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 Cannon, with 35 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
801	Cannon	35	0.020%	1.18x
802	Crosby	35	0.020%	1.81x
803	Demaine	35	0.020%	24.38x
804	Dolan	35	0.020%	2.46x
805	Downes	35	0.020%	1.73x
806	Gough	35	0.020%	0.73x
807	Grogan	35	0.020%	5.87x
808	Harland	35	0.020%	2.57x
809	Heslop	35	0.020%	2.50x
810	Hey	35	0.020%	2.42x
811	Hickey	35	0.020%	3.44x
812	Hilton	35	0.020%	0.62x
813	Hird	35	0.020%	2.77x
814	Horne	35	0.020%	0.98x
815	Kenney	35	0.020%	3.89x
816	Laurence	35	0.020%	1.51x
817	Levitt	35	0.020%	6.41x
818	Maloney	35	0.020%	2.60x
819	Sheldon	35	0.020%	1.41x
820	Strickland	35	0.020%	2.69x
821	Tindall	35	0.020%	3.54x
822	Tuke	35	0.020%	16.27x
823	Walkington	35	0.020%	17.96x
824	Cockroft	34	0.020%	4.92x
825	Elsworth	34	0.020%	5.67x
826	Fagan	34	0.020%	4.37x
827	Goulden	34	0.020%	5.90x
828	Gregson	34	0.020%	1.50x
829	Helliwell	34	0.020%	2.26x
830	Hopwood	34	0.020%	1.83x
831	Howell	34	0.020%	0.49x
832	Jagger	34	0.020%	2.63x
833	Kemp	34	0.020%	0.38x
834	Massey	34	0.020%	0.81x
835	Paley	34	0.020%	8.71x
836	Parfitt	34	0.020%	2.85x
837	Roebuck	34	0.020%	3.07x
838	Saynor	34	0.020%	18.71x
839	Terry	34	0.020%	0.81x
840	Wise	34	0.020%	1.00x
841	Bannister	33	0.020%	1.17x
842	Battersby	33	0.020%	2.86x
843	Bowles	33	0.020%	1.23x
844	Hackett	33	0.020%	1.71x
845	Hood	33	0.020%	0.73x
846	Hornby	33	0.020%	1.77x
847	Houghton	33	0.020%	0.58x
848	Keighley	33	0.020%	3.78x
849	Kellett	33	0.020%	2.32x
850	Kilvington	33	0.020%	10.93x
851	Leech	33	0.020%	1.24x
852	Levy	33	0.020%	1.60x
853	Liversidge	33	0.020%	8.03x
854	Maher	33	0.020%	5.49x
855	Normington	33	0.020%	8.02x
856	Pemberton	33	0.020%	1.59x
857	Redshaw	33	0.020%	6.79x
858	Royston	33	0.020%	6.82x
859	Rushton	33	0.020%	0.98x
860	Shann	33	0.020%	21.83x
861	Short	33	0.020%	0.52x
862	Tobin	33	0.020%	5.04x
863	Wales	33	0.020%	2.49x
864	Woodhouse	33	0.020%	0.85x
865	Addison	32	0.020%	1.41x
866	Barry	32	0.020%	1.08x
867	Bartle	32	0.020%	3.32x
868	Bowling	32	0.020%	5.30x
869	Burniston	32	0.020%	27.79x
870	Calligan	32	0.020%	9.85x
871	Cordingley	32	0.020%	5.67x
872	Fearnside	32	0.020%	22.21x
873	Frobisher	32	0.020%	35.75x
874	Gaughan	32	0.020%	19.48x
875	Goldman	32	0.020%	15.39x
876	Horn	32	0.020%	0.86x
877	Howden	32	0.020%	3.86x
878	Marr	32	0.020%	1.72x
879	Muschamp	32	0.020%	38.83x
880	Norris	32	0.020%	0.46x
881	Oakes	32	0.020%	1.35x
882	Radcliffe	32	0.020%	1.69x
883	Scales	32	0.020%	3.31x
884	Sharpe	32	0.020%	0.66x
885	Siddle	32	0.020%	9.16x
886	Thurlow	32	0.020%	4.06x
887	Turpin	32	0.020%	3.65x
888	Tyas	32	0.020%	8.28x
889	Weatherill	32	0.020%	8.53x
890	Armistead	31	0.020%	10.18x
891	Baron	31	0.020%	1.83x
892	Boulton	31	0.020%	1.05x
893	Burley	31	0.020%	2.00x
894	Cariss	31	0.020%	36.88x
895	Daly	31	0.020%	1.92x
896	Danby	31	0.020%	4.44x
897	Denham	31	0.020%	2.15x
898	Dockray	31	0.020%	16.14x
899	Granger	31	0.020%	1.85x
900	Hemsworth	31	0.020%	12.24x