1881 census place

Hunslet surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hunslet, 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

1,852 surnames are listed for Hunslet, Yorkshire, covering 31,724 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 704 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hunslet

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	Smith	704	1.56%	1.10x
2	Walker	484	1.07%	3.20x
3	Taylor	447	0.990%	1.55x
4	Wood	383	0.850%	2.66x
5	Wilson	369	0.820%	1.78x
6	Brown	351	0.780%	1.18x
7	Thompson	333	0.740%	2.46x
8	Robinson	290	0.640%	2.01x
9	Jackson	223	0.490%	1.77x
10	Harrison	221	0.490%	2.21x
11	Wilkinson	220	0.490%	3.19x
12	Atkinson	206	0.460%	4.69x
13	Johnson	191	0.420%	1.26x
14	Wright	187	0.410%	1.29x
15	Richardson	180	0.400%	2.34x
16	Ellis	175	0.390%	2.67x
17	Holmes	175	0.390%	3.18x
18	Shaw	170	0.380%	2.05x
19	Schofield	169	0.370%	6.91x
20	Green	168	0.370%	1.32x
21	Barker	159	0.350%	2.69x
22	Dixon	150	0.330%	3.03x
23	Ward	150	0.330%	1.52x
24	Foster	147	0.330%	2.44x
25	Greenwood	146	0.320%	4.16x
26	Hutchinson	146	0.320%	5.69x
27	Williamson	145	0.320%	3.58x
28	Clark	144	0.320%	1.06x
29	Hartley	137	0.300%	4.84x
30	Gill	135	0.300%	4.23x
31	Nicholson	130	0.290%	4.05x
32	Speight	130	0.290%	35.43x
33	Riley	129	0.290%	3.61x
34	Brook	128	0.280%	7.35x
35	Hirst	127	0.280%	8.62x
36	Booth	125	0.280%	2.81x
37	Parker	124	0.270%	1.44x
38	Hargreaves	122	0.270%	6.48x
39	Rhodes	121	0.270%	5.77x
40	Stead	121	0.270%	13.11x
41	Chadwick	116	0.260%	5.88x
42	Senior	110	0.240%	10.64x
43	Ramsden	108	0.240%	13.12x
44	Dobson	107	0.240%	5.37x
45	Sharp	106	0.230%	2.82x
46	Sykes	105	0.230%	4.85x
47	Fletcher	104	0.230%	2.02x
48	Pearson	100	0.220%	1.91x
49	Lee	99	0.220%	1.34x
50	Armitage	98	0.220%	8.51x
51	Chapman	98	0.220%	1.53x
52	Crowther	97	0.210%	7.20x
53	Hudson	97	0.210%	2.62x
54	Mann	96	0.210%	4.04x
55	Holdsworth	95	0.210%	12.49x
56	Hewitt	94	0.210%	4.28x
57	Dawson	93	0.210%	1.87x
58	Longbottom	93	0.210%	23.17x
59	Carter	91	0.200%	1.20x
60	Briggs	90	0.200%	3.67x
61	Morton	90	0.200%	3.73x
62	Wainwright	89	0.200%	9.32x
63	Sutcliffe	88	0.190%	4.94x
64	Broadbent	86	0.190%	8.88x
65	Firth	84	0.190%	5.60x
66	Child	83	0.180%	10.81x
67	Hodgson	83	0.180%	2.65x
68	Naylor	82	0.180%	4.82x
69	Dickinson	81	0.180%	4.20x
70	Hobson	78	0.170%	6.66x
71	Carr	76	0.170%	2.33x
72	Blackburn	73	0.160%	4.29x
73	Greaves	73	0.160%	5.52x
74	Newton	73	0.160%	2.11x
75	Thornton	73	0.160%	3.22x
76	Whitaker	73	0.160%	5.72x
77	Lister	72	0.160%	5.59x
78	Webster	72	0.160%	1.83x
79	Whitehead	72	0.160%	2.36x
80	Hollings	71	0.160%	41.87x
81	Farrar	69	0.150%	11.47x
82	Ingham	68	0.150%	6.06x
83	Rider	68	0.150%	15.47x
84	Calvert	66	0.150%	7.17x
85	Spencer	66	0.150%	1.60x
86	Thackray	66	0.150%	34.15x
87	Jennings	65	0.140%	2.84x
88	Kellett	65	0.140%	16.55x
89	Wormald	65	0.140%	31.78x
90	Benson	64	0.140%	5.23x
91	Milner	64	0.140%	6.18x
92	Wild	64	0.140%	3.48x
93	Fox	62	0.140%	1.48x
94	Kirby	62	0.140%	3.62x
95	Walton	62	0.140%	1.95x
96	Batty	61	0.140%	8.84x
97	Fawcett	61	0.140%	6.99x
98	Bedford	60	0.130%	5.60x
99	Kay	60	0.130%	2.56x
100	Atha	59	0.130%	152.30x