1881 census place

Idle surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Idle, 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

408 surnames are listed for Idle, Yorkshire, covering 8,045 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Baxter, with 189 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Idle

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	Baxter	189	1.41%	23.63x
2	Booth	177	1.32%	13.37x
3	Thornton	147	1.10%	21.78x
4	Lee	143	1.07%	6.52x
5	Myers	141	1.05%	40.27x
6	Murgatroyd	140	1.04%	138.82x
7	Dawson	129	0.960%	8.72x
8	Hudson	117	0.870%	10.65x
9	Illingworth	111	0.830%	73.07x
10	Raistrick	111	0.830%	349.83x
11	Cordingley	107	0.800%	230.90x
12	Padgett	94	0.700%	235.41x
13	Greenwood	83	0.620%	7.96x
14	Atkinson	80	0.600%	6.12x
15	Keighley	79	0.590%	110.09x
16	Oddy	78	0.580%	94.52x
17	Garnett	77	0.570%	46.19x
18	Halliday	77	0.570%	27.76x
19	Pitts	75	0.560%	54.47x
20	Butterfield	74	0.550%	41.25x
21	Firth	74	0.550%	16.60x
22	Hardaker	73	0.540%	157.53x
23	Watmough	73	0.540%	223.45x
24	Briggs	72	0.540%	9.88x
25	Rhodes	72	0.540%	11.55x
26	Stead	71	0.530%	25.86x
27	Whitaker	71	0.530%	18.72x
28	Glover	68	0.510%	11.88x
29	Hartley	68	0.510%	8.08x
30	Slingsby	66	0.490%	175.53x
31	Kendall	65	0.480%	22.49x
32	Brayshaw	64	0.480%	131.12x
33	Berry	62	0.460%	5.82x
34	Whitfield	62	0.460%	23.13x
35	North	61	0.450%	13.71x
36	Hodgson	60	0.450%	6.45x
37	Spencer	60	0.450%	4.90x
38	Dibb	58	0.430%	205.75x
39	Stansfield	57	0.420%	27.50x
40	Tillotson	57	0.420%	109.83x
41	Wilcock	57	0.420%	29.86x
42	Mawson	56	0.420%	51.71x
43	Suttle	55	0.410%	328.95x
44	Pickles	54	0.400%	19.80x
45	Sugden	54	0.400%	34.79x
46	Lund	51	0.380%	35.08x
47	Skirrow	51	0.380%	278.23x
48	Hird	50	0.370%	48.27x
49	Yeadon	50	0.370%	135.87x
50	Verity	49	0.370%	85.68x
51	Haste	48	0.360%	196.16x
52	Lupton	48	0.360%	49.46x
53	Burnley	45	0.340%	161.17x
54	Lister	44	0.330%	11.50x
55	Brook	43	0.320%	8.31x
56	Jennings	43	0.320%	6.32x
57	Naylor	42	0.310%	8.30x
58	Waterhouse	42	0.310%	20.54x
59	Coates	41	0.310%	8.19x
60	Hainsworth	40	0.300%	46.87x
61	Mann	40	0.300%	5.66x
62	Crabtree	39	0.290%	14.43x
63	Hargreaves	39	0.290%	6.97x
64	Hobson	38	0.280%	10.91x
65	Pullan	38	0.280%	71.79x
66	Bateson	37	0.280%	44.05x
67	Lambert	37	0.280%	5.05x
68	Sutcliffe	37	0.280%	6.98x
69	Woodhead	37	0.280%	14.70x
70	Deacon	34	0.250%	14.91x
71	Pickard	34	0.250%	18.16x
72	Preston	34	0.250%	5.07x
73	Todd	34	0.250%	4.98x
74	Hutton	33	0.250%	8.23x
75	Ogden	33	0.250%	8.70x
76	Horn	32	0.240%	10.49x
77	Procter	32	0.240%	18.37x
78	Watkinson	31	0.230%	19.72x
79	Holdsworth	29	0.220%	12.83x
80	Patchett	29	0.220%	45.06x
81	Waite	29	0.220%	10.41x
82	Goldsborough	28	0.210%	272.90x
83	Rushworth	28	0.210%	25.23x
84	Bland	27	0.200%	9.70x
85	Ingham	27	0.200%	8.09x
86	Saville	27	0.200%	22.15x
87	Braithwaite	26	0.190%	16.69x
88	Heaton	26	0.190%	8.09x
89	Longbottom	26	0.190%	21.78x
90	Priestley	26	0.190%	11.45x
91	Richmond	26	0.190%	8.84x
92	Clough	25	0.190%	8.34x
93	Exley	25	0.190%	39.17x
94	Spence	25	0.190%	5.63x
95	Grimshaw	24	0.180%	10.70x
96	Jowett	24	0.180%	16.40x
97	Petty	24	0.180%	18.07x
98	Robertshaw	24	0.180%	21.87x
99	Unwin	24	0.180%	17.99x
100	Child	23	0.170%	10.08x