1881 census place

Saddleworth surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Saddleworth, 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

565 surnames are listed for Saddleworth, Yorkshire, covering 14,814 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Buckley, with 841 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Saddleworth

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	Buckley	841	3.77%	69.19x
2	Shaw	701	3.14%	17.09x
3	Schofield	700	3.13%	57.83x
4	Wood	553	2.48%	7.77x
5	Bradbury	473	2.12%	73.31x
6	Wrigley	419	1.88%	148.31x
7	Whitehead	393	1.76%	26.04x
8	Lees	357	1.60%	36.06x
9	Gartside	326	1.46%	350.92x
10	Broadbent	313	1.40%	65.36x
11	Kenworthy	258	1.16%	173.62x
12	Hall	254	1.14%	3.87x
13	Rhodes	247	1.11%	23.82x
14	Platt	240	1.07%	40.59x
15	Lawton	217	0.970%	37.70x
16	Brierley	209	0.940%	52.70x
17	Kershaw	201	0.900%	27.91x
18	Bottomley	193	0.860%	51.90x
19	Winterbottom	192	0.860%	93.13x
20	Sykes	180	0.810%	16.80x
21	Hirst	156	0.700%	21.41x
22	Mills	143	0.640%	4.94x
23	Radcliffe	141	0.630%	54.35x
24	Holden	130	0.580%	10.63x
25	Dyson	128	0.570%	17.70x
26	Mellor	112	0.500%	14.24x
27	Booth	110	0.490%	4.99x
28	Byrom	93	0.420%	153.41x
29	Butterworth	92	0.410%	11.47x
30	Farrand	91	0.410%	203.08x
31	Dransfield	90	0.400%	114.64x
32	Howard	81	0.360%	3.70x
33	Ogden	79	0.350%	12.51x
34	Moss	78	0.350%	5.67x
35	Hinchcliffe	72	0.320%	52.82x
36	Garside	70	0.310%	21.73x
37	Clayton	69	0.310%	5.68x
38	Mayall	69	0.310%	101.58x
39	Newton	69	0.310%	4.03x
40	Walton	66	0.300%	4.20x
41	Wadsworth	62	0.280%	19.91x
42	Whiteley	61	0.270%	15.21x
43	Andrew	59	0.260%	8.34x
44	Bentley	59	0.260%	6.25x
45	Roebuck	58	0.260%	38.36x
46	Whittaker	55	0.250%	5.20x
47	Mallalieu	54	0.240%	317.65x
48	Fielding	52	0.230%	10.43x
49	Knott	52	0.230%	11.74x
50	Hinchliffe	51	0.230%	26.47x
51	Ripley	51	0.230%	34.58x
52	Slater	51	0.230%	3.77x
53	Wild	51	0.230%	5.61x
54	Worsnip	50	0.220%	469.04x
55	Batty	49	0.220%	14.36x
56	Hollingworth	48	0.220%	26.61x
57	Seville	48	0.220%	134.42x
58	Howarth	46	0.210%	4.29x
59	Pogson	44	0.200%	51.90x
60	Brierly	43	0.190%	91.84x
61	Heap	42	0.190%	11.09x
62	Armitage	41	0.180%	7.20x
63	Fogg	41	0.180%	31.60x
64	Hewkin	41	0.180%	486.36x
65	Nield	41	0.180%	26.74x
66	Kaye	40	0.180%	11.95x
67	Lord	40	0.180%	3.89x
68	Bardsley	39	0.170%	23.05x
69	Thornton	39	0.170%	3.47x
70	Heywood	38	0.170%	8.55x
71	Thorpe	35	0.160%	3.96x
72	Allott	34	0.150%	42.38x
73	Holroyd	34	0.150%	13.69x
74	Parkin	34	0.150%	5.66x
75	Clegg	33	0.150%	4.34x
76	Hanson	33	0.150%	4.58x
77	Marland	33	0.150%	42.47x
78	Moorhouse	33	0.150%	11.94x
79	Bowden	32	0.140%	4.97x
80	Pilling	32	0.140%	11.88x
81	Stott	31	0.140%	4.44x
82	Waterhouse	31	0.140%	9.11x
83	Beesley	30	0.130%	16.72x
84	Firth	30	0.130%	4.05x
85	Gledhill	30	0.130%	9.06x
86	Greaves	30	0.130%	4.58x
87	Ashley	29	0.130%	7.76x
88	Beaumont	29	0.130%	4.38x
89	Bray	29	0.130%	3.86x
90	Hawkyard	29	0.130%	151.36x
91	Hilton	29	0.130%	3.78x
92	Horsfall	29	0.130%	12.88x
93	Kenyon	29	0.130%	6.22x
94	Scofield	29	0.130%	105.11x
95	Whitworth	29	0.130%	7.77x
96	Kirkham	28	0.130%	8.99x
97	Crowther	27	0.120%	4.05x
98	Dearnley	27	0.120%	67.43x
99	Rawson	27	0.120%	11.08x
100	Fitton	26	0.120%	10.35x