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 Lilley, with 49 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
601	Lilley	49	0.030%	2.16x
602	Nolan	49	0.030%	2.20x
603	Tillotson	49	0.030%	7.75x
604	Crawford	48	0.030%	0.60x
605	Flockton	48	0.030%	28.55x
606	Grimshaw	48	0.030%	1.76x
607	Hampshire	48	0.030%	5.18x
608	Lumb	48	0.030%	3.11x
609	Oxley	48	0.030%	2.10x
610	Park	48	0.030%	0.95x
611	Pickering	48	0.030%	0.81x
612	Pinder	48	0.030%	2.44x
613	Sidebottom	48	0.030%	5.12x
614	Skelton	48	0.030%	2.02x
615	Batley	47	0.030%	6.64x
616	Boocock	47	0.030%	8.15x
617	Cowen	47	0.030%	5.24x
618	Dutton	47	0.030%	1.27x
619	Farrer	47	0.030%	4.34x
620	Frankland	47	0.030%	3.88x
621	Gilpin	47	0.030%	9.87x
622	Hague	47	0.030%	1.83x
623	Jefferson	47	0.030%	2.65x
624	Murgatroyd	47	0.030%	3.83x
625	Rollinson	47	0.030%	5.33x
626	Sawyer	47	0.030%	1.56x
627	Toft	47	0.030%	7.35x
628	Beanland	46	0.030%	13.73x
629	Bellhouse	46	0.030%	26.25x
630	Calverley	46	0.030%	13.29x
631	Charlesworth	46	0.030%	2.18x
632	Dale	46	0.030%	0.67x
633	Fieldhouse	46	0.030%	5.89x
634	Gelder	46	0.030%	10.15x
635	Goldthorp	46	0.030%	18.52x
636	Gorman	46	0.030%	2.33x
637	Malthouse	46	0.030%	25.69x
638	Maude	46	0.030%	7.41x
639	Oldroyd	46	0.030%	5.56x
640	Scholey	46	0.030%	8.19x
641	Tetley	46	0.030%	7.01x
642	Wadsworth	46	0.030%	2.02x
643	Atkin	45	0.030%	2.06x
644	Benton	45	0.030%	2.66x
645	Bramley	45	0.030%	3.02x
646	Clegg	45	0.030%	0.81x
647	Conway	45	0.030%	1.47x
648	Garnett	45	0.030%	2.22x
649	Gavins	45	0.030%	62.94x
650	Gawthorpe	45	0.030%	23.69x
651	George	45	0.030%	0.47x
652	Gibbons	45	0.030%	0.86x
653	Hopton	45	0.030%	9.94x
654	Horton	45	0.030%	0.74x
655	Morrell	45	0.030%	2.93x
656	Regan	45	0.030%	2.68x
657	Rushforth	45	0.030%	8.67x
658	Stapleton	45	0.030%	2.74x
659	Worsnop	45	0.030%	13.11x
660	Bradford	44	0.030%	1.38x
661	Byrne	44	0.030%	1.93x
662	Cavanagh	44	0.030%	3.57x
663	Dodsworth	44	0.030%	6.45x
664	Edmondson	44	0.030%	2.33x
665	Exley	44	0.030%	5.66x
666	Garside	44	0.030%	1.87x
667	Halton	44	0.030%	7.04x
668	Hayward	44	0.030%	0.63x
669	Johnstone	44	0.030%	0.60x
670	Lowther	44	0.030%	4.41x
671	Potts	44	0.030%	0.81x
672	Broadley	43	0.030%	3.89x
673	Bruce	43	0.030%	0.56x
674	Dickenson	43	0.030%	1.74x
675	Fish	43	0.030%	1.41x
676	Garland	43	0.030%	1.98x
677	Hope	43	0.030%	0.77x
678	Howe	43	0.030%	0.67x
679	Kirkby	43	0.030%	4.64x
680	Lazenby	43	0.030%	5.56x
681	Medd	43	0.030%	14.56x
682	Morritt	43	0.030%	30.66x
683	Noon	43	0.030%	3.66x
684	Osborne	43	0.030%	0.55x
685	Poole	43	0.030%	0.55x
686	Shippen	43	0.030%	50.83x
687	Simmons	43	0.030%	0.64x
688	Stones	43	0.030%	2.21x
689	Vincent	43	0.030%	0.84x
690	Bradbury	42	0.030%	0.89x
691	Coultas	42	0.030%	12.87x
692	Guest	42	0.030%	1.20x
693	Maud	42	0.030%	11.42x
694	Neal	42	0.030%	0.87x
695	Outhwaite	42	0.030%	11.43x
696	Raper	42	0.030%	6.13x
697	Steele	42	0.030%	0.96x
698	Allinson	41	0.030%	5.78x
699	Atack	41	0.030%	17.35x
700	Bainbridge	41	0.030%	1.78x