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 Hodges, with 31 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
901	Hodges	31	0.020%	0.65x
902	Howson	31	0.020%	3.04x
903	Hullah	31	0.020%	13.43x
904	Kenyon	31	0.020%	0.91x
905	Lang	31	0.020%	0.85x
906	Ledger	31	0.020%	2.77x
907	Marriott	31	0.020%	0.85x
908	Ohara	31	0.020%	3.30x
909	Platt	31	0.020%	0.72x
910	Reynard	31	0.020%	11.34x
911	Stanton	31	0.020%	0.95x
912	Stirk	31	0.020%	10.09x
913	Swain	31	0.020%	0.98x
914	Swithenbank	31	0.020%	14.87x
915	Towers	31	0.020%	1.64x
916	Whitham	31	0.020%	3.26x
917	Willey	31	0.020%	2.11x
918	Woodward	31	0.020%	0.38x
919	Woolley	31	0.020%	0.96x
920	Yeoman	31	0.020%	3.00x
921	Ainley	30	0.020%	4.63x
922	Cassidy	30	0.020%	1.50x
923	Coulson	30	0.020%	1.02x
924	Cowan	30	0.020%	0.90x
925	Crabtree	30	0.020%	0.91x
926	Cropper	30	0.020%	3.05x
927	Cryer	30	0.020%	3.34x
928	Cullen	30	0.020%	1.05x
929	Driscoll	30	0.020%	1.65x
930	Fothergill	30	0.020%	3.20x
931	Foy	30	0.020%	2.22x
932	Gomersall	30	0.020%	7.54x
933	Grainger	30	0.020%	1.19x
934	Humphrey	30	0.020%	0.69x
935	Leather	30	0.020%	2.69x
936	Liversedge	30	0.020%	10.05x
937	Lund	30	0.020%	1.69x
938	Mayne	30	0.020%	3.10x
939	Naughton	30	0.020%	9.18x
940	Pilling	30	0.020%	1.52x
941	Platts	30	0.020%	2.75x
942	Plummer	30	0.020%	1.37x
943	Reyner	30	0.020%	33.31x
944	Sigston	30	0.020%	72.34x
945	Tempest	30	0.020%	3.94x
946	Towler	30	0.020%	4.11x
947	Upton	30	0.020%	0.96x
948	Warrington	30	0.020%	2.24x
949	Winder	30	0.020%	2.80x
950	Winterburn	30	0.020%	6.60x
951	Birkenshaw	29	0.020%	16.71x
952	Devine	29	0.020%	1.78x
953	Dwyer	29	0.020%	3.17x
954	Forbes	29	0.020%	0.53x
955	Gibbon	29	0.020%	1.75x
956	Guthrie	29	0.020%	1.41x
957	Hargreave	29	0.020%	13.95x
958	Henry	29	0.020%	0.70x
959	Hetherington	29	0.020%	1.41x
960	Joyce	29	0.020%	0.72x
961	Kitching	29	0.020%	3.06x
962	Knapton	29	0.020%	6.10x
963	Leak	29	0.020%	4.60x
964	Leigh	29	0.020%	0.77x
965	Mack	29	0.020%	1.76x
966	Pennington	29	0.020%	1.20x
967	Ridley	29	0.020%	0.92x
968	Robshaw	29	0.020%	17.65x
969	Rook	29	0.020%	2.60x
970	Salmon	29	0.020%	0.78x
971	Snell	29	0.020%	0.94x
972	Stafford	29	0.020%	0.83x
973	Tebbs	29	0.020%	13.42x
974	Thwaites	29	0.020%	2.97x
975	Tidswell	29	0.020%	7.40x
976	Ainsworth	28	0.020%	0.86x
977	Akeroyd	28	0.020%	14.02x
978	Blakeley	28	0.020%	4.13x
979	Botterill	28	0.020%	6.34x
980	Brooksbank	28	0.020%	5.23x
981	Brownhill	28	0.020%	4.89x
982	Bumby	28	0.020%	19.96x
983	Charnock	28	0.020%	3.59x
984	Clifford	28	0.020%	0.83x
985	Crann	28	0.020%	38.87x
986	Dowd	28	0.020%	5.45x
987	Fenwick	28	0.020%	1.31x
988	Franks	28	0.020%	1.37x
989	Gilmore	28	0.020%	2.92x
990	Harwood	28	0.020%	0.64x
991	Heaps	28	0.020%	3.93x
992	Horrox	28	0.020%	22.30x
993	Lapish	28	0.020%	41.04x
994	Marsland	28	0.020%	2.94x
995	Merritt	28	0.020%	2.44x
996	Raine	28	0.020%	2.06x
997	Rigby	28	0.020%	0.59x
998	Silcock	28	0.020%	4.09x
999	Stanley	28	0.020%	0.45x
1000	Tinker	28	0.020%	3.39x