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 Warner, with 28 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
1001	Warner	28	0.020%	0.47x
1002	Winterbottom	28	0.020%	1.86x
1003	Benjamin	27	0.020%	3.15x
1004	Bosomworth	27	0.020%	15.56x
1005	Bowes	27	0.020%	1.80x
1006	Burnell	27	0.020%	2.76x
1007	Costigan	27	0.020%	20.70x
1008	Coyne	27	0.020%	3.12x
1009	Crawshaw	27	0.020%	2.12x
1010	Dennis	27	0.020%	0.56x
1011	Dennison	27	0.020%	2.14x
1012	Donnelly	27	0.020%	1.31x
1013	Forrest	27	0.020%	0.64x
1014	Garth	27	0.020%	7.45x
1015	Gatehouse	27	0.020%	7.45x
1016	Gott	27	0.020%	3.81x
1017	Hallewell	27	0.020%	19.55x
1018	Haney	27	0.020%	14.30x
1019	Hazlewood	27	0.020%	7.31x
1020	Herring	27	0.020%	1.61x
1021	Howitt	27	0.020%	4.46x
1022	Jackman	27	0.020%	1.78x
1023	Jameson	27	0.020%	1.49x
1024	Jeffery	27	0.020%	0.76x
1025	Lacey	27	0.020%	0.90x
1026	Longfellow	27	0.020%	24.25x
1027	Longstaff	27	0.020%	2.34x
1028	Milburn	27	0.020%	1.85x
1029	Plews	27	0.020%	6.91x
1030	Selby	27	0.020%	1.38x
1031	Shute	27	0.020%	4.12x
1032	Silverwood	27	0.020%	7.72x
1033	Simon	27	0.020%	2.51x
1034	Slinger	27	0.020%	5.47x
1035	Smallpage	27	0.020%	53.19x
1036	Thackrah	27	0.020%	18.67x
1037	Walmsley	27	0.020%	0.80x
1038	Whalley	27	0.020%	1.05x
1039	Wrigglesworth	27	0.020%	6.47x
1040	Abraham	26	0.020%	1.61x
1041	Andrew	26	0.020%	0.50x
1042	Bacon	26	0.020%	0.63x
1043	Barrand	26	0.020%	11.68x
1044	Blackshaw	26	0.020%	3.43x
1045	Brough	26	0.020%	1.30x
1046	Busfield	26	0.020%	8.65x
1047	Cairns	26	0.020%	0.74x
1048	Cooney	26	0.020%	3.83x
1049	Eales	26	0.020%	3.15x
1050	Gilligan	26	0.020%	6.23x
1051	Gleeson	26	0.020%	5.20x
1052	Goldberg	26	0.020%	12.00x
1053	Gosney	26	0.020%	8.48x
1054	Hatfield	26	0.020%	2.23x
1055	Huddleston	26	0.020%	5.68x
1056	Keenan	26	0.020%	1.88x
1057	Kirkham	26	0.020%	1.14x
1058	Land	26	0.020%	2.21x
1059	Laws	26	0.020%	1.43x
1060	Moon	26	0.020%	0.75x
1061	Moor	26	0.020%	1.13x
1062	Parish	26	0.020%	1.03x
1063	Patchett	26	0.020%	3.32x
1064	Precious	26	0.020%	7.66x
1065	Render	26	0.020%	10.20x
1066	Rooke	26	0.020%	2.16x
1067	Rosindale	26	0.020%	53.53x
1068	Scarth	26	0.020%	9.06x
1069	Steward	26	0.020%	1.24x
1070	Strachan	26	0.020%	0.92x
1071	Stuart	26	0.020%	0.67x
1072	Toulson	26	0.020%	11.62x
1073	Wheelhouse	26	0.020%	7.04x
1074	Wraith	26	0.020%	10.98x
1075	Wrigley	26	0.020%	1.26x
1076	Abbey	25	0.020%	4.16x
1077	Barrow	25	0.020%	0.72x
1078	Blenkinsop	25	0.020%	5.41x
1079	Chaffer	25	0.020%	11.34x
1080	Dunne	25	0.020%	4.69x
1081	Evers	25	0.020%	9.58x
1082	Farr	25	0.020%	1.03x
1083	Fleetwood	25	0.020%	4.39x
1084	Goldthorpe	25	0.020%	6.23x
1085	Gould	25	0.020%	0.42x
1086	Grange	25	0.020%	2.66x
1087	Gregg	25	0.020%	2.17x
1088	Haswell	25	0.020%	4.73x
1089	Hawkhead	25	0.020%	68.36x
1090	Haywood	25	0.020%	0.73x
1091	Hewson	25	0.020%	1.87x
1092	Hustler	25	0.020%	8.69x
1093	Idle	25	0.020%	9.72x
1094	Issott	25	0.020%	24.11x
1095	Jacobs	25	0.020%	0.64x
1096	Rawling	25	0.020%	4.19x
1097	Rawlinson	25	0.020%	1.28x
1098	Rourke	25	0.020%	3.10x
1099	Rudd	25	0.020%	0.97x
1100	Snowball	25	0.020%	4.70x