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 Laycock, with 35 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
201	Laycock	35	0.080%	5.99x
202	Pulman	35	0.080%	51.92x
203	Boocock	34	0.080%	22.69x
204	Duffy	34	0.080%	3.66x
205	Hesselden	34	0.080%	260.34x
206	Illingworth	34	0.080%	7.07x
207	Swaine	34	0.080%	18.21x
208	Tiffany	34	0.080%	65.83x
209	Womersley	34	0.080%	25.76x
210	Baxendale	33	0.080%	15.24x
211	Hebblethwaite	33	0.080%	46.79x
212	Bateman	32	0.080%	2.91x
213	Butterworth	32	0.080%	2.10x
214	Dennis	32	0.080%	2.55x
215	Fawcett	32	0.080%	3.89x
216	Horner	32	0.080%	3.96x
217	Patchett	32	0.080%	15.70x
218	Pinder	32	0.080%	6.25x
219	Armitage	31	0.070%	2.86x
220	Aspinall	31	0.070%	5.30x
221	Balme	31	0.070%	101.61x
222	Boyle	31	0.070%	2.81x
223	Cragg	31	0.070%	11.50x
224	Hopkinson	31	0.070%	4.46x
225	Rawnsley	31	0.070%	22.31x
226	Baume	30	0.070%	182.26x
227	Brooksbank	30	0.070%	21.57x
228	Gaukrodger	30	0.070%	129.70x
229	Hainsworth	30	0.070%	11.10x
230	Hamer	30	0.070%	3.77x
231	Moran	30	0.070%	3.86x
232	Speak	30	0.070%	20.29x
233	Tetley	30	0.070%	17.57x
234	Washington	30	0.070%	14.00x
235	Alderson	29	0.070%	4.92x
236	Baines	29	0.070%	3.56x
237	Norton	29	0.070%	2.05x
238	Rothera	29	0.070%	86.59x
239	Varley	29	0.070%	4.97x
240	Wild	29	0.070%	1.67x
241	Barraclough	28	0.070%	6.66x
242	Cain	28	0.070%	3.17x
243	Morley	28	0.070%	1.65x
244	Sheard	28	0.070%	7.19x
245	Timewell	28	0.070%	116.09x
246	Clee	27	0.060%	30.20x
247	Collingwood	27	0.060%	11.54x
248	Greaves	27	0.060%	2.17x
249	Kendall	27	0.060%	2.95x
250	Kenyon	27	0.060%	3.04x
251	Kirkman	27	0.060%	9.94x
252	Scholefield	27	0.060%	22.23x
253	Tatham	27	0.060%	18.82x
254	Townend	27	0.060%	7.42x
255	Watkin	27	0.060%	7.26x
256	Bowman	26	0.060%	2.34x
257	Burke	26	0.060%	2.08x
258	Kitson	26	0.060%	7.66x
259	Magson	26	0.060%	38.66x
260	Tempest	26	0.060%	13.14x
261	Waddington	26	0.060%	3.77x
262	Asquith	25	0.060%	10.06x
263	Edmondson	25	0.060%	5.09x
264	Fearnley	25	0.060%	9.67x
265	Holgate	25	0.060%	7.09x
266	Hooson	25	0.060%	30.11x
267	Lever	25	0.060%	6.53x
268	Parkin	25	0.060%	2.19x
269	Scarborough	25	0.060%	20.82x
270	Tattersall	25	0.060%	4.24x
271	Carroll	24	0.060%	2.81x
272	Garforth	24	0.060%	20.16x
273	Haslem	24	0.060%	82.50x
274	Heap	24	0.060%	3.33x
275	Lynch	24	0.060%	2.14x
276	Saville	24	0.060%	6.22x
277	Teal	24	0.060%	14.81x
278	Aaron	23	0.050%	34.71x
279	Blakey	23	0.050%	6.75x
280	Emmett	23	0.050%	6.46x
281	Furness	23	0.050%	6.78x
282	Gorman	23	0.050%	4.49x
283	Gough	23	0.050%	1.85x
284	Mansley	23	0.050%	57.47x
285	Platts	23	0.050%	8.11x
286	Braithwaite	22	0.050%	4.46x
287	Cunliffe	22	0.050%	4.16x
288	Fell	22	0.050%	3.68x
289	Graydon	22	0.050%	57.20x
290	Hellewell	22	0.050%	20.75x
291	Lodge	22	0.050%	2.85x
292	Nettleton	22	0.050%	12.05x
293	Nutton	22	0.050%	40.91x
294	Oddy	22	0.050%	8.42x
295	Shoesmith	22	0.050%	17.38x
296	Smithies	22	0.050%	14.54x
297	Squires	22	0.050%	3.66x
298	Throp	22	0.050%	68.60x
299	Walshaw	22	0.050%	19.38x
300	Wigglesworth	22	0.050%	10.47x