1881 census place

Ovenden surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ovenden, 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

348 surnames are listed for Ovenden, Yorkshire, covering 8,128 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 406 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ovenden

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	406	3.15%	40.58x
2	Sutcliffe	343	2.66%	67.40x
3	Mitchell	212	1.65%	8.11x
4	Midgley	152	1.18%	88.04x
5	Priestley	148	1.15%	67.88x
6	Ambler	129	1.00%	113.41x
7	Hartley	126	0.980%	15.60x
8	Cockroft	115	0.890%	211.16x
9	Ingham	115	0.890%	35.89x
10	Firth	114	0.880%	26.64x
11	Pickles	113	0.880%	43.16x
12	Crowther	104	0.810%	27.04x
13	Hoyle	104	0.810%	34.97x
14	Woodhead	104	0.810%	43.06x
15	Eastwood	102	0.790%	33.48x
16	Ramsden	102	0.790%	43.42x
17	Riley	102	0.790%	10.01x
18	Wade	101	0.780%	19.59x
19	Bates	97	0.750%	11.83x
20	Hooson	94	0.730%	373.46x
21	Crabtree	90	0.700%	34.69x
22	Lassey	83	0.640%	756.61x
23	Holmes	81	0.630%	5.16x
24	Berry	79	0.610%	7.73x
25	Rushworth	78	0.610%	73.23x
26	Sunderland	78	0.610%	52.75x
27	Bancroft	75	0.580%	60.07x
28	Longbottom	72	0.560%	62.84x
29	Helliwell	71	0.550%	59.81x
30	Varley	71	0.550%	40.11x
31	Binns	65	0.500%	30.44x
32	Bairstow	64	0.500%	141.16x
33	Ratcliffe	63	0.490%	17.71x
34	Earnshaw	61	0.470%	38.29x
35	Town	60	0.470%	93.91x
36	Kershaw	59	0.460%	14.20x
37	Robertshaw	59	0.460%	56.02x
38	Clayton	58	0.450%	8.28x
39	Whiteley	58	0.450%	25.06x
40	Bradley	57	0.440%	5.51x
41	Naylor	57	0.440%	11.74x
42	Crossley	56	0.430%	15.83x
43	Charnock	54	0.420%	87.78x
44	Hirst	53	0.410%	12.61x
45	Jowett	53	0.410%	37.74x
46	Lumb	53	0.410%	43.58x
47	Farnell	52	0.400%	110.19x
48	Sykes	52	0.400%	8.41x
49	Bedford	50	0.390%	16.36x
50	Ashworth	49	0.380%	9.53x
51	Lister	49	0.380%	13.34x
52	Stansfield	49	0.380%	24.63x
53	Wadsworth	46	0.360%	25.60x
54	Tidswell	44	0.340%	142.44x
55	Akroyd	42	0.330%	174.93x
56	Farrar	42	0.330%	24.46x
57	Fearnley	42	0.330%	53.61x
58	Ogden	42	0.330%	11.53x
59	Hanson	41	0.320%	9.86x
60	Foulds	40	0.310%	45.89x
61	Heap	40	0.310%	18.30x
62	Skelton	39	0.300%	20.80x
63	Uttley	39	0.300%	62.78x
64	Walmsley	39	0.300%	14.63x
65	Whitley	39	0.300%	36.97x
66	Brear	36	0.280%	185.95x
67	Rothery	36	0.280%	75.79x
68	Craven	35	0.270%	14.07x
69	Sheard	35	0.270%	29.66x
70	Smithies	35	0.270%	76.32x
71	Aspinall	34	0.260%	19.17x
72	Blagbrough	34	0.260%	577.25x
73	Butterworth	34	0.260%	7.35x
74	Horsfield	34	0.260%	39.32x
75	Patchett	34	0.260%	55.03x
76	Calvert	33	0.260%	12.56x
77	Garforth	32	0.250%	88.67x
78	Widdop	32	0.250%	109.70x
79	Ayrton	31	0.240%	146.16x
80	Appleyard	30	0.230%	25.47x
81	Redman	30	0.230%	17.69x
82	Stott	30	0.230%	7.45x
83	Crossland	27	0.210%	23.85x
84	Radcliffe	27	0.210%	18.04x
85	Boothman	26	0.200%	52.68x
86	Fielding	26	0.200%	9.04x
87	Gledhill	26	0.200%	13.60x
88	Nicholl	26	0.200%	38.59x
89	Whitham	26	0.200%	34.71x
90	Dilworth	25	0.190%	67.33x
91	Thorp	25	0.190%	14.31x
92	Brearley	24	0.190%	29.82x
93	Speak	24	0.190%	53.54x
94	Wormald	24	0.190%	41.11x
95	Ackroyd	23	0.180%	19.10x
96	Mansley	23	0.180%	189.61x
97	Moor	23	0.180%	12.74x
98	Broadbent	22	0.170%	7.96x
99	Hitchen	22	0.170%	25.08x
100	Garnett	21	0.160%	13.13x