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 Bycroft, with 6 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
701	Bycroft	6	0.010%	14.29x
702	Columbine	6	0.010%	50.93x
703	Connorton	6	0.010%	49.75x
704	Cully	6	0.010%	12.77x
705	Dalzell	6	0.010%	10.93x
706	Dawkin	6	0.010%	66.08x
707	Dodsworth	6	0.010%	3.38x
708	Drye	6	0.010%	67.11x
709	Elmer	6	0.010%	4.15x
710	Fearnside	6	0.010%	16.02x
711	Frusher	6	0.010%	44.51x
712	Gaines	6	0.010%	7.84x
713	Gilderdale	6	0.010%	44.98x
714	Gleadow	6	0.010%	81.30x
715	Gornall	6	0.010%	4.95x
716	Griffen	6	0.010%	4.32x
717	Gunton	6	0.010%	6.19x
718	Handy	6	0.010%	4.10x
719	Hargreave	6	0.010%	11.10x
720	Harnett	6	0.010%	7.58x
721	Hawkridge	6	0.010%	18.46x
722	Haxby	6	0.010%	15.89x
723	Heaps	6	0.010%	3.24x
724	Henshall	6	0.010%	2.91x
725	Houldsworth	6	0.010%	7.09x
726	Huff	6	0.010%	14.73x
727	Hughs	6	0.010%	3.89x
728	Kelcher	6	0.010%	56.39x
729	Lant	6	0.010%	21.25x
730	Lessiter	6	0.010%	67.11x
731	Littlefair	6	0.010%	9.90x
732	Macauley	6	0.010%	8.94x
733	Macgregor	6	0.010%	3.38x
734	Manks	6	0.010%	114.29x
735	Masterson	6	0.010%	6.73x
736	Mcgovern	6	0.010%	54.89x
737	Millwood	6	0.010%	10.14x
738	Newhall	6	0.010%	22.61x
739	Norminton	6	0.010%	28.20x
740	Nowill	6	0.010%	68.18x
741	Oak	6	0.010%	18.54x
742	Pailthorpe	6	0.010%	41.87x
743	Palethorpe	6	0.010%	9.52x
744	Pardoe	6	0.010%	2.87x
745	Paskin	6	0.010%	21.68x
746	Patmore	6	0.010%	5.69x
747	Peterson	6	0.010%	2.78x
748	Pyrah	6	0.010%	7.84x
749	Rainey	6	0.010%	8.96x
750	Renolds	6	0.010%	22.37x
751	Shillito	6	0.010%	5.86x
752	Stirk	6	0.010%	7.51x
753	Stubbings	6	0.010%	4.08x
754	Sutcliff	6	0.010%	9.83x
755	Suthers	6	0.010%	12.15x
756	Thackrah	6	0.010%	15.96x
757	Thorton	6	0.010%	19.39x
758	Tolan	6	0.010%	25.17x
759	Towne	6	0.010%	42.28x
760	Tuley	6	0.010%	32.52x
761	Wadeson	6	0.010%	16.14x
762	Waight	6	0.010%	9.01x
763	Wilshaw	6	0.010%	5.59x
764	Woolhouse	6	0.010%	6.46x
765	Wylde	6	0.010%	6.85x
766	Archdeacon	5	0.010%	32.32x
767	Baldwinson	5	0.010%	54.23x
768	Barrowclough	5	0.010%	6.65x
769	Baynes	5	0.010%	2.98x
770	Beeton	5	0.010%	3.80x
771	Beever	5	0.010%	7.10x
772	Bickerdike	5	0.010%	6.55x
773	Bince	5	0.010%	83.89x
774	Birkbeck	5	0.010%	8.03x
775	Blakebrough	5	0.010%	35.95x
776	Bowering	5	0.010%	8.94x
777	Bramham	5	0.010%	6.56x
778	Brealy	5	0.010%	35.24x
779	Brighton	5	0.010%	3.32x
780	Brimelow	5	0.010%	14.68x
781	Byres	5	0.010%	17.44x
782	Byron	5	0.010%	3.22x
783	Caden	5	0.010%	44.60x
784	Cardus	5	0.010%	22.30x
785	Cleasby	5	0.010%	10.71x
786	Cockin	5	0.010%	10.21x
787	Conlon	5	0.010%	5.38x
788	Connew	5	0.010%	110.13x
789	Crockford	5	0.010%	3.46x
790	Cromack	5	0.010%	9.30x
791	Crosland	5	0.010%	3.25x
792	Culpin	5	0.010%	8.21x
793	Demain	5	0.010%	18.45x
794	Derrington	5	0.010%	23.65x
795	Devaney	5	0.010%	9.42x
796	Dey	5	0.010%	6.48x
797	Dobbing	5	0.010%	18.35x
798	Donnelley	5	0.010%	42.96x
799	Donoghue	5	0.010%	3.55x
800	Eggett	5	0.010%	15.80x