1881 census place

Keighley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Keighley, 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

889 surnames are listed for Keighley, Yorkshire, covering 22,133 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,382 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Keighley

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	1,382	4.48%	3.17x
2	Holmes	385	1.25%	10.25x
3	Moore	351	1.14%	5.69x
4	Shackleton	324	1.05%	93.28x
5	Binns	323	1.05%	63.16x
6	Wright	303	0.980%	3.06x
7	Mitchell	297	0.960%	4.74x
8	Greenwood	295	0.960%	12.31x
9	Sugden	282	0.910%	79.03x
10	Feather	276	0.890%	174.74x
11	Midgley	274	0.890%	66.27x
12	Wilkinson	253	0.820%	5.37x
13	Pickles	246	0.800%	39.23x
14	Lund	242	0.780%	72.40x
15	Butterfield	240	0.780%	58.20x
16	Hartley	222	0.720%	11.48x
17	Heaton	222	0.720%	30.07x
18	Whitaker	219	0.710%	25.12x
19	Robinson	218	0.710%	2.22x
20	Hudson	208	0.670%	8.23x
21	Driver	195	0.630%	34.11x
22	Laycock	176	0.570%	41.51x
23	Gill	173	0.560%	7.92x
24	Emmott	169	0.550%	145.93x
25	Bottomley	165	0.530%	32.11x
26	Green	165	0.530%	1.90x
27	Hodgson	161	0.520%	7.53x
28	Riley	160	0.520%	6.55x
29	Rhodes	159	0.520%	11.10x
30	Harrison	154	0.500%	2.25x
31	Naylor	149	0.480%	12.81x
32	Sharp	145	0.470%	5.64x
33	Sunderland	143	0.460%	40.38x
34	Hey	140	0.450%	51.22x
35	Simpson	140	0.450%	2.59x
36	Bailey	139	0.450%	2.99x
37	Scott	133	0.430%	1.70x
38	Shuttleworth	133	0.430%	36.34x
39	Spencer	132	0.430%	4.69x
40	Ogden	131	0.420%	15.02x
41	Murgatroyd	119	0.390%	51.33x
42	Parker	118	0.380%	2.01x
43	Ohara	117	0.380%	65.98x
44	Hargreaves	112	0.360%	8.71x
45	Keighley	111	0.360%	67.29x
46	Dawson	109	0.350%	3.20x
47	Walsh	109	0.350%	6.64x
48	Hanson	108	0.350%	10.85x
49	Judson	105	0.340%	74.49x
50	Walton	102	0.330%	4.70x
51	Haggas	98	0.320%	347.15x
52	Craven	97	0.310%	16.28x
53	Bland	95	0.310%	14.85x
54	Hird	95	0.310%	39.90x
55	Clough	92	0.300%	13.35x
56	Stell	92	0.300%	187.60x
57	Atkinson	91	0.290%	3.03x
58	Slater	88	0.290%	4.71x
59	Crossley	84	0.270%	9.92x
60	Dixon	84	0.270%	2.48x
61	Waterhouse	84	0.270%	17.87x
62	Pearson	83	0.270%	2.32x
63	Clapham	82	0.270%	30.84x
64	Bradley	80	0.260%	3.23x
65	Hoyle	79	0.260%	11.09x
66	Baldwin	77	0.250%	5.85x
67	Ambler	74	0.240%	27.16x
68	Lambert	74	0.240%	4.39x
69	Mosley	74	0.240%	25.47x
70	Ackroyd	71	0.230%	24.62x
71	Bancroft	70	0.230%	23.41x
72	Peel	67	0.220%	12.10x
73	Waddington	67	0.220%	13.37x
74	Clayton	66	0.210%	3.93x
75	Crabtree	64	0.210%	10.30x
76	Longbottom	64	0.210%	23.33x
77	Barrett	63	0.200%	3.04x
78	Lister	63	0.200%	7.16x
79	Thornton	63	0.200%	4.06x
80	Briggs	62	0.200%	3.70x
81	Houldsworth	62	0.200%	100.96x
82	Denby	61	0.200%	47.55x
83	Tillotson	60	0.190%	50.29x
84	Calvert	59	0.190%	9.38x
85	Whitehead	59	0.190%	2.83x
86	Walbank	58	0.190%	135.64x
87	Broadley	57	0.180%	27.29x
88	Holdsworth	57	0.180%	10.97x
89	Preston	57	0.180%	3.70x
90	Ramsden	57	0.180%	10.13x
91	Carr	56	0.180%	2.52x
92	Berry	55	0.180%	2.25x
93	Rushworth	53	0.170%	20.77x
94	Anderton	52	0.170%	14.20x
95	Cockshott	52	0.170%	92.10x
96	Sutcliffe	52	0.170%	4.27x
97	Gott	51	0.170%	38.16x
98	Horsfall	51	0.170%	16.39x
99	Kennedy	51	0.170%	2.74x
100	Wigglesworth	51	0.170%	33.42x