1881 census place

Skircoat surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Skircoat, 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

409 surnames are listed for Skircoat, Yorkshire, covering 5,789 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Mitchell, with 207 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Skircoat

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	Mitchell	207	1.81%	8.94x
2	Wood	181	1.59%	4.98x
3	Greenwood	179	1.57%	20.19x
4	Crossley	145	1.27%	46.27x
5	Shaw	116	1.02%	5.53x
6	Sutcliffe	113	0.990%	25.06x
7	Buckley	97	0.850%	15.61x
8	Bottomley	92	0.810%	48.40x
9	Spencer	91	0.800%	8.73x
10	Hoyle	80	0.700%	30.36x
11	Crowther	79	0.690%	23.18x
12	Dyson	79	0.690%	21.37x
13	Howarth	68	0.600%	12.40x
14	Sykes	68	0.600%	12.41x
15	Gledhill	66	0.580%	38.97x
16	Hitchen	66	0.580%	84.91x
17	Lumb	62	0.540%	57.54x
18	Berry	61	0.530%	6.73x
19	Longbottom	61	0.530%	60.09x
20	Whitehead	61	0.530%	7.91x
21	Farrar	60	0.530%	39.43x
22	Webster	60	0.530%	6.04x
23	Kenyon	57	0.500%	23.91x
24	Helliwell	55	0.480%	52.30x
25	Wadsworth	55	0.480%	34.55x
26	Broadbent	54	0.470%	22.06x
27	Whiteley	54	0.470%	26.33x
28	Briggs	52	0.460%	8.39x
29	Midgley	48	0.420%	31.38x
30	Blackburn	44	0.390%	10.22x
31	Holroyd	43	0.380%	33.87x
32	Pickles	42	0.370%	18.10x
33	Kershaw	41	0.360%	11.14x
34	Firth	40	0.350%	10.55x
35	Noble	40	0.350%	8.44x
36	Bedford	39	0.340%	14.40x
37	Thorp	39	0.340%	25.20x
38	Whitaker	38	0.330%	11.78x
39	Shoesmith	37	0.320%	108.82x
40	Crawshaw	35	0.310%	39.41x
41	Binns	34	0.300%	17.97x
42	Eccles	34	0.300%	18.61x
43	Barron	33	0.290%	18.67x
44	Gaukroger	33	0.290%	280.14x
45	Priestley	33	0.290%	17.08x
46	Brook	32	0.280%	7.27x
47	Lees	32	0.280%	6.32x
48	Ackroyd	31	0.270%	29.05x
49	Akroyd	31	0.270%	145.75x
50	Mallinson	31	0.270%	32.91x
51	Fielding	30	0.260%	11.77x
52	Lister	29	0.250%	8.91x
53	Oldfield	29	0.250%	15.37x
54	Stansfield	29	0.250%	16.45x
55	Boocock	28	0.250%	69.57x
56	Clegg	28	0.250%	7.20x
57	Culpan	28	0.250%	202.90x
58	North	28	0.250%	7.40x
59	Ogden	28	0.250%	8.68x
60	Rothery	28	0.250%	66.54x
61	Hollas	27	0.240%	261.37x
62	Womersley	27	0.240%	76.16x
63	Cockroft	26	0.230%	53.87x
64	Eastwood	26	0.230%	9.63x
65	Washington	26	0.230%	45.17x
66	Highley	25	0.220%	136.31x
67	Hey	24	0.210%	23.73x
68	Nicholl	24	0.210%	40.20x
69	Sugden	24	0.210%	18.18x
70	Town	24	0.210%	42.40x
71	Brearley	23	0.200%	32.25x
72	Horsfall	23	0.200%	19.98x
73	Halstead	22	0.190%	23.16x
74	Hamer	22	0.190%	10.29x
75	Milnes	22	0.190%	21.83x
76	Stocks	22	0.190%	17.71x
77	Craven	20	0.180%	9.08x
78	Hopkinson	20	0.180%	10.72x
79	Rawnsley	20	0.180%	53.59x
80	Patchett	19	0.170%	34.71x
81	Balme	18	0.160%	219.51x
82	Brier	18	0.160%	95.04x
83	Tate	18	0.160%	8.16x
84	Creamer	17	0.150%	90.81x
85	Garside	17	0.150%	10.32x
86	Hallewell	17	0.150%	176.35x
87	Hellewell	17	0.150%	59.71x
88	Horner	17	0.150%	7.82x
89	Oates	17	0.150%	9.56x
90	Sunderland	17	0.150%	12.98x
91	Gaukrodger	16	0.140%	257.65x
92	Graydon	16	0.140%	154.89x
93	Uttley	16	0.140%	29.07x
94	Blagbrough	15	0.130%	287.36x
95	Rushworth	15	0.130%	15.89x
96	Spink	15	0.130%	16.29x
97	Verity	15	0.130%	30.84x
98	Waddington	15	0.130%	8.09x
99	Ambler	14	0.120%	13.89x
100	Baxendale	14	0.120%	24.07x