1881 census place

Gomersal surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Gomersal, 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

489 surnames are listed for Gomersal, Yorkshire, covering 7,684 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walker, with 292 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Gomersal

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	Walker	292	2.16%	6.46x
2	Firth	175	1.30%	39.00x
3	Brook	174	1.29%	33.40x
4	Kershaw	144	1.07%	33.04x
5	Crowther	123	0.910%	30.49x
6	Holmes	120	0.890%	7.29x
7	Clough	111	0.820%	36.80x
8	Rhodes	102	0.750%	16.26x
9	Hirst	100	0.740%	22.69x
10	Schofield	90	0.670%	12.29x
11	Blackburn	87	0.640%	17.08x
12	Peel	86	0.640%	35.46x
13	Mortimer	79	0.580%	27.96x
14	Allott	76	0.560%	156.54x
15	Hopkinson	76	0.560%	34.40x
16	Sykes	75	0.560%	11.57x
17	Hartley	74	0.550%	8.74x
18	Preston	73	0.540%	10.82x
19	Brooke	71	0.530%	35.28x
20	Robertshaw	70	0.520%	63.38x
21	Beaumont	68	0.500%	16.97x
22	Bentley	63	0.470%	11.02x
23	Illingworth	62	0.460%	40.55x
24	Yates	62	0.460%	6.68x
25	Murgatroyd	61	0.450%	60.09x
26	Ball	60	0.440%	5.38x
27	Holdsworth	60	0.440%	26.36x
28	Greenwood	59	0.440%	5.62x
29	Haley	57	0.420%	35.40x
30	Thornton	54	0.400%	7.95x
31	Barraclough	51	0.380%	38.14x
32	Parkinson	51	0.380%	7.87x
33	Briggs	50	0.370%	6.81x
34	Kellett	50	0.370%	42.54x
35	Armitage	49	0.360%	14.22x
36	Gledhill	49	0.360%	24.44x
37	Lees	49	0.360%	8.18x
38	Crossley	47	0.350%	12.67x
39	Ineson	47	0.350%	187.70x
40	Woodhead	47	0.350%	18.56x
41	Midgley	46	0.340%	25.41x
42	Sheard	46	0.340%	37.17x
43	Hepworth	45	0.330%	29.21x
44	Naylor	44	0.330%	8.64x
45	Lister	43	0.320%	11.16x
46	Speight	43	0.320%	39.16x
47	Hanson	41	0.300%	9.40x
48	Longbottom	38	0.280%	31.63x
49	Pickles	38	0.280%	13.84x
50	Woodcock	38	0.280%	9.86x
51	Elstub	36	0.270%	939.95x
52	Mann	36	0.270%	5.06x
53	Stead	35	0.260%	12.67x
54	Aveyard	34	0.250%	219.64x
55	Clapham	34	0.250%	29.20x
56	Jowett	34	0.250%	23.09x
57	Oddy	34	0.250%	40.93x
58	Oldroyd	34	0.250%	49.74x
59	Pitts	34	0.250%	24.53x
60	Tetley	34	0.250%	62.64x
61	Boyes	33	0.240%	23.37x
62	North	33	0.240%	7.37x
63	Senior	33	0.240%	10.66x
64	Brannan	32	0.240%	35.02x
65	Greaves	32	0.240%	8.08x
66	Lyons	32	0.240%	10.64x
67	Scholefield	32	0.240%	82.86x
68	Bywater	31	0.230%	45.56x
69	Garnett	31	0.230%	18.47x
70	Heaton	31	0.230%	9.59x
71	Hopwood	31	0.230%	20.14x
72	Broadbent	30	0.220%	10.35x
73	Gooder	30	0.220%	195.57x
74	Lockwood	30	0.220%	10.05x
75	Oates	30	0.220%	14.25x
76	Pyrah	30	0.220%	123.36x
77	Shepley	30	0.220%	81.59x
78	Steward	30	0.220%	17.28x
79	Clegg	29	0.210%	6.30x
80	Parkin	29	0.210%	7.98x
81	Priestley	29	0.210%	12.68x
82	Akeroyd	28	0.210%	169.59x
83	Burnett	27	0.200%	7.22x
84	Ramsden	27	0.200%	10.96x
85	Saville	27	0.200%	22.00x
86	Vickers	27	0.200%	7.78x
87	Hemingway	26	0.190%	28.71x
88	Hinchcliffe	26	0.190%	31.52x
89	Leadbeater	26	0.190%	46.81x
90	Ramsbottom	26	0.190%	28.49x
91	Tolson	26	0.190%	67.55x
92	Waterhouse	26	0.190%	12.63x
93	Craven	23	0.170%	8.82x
94	Lodge	23	0.170%	9.36x
95	Crabtree	22	0.160%	8.09x
96	Mitchel	22	0.160%	16.66x
97	Wharton	22	0.160%	11.62x
98	Whiteley	22	0.160%	9.06x
99	Barstow	21	0.160%	89.86x
100	Farrar	21	0.160%	11.66x