1881 census place

Shipley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Shipley, 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

570 surnames are listed for Shipley, Yorkshire, covering 7,584 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hartley, with 144 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Shipley

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	Hartley	144	0.960%	15.29x
2	Whitaker	114	0.760%	26.86x
3	Rhodes	108	0.720%	15.48x
4	Firth	105	0.700%	21.05x
5	Parker	103	0.690%	3.60x
6	Jowett	92	0.610%	56.19x
7	Craven	83	0.550%	28.62x
8	Hudson	82	0.550%	6.67x
9	Kendall	82	0.550%	25.35x
10	Atkinson	81	0.540%	5.54x
11	Briggs	80	0.530%	9.80x
12	Hodgson	80	0.530%	7.68x
13	Butterfield	79	0.530%	39.35x
14	Crabtree	79	0.530%	26.11x
15	Gill	79	0.530%	7.43x
16	Greenwood	79	0.530%	6.77x
17	Hainsworth	75	0.500%	78.53x
18	Illingworth	72	0.480%	42.35x
19	Binns	70	0.470%	28.12x
20	Raistrick	66	0.440%	185.81x
21	Whitfield	61	0.410%	20.33x
22	Murgatroyd	59	0.390%	52.27x
23	Pickles	53	0.350%	17.36x
24	Shackleton	53	0.350%	31.34x
25	Pitts	50	0.330%	32.45x
26	Rawnsley	50	0.330%	101.81x
27	Baxter	49	0.330%	5.47x
28	Hird	49	0.330%	42.27x
29	Horsfall	49	0.330%	32.35x
30	Rushworth	49	0.330%	39.45x
31	Clough	48	0.320%	14.31x
32	Denby	48	0.320%	76.86x
33	Hanson	48	0.320%	9.90x
34	Bower	46	0.310%	16.72x
35	Sutcliffe	46	0.310%	7.75x
36	Edmondson	43	0.290%	24.77x
37	Holdsworth	43	0.290%	16.99x
38	Leach	43	0.290%	6.94x
39	Dobson	42	0.280%	6.34x
40	Heaton	41	0.270%	11.41x
41	Ackroyd	40	0.270%	28.49x
42	Gott	40	0.270%	61.48x
43	Midgley	40	0.270%	19.87x
44	Sugden	40	0.270%	23.03x
45	Thornton	40	0.270%	5.30x
46	Kaye	39	0.260%	17.32x
47	Naylor	39	0.260%	6.89x
48	Preston	39	0.260%	5.20x
49	Greaves	38	0.250%	8.63x
50	Alderson	36	0.240%	17.27x
51	Dewhirst	35	0.230%	49.07x
52	Stubbs	35	0.230%	8.82x
53	Waddington	35	0.230%	14.34x
54	Bland	34	0.230%	10.91x
55	Frear	34	0.230%	211.18x
56	Hargreaves	34	0.230%	5.43x
57	Myers	34	0.230%	8.68x
58	Drake	33	0.220%	7.54x
59	Feather	33	0.220%	42.91x
60	Oddy	33	0.220%	35.73x
61	Mortimer	32	0.210%	10.19x
62	Tillotson	31	0.210%	53.37x
63	Hirst	30	0.200%	6.12x
64	Ives	30	0.200%	17.04x
65	Keighley	30	0.200%	37.36x
66	Wade	30	0.200%	4.99x
67	Bairstow	29	0.190%	54.85x
68	Baldwin	29	0.190%	4.53x
69	Bartle	29	0.190%	32.77x
70	Brooksbank	29	0.190%	58.99x
71	Halliday	29	0.190%	9.34x
72	Hollis	29	0.190%	13.94x
73	Laycock	29	0.190%	14.05x
74	Stead	29	0.190%	9.44x
75	Waterhouse	29	0.190%	12.67x
76	Fell	27	0.180%	12.79x
77	Croft	26	0.170%	7.33x
78	Earnshaw	26	0.170%	14.00x
79	Lightfoot	26	0.170%	12.44x
80	Pickard	26	0.170%	12.41x
81	Wadsworth	26	0.170%	12.41x
82	Brear	25	0.170%	110.77x
83	Dibb	25	0.170%	79.24x
84	Sunderland	25	0.170%	14.50x
85	Wheelhouse	25	0.170%	73.62x
86	Crossley	24	0.160%	5.82x
87	Learoyd	24	0.160%	164.38x
88	Mosley	24	0.160%	16.97x
89	Stansfield	24	0.160%	10.35x
90	Townend	24	0.160%	18.66x
91	Emmott	22	0.150%	39.02x
92	Metcalfe	22	0.150%	6.41x
93	Varley	22	0.150%	10.66x
94	Farrar	21	0.140%	10.49x
95	Grimshaw	21	0.140%	8.37x
96	Harker	21	0.140%	13.28x
97	Milner	21	0.140%	6.10x
98	Normington	21	0.140%	55.53x
99	Shuttleworth	21	0.140%	11.79x
100	Yeadon	21	0.140%	51.00x