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 Cocking, with 31 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
201	Cocking	31	0.070%	15.16x
202	Dougherty	31	0.070%	19.01x
203	Elam	31	0.070%	54.63x
204	Gothard	31	0.070%	38.55x
205	Hanley	31	0.070%	8.92x
206	Laycock	31	0.070%	5.35x
207	Tinker	31	0.070%	14.55x
208	Bowker	30	0.070%	7.30x
209	Gallagher	30	0.070%	4.68x
210	Horsfield	30	0.070%	10.60x
211	Jepson	30	0.070%	7.27x
212	Kenworthy	30	0.070%	10.69x
213	Quarmby	30	0.070%	26.86x
214	Birkhead	29	0.070%	53.21x
215	Fitton	29	0.070%	6.11x
216	Wrigley	29	0.070%	5.43x
217	Brennan	28	0.070%	6.36x
218	Calvert	28	0.070%	3.26x
219	Dodson	28	0.070%	8.58x
220	Horner	28	0.070%	3.49x
221	Illingworth	28	0.070%	5.87x
222	Kilburn	28	0.070%	12.89x
223	Lindley	28	0.070%	6.72x
224	Oddy	28	0.070%	10.80x
225	Oxley	28	0.070%	4.74x
226	Saville	28	0.070%	7.31x
227	Best	27	0.060%	2.38x
228	Blakey	27	0.060%	7.98x
229	Bradbury	27	0.060%	2.22x
230	Crow	27	0.060%	4.24x
231	Drury	27	0.060%	4.03x
232	Fairburn	27	0.060%	24.77x
233	Hampshire	27	0.060%	11.30x
234	Micklethwaite	27	0.060%	47.69x
235	Moxon	27	0.060%	11.42x
236	Nutter	27	0.060%	8.40x
237	Quinn	27	0.060%	3.35x
238	Stork	27	0.060%	38.97x
239	Vickers	27	0.060%	2.49x
240	Womersley	27	0.060%	20.62x
241	Barrow	26	0.060%	2.91x
242	Haley	26	0.060%	5.17x
243	Hawkyard	26	0.060%	71.84x
244	Nichols	26	0.060%	1.89x
245	Rourke	26	0.060%	12.51x
246	Sedgwick	26	0.060%	8.49x
247	Stancliffe	26	0.060%	58.06x
248	Tate	26	0.060%	3.19x
249	Tetlow	26	0.060%	15.63x
250	Waterworth	26	0.060%	14.18x
251	Whitely	26	0.060%	29.12x
252	Aspinall	25	0.060%	4.31x
253	Chappell	25	0.060%	3.51x
254	Craven	25	0.060%	3.07x
255	Gardiner	25	0.060%	2.06x
256	Lassey	25	0.060%	69.62x
257	Medley	25	0.060%	16.07x
258	Pinder	25	0.060%	4.92x
259	Tyas	25	0.060%	25.07x
260	Westerman	25	0.060%	18.10x
261	Birmingham	24	0.060%	22.91x
262	Clarkson	24	0.060%	2.15x
263	Eccles	24	0.060%	3.56x
264	Hamer	24	0.060%	3.04x
265	Hellewell	24	0.060%	22.81x
266	Helliwell	24	0.060%	6.18x
267	Kenyon	24	0.060%	2.73x
268	Marchant	24	0.060%	3.67x
269	Oldham	24	0.060%	3.24x
270	Pilling	24	0.060%	4.72x
271	Scholefield	24	0.060%	19.91x
272	Stockdale	24	0.060%	7.31x
273	Thorp	24	0.060%	4.20x
274	Wallis	24	0.060%	1.68x
275	Watkinson	24	0.060%	4.86x
276	Catton	23	0.050%	16.84x
277	Cocker	23	0.050%	6.65x
278	Dutton	23	0.050%	2.41x
279	Goldthorp	23	0.050%	35.89x
280	Hampson	23	0.050%	3.03x
281	Kendal	23	0.050%	13.98x
282	Ratcliffe	23	0.050%	1.97x
283	Stoney	23	0.050%	38.43x
284	Turton	23	0.050%	4.85x
285	Walshaw	23	0.050%	20.42x
286	Beckwith	22	0.050%	8.87x
287	Cassidy	22	0.050%	4.27x
288	Dalton	22	0.050%	2.27x
289	Driver	22	0.050%	2.82x
290	Jowitt	22	0.050%	27.95x
291	Kenny	22	0.050%	4.36x
292	Learoyd	22	0.050%	53.68x
293	Leonard	22	0.050%	2.41x
294	Midgley	22	0.050%	3.89x
295	Normington	22	0.050%	20.72x
296	Siswick	22	0.050%	139.51x
297	Stansfield	22	0.050%	3.38x
298	Tracey	22	0.050%	8.23x
299	Appleyard	21	0.050%	5.45x
300	Bairstow	21	0.050%	14.15x