1881 census place

Doncaster surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Doncaster, 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

1,130 surnames are listed for Doncaster, Yorkshire, covering 8,119 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Watson, with 120 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Doncaster

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	Watson	120	0.570%	2.45x
2	Lee	90	0.430%	2.60x
3	Lindley	83	0.390%	39.71x
4	Atkinson	77	0.360%	3.74x
5	Mason	73	0.350%	2.57x
6	Fox	68	0.320%	3.46x
7	Burton	65	0.310%	3.61x
8	Cooke	64	0.300%	5.48x
9	Marsh	63	0.300%	4.18x
10	Firth	61	0.290%	8.68x
11	Sanderson	61	0.290%	6.98x
12	Butler	60	0.280%	2.91x
13	Hanson	60	0.280%	8.79x
14	Parkin	55	0.260%	9.67x
15	Hirst	53	0.250%	7.68x
16	Newton	51	0.240%	3.15x
17	Wilburn	49	0.230%	330.41x
18	Jaques	48	0.230%	30.68x
19	Pinder	47	0.220%	18.45x
20	Batty	45	0.210%	13.92x
21	Sykes	44	0.210%	4.34x
22	Buckley	43	0.200%	3.73x
23	Barber	37	0.170%	2.91x
24	Stocks	37	0.170%	16.08x
25	Swaby	37	0.170%	95.78x
26	Kendall	35	0.170%	7.69x
27	Guest	32	0.150%	7.08x
28	Keyworth	32	0.150%	65.95x
29	Lister	32	0.150%	5.31x
30	Whiteley	31	0.150%	8.16x
31	Hough	29	0.140%	7.96x
32	Pashley	29	0.140%	37.26x
33	Kenyon	28	0.130%	6.34x
34	Richmond	28	0.130%	6.04x
35	Shillito	28	0.130%	54.91x
36	Crowcroft	27	0.130%	210.12x
37	Foulston	26	0.120%	204.56x
38	Machin	26	0.120%	12.28x
39	Brooke	25	0.120%	7.94x
40	Hodson	25	0.120%	5.71x
41	Kirby	25	0.120%	3.12x
42	Butterfield	24	0.110%	8.49x
43	Senior	24	0.110%	4.95x
44	Ashforth	23	0.110%	62.64x
45	Burley	23	0.110%	11.46x
46	Chappell	23	0.110%	6.45x
47	Downing	23	0.110%	6.25x
48	Ledger	23	0.110%	15.90x
49	Patrick	23	0.110%	5.46x
50	Wilton	23	0.110%	11.30x
51	Coy	22	0.100%	33.32x
52	Monks	22	0.100%	12.85x
53	Town	22	0.100%	20.98x
54	Trout	22	0.100%	53.53x
55	Birkinshaw	21	0.100%	53.00x
56	Creaser	21	0.100%	103.96x
57	Deighton	21	0.100%	19.82x
58	Duke	21	0.100%	8.55x
59	Eyre	21	0.100%	8.28x
60	Gillatt	21	0.100%	96.86x
61	Holdsworth	21	0.100%	5.89x
62	Leng	21	0.100%	35.57x
63	Platts	21	0.100%	14.88x
64	Rodgers	21	0.100%	3.63x
65	Hepworth	20	0.090%	8.29x
66	Marwood	20	0.090%	36.12x
67	Teale	20	0.090%	25.63x
68	Elvidge	19	0.090%	46.71x
69	Halifax	19	0.090%	103.88x
70	Leeson	19	0.090%	15.50x
71	South	19	0.090%	9.53x
72	Bagshaw	18	0.090%	10.66x
73	Beckett	18	0.090%	4.27x
74	Bowling	18	0.090%	23.04x
75	Crawshaw	18	0.090%	10.94x
76	Downs	18	0.090%	4.79x
77	Greensmith	18	0.090%	31.70x
78	Jenkinson	18	0.090%	4.86x
79	Mell	18	0.090%	132.06x
80	Metcalfe	18	0.090%	3.73x
81	Salmon	18	0.090%	3.73x
82	Slack	18	0.090%	5.40x
83	Watkinson	18	0.090%	7.27x
84	Bean	17	0.080%	6.21x
85	Blackshaw	17	0.080%	17.33x
86	Broughton	17	0.080%	4.31x
87	Molloy	17	0.080%	14.72x
88	Mullins	17	0.080%	8.40x
89	Newborn	17	0.080%	132.30x
90	Snowden	17	0.080%	9.03x
91	Tate	17	0.080%	4.16x
92	Verity	17	0.080%	18.87x
93	Whitley	17	0.080%	9.82x
94	Axe	16	0.080%	72.17x
95	Binnington	16	0.080%	67.43x
96	Bloxham	16	0.080%	23.16x
97	Crisp	16	0.080%	5.44x
98	Crosley	16	0.080%	49.14x
99	Duddington	16	0.080%	251.57x
100	Dudley	16	0.080%	5.04x