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 Unwin, with 16 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
1601	Unwin	16	0.010%	0.99x
1602	Usher	16	0.010%	0.89x
1603	Wharton	16	0.010%	0.70x
1604	Whyman	16	0.010%	3.66x
1605	Ames	15	0.010%	1.33x
1606	Arch	15	0.010%	5.00x
1607	Ayres	15	0.010%	0.66x
1608	Bamforth	15	0.010%	2.06x
1609	Barron	15	0.010%	0.59x
1610	Bayldon	15	0.010%	22.34x
1611	Beacock	15	0.010%	14.54x
1612	Bellerby	15	0.010%	5.45x
1613	Boynton	15	0.010%	4.51x
1614	Branton	15	0.010%	5.14x
1615	Brittan	15	0.010%	4.97x
1616	Cockshaw	15	0.010%	17.62x
1617	Conyers	15	0.010%	7.70x
1618	Corby	15	0.010%	2.62x
1619	Crowe	15	0.010%	0.92x
1620	Cuthbertson	15	0.010%	1.19x
1621	Dearden	15	0.010%	0.94x
1622	Deighton	15	0.010%	1.83x
1623	Dews	15	0.010%	3.97x
1624	Doolan	15	0.010%	4.68x
1625	Earley	15	0.010%	4.43x
1626	Eden	15	0.010%	0.90x
1627	Eggleston	15	0.010%	3.91x
1628	Eyres	15	0.010%	3.01x
1629	Fallon	15	0.010%	2.48x
1630	Feeney	15	0.010%	2.70x
1631	Fidgett	15	0.010%	33.94x
1632	Foote	15	0.010%	2.39x
1633	Frisby	15	0.010%	2.12x
1634	Gaffney	15	0.010%	2.70x
1635	Gedge	15	0.010%	4.69x
1636	Goldsborough	15	0.010%	12.00x
1637	Goodson	15	0.010%	1.84x
1638	Harriman	15	0.010%	3.57x
1639	Hawes	15	0.010%	0.74x
1640	Hawkin	15	0.010%	4.25x
1641	Hebblethwaite	15	0.010%	5.53x
1642	Holder	15	0.010%	0.68x
1643	Holderness	15	0.010%	5.26x
1644	Hollins	15	0.010%	1.75x
1645	Holstead	15	0.010%	14.94x
1646	Houseman	15	0.010%	3.97x
1647	Hussey	15	0.010%	0.91x
1648	Hutchins	15	0.010%	0.91x
1649	Hyland	15	0.010%	2.32x
1650	Jacques	15	0.010%	1.08x
1651	Kearsley	15	0.010%	3.93x
1652	Kenworthy	15	0.010%	1.38x
1653	Kerry	15	0.010%	1.36x
1654	Laidlaw	15	0.010%	1.04x
1655	Livesey	15	0.010%	0.94x
1656	Livesley	15	0.010%	6.57x
1657	Machin	15	0.010%	0.92x
1658	Mahon	15	0.010%	2.07x
1659	Mirfield	15	0.010%	14.70x
1660	Monks	15	0.010%	1.13x
1661	Pickford	15	0.010%	1.13x
1662	Pickup	15	0.010%	0.71x
1663	Plowman	15	0.010%	1.79x
1664	Race	15	0.010%	1.68x
1665	Rawdon	15	0.010%	17.84x
1666	Rearden	15	0.010%	12.11x
1667	Ridsdale	15	0.010%	3.50x
1668	Roche	15	0.010%	2.17x
1669	Saffer	15	0.010%	171.82x
1670	Seaton	15	0.010%	1.08x
1671	Shillito	15	0.010%	3.81x
1672	Shipley	15	0.010%	1.04x
1673	Sibson	15	0.010%	7.37x
1674	Stancliffe	15	0.010%	8.64x
1675	Thorley	15	0.010%	1.41x
1676	Throp	15	0.010%	12.16x
1677	Toothill	15	0.010%	7.25x
1678	Tough	15	0.010%	2.39x
1679	Wakefield	15	0.010%	0.51x
1680	Warriner	15	0.010%	3.13x
1681	Westwood	15	0.010%	0.55x
1682	Wilde	15	0.010%	0.63x
1683	Wilshire	15	0.010%	4.63x
1684	Wiseman	15	0.010%	0.67x
1685	Younghusband	15	0.010%	7.61x
1686	Adam	14	0.010%	0.50x
1687	Aveyard	14	0.010%	7.48x
1688	Bagley	14	0.010%	1.16x
1689	Ballance	14	0.010%	10.43x
1690	Barwick	14	0.010%	2.01x
1691	Bass	14	0.010%	0.76x
1692	Beecham	14	0.010%	3.19x
1693	Birchall	14	0.010%	0.87x
1694	Bollon	14	0.010%	42.76x
1695	Booker	14	0.010%	0.71x
1696	Boucher	14	0.010%	1.63x
1697	Budd	14	0.010%	0.67x
1698	Buttery	14	0.010%	2.23x
1699	Byers	14	0.010%	1.65x
1700	Byrnes	14	0.010%	4.82x