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 Hollings, with 94 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
301	Hollings	94	0.060%	15.31x
302	Wheatley	94	0.060%	2.82x
303	Winn	94	0.060%	5.92x
304	Best	93	0.060%	2.11x
305	Boyes	93	0.060%	5.44x
306	Hardwick	93	0.060%	3.72x
307	Holliday	93	0.060%	4.34x
308	Musgrave	93	0.060%	9.40x
309	Sedgwick	93	0.060%	7.84x
310	Stubbs	93	0.060%	2.15x
311	Benn	92	0.060%	9.88x
312	Jowett	92	0.060%	5.16x
313	Mallinson	92	0.060%	6.82x
314	Ratcliffe	92	0.060%	2.04x
315	Buck	91	0.060%	2.60x
316	Hoyle	91	0.060%	2.41x
317	Waterhouse	91	0.060%	3.65x
318	Griffin	90	0.060%	1.17x
319	Mathers	90	0.060%	9.25x
320	Barraclough	89	0.050%	5.50x
321	Davison	89	0.050%	1.52x
322	Geldard	88	0.050%	26.87x
323	Handley	88	0.050%	3.19x
324	Walls	88	0.050%	4.48x
325	Cooke	87	0.050%	0.96x
326	Ford	87	0.050%	0.55x
327	Grayson	87	0.050%	7.13x
328	Shires	87	0.050%	19.16x
329	Matthews	86	0.050%	0.60x
330	Prince	86	0.050%	2.33x
331	Rowley	86	0.050%	2.00x
332	Swales	86	0.050%	7.52x
333	Eddison	85	0.050%	35.80x
334	Hamilton	85	0.050%	0.69x
335	Lynch	85	0.050%	1.97x
336	Lyons	85	0.050%	2.34x
337	Newsome	85	0.050%	7.23x
338	Pitts	85	0.050%	5.07x
339	Temple	85	0.050%	3.96x
340	Bray	84	0.050%	1.53x
341	Britton	84	0.050%	2.90x
342	Long	84	0.050%	0.79x
343	Stephens	84	0.050%	0.93x
344	Connor	83	0.050%	1.72x
345	Horner	83	0.050%	2.67x
346	Moorhouse	83	0.050%	4.10x
347	Rodgers	83	0.050%	1.86x
348	Stringer	83	0.050%	2.55x
349	Cliff	82	0.050%	5.74x
350	Levi	82	0.050%	21.43x
351	Farrell	81	0.050%	2.61x
352	Ferguson	81	0.050%	0.70x
353	Hayes	81	0.050%	0.80x
354	Moody	81	0.050%	1.90x
355	Oliver	81	0.050%	0.69x
356	Saville	81	0.050%	5.46x
357	Burrell	80	0.050%	3.76x
358	Heald	80	0.050%	7.88x
359	Henderson	80	0.050%	0.45x
360	Jenkinson	80	0.050%	2.79x
361	Knight	80	0.050%	0.40x
362	Mountain	80	0.050%	6.90x
363	Corcoran	79	0.050%	10.03x
364	Fenton	79	0.050%	2.42x
365	Gale	79	0.050%	1.61x
366	Lupton	79	0.050%	6.69x
367	Madden	79	0.050%	5.59x
368	May	79	0.050%	0.76x
369	Sheard	78	0.050%	5.21x
370	Smart	78	0.050%	1.05x
371	Brearley	77	0.050%	7.54x
372	Connell	77	0.050%	2.71x
373	Downs	77	0.050%	2.65x
374	Hargrave	77	0.050%	14.69x
375	Ingle	77	0.050%	11.53x
376	Kendall	77	0.050%	2.19x
377	Lawton	77	0.050%	1.83x
378	Longley	77	0.050%	6.94x
379	Lonsdale	77	0.050%	5.68x
380	Asquith	76	0.050%	7.95x
381	Ball	76	0.050%	0.56x
382	Gamble	76	0.050%	3.25x
383	Leach	76	0.050%	1.13x
384	Parkin	76	0.050%	1.73x
385	Pratt	76	0.050%	0.81x
386	Cowling	75	0.050%	5.21x
387	Townsley	75	0.050%	23.49x
388	Woodcock	75	0.050%	1.61x
389	Crosland	74	0.050%	12.50x
390	Egan	74	0.050%	5.46x
391	Hyde	74	0.050%	1.47x
392	Jowitt	74	0.050%	24.25x
393	Kelley	74	0.050%	3.90x
394	Law	74	0.050%	1.00x
395	Morrison	74	0.050%	0.58x
396	Whittaker	74	0.050%	0.96x
397	Baines	73	0.040%	2.33x
398	Bentley	73	0.040%	1.06x
399	Freeman	73	0.040%	0.70x
400	Moxon	73	0.040%	7.97x