1881 census place

Northowram surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Northowram, 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

629 surnames are listed for Northowram, Yorkshire, covering 12,692 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 330 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Northowram

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	Greenwood	330	1.63%	20.93x
2	Sutcliffe	285	1.40%	35.55x
3	Mitchell	189	0.930%	4.59x
4	Ambler	183	0.900%	102.11x
5	Scott	165	0.810%	3.21x
6	Sharp	160	0.790%	9.46x
7	Drake	153	0.750%	25.87x
8	Rushworth	144	0.710%	85.80x
9	Moore	137	0.670%	3.38x
10	Crowther	136	0.670%	22.44x
11	Jagger	135	0.670%	83.97x
12	Priestley	132	0.650%	38.43x
13	Riley	131	0.650%	8.16x
14	Shaw	128	0.630%	3.43x
15	Spencer	126	0.620%	6.80x
16	Firth	123	0.610%	18.25x
17	Cockroft	116	0.570%	135.18x
18	Hanson	114	0.560%	17.40x
19	Brearley	109	0.540%	85.95x
20	Wilkinson	107	0.530%	3.45x
21	Ackroyd	104	0.510%	54.82x
22	Barrett	104	0.510%	7.63x
23	Barker	103	0.510%	3.88x
24	Holdsworth	100	0.490%	29.24x
25	Jowett	96	0.470%	43.39x
26	Whiteley	95	0.470%	26.05x
27	Bentley	94	0.460%	10.95x
28	Fletcher	94	0.460%	4.06x
29	Kershaw	94	0.460%	14.36x
30	Booth	93	0.460%	4.64x
31	Naylor	92	0.450%	12.03x
32	Brook	88	0.430%	11.24x
33	Gledhill	85	0.420%	28.23x
34	Robertshaw	85	0.420%	51.23x
35	Farrar	82	0.400%	30.31x
36	Hartley	82	0.400%	6.45x
37	Woodhead	82	0.400%	21.55x
38	Briggs	81	0.400%	7.35x
39	Crossley	81	0.400%	14.54x
40	Dyson	81	0.400%	12.32x
41	Holmes	81	0.400%	3.28x
42	Bairstow	77	0.380%	107.78x
43	Bates	72	0.350%	5.57x
44	Mallinson	71	0.350%	42.39x
45	Binns	69	0.340%	20.51x
46	Halliday	69	0.340%	16.45x
47	Shackleton	67	0.330%	29.32x
48	Midgley	66	0.330%	24.26x
49	Rawson	66	0.330%	29.79x
50	Helliwell	65	0.320%	34.76x
51	Ramsden	64	0.320%	17.29x
52	Whitaker	63	0.310%	10.99x
53	Bottomley	62	0.310%	18.34x
54	Walsh	61	0.300%	5.64x
55	Wade	60	0.300%	7.39x
56	Oddy	59	0.290%	47.28x
57	Crabtree	57	0.280%	13.94x
58	Fawcett	56	0.280%	14.27x
59	Shepherd	56	0.280%	3.77x
60	Oldfield	55	0.270%	16.40x
61	Tempest	55	0.270%	58.21x
62	Holt	54	0.270%	3.97x
63	Ingham	54	0.270%	10.70x
64	Sunderland	54	0.270%	23.18x
65	Clayton	53	0.260%	4.80x
66	Lightowler	53	0.260%	111.06x
67	Nicholl	53	0.260%	49.93x
68	Dewhirst	52	0.260%	53.95x
69	Fawthrop	51	0.250%	314.81x
70	Sladdin	51	0.250%	578.89x
71	Broadbent	50	0.250%	11.48x
72	Eastwood	50	0.250%	10.42x
73	Gelder	50	0.250%	88.87x
74	Clegg	49	0.240%	7.09x
75	Lawton	49	0.240%	9.37x
76	Parkinson	48	0.240%	4.93x
77	Maude	47	0.230%	60.94x
78	Benn	46	0.230%	39.78x
79	Horsfall	46	0.230%	22.47x
80	Hoyle	45	0.220%	9.61x
81	Holroyd	44	0.220%	19.49x
82	Pickles	44	0.220%	10.67x
83	Gill	43	0.210%	2.99x
84	Emsley	42	0.210%	71.39x
85	Medley	42	0.210%	56.07x
86	Hollas	41	0.200%	223.19x
87	Sykes	41	0.200%	4.21x
88	Beverley	40	0.200%	65.28x
89	Hainsworth	40	0.200%	31.00x
90	Hey	40	0.200%	22.24x
91	Ashworth	39	0.190%	4.82x
92	Gregson	39	0.190%	13.88x
93	Noble	39	0.190%	4.63x
94	Denton	38	0.190%	10.19x
95	Haley	38	0.190%	15.71x
96	Hirst	38	0.190%	5.74x
97	Rawnsley	38	0.190%	57.26x
98	Whitley	38	0.190%	22.86x
99	Anderton	37	0.180%	15.36x
100	Clay	37	0.180%	8.88x