.190%	16.66x
79	Furniss	19	0.180%	40.21x
80	Isherwood	19	0.180%	15.40x
81	Nutter	19	0.180%	23.38x
82	Hopkinson	18	0.170%	10.32x
83	Lightowler	18	0.170%	71.80x
84	Ambler	17	0.160%	18.06x
85	Birkby	17	0.160%	141.67x
86	Ellison	17	0.160%	7.55x
87	Hardcastle	17	0.160%	18.04x
88	Robertshaw	17	0.160%	19.50x
89	Wilcock	17	0.160%	11.21x
90	Illingworth	16	0.150%	13.26x
91	Lumb	16	0.150%	15.89x
92	Saville	16	0.150%	16.52x
93	Siddall	16	0.150%	20.47x
94	Tasker	16	0.150%	14.11x
95	Wilman	16	0.150%	74.28x
96	Cockill	15	0.140%	328.95x
97	Cordingley	15	0.140%	40.74x
98	Durrans	15	0.140%	146.34x
99	Kilburn	15	0.140%	27.30x
100	Varley	15	0.140%	10.24x