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 Scholes, with 73 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
401	Scholes	73	0.040%	3.85x
402	Adamson	72	0.040%	1.67x
403	Allison	72	0.040%	1.55x
404	Bramham	72	0.040%	24.56x
405	Clay	72	0.040%	2.15x
406	Flanagan	72	0.040%	5.62x
407	Rothery	72	0.040%	11.95x
408	Whitley	72	0.040%	5.38x
409	Bateson	71	0.040%	6.94x
410	Driver	71	0.040%	2.34x
411	Fleming	71	0.040%	1.05x
412	Illingworth	71	0.040%	3.84x
413	Lowe	71	0.040%	0.58x
414	Milnes	71	0.040%	4.92x
415	Wallace	71	0.040%	0.63x
416	Bates	70	0.040%	0.67x
417	Braithwaite	70	0.040%	3.69x
418	Buckle	70	0.040%	3.94x
419	Cass	70	0.040%	6.04x
420	Coleman	70	0.040%	0.86x
421	Gaines	70	0.040%	23.79x
422	Lindley	70	0.040%	4.33x
423	Quinn	70	0.040%	2.24x
424	Rawnsley	70	0.040%	13.10x
425	Stocks	70	0.040%	3.94x
426	Westerman	70	0.040%	13.07x
427	Callaghan	69	0.040%	3.73x
428	Cawood	69	0.040%	17.83x
429	Dufton	69	0.040%	23.45x
430	Fitzpatrick	69	0.040%	2.88x
431	Kenny	69	0.040%	3.53x
432	Snowden	69	0.040%	4.74x
433	Umpleby	69	0.040%	22.61x
434	Denton	68	0.040%	2.26x
435	Haddock	68	0.040%	6.48x
436	Payne	68	0.040%	0.46x
437	Peat	68	0.040%	5.21x
438	Vickers	68	0.040%	1.62x
439	Bedford	67	0.040%	1.73x
440	Bywater	67	0.040%	8.14x
441	Clapham	67	0.040%	4.76x
442	Dodgson	67	0.040%	8.44x
443	Jennings	67	0.040%	0.81x
444	Stockdale	67	0.040%	5.27x
445	Wild	67	0.040%	1.01x
446	Beck	66	0.040%	1.73x
447	Brady	66	0.040%	2.28x
448	Hawkins	66	0.040%	0.56x
449	Wilcock	66	0.040%	2.84x
450	Backhouse	65	0.040%	5.34x
451	Hammond	65	0.040%	0.70x
452	Hutton	65	0.040%	1.33x
453	Lawrence	65	0.040%	0.61x
454	Marks	65	0.040%	1.94x
455	Orange	65	0.040%	23.12x
456	Topham	65	0.040%	5.44x
457	Beevers	64	0.040%	15.51x
458	Carney	64	0.040%	4.33x
459	Delaney	64	0.040%	6.08x
460	Dunwell	64	0.040%	19.35x
461	Hardisty	64	0.040%	13.59x
462	Harper	64	0.040%	0.61x
463	Holden	64	0.040%	0.71x
464	Leonard	64	0.040%	1.81x
465	Liddle	64	0.040%	3.32x
466	Blakey	63	0.040%	4.81x
467	Burnett	63	0.040%	1.39x
468	Cullingworth	63	0.040%	36.64x
469	Dalton	63	0.040%	1.68x
470	Fotherby	63	0.040%	44.56x
471	Galloway	63	0.040%	2.24x
472	Goodman	63	0.040%	1.32x
473	Hick	63	0.040%	8.27x
474	Hopkinson	63	0.040%	2.36x
475	Horsman	63	0.040%	11.01x
476	Lord	63	0.040%	0.84x
477	Sadler	63	0.040%	1.64x
478	Boyle	62	0.040%	1.46x
479	Casey	62	0.040%	2.57x
480	Cheetham	62	0.040%	2.45x
481	Hopkins	62	0.040%	0.63x
482	Moses	62	0.040%	3.71x
483	Parsons	62	0.040%	0.50x
484	Read	62	0.040%	0.59x
485	Bean	61	0.040%	2.88x
486	Fountain	61	0.040%	5.43x
487	Ibbotson	61	0.040%	5.44x
488	Renton	61	0.040%	6.08x
489	Robertshaw	61	0.040%	4.57x
490	Bickerdike	60	0.040%	20.43x
491	Bowman	60	0.040%	1.41x
492	Copley	60	0.040%	4.74x
493	Davidson	60	0.040%	0.44x
494	Duffield	60	0.040%	4.23x
495	Needham	60	0.040%	1.72x
496	Penny	60	0.040%	2.06x
497	Tasker	60	0.040%	3.45x
498	Crossland	59	0.040%	4.11x
499	Emmett	59	0.040%	4.31x
500	Fearnley	59	0.040%	5.94x