1881 census place

Liversedge surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Liversedge, 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

421 surnames are listed for Liversedge, Yorkshire, covering 7,606 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wood, with 192 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Liversedge

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
1	Wood	192	1.49%	4.68x
2	Jackson	169	1.31%	4.69x
3	Firth	163	1.26%	38.09x
4	Sheard	137	1.06%	116.06x
5	Blackburn	130	1.01%	26.76x
6	Hirst	121	0.940%	28.78x
7	Brook	115	0.890%	23.15x
8	Parkin	102	0.790%	29.43x
9	Goodall	100	0.780%	36.23x
10	Ellis	96	0.740%	5.13x
11	Lee	96	0.740%	4.56x
12	Fisher	91	0.710%	6.03x
13	Sykes	87	0.680%	14.07x
14	Clough	79	0.610%	27.46x
15	Barber	77	0.600%	9.93x
16	Lister	77	0.600%	20.96x
17	Knowles	74	0.570%	10.75x
18	Thornton	74	0.570%	11.42x
19	Kershaw	72	0.560%	17.32x
20	Crowther	71	0.550%	18.45x
21	Armitage	70	0.540%	21.30x
22	Woodcock	70	0.540%	19.03x
23	Binns	69	0.540%	32.31x
24	Senior	65	0.500%	22.02x
25	Naylor	64	0.500%	13.18x
26	Fawcett	61	0.470%	24.48x
27	Thewlis	60	0.470%	210.30x
28	Townend	59	0.460%	53.48x
29	Hepworth	58	0.450%	39.47x
30	Bentley	57	0.440%	10.46x
31	Furness	57	0.440%	55.38x
32	Halmshaw	57	0.440%	665.89x
33	Parkinson	57	0.440%	9.22x
34	Wharton	57	0.440%	31.58x
35	Charlesworth	54	0.420%	32.46x
36	North	54	0.420%	12.64x
37	Stead	54	0.420%	20.49x
38	France	53	0.410%	27.05x
39	Ramsden	50	0.390%	21.28x
40	Clegg	49	0.380%	11.17x
41	Ingham	49	0.380%	15.29x
42	Mortimer	49	0.380%	18.18x
43	Brooke	46	0.360%	23.96x
44	Morton	46	0.360%	6.68x
45	Broadbent	43	0.330%	15.56x
46	Mann	43	0.330%	6.33x
47	Medley	43	0.330%	90.43x
48	Rhodes	43	0.330%	7.19x
49	Haley	42	0.330%	27.35x
50	Briggs	40	0.310%	5.72x
51	Crossland	39	0.300%	34.43x
52	Garside	38	0.290%	20.44x
53	Kilburn	38	0.290%	57.23x
54	Spivey	38	0.290%	133.19x
55	Hanson	37	0.290%	8.90x
56	Hemingway	37	0.290%	42.84x
57	Crossley	36	0.280%	10.18x
58	Liley	36	0.280%	206.07x
59	Beaumont	35	0.270%	9.16x
60	Whitaker	35	0.270%	9.61x
61	Lawford	34	0.260%	117.93x
62	Brearley	33	0.260%	40.99x
63	Coates	33	0.260%	6.87x
64	Gomersall	33	0.260%	105.20x
65	Crawshaw	32	0.250%	31.92x
66	Lang	32	0.250%	11.14x
67	Rothery	32	0.250%	67.35x
68	Warden	31	0.240%	33.66x
69	Hinchliffe	30	0.230%	26.98x
70	Cawthra	29	0.230%	217.39x
71	Cordingley	29	0.230%	65.18x
72	Drake	29	0.230%	7.72x
73	Fitton	29	0.230%	20.01x
74	Mellor	29	0.230%	6.39x
75	Hemmingway	28	0.220%	143.00x
76	Rayner	28	0.220%	8.71x
77	Ackroyd	27	0.210%	22.42x
78	Beevers	27	0.210%	83.00x
79	Boothroyd	27	0.210%	40.56x
80	Collinson	26	0.200%	17.19x
81	Hays	26	0.200%	47.24x
82	Pickles	26	0.200%	9.93x
83	Sinkinson	26	0.200%	347.13x
84	Elsworth	25	0.190%	52.91x
85	Horsfall	25	0.190%	19.24x
86	Jowett	25	0.190%	17.80x
87	Mallinson	25	0.190%	23.51x
88	Barraclough	24	0.190%	18.82x
89	Durrans	24	0.190%	193.70x
90	Leadbeater	24	0.190%	45.31x
91	Longley	24	0.190%	27.42x
92	Midgley	24	0.190%	13.90x
93	Oldham	24	0.190%	10.60x
94	Wormald	24	0.190%	41.10x
95	Birkby	23	0.180%	158.62x
96	Kaye	23	0.180%	11.91x
97	Peel	23	0.180%	9.94x
98	Child	22	0.170%	10.04x
99	Colbeck	22	0.170%	75.97x
100	Cowburn	22	0.170%	46.91x