1881 census place

Scarborough surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Scarborough, 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

1,282 surnames are listed for Scarborough, Yorkshire, covering 13,096 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Melton, with 28 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Scarborough

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
101	Melton	28	0.110%	30.16x
102	Otterburn	28	0.110%	483.59x
103	Percy	28	0.110%	11.41x
104	Cappleman	27	0.100%	287.23x
105	Hebden	27	0.100%	32.81x
106	Medd	27	0.100%	56.82x
107	Milner	27	0.100%	4.48x
108	Normandale	27	0.100%	341.77x
109	Buckle	26	0.100%	9.08x
110	Collinson	26	0.100%	8.42x
111	Coultas	26	0.100%	49.50x
112	Hopwood	26	0.100%	8.68x
113	Mallory	26	0.100%	153.39x
114	Metcalfe	26	0.100%	4.33x
115	Trott	26	0.100%	15.04x
116	Dalton	25	0.100%	4.14x
117	Oxley	25	0.100%	6.79x
118	Popple	25	0.100%	54.84x
119	Bullamore	24	0.090%	284.70x
120	Trotter	24	0.090%	8.70x
121	Binks	23	0.090%	14.82x
122	Cattle	23	0.090%	35.20x
123	Hopper	23	0.090%	6.12x
124	Ness	23	0.090%	19.27x
125	Piercy	23	0.090%	24.31x
126	Stringer	23	0.090%	4.39x
127	Whittingham	23	0.090%	11.63x
128	Burn	22	0.080%	6.22x
129	Duck	22	0.080%	15.58x
130	Eves	22	0.080%	20.01x
131	Fell	22	0.080%	5.95x
132	Hornby	22	0.080%	7.34x
133	Jenkinson	22	0.080%	4.78x
134	Lazenby	22	0.080%	17.69x
135	Mansfield	22	0.080%	4.46x
136	Maw	22	0.080%	22.91x
137	Newby	22	0.080%	8.36x
138	Rawling	22	0.080%	22.94x
139	Rowntree	22	0.080%	28.37x
140	Shields	22	0.080%	5.41x
141	Stanforth	22	0.080%	185.50x
142	Stubbs	22	0.080%	3.17x
143	Yeoman	22	0.080%	13.25x
144	Batty	21	0.080%	5.22x
145	Bury	21	0.080%	10.75x
146	Flinton	21	0.080%	215.38x
147	Glaves	21	0.080%	131.33x
148	Hume	21	0.080%	5.63x
149	Hurd	21	0.080%	17.80x
150	Nightingale	21	0.080%	4.74x
151	Petch	21	0.080%	18.02x
152	Scarborough	21	0.080%	28.26x
153	Beal	20	0.080%	8.09x
154	Braithwaite	20	0.080%	6.55x
155	Dodsworth	20	0.080%	18.22x
156	Donkin	20	0.080%	20.44x
157	Gallagher	20	0.080%	5.00x
158	Jowsey	20	0.080%	116.75x
159	Laycock	20	0.080%	5.53x
160	Magson	20	0.080%	48.04x
161	Moorhouse	20	0.080%	6.14x
162	Parnell	20	0.080%	7.87x
163	Plummer	20	0.080%	5.69x
164	Baines	19	0.070%	3.77x
165	Calvert	19	0.070%	3.54x
166	Dowson	19	0.070%	13.21x
167	Emmerson	19	0.070%	7.32x
168	Raine	19	0.070%	8.67x
169	Standing	19	0.070%	11.33x
170	Wardell	19	0.070%	18.18x
171	Barnard	18	0.070%	2.76x
172	Boreman	18	0.070%	310.88x
173	Brough	18	0.070%	5.60x
174	Foxton	18	0.070%	40.50x
175	Howlett	18	0.070%	5.10x
176	Ives	18	0.070%	5.84x
177	Lofthouse	18	0.070%	9.19x
178	Procter	18	0.070%	5.27x
179	Purnell	18	0.070%	13.04x
180	Scales	18	0.070%	11.56x
181	Tonks	18	0.070%	13.01x
182	Wiseman	18	0.070%	4.98x
183	Appleyard	17	0.060%	7.07x
184	Brittain	17	0.060%	8.36x
185	Edmond	17	0.060%	19.14x
186	Holder	17	0.060%	4.81x
187	Kitchen	17	0.060%	3.79x
188	Knaggs	17	0.060%	25.04x
189	Newham	17	0.060%	17.63x
190	Pennock	17	0.060%	40.84x
191	Pinkney	17	0.060%	16.47x
192	Race	17	0.060%	11.86x
193	Riby	17	0.060%	162.68x
194	Ripley	17	0.060%	9.78x
195	Sleightholme	17	0.060%	113.86x
196	Spaven	17	0.060%	121.69x
197	Swales	17	0.060%	9.24x
198	Warwick	17	0.060%	4.67x
199	Abbey	16	0.060%	16.56x
200	Agar	16	0.060%	15.80x