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 Howley, with 50 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
101	Howley	50	0.160%	75.12x
102	Overend	48	0.160%	52.29x
103	Welsh	48	0.160%	3.93x
104	Wild	48	0.160%	3.82x
105	Dickinson	46	0.150%	3.49x
106	Durkin	46	0.150%	34.16x
107	Wells	46	0.150%	1.79x
108	Speak	45	0.150%	41.92x
109	Town	45	0.150%	29.41x
110	Fortune	44	0.140%	27.29x
111	Kay	44	0.140%	2.74x
112	Lawson	44	0.140%	2.42x
113	Redman	44	0.140%	10.83x
114	Buckley	43	0.140%	2.56x
115	Helliwell	43	0.140%	15.13x
116	Horner	43	0.140%	7.32x
117	Moorhouse	43	0.140%	11.26x
118	Wade	43	0.140%	3.48x
119	Broughton	42	0.140%	7.30x
120	Heaps	41	0.130%	30.52x
121	Whiteoak	41	0.130%	111.47x
122	Bowker	40	0.130%	13.29x
123	Haw	40	0.130%	39.17x
124	Whitfield	40	0.130%	6.49x
125	Brook	39	0.130%	3.28x
126	Myers	39	0.130%	4.85x
127	Jeffrey	38	0.120%	6.66x
128	Metcalfe	38	0.120%	5.39x
129	Pickard	38	0.120%	8.83x
130	Roe	38	0.120%	6.32x
131	Bartle	37	0.120%	20.36x
132	Bastow	37	0.120%	36.31x
133	Brigg	37	0.120%	76.08x
134	Foulds	37	0.120%	17.72x
135	Terry	37	0.120%	4.69x
136	Edmondson	36	0.120%	10.10x
137	Wrathall	36	0.120%	140.35x
138	Bower	35	0.110%	6.19x
139	Duckworth	35	0.110%	5.87x
140	Farrar	35	0.110%	8.51x
141	Lilley	35	0.110%	8.19x
142	Wademan	35	0.110%	870.65x
143	Ellison	34	0.110%	5.22x
144	Golden	34	0.110%	26.17x
145	Summerscales	34	0.110%	91.67x
146	Wadsworth	34	0.110%	7.90x
147	Bracewell	33	0.110%	29.65x
148	Jarman	33	0.110%	11.21x
149	Nelson	33	0.110%	2.21x
150	Appleyard	32	0.100%	11.34x
151	Inman	32	0.100%	15.25x
152	Jennings	32	0.100%	2.05x
153	Jowett	32	0.100%	9.52x
154	Milner	32	0.100%	4.52x
155	Petty	32	0.100%	10.48x
156	Silverwood	32	0.100%	48.45x
157	Blakey	31	0.100%	12.53x
158	Hillary	31	0.100%	61.02x
159	Newsholme	31	0.100%	192.91x
160	Snowden	31	0.100%	11.28x
161	Hardacre	30	0.100%	41.01x
162	Lonsdale	30	0.100%	11.72x
163	Merrall	30	0.100%	129.98x
164	Moorehouse	30	0.100%	135.44x
165	Paget	30	0.100%	18.24x
166	Stansfield	30	0.100%	6.30x
167	Throup	30	0.100%	132.33x
168	Daley	29	0.090%	7.99x
169	Hopkinson	29	0.090%	5.75x
170	Narey	29	0.090%	165.62x
171	Wall	29	0.090%	2.69x
172	Widdop	29	0.090%	41.51x
173	Conway	28	0.090%	4.84x
174	Coulton	28	0.090%	25.86x
175	Fowlds	28	0.090%	327.49x
176	Kidd	28	0.090%	4.46x
177	Wildman	28	0.090%	14.85x
178	Barwick	27	0.090%	20.55x
179	Carrodus	27	0.090%	294.44x
180	Gledhill	27	0.090%	5.90x
181	Normington	27	0.090%	34.75x
182	Wignall	27	0.090%	17.14x
183	Asquith	26	0.080%	14.40x
184	Chatburn	26	0.080%	70.29x
185	Halstead	26	0.080%	10.13x
186	Rothera	26	0.080%	106.91x
187	Stowell	26	0.080%	36.21x
188	Tempest	26	0.080%	18.10x
189	Heap	25	0.080%	4.78x
190	Northrop	25	0.080%	51.08x
191	Townend	25	0.080%	9.46x
192	Wilcock	25	0.080%	5.70x
193	Brayshaw	24	0.080%	21.39x
194	Leeming	24	0.080%	12.56x
195	Ramsbottom	24	0.080%	11.51x
196	Weatherhead	24	0.080%	27.24x
197	Clarkson	23	0.070%	2.81x
198	Earnshaw	23	0.070%	6.03x
199	Odonnell	23	0.070%	11.60x
200	Scarborough	23	0.070%	26.39x