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 Wolfenden, with 22 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
301	Wolfenden	22	0.050%	11.07x
302	Aspin	21	0.050%	12.27x
303	Benn	21	0.050%	8.67x
304	Coe	21	0.050%	3.04x
305	Conway	21	0.050%	2.64x
306	Cundall	21	0.050%	30.58x
307	Duckworth	21	0.050%	2.56x
308	Hardcastle	21	0.050%	5.59x
309	Hepworth	21	0.050%	4.33x
310	Isles	21	0.050%	18.29x
311	Keighley	21	0.050%	9.24x
312	Lightowler	21	0.050%	21.02x
313	Marchant	21	0.050%	3.19x
314	Pilling	21	0.050%	4.09x
315	Shackleton	21	0.050%	4.39x
316	Soothill	21	0.050%	143.64x
317	Tinkler	21	0.050%	11.41x
318	Whitworth	21	0.050%	2.96x
319	Batty	20	0.050%	3.08x
320	Bland	20	0.050%	2.27x
321	Canning	20	0.050%	6.62x
322	Coton	20	0.050%	51.44x
323	Doyle	20	0.050%	1.93x
324	Regan	20	0.050%	4.59x
325	Rigg	20	0.050%	5.60x
326	Wainhouse	20	0.050%	119.40x
327	Blagbrough	19	0.040%	97.74x
328	Butterfield	19	0.040%	3.35x
329	Cordingley	19	0.040%	12.95x
330	Darwin	19	0.040%	23.45x
331	Dearden	19	0.040%	4.56x
332	Halmshaw	19	0.040%	67.28x
333	Haworth	19	0.040%	2.13x
334	Kaye	19	0.040%	2.98x
335	Lund	19	0.040%	4.13x
336	Milligan	19	0.040%	3.80x
337	Nettleship	19	0.040%	35.42x
338	Talbot	19	0.040%	1.80x
339	Tate	19	0.040%	2.31x
340	Westwood	19	0.040%	2.67x
341	Astin	18	0.040%	14.60x
342	Baildon	18	0.040%	119.68x
343	Bramley	18	0.040%	4.64x
344	Brennan	18	0.040%	4.06x
345	Driver	18	0.040%	2.29x
346	Empsall	18	0.040%	139.43x
347	Oldroyd	18	0.040%	8.37x
348	Prince	18	0.040%	1.87x
349	Siddall	18	0.040%	5.78x
350	Swale	18	0.040%	31.40x
351	Thorp	18	0.040%	3.12x
352	Burford	17	0.040%	7.16x
353	Costello	17	0.040%	6.56x
354	Delaney	17	0.040%	6.22x
355	Duggan	17	0.040%	5.23x
356	Eastburn	17	0.040%	93.61x
357	Gaunt	17	0.040%	4.06x
358	Hargraves	17	0.040%	11.44x
359	Horsfield	17	0.040%	5.96x
360	Ibbetson	17	0.040%	17.93x
361	Learoyd	17	0.040%	41.17x
362	Marsland	17	0.040%	6.86x
363	Needham	17	0.040%	1.88x
364	Oakes	17	0.040%	2.76x
365	Tillotson	17	0.040%	10.35x
366	Waterhouse	17	0.040%	2.63x
367	Beetham	16	0.040%	22.64x
368	Bowker	16	0.040%	3.86x
369	Child	16	0.040%	2.21x
370	Davenport	16	0.040%	1.99x
371	Hindle	16	0.040%	2.68x
372	Hume	16	0.040%	2.65x
373	Shuttleworth	16	0.040%	3.17x
374	Thwaite	16	0.040%	16.70x
375	Thwaites	16	0.040%	6.30x
376	Barstow	15	0.040%	20.41x
377	Brady	15	0.040%	1.99x
378	Broadley	15	0.040%	5.21x
379	Cheetham	15	0.040%	2.28x
380	Cockhill	15	0.040%	74.44x
381	Dodgson	15	0.040%	7.26x
382	Fielden	15	0.040%	6.05x
383	Foulds	15	0.040%	5.22x
384	Hebden	15	0.040%	11.28x
385	Neill	15	0.040%	5.33x
386	Ohara	15	0.040%	6.14x
387	Partington	15	0.040%	2.49x
388	Priestly	15	0.040%	15.04x
389	Shore	15	0.040%	3.28x
390	Dawtrey	14	0.030%	129.87x
391	Dennison	14	0.030%	4.26x
392	Dilworth	14	0.030%	11.43x
393	Durkin	14	0.030%	7.55x
394	Gaskell	14	0.030%	3.21x
395	Mitchel	14	0.030%	3.37x
396	Muirhead	14	0.030%	4.27x
397	Newsome	14	0.030%	4.58x
398	Rafferty	14	0.030%	6.39x
399	Ridehalgh	14	0.030%	31.02x
400	Rowbottom	14	0.030%	5.53x