1881 census place

Pudsey surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Pudsey, 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

500 surnames are listed for Pudsey, Yorkshire, covering 9,485 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Gaunt, with 298 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Pudsey

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	Gaunt	298	1.93%	195.64x
2	Walker	176	1.14%	3.40x
3	Webster	174	1.12%	12.93x
4	Ward	164	1.06%	4.85x
5	Hinchliffe	162	1.05%	121.34x
6	Hainsworth	131	0.850%	133.16x
7	Glover	127	0.820%	19.25x
8	Armitage	124	0.800%	31.42x
9	Dufton	121	0.780%	434.47x
10	Mitchell	119	0.770%	3.79x
11	Emsley	106	0.690%	236.34x
12	Rhodes	103	0.670%	14.34x
13	Farrer	102	0.660%	99.50x
14	Illingworth	102	0.660%	58.25x
15	Naylor	101	0.650%	17.32x
16	Lumby	100	0.650%	477.78x
17	Verity	97	0.630%	147.13x
18	Waterhouse	97	0.630%	41.14x
19	Wilcock	95	0.610%	43.17x
20	Walton	94	0.610%	8.63x
21	Halliday	93	0.600%	29.09x
22	Jowett	89	0.580%	52.77x
23	Coates	88	0.570%	15.25x
24	Rider	86	0.560%	57.06x
25	Sharp	86	0.560%	6.67x
26	Rayner	83	0.540%	21.50x
27	Sugden	83	0.540%	46.39x
28	Sutcliffe	83	0.540%	13.58x
29	Crowther	78	0.500%	16.88x
30	Greaves	78	0.500%	17.20x
31	Hudson	78	0.500%	6.16x
32	Procter	78	0.500%	38.84x
33	Raistrick	75	0.480%	205.03x
34	Wade	75	0.480%	12.11x
35	Lawson	74	0.480%	8.11x
36	Brook	72	0.470%	12.07x
37	Hargreaves	72	0.470%	11.16x
38	Myers	72	0.470%	17.84x
39	Ackroyd	67	0.430%	46.33x
40	Briggs	64	0.410%	7.62x
41	Clayton	61	0.390%	7.25x
42	Firth	61	0.390%	11.87x
43	Ingham	61	0.390%	15.85x
44	Hutchinson	58	0.370%	6.60x
45	Carr	54	0.350%	4.84x
46	Clough	52	0.340%	15.05x
47	Haley	51	0.330%	27.66x
48	Milner	51	0.330%	14.37x
49	Threapleton	51	0.330%	628.85x
50	Craven	50	0.320%	16.74x
51	Driver	50	0.320%	17.44x
52	Dennison	49	0.320%	40.96x
53	Strickland	49	0.320%	39.71x
54	Moss	48	0.310%	5.03x
55	Banks	47	0.300%	5.92x
56	Davey	47	0.300%	7.39x
57	Sunderland	47	0.300%	26.47x
58	Boocock	45	0.290%	82.48x
59	Stott	45	0.290%	9.31x
60	Stead	44	0.280%	13.90x
61	Crampton	41	0.270%	54.35x
62	Holdsworth	41	0.270%	15.73x
63	Huggan	41	0.270%	277.40x
64	Langley	41	0.270%	12.08x
65	Barraclough	40	0.260%	26.12x
66	Blackburn	40	0.260%	6.86x
67	Elsworth	40	0.260%	70.51x
68	Galloway	39	0.250%	14.63x
69	Mann	39	0.250%	4.78x
70	Pollard	39	0.250%	6.91x
71	Hutton	37	0.240%	8.01x
72	Beaumont	36	0.230%	7.85x
73	Binks	36	0.230%	39.43x
74	Farrar	36	0.230%	17.45x
75	Womersley	36	0.230%	74.92x
76	Keighley	35	0.230%	42.31x
77	Moorhouse	35	0.230%	18.28x
78	Gambles	34	0.220%	146.87x
79	Pickles	34	0.220%	10.81x
80	Stansfield	34	0.220%	14.23x
81	Boys	32	0.210%	52.62x
82	Heaton	32	0.210%	8.64x
83	Cromack	31	0.200%	158.32x
84	Beanland	30	0.190%	94.58x
85	Proctor	30	0.190%	7.89x
86	Thrippleton	30	0.190%	443.13x
87	Varley	30	0.190%	14.11x
88	Jagger	29	0.190%	23.66x
89	Lobley	29	0.190%	93.70x
90	Gibbons	28	0.180%	5.63x
91	Hobson	28	0.180%	6.98x
92	Kitchen	28	0.180%	10.62x
93	Midgley	28	0.180%	13.50x
94	Sowden	28	0.180%	32.01x
95	Appleyard	27	0.170%	19.09x
96	Broadbent	27	0.170%	8.14x
97	Fearnley	27	0.170%	28.70x
98	Musgrave	27	0.170%	28.84x
99	Swallow	27	0.170%	17.30x
100	Tidswell	27	0.170%	72.78x