1881 census place

Halifax surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Halifax, 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

1,489 surnames are listed for Halifax, Yorkshire, covering 30,596 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 764 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Halifax

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	Greenwood	764	1.80%	23.15x
2	Smith	756	1.78%	1.26x
3	Sutcliffe	467	1.10%	27.82x
4	Mitchell	394	0.930%	4.57x
5	Crossley	370	0.870%	31.71x
6	Wilson	354	0.830%	1.81x
7	Pickles	269	0.630%	31.15x
8	Wood	268	0.630%	1.98x
9	Hanson	260	0.610%	18.96x
10	Walker	248	0.580%	1.74x
11	Riley	241	0.570%	7.17x
12	Robinson	231	0.540%	1.70x
13	Shaw	231	0.540%	2.96x
14	Turner	224	0.530%	1.89x
15	Hartley	223	0.520%	8.37x
16	Firth	217	0.510%	15.37x
17	Helliwell	213	0.500%	54.40x
18	Gledhill	207	0.490%	32.83x
19	Foster	203	0.480%	3.57x
20	Whiteley	203	0.480%	26.59x
21	Thompson	197	0.460%	1.55x
22	Crabtree	187	0.440%	21.85x
23	Farrar	186	0.440%	32.83x
24	Booth	180	0.420%	4.29x
25	Crowther	176	0.410%	13.87x
26	Priestley	171	0.400%	23.78x
27	Naylor	167	0.390%	10.43x
28	Carter	165	0.390%	2.31x
29	Spencer	165	0.390%	4.25x
30	Holdsworth	158	0.370%	22.07x
31	Nicholl	158	0.370%	71.09x
32	Watson	153	0.360%	1.55x
33	Hoyle	149	0.350%	15.19x
34	Bottomley	148	0.350%	20.91x
35	Ingham	147	0.350%	13.91x
36	Barker	146	0.340%	2.63x
37	Binns	145	0.340%	20.59x
38	Horsfall	144	0.340%	33.60x
39	Wadsworth	142	0.330%	23.96x
40	Hodgson	141	0.330%	4.79x
41	King	139	0.330%	1.50x
42	Hirst	136	0.320%	9.81x
43	Wilkinson	136	0.320%	2.10x
44	Green	134	0.320%	1.12x
45	Whitaker	132	0.310%	10.99x
46	Bates	129	0.300%	4.77x
47	Howarth	129	0.300%	6.32x
48	Cockroft	128	0.300%	71.25x
49	Dyson	126	0.300%	9.15x
50	Marshall	126	0.300%	1.77x
51	Brook	125	0.290%	7.63x
52	Lister	125	0.290%	10.32x
53	Sykes	122	0.290%	5.98x
54	Webster	121	0.280%	3.27x
55	Ackroyd	119	0.280%	29.96x
56	Broadbent	119	0.280%	13.06x
57	Drake	118	0.280%	9.53x
58	Pearson	117	0.280%	2.37x
59	Walsh	117	0.280%	5.17x
60	Bentley	116	0.270%	6.45x
61	Kershaw	116	0.270%	8.46x
62	Sunderland	116	0.270%	23.78x
63	Eastwood	115	0.270%	11.44x
64	Holmes	114	0.270%	2.20x
65	Longbottom	113	0.270%	29.90x
66	Bancroft	108	0.250%	26.22x
67	Bairstow	107	0.250%	71.54x
68	Swift	107	0.250%	8.15x
69	Murgatroyd	106	0.250%	33.20x
70	Buckley	105	0.250%	4.54x
71	Parker	105	0.250%	1.30x
72	Stott	104	0.240%	7.83x
73	Akroyd	102	0.240%	128.80x
74	Walton	101	0.240%	3.38x
75	Wade	100	0.240%	5.88x
76	Hargreaves	97	0.230%	5.48x
77	Simpson	97	0.230%	1.30x
78	Fletcher	94	0.220%	1.94x
79	Jagger	94	0.220%	27.92x
80	Jowett	94	0.220%	20.29x
81	Ambler	93	0.220%	24.79x
82	Sharp	91	0.210%	2.57x
83	Collins	90	0.210%	1.48x
84	Fleming	90	0.210%	5.10x
85	Briggs	89	0.210%	3.86x
86	Ashworth	88	0.210%	5.19x
87	Holt	86	0.200%	3.02x
88	Pollard	86	0.200%	5.55x
89	Woodhead	86	0.200%	10.79x
90	Atkinson	84	0.200%	2.03x
91	Barrett	84	0.200%	2.94x
92	Gaukroger	84	0.200%	191.56x
93	Morton	84	0.200%	3.70x
94	Rushworth	84	0.200%	23.91x
95	Dewhirst	83	0.200%	41.13x
96	Oates	83	0.200%	12.53x
97	Dean	82	0.190%	2.78x
98	Lord	82	0.190%	4.18x
99	Whitehead	82	0.190%	2.85x
100	Sugden	81	0.190%	16.48x