1881 census place

Dewsbury surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dewsbury, 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

1,122 surnames are listed for Dewsbury, Yorkshire, covering 18,900 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 296 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dewsbury

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	Wilson	296	1.00%	2.17x
2	Senior	294	0.990%	43.23x
3	Firth	289	0.970%	29.31x
4	Walker	262	0.880%	2.64x
5	Auty	255	0.860%	256.18x
6	Oldroyd	232	0.780%	154.46x
7	Hirst	196	0.660%	20.24x
8	Robinson	195	0.660%	2.06x
9	Crawshaw	184	0.620%	79.66x
10	Hemingway	183	0.620%	91.97x
11	Lee	179	0.600%	3.69x
12	Ellis	174	0.590%	4.04x
13	Newsome	168	0.570%	78.71x
14	Sykes	168	0.570%	11.79x
15	Clegg	160	0.540%	15.83x
16	Field	160	0.540%	10.83x
17	Brook	155	0.520%	13.54x
18	Gledhill	149	0.500%	33.83x
19	Shaw	146	0.490%	2.68x
20	Armitage	145	0.490%	19.15x
21	Blackburn	139	0.470%	12.42x
22	Brooke	137	0.460%	30.98x
23	Richardson	137	0.460%	2.71x
24	Day	135	0.450%	4.83x
25	Greenwood	135	0.450%	5.86x
26	Mitchell	133	0.450%	2.21x
27	Tolson	119	0.400%	140.71x
28	Ingham	116	0.390%	15.71x
29	Sheard	114	0.380%	41.92x
30	Dixon	106	0.360%	3.26x
31	Lister	106	0.360%	12.52x
32	Lodge	106	0.360%	19.64x
33	Smithson	106	0.360%	37.24x
34	Pickles	104	0.350%	17.24x
35	Thornton	104	0.350%	6.97x
36	Stott	103	0.350%	11.11x
37	Kelly	100	0.340%	3.08x
38	Crabtree	98	0.330%	16.39x
39	Hanson	96	0.320%	10.02x
40	Whitworth	95	0.320%	19.15x
41	France	90	0.300%	19.93x
42	Fox	88	0.300%	3.19x
43	Dawson	87	0.290%	2.66x
44	Bailey	86	0.290%	1.92x
45	Rhodes	86	0.290%	6.24x
46	Beaumont	83	0.280%	9.43x
47	Bentley	81	0.270%	6.45x
48	Chadwick	80	0.270%	6.16x
49	Milnes	79	0.270%	30.14x
50	Webster	78	0.260%	3.02x
51	Booth	75	0.250%	2.56x
52	Oates	74	0.250%	15.99x
53	Stead	73	0.250%	12.02x
54	Hoyle	72	0.240%	10.51x
55	Crowther	71	0.240%	8.01x
56	Schofield	71	0.240%	4.41x
57	Goodall	70	0.240%	11.01x
58	Talbot	70	0.240%	9.47x
59	Kilburn	69	0.230%	45.11x
60	Carr	68	0.230%	3.17x
61	Dyson	66	0.220%	6.86x
62	Knowles	66	0.220%	4.16x
63	Riley	65	0.220%	2.77x
64	Hepworth	64	0.220%	18.90x
65	Howgate	63	0.210%	155.36x
66	Bottomley	62	0.210%	12.54x
67	Ramsden	62	0.210%	11.45x
68	Sharp	62	0.210%	2.51x
69	Preston	61	0.210%	4.11x
70	Lawton	60	0.200%	7.84x
71	Porritt	60	0.200%	71.71x
72	Secker	60	0.200%	88.48x
73	Asquith	58	0.200%	33.39x
74	Buckley	58	0.200%	3.59x
75	Williamson	58	0.200%	2.18x
76	Waterhouse	57	0.190%	12.60x
77	Fothergill	56	0.190%	32.90x
78	Goldthorpe	56	0.190%	76.85x
79	Speight	54	0.180%	22.38x
80	Bates	53	0.180%	2.81x
81	Hargreaves	53	0.180%	4.28x
82	Popplewell	53	0.180%	54.49x
83	Naylor	51	0.170%	4.56x
84	Thornes	51	0.170%	210.83x
85	Archer	50	0.170%	4.07x
86	Crossland	49	0.170%	18.78x
87	Waring	49	0.170%	13.14x
88	Burns	48	0.160%	2.41x
89	Denton	48	0.160%	8.80x
90	Eastwood	48	0.160%	6.84x
91	Exley	48	0.160%	34.00x
92	Hodgson	48	0.160%	2.33x
93	Ineson	48	0.160%	87.24x
94	Kaye	47	0.160%	10.56x
95	Lumb	47	0.160%	16.77x
96	Milner	47	0.160%	6.90x
97	Haley	46	0.150%	13.00x
98	Kenny	46	0.150%	12.94x
99	Bedford	45	0.150%	6.39x
100	Hinchliffe	45	0.150%	17.57x