1881 census place

Huddersfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Huddersfield, 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

1,492 surnames are listed for Huddersfield, Yorkshire, covering 28,890 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Shaw, with 676 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Huddersfield

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	Shaw	676	1.60%	8.73x
2	Sykes	578	1.37%	28.56x
3	Brook	574	1.36%	35.30x
4	Wood	474	1.12%	3.53x
5	Taylor	428	1.01%	1.59x
6	Hirst	426	1.01%	30.96x
7	Beaumont	411	0.970%	32.87x
8	Dyson	386	0.920%	28.26x
9	Armitage	344	0.820%	31.98x
10	Thornton	286	0.680%	13.49x
11	Kaye	276	0.650%	43.67x
12	Walker	265	0.630%	1.88x
13	Wilson	251	0.600%	1.30x
14	Schofield	218	0.520%	9.53x
15	Robinson	217	0.510%	1.61x
16	Firth	194	0.460%	13.85x
17	Eastwood	187	0.440%	18.75x
18	North	184	0.440%	13.16x
19	Booth	181	0.430%	4.35x
20	Senior	175	0.410%	18.11x
21	Wilkinson	173	0.410%	2.69x
22	Dawson	172	0.410%	3.70x
23	Lockwood	167	0.400%	17.93x
24	Berry	166	0.390%	4.96x
25	Whiteley	166	0.390%	21.91x
26	Boothroyd	165	0.390%	75.74x
27	Ellis	160	0.380%	2.61x
28	Gledhill	160	0.380%	25.57x
29	Crowther	156	0.370%	12.39x
30	Mitchell	152	0.360%	1.78x
31	Hanson	151	0.360%	11.09x
32	Riley	151	0.360%	4.53x
33	Lee	149	0.350%	2.16x
34	Mellor	141	0.330%	9.49x
35	Mallinson	139	0.330%	39.94x
36	Cliffe	137	0.320%	51.75x
37	Brooke	134	0.320%	21.33x
38	Sutcliffe	130	0.310%	7.80x
39	Hellawell	129	0.310%	187.72x
40	Earnshaw	121	0.290%	23.20x
41	Marshall	115	0.270%	1.63x
42	Littlewood	114	0.270%	20.97x
43	Jessop	111	0.260%	22.17x
44	Moore	111	0.260%	1.32x
45	Richardson	111	0.260%	1.55x
46	Stott	111	0.260%	8.43x
47	Graham	109	0.260%	2.25x
48	Netherwood	109	0.260%	223.73x
49	Carter	106	0.250%	1.50x
50	Halstead	106	0.250%	30.20x
51	Hudson	103	0.240%	2.98x
52	Atkinson	102	0.240%	2.48x
53	Fisher	101	0.240%	2.05x
54	Bottomley	99	0.230%	14.10x
55	Hinchliffe	99	0.230%	27.21x
56	Spencer	99	0.230%	2.57x
57	Broadbent	98	0.230%	10.83x
58	Bradley	97	0.230%	2.86x
59	Iredale	97	0.230%	70.50x
60	Crosland	95	0.230%	62.17x
61	Briggs	94	0.220%	4.10x
62	Ramsden	94	0.220%	12.22x
63	Woodhouse	93	0.220%	9.31x
64	Lodge	92	0.220%	12.00x
65	Pearson	92	0.220%	1.88x
66	Bray	91	0.220%	6.42x
67	France	91	0.220%	14.19x
68	Garside	91	0.220%	14.95x
69	Priestley	91	0.220%	12.75x
70	Rayner	89	0.210%	8.46x
71	Rhodes	88	0.210%	4.49x
72	Gibson	86	0.200%	1.68x
73	Hoyle	86	0.200%	8.83x
74	Scholes	85	0.200%	17.38x
75	Hopkinson	84	0.200%	12.18x
76	Rushworth	84	0.200%	24.09x
77	Holroyd	83	0.200%	17.70x
78	Kelly	83	0.200%	1.80x
79	Radcliffe	83	0.200%	16.94x
80	Milner	82	0.190%	8.48x
81	Bentley	81	0.190%	4.54x
82	Lord	80	0.190%	4.11x
83	Battye	79	0.190%	52.09x
84	Sheard	79	0.190%	20.45x
85	Lawton	78	0.180%	7.18x
86	Longbottom	78	0.180%	20.80x
87	Milnes	78	0.180%	20.95x
88	Hepworth	77	0.180%	16.01x
89	Wadsworth	76	0.180%	12.92x
90	Clegg	75	0.180%	5.22x
91	Drake	75	0.180%	6.10x
92	Holmes	75	0.180%	1.46x
93	Starkey	75	0.180%	17.93x
94	Blackburn	74	0.180%	4.65x
95	Fox	73	0.170%	1.86x
96	Swallow	73	0.170%	17.16x
97	Greenwood	70	0.170%	2.14x
98	Hallas	69	0.160%	43.87x
99	Hartley	69	0.160%	2.61x
100	Horsfall	69	0.160%	16.22x