1881 census place

Drighlington surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Drighlington, 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

149 surnames are listed for Drighlington, Yorkshire, covering 1,683 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Stead, with 60 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Drighlington

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	Stead	60	1.42%	69.57x
2	Thornton	45	1.07%	21.22x
3	Gledhill	40	0.950%	63.94x
4	Grayshon	40	0.950%	2816.90x
5	Naylor	40	0.950%	25.17x
6	Snowden	37	0.880%	98.54x
7	Garforth	36	0.850%	304.83x
8	Crowther	35	0.830%	27.80x
9	Ramsden	34	0.810%	44.21x
10	Hepworth	29	0.690%	60.30x
11	Clough	27	0.640%	28.68x
12	Eastwood	27	0.640%	27.08x
13	Sutcliffe	27	0.640%	16.21x
14	Barraclough	26	0.620%	62.29x
15	Halliday	26	0.620%	29.84x
16	Liley	26	0.620%	454.55x
17	Haley	25	0.590%	49.74x
18	Holliday	24	0.570%	43.40x
19	Calvert	23	0.550%	26.75x
20	Eddison	23	0.550%	375.20x
21	Muff	23	0.550%	463.71x
22	Render	23	0.550%	349.54x
23	Gaunt	22	0.520%	53.00x
24	Telford	22	0.520%	59.20x
25	Bedford	21	0.500%	20.99x
26	Mortimer	21	0.500%	23.81x
27	Illingworth	20	0.470%	41.91x
28	Fell	19	0.450%	32.07x
29	Troughton	19	0.450%	139.40x
30	Wheatley	19	0.450%	22.12x
31	Darnbrough	18	0.430%	606.06x
32	Pitts	17	0.400%	39.30x
33	Aspden	16	0.380%	86.21x
34	Aveyard	16	0.380%	331.26x
35	Batty	16	0.380%	24.83x
36	Holdsworth	16	0.380%	22.52x
37	Newell	16	0.380%	24.01x
38	Bastow	15	0.360%	107.68x
39	Ferrett	15	0.360%	429.80x
40	Longbottom	15	0.360%	40.00x
41	Oddy	15	0.360%	57.87x
42	Oxley	15	0.360%	25.40x
43	Asquith	13	0.310%	52.70x
44	Batley	13	0.310%	71.23x
45	Fearnley	13	0.310%	50.70x
46	Hardcastle	13	0.310%	34.88x
47	Kinder	13	0.310%	73.45x
48	Frankland	12	0.280%	38.40x
49	Scargill	12	0.280%	173.66x
50	Speight	12	0.280%	35.02x
51	Groundwell	11	0.260%	797.10x
52	Huntington	11	0.260%	89.80x
53	Marlow	11	0.260%	22.21x
54	Wrigley	11	0.260%	20.62x
55	Boys	10	0.240%	60.35x
56	Burnell	10	0.240%	39.56x
57	Etherington	10	0.240%	31.44x
58	Jagger	10	0.240%	29.94x
59	Lightowler	10	0.240%	100.91x
60	Nunns	10	0.240%	174.83x
61	Sheard	10	0.240%	25.89x
62	Skellington	10	0.240%	909.09x
63	Thresh	10	0.240%	332.23x
64	Ambler	9	0.210%	24.17x
65	Blakey	9	0.210%	26.61x
66	Bretherick	9	0.210%	254.96x
67	Connely	9	0.210%	115.83x
68	Knowlson	9	0.210%	194.38x
69	Overend	9	0.210%	71.71x
70	Tankard	9	0.210%	138.67x
71	Ackroyd	8	0.190%	20.30x
72	Aird	8	0.190%	36.46x
73	Akeroyd	8	0.190%	155.34x
74	Burgoyne	8	0.190%	43.43x
75	Cawthray	8	0.190%	629.92x
76	Maude	8	0.190%	49.94x
77	Skillington	8	0.190%	473.37x
78	Turpin	8	0.190%	35.35x
79	Winterburn	8	0.190%	68.20x
80	Blamires	7	0.170%	135.92x
81	Bye	7	0.170%	33.00x
82	Creech	7	0.170%	187.67x
83	Greenhough	7	0.170%	73.53x
84	Hustler	7	0.170%	94.34x
85	Licence	7	0.170%	278.88x
86	Moxon	7	0.170%	29.61x
87	Stell	7	0.170%	104.48x
88	Towler	7	0.170%	37.21x
89	Brayshaw	6	0.140%	39.14x
90	Cranswick	6	0.140%	214.29x
91	Fieldhouse	6	0.140%	29.76x
92	Gilson	6	0.140%	45.87x
93	Hemmingway	6	0.140%	93.60x
94	Hillam	6	0.140%	157.07x
95	Pape	6	0.140%	47.39x
96	Beat	5	0.120%	185.19x
97	Bucton	5	0.120%	1086.96x
98	Cullis	5	0.120%	76.57x
99	Doncaster	5	0.120%	73.86x
100	Gilpin	5	0.120%	40.72x