1881 census place

Great Little Preston surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Great Little Preston, 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

33 surnames are listed for Great Little Preston, Yorkshire, covering 245 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Firth, with 36 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Great Little Preston

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	Firth	36	4.34%	130.58x
2	Longbottom	24	2.89%	325.20x
3	Varley	17	2.05%	149.12x
4	Watkinson	14	1.69%	144.03x
5	Gelsthorpe	13	1.57%	2131.15x
6	Colley	12	1.45%	114.07x
7	Henshaw	11	1.33%	155.59x
8	Gummerson	9	1.08%	3333.33x
9	Dodsworth	8	0.960%	231.21x
10	Douglass	8	0.960%	151.80x
11	Fairburn	8	0.960%	372.09x
12	Wigglesworth	8	0.960%	195.12x
13	Ashurst	7	0.840%	238.10x
14	Cromack	7	0.840%	666.67x
15	Robshaw	7	0.840%	843.37x
16	Hinson	6	0.720%	298.51x
17	Shires	6	0.720%	259.74x
18	Toft	6	0.720%	184.62x
19	Whitford	6	0.720%	231.66x
20	Blakely	5	0.600%	352.11x
21	Sissons	5	0.600%	195.31x
22	Tee	4	0.480%	245.40x
23	Adkin	2	0.240%	114.29x
24	Dewis	2	0.240%	270.27x
25	Fleetham	2	0.240%	555.56x
26	Lavan	2	0.240%	571.43x
27	Newborn	2	0.240%	400.00x
28	Sparling	2	0.240%	185.19x
29	Yearley	2	0.240%	1176.47x
30	Donlon	1	0.120%	303.03x
31	Gordan	1	0.120%	175.44x
32	Muscroft	1	0.120%	121.95x
33	Whitcomb	1	0.120%	114.94x