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 Kelly, with 80 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
101	Kelly	80	0.190%	1.72x
102	Schofield	80	0.190%	3.47x
103	Blackburn	79	0.190%	4.93x
104	Ramsden	79	0.190%	10.19x
105	Berry	78	0.180%	2.31x
106	Ogden	78	0.180%	6.49x
107	Dawson	77	0.180%	1.64x
108	Bedford	76	0.180%	7.54x
109	Clegg	76	0.180%	5.25x
110	Oldfield	75	0.180%	10.68x
111	Bradley	73	0.170%	2.14x
112	Hudson	73	0.170%	2.10x
113	Culpan	72	0.170%	140.16x
114	Holroyd	72	0.170%	15.24x
115	Hey	71	0.170%	18.86x
116	Birtwhistle	67	0.160%	142.64x
117	Clayton	67	0.160%	2.90x
118	Fielding	67	0.160%	7.06x
119	Clay	66	0.160%	7.57x
120	Lumb	66	0.160%	16.45x
121	Bolton	65	0.150%	3.55x
122	Craven	65	0.150%	7.92x
123	Midgley	64	0.150%	11.24x
124	Brearley	63	0.150%	23.73x
125	Hitchen	63	0.150%	21.77x
126	Knowles	63	0.150%	2.78x
127	Rothery	63	0.150%	40.21x
128	Hemingway	62	0.150%	21.77x
129	Denton	61	0.140%	7.81x
130	Gill	61	0.140%	2.03x
131	Milner	61	0.140%	6.26x
132	Ratcliffe	61	0.140%	5.20x
133	Robertshaw	60	0.140%	17.27x
134	Chambers	59	0.140%	2.44x
135	Crapper	59	0.140%	62.33x
136	Hutchinson	59	0.140%	2.44x
137	Metcalfe	59	0.140%	6.08x
138	Thornton	58	0.140%	2.71x
139	Appleyard	57	0.130%	14.67x
140	Brier	57	0.130%	80.82x
141	Garnett	56	0.130%	10.61x
142	Farnell	55	0.130%	35.33x
143	Milnes	55	0.130%	14.66x
144	Haley	54	0.130%	10.66x
145	Halliday	54	0.130%	6.15x
146	Halstead	54	0.130%	15.27x
147	Law	54	0.130%	2.81x
148	Noble	54	0.130%	3.06x
149	Crossland	53	0.120%	14.19x
150	Leach	53	0.120%	3.02x
151	Stansfield	52	0.120%	7.92x
152	Tasker	52	0.120%	11.51x
153	Kitchen	50	0.120%	6.91x
154	Town	50	0.120%	23.73x
155	Uttley	50	0.120%	24.40x
156	Dobson	49	0.120%	2.61x
157	Jennings	49	0.120%	2.27x
158	Mallinson	49	0.120%	13.97x
159	Roper	49	0.120%	5.54x
160	Standeven	49	0.120%	128.85x
161	Feather	48	0.110%	22.06x
162	Rhodes	48	0.110%	2.43x
163	Swallow	48	0.110%	11.20x
164	Aked	47	0.110%	110.41x
165	Tidswell	47	0.110%	46.13x
166	Highley	46	0.110%	67.39x
167	Calvert	45	0.110%	5.19x
168	Dickinson	45	0.110%	2.48x
169	Parkinson	45	0.110%	2.21x
170	Wilcock	45	0.110%	7.45x
171	Garside	44	0.100%	7.18x
172	Maude	44	0.100%	27.24x
173	Radcliffe	44	0.100%	8.91x
174	Holden	43	0.100%	1.85x
175	Archer	42	0.100%	2.39x
176	Mann	42	0.100%	1.88x
177	Stead	42	0.100%	4.83x
178	Widdop	42	0.100%	43.65x
179	Beaumont	41	0.100%	3.25x
180	Sladdin	41	0.100%	222.22x
181	Stocks	41	0.100%	8.86x
182	Wormald	41	0.100%	21.29x
183	Fawthrop	40	0.090%	117.92x
184	Leeming	40	0.090%	15.19x
185	Whitley	40	0.090%	11.50x
186	Earnshaw	39	0.090%	7.42x
187	Heaton	39	0.090%	3.84x
188	Burrows	38	0.090%	2.04x
189	Carlton	38	0.090%	17.42x
190	Coates	38	0.090%	2.40x
191	Jenkinson	38	0.090%	5.11x
192	Seed	38	0.090%	12.38x
193	Halliwell	37	0.090%	7.85x
194	Rawson	37	0.090%	7.98x
195	Balmforth	36	0.080%	22.37x
196	Brear	36	0.080%	56.37x
197	Charnock	36	0.080%	17.74x
198	Redman	36	0.080%	6.44x
199	Collinson	35	0.080%	7.02x
200	Crawshaw	35	0.080%	10.58x