1881 census place

Leeds surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Leeds, 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

5,767 surnames are listed for Leeds, Yorkshire, covering 138,733 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 2,474 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Leeds

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	2,474	1.51%	1.07x
2	Wilson	1,363	0.830%	1.82x
3	Walker	1,351	0.830%	2.47x
4	Wood	1,194	0.730%	2.29x
5	Brown	1,126	0.690%	1.04x
6	Taylor	1,090	0.670%	1.04x
7	Robinson	1,008	0.620%	1.93x
8	Thompson	892	0.550%	1.82x
9	Wright	848	0.520%	1.62x
10	Johnson	796	0.490%	1.45x
11	Harrison	776	0.470%	2.14x
12	Jackson	746	0.460%	1.63x
13	Atkinson	687	0.420%	4.31x
14	Wilkinson	622	0.380%	2.49x
15	Watson	570	0.350%	1.50x
16	Hall	556	0.340%	1.16x
17	Shaw	556	0.340%	1.85x
18	Turner	554	0.340%	1.22x
19	Holmes	538	0.330%	2.70x
20	Clark	534	0.330%	1.09x
21	Green	528	0.320%	1.15x
22	Simpson	526	0.320%	1.84x
23	Richardson	512	0.310%	1.84x
24	Barker	497	0.300%	2.32x
25	Parker	476	0.290%	1.53x
26	Ward	470	0.290%	1.32x
27	Dixon	460	0.280%	2.57x
28	Ellis	451	0.280%	1.90x
29	Marshall	447	0.270%	1.63x
30	Foster	445	0.270%	2.04x
31	Roberts	445	0.270%	0.72x
32	Hudson	427	0.260%	3.19x
33	Whitaker	415	0.250%	8.99x
34	White	414	0.250%	0.79x
35	Hodgson	410	0.250%	3.62x
36	Pearson	409	0.250%	2.15x
37	Stead	409	0.250%	12.23x
38	Booth	395	0.240%	2.45x
39	Mitchell	380	0.230%	1.15x
40	Scott	378	0.230%	0.91x
41	Dawson	372	0.230%	2.06x
42	Lee	353	0.220%	1.32x
43	Webster	353	0.220%	2.48x
44	Briggs	343	0.210%	3.86x
45	Bell	342	0.210%	1.11x
46	Greenwood	342	0.210%	2.69x
47	Rhodes	334	0.200%	4.40x
48	Firth	329	0.200%	6.06x
49	Lister	323	0.200%	6.93x
50	Gill	320	0.200%	2.77x
51	Hartley	319	0.200%	3.11x
52	Kelly	311	0.190%	1.74x
53	Moore	309	0.190%	0.95x
54	Sykes	304	0.190%	3.88x
55	Myers	303	0.190%	7.11x
56	Brook	302	0.180%	4.79x
57	Nicholson	295	0.180%	2.54x
58	Sharp	293	0.180%	2.15x
59	Cooper	287	0.180%	0.72x
60	Armitage	285	0.170%	6.84x
61	Mason	283	0.170%	1.29x
62	Carter	281	0.170%	1.02x
63	Schofield	280	0.170%	3.16x
64	Hill	273	0.170%	0.66x
65	Naylor	272	0.170%	4.41x
66	Hutchinson	269	0.160%	2.90x
67	Dickinson	259	0.160%	3.71x
68	Whitehead	259	0.160%	2.34x
69	Hirst	253	0.150%	4.74x
70	Blackburn	252	0.150%	4.09x
71	Riley	252	0.150%	1.95x
72	Clarkson	249	0.150%	5.75x
73	Fawcett	242	0.150%	7.66x
74	Walton	241	0.150%	2.09x
75	Hobson	236	0.140%	5.57x
76	Holdsworth	232	0.140%	8.42x
77	Young	232	0.140%	0.66x
78	Dean	228	0.140%	2.01x
79	Moss	225	0.140%	2.23x
80	Coates	222	0.140%	3.64x
81	Pickard	222	0.140%	9.74x
82	Hargreaves	221	0.140%	3.24x
83	Chadwick	220	0.130%	3.08x
84	Bradley	218	0.130%	1.66x
85	Chapman	218	0.130%	0.94x
86	Walsh	217	0.130%	2.49x
87	Gibson	216	0.130%	1.09x
88	Anderson	215	0.130%	0.67x
89	Kay	215	0.130%	2.53x
90	Williamson	214	0.130%	1.46x
91	Allen	213	0.130%	0.69x
92	Dobson	213	0.130%	2.95x
93	Newton	211	0.130%	1.68x
94	Wade	211	0.130%	3.23x
95	Morley	205	0.130%	3.14x
96	Beaumont	203	0.120%	4.19x
97	Graham	200	0.120%	1.07x
98	Crowther	199	0.120%	4.08x
99	Farrar	195	0.120%	8.95x
100	Child	193	0.120%	6.94x