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 Moorhouse, with 67 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
101	Moorhouse	67	0.160%	12.84x
102	Field	66	0.160%	3.15x
103	Crossley	65	0.150%	5.61x
104	Sanderson	64	0.150%	3.67x
105	Stead	64	0.150%	7.42x
106	Townend	64	0.150%	17.72x
107	Whitehead	64	0.150%	2.25x
108	Buckley	62	0.150%	2.70x
109	Davison	62	0.150%	4.11x
110	Binns	61	0.140%	8.73x
111	Clayton	61	0.140%	2.66x
112	Webster	60	0.140%	1.64x
113	Spivey	58	0.140%	62.12x
114	Clay	55	0.130%	6.35x
115	Howarth	55	0.130%	2.71x
116	Jagger	55	0.130%	16.47x
117	Noble	55	0.130%	3.14x
118	Swift	55	0.130%	4.22x
119	Hargreaves	54	0.130%	3.07x
120	Kitson	54	0.130%	16.02x
121	Shepherd	54	0.130%	1.75x
122	Hardcastle	53	0.130%	14.22x
123	Hodgson	53	0.130%	1.81x
124	Varley	53	0.130%	9.15x
125	Bates	52	0.120%	1.94x
126	Charlesworth	52	0.120%	9.55x
127	Nicholson	52	0.120%	1.74x
128	Parkin	52	0.120%	4.59x
129	Dransfield	50	0.120%	33.72x
130	Burley	49	0.120%	12.25x
131	Dickinson	49	0.120%	2.72x
132	Hinchcliffe	49	0.120%	19.03x
133	Thorpe	49	0.120%	2.94x
134	Woodhead	49	0.120%	6.20x
135	Lister	48	0.110%	3.99x
136	Bower	47	0.110%	6.08x
137	Clough	47	0.110%	4.99x
138	Stocks	47	0.110%	10.24x
139	Wade	46	0.110%	2.73x
140	Beevers	45	0.110%	42.27x
141	Holdsworth	45	0.110%	6.33x
142	Sharpe	45	0.110%	3.62x
143	Thewlis	45	0.110%	48.20x
144	Barrett	44	0.100%	1.55x
145	Heaton	44	0.100%	4.36x
146	Ellam	43	0.100%	40.55x
147	Lumb	43	0.100%	10.80x
148	Lunn	43	0.100%	7.88x
149	Batley	42	0.100%	23.01x
150	Cowgill	42	0.100%	39.56x
151	Flynn	42	0.100%	5.20x
152	Singleton	42	0.100%	5.04x
153	Thwaite	42	0.100%	44.18x
154	Tomlinson	42	0.100%	2.16x
155	Baldwin	41	0.100%	2.28x
156	Kershaw	41	0.100%	3.01x
157	Pogson	41	0.100%	25.61x
158	Roebuck	41	0.100%	14.36x
159	Sunderland	41	0.100%	8.47x
160	Bedford	40	0.090%	4.00x
161	Dickenson	40	0.090%	6.26x
162	Kilner	40	0.090%	22.69x
163	Ainley	39	0.090%	23.35x
164	Brannan	39	0.090%	13.68x
165	Hobson	39	0.090%	3.56x
166	Matthewman	39	0.090%	48.59x
167	Oates	39	0.090%	5.93x
168	Whitwam	39	0.090%	39.79x
169	Heywood	38	0.090%	4.53x
170	Bottom	37	0.090%	32.88x
171	Cheetham	37	0.090%	5.67x
172	Clifford	37	0.090%	4.27x
173	Maude	37	0.090%	23.09x
174	Stringer	37	0.090%	4.40x
175	Sugden	37	0.090%	7.59x
176	Tiffany	37	0.090%	72.18x
177	Waring	37	0.090%	6.98x
178	Balmforth	36	0.090%	22.54x
179	Chappel	36	0.090%	19.40x
180	Crawshaw	36	0.090%	10.97x
181	Platts	36	0.090%	12.79x
182	Addy	35	0.080%	19.49x
183	Liversedge	35	0.080%	45.44x
184	Moody	35	0.080%	3.18x
185	Newsome	35	0.080%	11.54x
186	Oldfield	35	0.080%	5.02x
187	Todd	35	0.080%	1.63x
188	Cotton	34	0.080%	3.38x
189	Naylor	34	0.080%	2.14x
190	Woodcock	34	0.080%	2.83x
191	Cockroft	33	0.080%	18.51x
192	Fearnley	33	0.080%	12.87x
193	Poppleton	33	0.080%	44.64x
194	Whitaker	33	0.080%	2.77x
195	Abbs	32	0.080%	43.12x
196	Brierley	32	0.080%	4.27x
197	Calverley	32	0.080%	35.84x
198	Hewitt	32	0.080%	1.56x
199	Hey	32	0.080%	8.56x
200	Livesey	32	0.080%	7.75x