1881 census place

Holbeck surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Holbeck, 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

871 surnames are listed for Holbeck, Yorkshire, covering 9,928 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walker, with 202 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Holbeck

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	Walker	202	1.05%	3.15x
2	Stead	133	0.690%	33.91x
3	Naylor	128	0.670%	17.71x
4	Webster	128	0.670%	7.67x
5	Rhodes	124	0.650%	13.92x
6	Wilkinson	121	0.630%	4.13x
7	Hargreaves	110	0.570%	13.76x
8	Ellis	96	0.500%	3.45x
9	Atkinson	94	0.490%	5.03x
10	Williamson	89	0.460%	5.18x
11	Dobson	87	0.450%	10.28x
12	Dawson	86	0.450%	4.07x
13	Hartley	86	0.450%	7.15x
14	Sykes	84	0.440%	9.13x
15	Atha	83	0.430%	504.25x
16	Appleyard	80	0.420%	45.62x
17	Hudson	68	0.350%	4.33x
18	Whitehead	67	0.350%	5.17x
19	Lister	64	0.330%	11.70x
20	Blackburn	62	0.320%	8.57x
21	Newton	60	0.310%	4.08x
22	Firth	58	0.300%	9.11x
23	Whitaker	58	0.300%	10.71x
24	Mann	57	0.300%	5.64x
25	Cluderay	55	0.290%	670.73x
26	Speight	53	0.280%	34.00x
27	Sharp	52	0.270%	3.25x
28	Nicholson	50	0.260%	3.67x
29	Brook	49	0.260%	6.63x
30	Ramsden	49	0.260%	14.01x
31	Kay	48	0.250%	4.82x
32	Moss	46	0.240%	3.89x
33	Garside	45	0.230%	16.26x
34	Hutchinson	45	0.230%	4.13x
35	Thornton	45	0.230%	4.67x
36	Greaves	44	0.230%	7.83x
37	Pickard	43	0.220%	16.07x
38	Austin	42	0.220%	4.48x
39	Milner	42	0.220%	9.55x
40	Fawcett	41	0.210%	11.06x
41	Hainsworth	41	0.210%	33.63x
42	Bentley	40	0.210%	4.93x
43	Drake	40	0.210%	7.16x
44	Gledhill	40	0.210%	14.06x
45	Nutter	40	0.210%	27.37x
46	Swales	40	0.210%	29.83x
47	Crowther	39	0.200%	6.81x
48	Wildman	39	0.200%	33.28x
49	Broadbent	36	0.190%	8.75x
50	Batty	34	0.180%	11.60x
51	Bulmer	34	0.180%	22.40x
52	Spink	34	0.180%	21.98x
53	Westerman	34	0.180%	54.12x
54	Beaumont	33	0.170%	5.80x
55	Hirst	33	0.170%	5.27x
56	Hobson	33	0.170%	6.63x
57	Myers	33	0.170%	6.60x
58	Todd	33	0.170%	3.38x
59	Wormald	33	0.170%	37.97x
60	Leak	32	0.170%	43.23x
61	Sugden	30	0.160%	13.53x
62	Whitley	30	0.160%	19.10x
63	Beck	29	0.150%	6.47x
64	Holdsworth	29	0.150%	8.98x
65	Barrass	28	0.150%	59.25x
66	Broadhurst	28	0.150%	14.42x
67	Crossley	28	0.150%	5.32x
68	Lockwood	28	0.150%	6.61x
69	Longbottom	28	0.150%	16.42x
70	Pickles	28	0.150%	7.18x
71	Pilkington	28	0.150%	8.13x
72	Teale	28	0.150%	39.57x
73	Baines	27	0.140%	7.35x
74	Bellhouse	27	0.140%	131.32x
75	Calvert	27	0.140%	6.90x
76	Denton	27	0.140%	7.66x
77	Hanson	27	0.140%	4.36x
78	Hope	27	0.140%	4.14x
79	Linley	27	0.140%	39.55x
80	Whiteley	27	0.140%	7.84x
81	Armitage	26	0.140%	5.32x
82	Spooner	26	0.140%	9.40x
83	Colley	25	0.130%	10.28x
84	Lancaster	25	0.130%	5.24x
85	Bedford	24	0.130%	5.27x
86	Cawood	24	0.130%	52.86x
87	Clarkson	24	0.130%	4.72x
88	Halliday	24	0.130%	6.06x
89	Kellett	24	0.130%	14.39x
90	Leathley	24	0.130%	116.39x
91	Peel	24	0.130%	6.97x
92	Rawcliffe	24	0.130%	31.31x
93	Tillotson	24	0.130%	32.36x
94	Vickers	24	0.130%	4.87x
95	Bee	23	0.120%	21.26x
96	Craven	23	0.120%	6.21x
97	Croisdale	23	0.120%	385.91x
98	Willans	23	0.120%	126.03x
99	Benn	22	0.110%	20.14x
100	Benson	22	0.110%	4.23x