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 Birch, with 130 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
201	Birch	130	0.080%	1.94x
202	Drake	130	0.080%	2.73x
203	Elliott	130	0.080%	0.94x
204	Storey	130	0.080%	3.13x
205	Baker	129	0.080%	0.36x
206	Ripley	129	0.080%	11.95x
207	Rogers	129	0.080%	0.61x
208	Wigglesworth	128	0.080%	15.83x
209	Burns	127	0.080%	1.16x
210	Duffy	127	0.080%	3.56x
211	Hunter	127	0.080%	0.76x
212	Parkinson	127	0.080%	1.62x
213	Rayner	127	0.080%	3.11x
214	Gaunt	126	0.080%	7.83x
215	Gray	126	0.080%	0.54x
216	Littlewood	126	0.080%	5.98x
217	Goodall	125	0.080%	3.57x
218	Noble	125	0.080%	1.84x
219	Clough	123	0.080%	3.37x
220	Hepworth	123	0.080%	6.60x
221	Lofthouse	123	0.080%	10.10x
222	Baldwin	122	0.070%	1.75x
223	Brooke	122	0.070%	5.01x
224	Campbell	122	0.070%	0.44x
225	Baxter	121	0.070%	1.24x
226	Day	121	0.070%	0.79x
227	Eastwood	121	0.070%	3.13x
228	Rushworth	121	0.070%	8.95x
229	Kershaw	120	0.070%	2.28x
230	Metcalfe	120	0.070%	3.22x
231	Stott	120	0.070%	2.35x
232	Bailey	119	0.070%	0.48x
233	Barnes	119	0.070%	0.60x
234	Benson	119	0.070%	2.68x
235	Swallow	119	0.070%	7.22x
236	Swift	118	0.070%	2.34x
237	Sanderson	117	0.070%	1.73x
238	Wormald	117	0.070%	15.80x
239	Croft	116	0.070%	3.00x
240	Hemingway	116	0.070%	10.59x
241	Sunderland	116	0.070%	6.18x
242	Knowles	115	0.070%	1.32x
243	Wilks	115	0.070%	4.47x
244	Burrow	114	0.070%	10.16x
245	Carroll	114	0.070%	3.47x
246	Peel	114	0.070%	3.89x
247	Thorpe	114	0.070%	1.76x
248	Brayshaw	113	0.070%	19.01x
249	Jordan	113	0.070%	1.56x
250	England	112	0.070%	3.33x
251	Fryer	112	0.070%	3.69x
252	Shepherd	112	0.070%	0.94x
253	Kaye	111	0.070%	4.53x
254	Waddington	111	0.070%	4.18x
255	Abbott	110	0.070%	1.53x
256	Adams	109	0.070%	0.45x
257	Kirby	109	0.070%	1.76x
258	Nichols	109	0.070%	2.05x
259	Priestley	109	0.070%	3.94x
260	Spink	109	0.070%	8.27x
261	Dunn	108	0.070%	0.79x
262	Mortimer	108	0.070%	3.16x
263	Crossley	107	0.070%	2.38x
264	Proctor	107	0.070%	2.66x
265	Glover	106	0.060%	1.52x
266	Phillips	106	0.060%	0.36x
267	Preston	106	0.060%	1.30x
268	Yates	106	0.060%	0.94x
269	Brooks	105	0.060%	0.66x
270	Field	105	0.060%	1.29x
271	Gledhill	104	0.060%	4.29x
272	Ibbetson	104	0.060%	28.52x
273	Pullan	103	0.060%	15.98x
274	Reed	103	0.060%	0.86x
275	Reynolds	103	0.060%	0.73x
276	Welsh	103	0.060%	1.59x
277	Hart	102	0.060%	0.73x
278	Ackroyd	101	0.060%	6.61x
279	Alderson	101	0.060%	4.45x
280	Chambers	101	0.060%	1.09x
281	Hewitt	101	0.060%	1.27x
282	Nettleton	101	0.060%	14.38x
283	Bulmer	100	0.060%	7.73x
284	Ellison	100	0.060%	2.90x
285	Lodge	100	0.060%	3.36x
286	Norton	100	0.060%	1.84x
287	Palmer	100	0.060%	0.52x
288	Hunt	99	0.060%	0.46x
289	Lamb	99	0.060%	1.15x
290	North	99	0.060%	1.83x
291	Smithson	99	0.060%	6.32x
292	Bolton	98	0.060%	1.39x
293	Richmond	98	0.060%	2.74x
294	Teale	98	0.060%	16.25x
295	Potter	96	0.060%	0.91x
296	Wardle	96	0.060%	3.03x
297	Balmforth	95	0.060%	15.35x
298	Flynn	95	0.060%	3.04x
299	Ross	95	0.060%	0.53x
300	Banks	94	0.060%	1.12x