1881 census place
Dent surnames in the 1881 census
This page ranks surnames recorded in Dent, 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
50 surnames are listed for Dent, Yorkshire, covering 581 people in the local records.
The leading surname here is Capstick, with 52 people recorded in 1881.
Most common surnames in Dent
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 | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capstick | 52 | 1460.67x |
| 2 | Greenbank | 43 | 3233.08x |
| 3 | Oversby | 42 | 6176.47x |
| 4 | Parrington | 36 | 2250.00x |
| 5 | Sedgwick | 36 | 410.02x |
| 6 | Fawcett | 34 | 145.30x |
| 7 | Bentham | 28 | 506.33x |
| 8 | Haygarth | 26 | 2241.38x |
| 9 | Staveley | 23 | 1150.00x |
| 10 | Fothergill | 15 | 216.14x |
| 11 | Goth | 15 | 2727.27x |
| 12 | Cragg | 13 | 169.27x |
| 13 | Morphet | 13 | 1547.62x |
| 14 | Powley | 13 | 346.67x |
| 15 | Baynes | 11 | 230.13x |
| 16 | Brunskill | 11 | 391.46x |
| 17 | Conder | 11 | 1028.04x |
| 18 | Raw | 11 | 251.72x |
| 19 | Swainbank | 11 | 6111.11x |
| 20 | Burrow | 9 | 108.43x |
| 21 | Baine | 8 | 879.12x |
| 22 | Mattinson | 8 | 372.09x |
| 23 | Armer | 7 | 466.67x |
| 24 | Bayne | 7 | 158.01x |
| 25 | Blades | 7 | 101.89x |
| 26 | Gott | 7 | 133.59x |
| 27 | Sunter | 7 | 384.62x |
| 28 | Cowperthwaite | 6 | 526.32x |
| 29 | Pickthall | 6 | 382.17x |
| 30 | Pinch | 6 | 294.12x |
| 31 | Thistlethwaite | 6 | 306.12x |
| 32 | Willan | 6 | 179.10x |
| 33 | Bushby | 5 | 105.26x |
| 34 | Corney | 5 | 123.76x |
| 35 | Akrigg | 4 | 1142.86x |
| 36 | Ashburn | 4 | 421.05x |
| 37 | Ashburner | 4 | 233.92x |
| 38 | Hitching | 4 | 312.50x |
| 39 | Mallison | 4 | 322.58x |
| 40 | Mackereth | 3 | 265.49x |
| 41 | Thexton | 3 | 329.67x |
| 42 | Edmundson | 2 | 58.31x |
| 43 | Grosse | 2 | 338.98x |
| 44 | Hully | 1 | 158.73x |
| 45 | Ivison | 1 | 60.98x |
| 46 | Loadman | 1 | 476.19x |
| 47 | Massy | 1 | 138.89x |
| 48 | Pighills | 1 | 344.83x |
| 49 | Schoefield | 1 | 256.41x |
| 50 | Taylforth | 1 | 588.24x |