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 Barstow, with 41 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
701	Barstow	41	0.030%	14.50x
702	Bateman	41	0.030%	0.97x
703	Bracewell	41	0.030%	6.96x
704	Brogden	41	0.030%	7.59x
705	Davy	41	0.030%	2.03x
706	Falkingham	41	0.030%	23.11x
707	Gatenby	41	0.030%	10.81x
708	Ineson	41	0.030%	13.53x
709	Ingram	41	0.030%	0.82x
710	Norfolk	41	0.030%	9.08x
711	Page	41	0.030%	0.31x
712	Petty	41	0.030%	2.53x
713	Poulter	41	0.030%	3.37x
714	Scaife	41	0.030%	5.66x
715	Sowden	41	0.030%	4.44x
716	Summersgill	41	0.030%	19.21x
717	Windsor	41	0.030%	3.01x
718	Cowell	40	0.020%	1.71x
719	Curtis	40	0.020%	0.43x
720	Emmott	40	0.020%	6.52x
721	Finn	40	0.020%	2.68x
722	Hay	40	0.020%	0.67x
723	Holgate	40	0.020%	2.95x
724	Jepson	40	0.020%	2.50x
725	Langstaff	40	0.020%	19.59x
726	Riding	40	0.020%	3.63x
727	Bastow	39	0.020%	7.22x
728	Chappell	39	0.020%	1.41x
729	Collier	39	0.020%	0.71x
730	Cromack	39	0.020%	18.85x
731	Dacre	39	0.020%	18.51x
732	Douglas	39	0.020%	0.49x
733	Foxcroft	39	0.020%	16.13x
734	Kitson	39	0.020%	2.99x
735	Pounder	39	0.020%	7.31x
736	Shackleton	39	0.020%	2.12x
737	Snowdon	39	0.020%	3.20x
738	Wilby	39	0.020%	4.07x
739	Brennan	38	0.020%	2.23x
740	Carrack	38	0.020%	94.11x
741	English	38	0.020%	1.24x
742	Forster	38	0.020%	0.71x
743	Groves	38	0.020%	0.83x
744	Hinchliffe	38	0.020%	2.69x
745	Hook	38	0.020%	1.57x
746	Joseph	38	0.020%	2.87x
747	Lightfoot	38	0.020%	1.67x
748	Mercer	38	0.020%	0.89x
749	Mosley	38	0.020%	2.47x
750	Newell	38	0.020%	1.47x
751	Nixon	38	0.020%	0.76x
752	Nutter	38	0.020%	3.05x
753	Shoesmith	38	0.020%	7.80x
754	Smithies	38	0.020%	6.53x
755	Spurr	38	0.020%	5.57x
756	Turnbull	38	0.020%	0.55x
757	Addy	37	0.020%	5.32x
758	Almond	37	0.020%	1.83x
759	Bairstow	37	0.020%	6.43x
760	Barnett	37	0.020%	0.50x
761	Beckett	37	0.020%	1.14x
762	Blakeborough	37	0.020%	28.36x
763	Bottomley	37	0.020%	1.36x
764	Cousins	37	0.020%	1.26x
765	Duckworth	37	0.020%	1.17x
766	Frost	37	0.020%	0.40x
767	Garrett	37	0.020%	1.00x
768	Ibbitson	37	0.020%	27.45x
769	Jaques	37	0.020%	3.06x
770	Kent	37	0.020%	0.54x
771	Killerby	37	0.020%	61.63x
772	Legg	37	0.020%	1.37x
773	Manley	37	0.020%	2.02x
774	Scholefield	37	0.020%	7.92x
775	Shields	37	0.020%	1.46x
776	Singleton	37	0.020%	1.15x
777	Swann	37	0.020%	2.07x
778	Tennant	37	0.020%	2.12x
779	Thewlis	37	0.020%	10.22x
780	Weston	37	0.020%	0.56x
781	Whitfield	37	0.020%	1.13x
782	Burn	36	0.020%	1.64x
783	Cope	36	0.020%	0.97x
784	Cummins	36	0.020%	2.58x
785	Emsley	36	0.020%	7.60x
786	Fielding	36	0.020%	0.99x
787	Jessop	36	0.020%	1.86x
788	Mathews	36	0.020%	0.60x
789	Meegan	36	0.020%	79.47x
790	Monkman	36	0.020%	12.24x
791	Purdy	36	0.020%	3.86x
792	Rosenberg	36	0.020%	16.05x
793	Routh	36	0.020%	14.92x
794	Tattersall	36	0.020%	1.59x
795	Waterworth	36	0.020%	5.07x
796	Bailes	35	0.020%	11.37x
797	Barratt	35	0.020%	1.06x
798	Bond	35	0.020%	0.40x
799	Brunton	35	0.020%	2.73x
800	Burrows	35	0.020%	0.49x