1881 census place

Slaithwaite surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Slaithwaite, 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

45 surnames are listed for Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, covering 2,162 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Sykes, with 427 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Slaithwaite

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	Sykes	427	14.17%	295.26x
2	Bamforth	343	11.38%	2552.08x
3	Shaw	171	5.67%	30.89x
4	Hirst	167	5.54%	169.84x
5	Dyson	115	3.82%	117.80x
6	France	86	2.85%	187.65x
7	Hoyle	78	2.59%	112.13x
8	Armitage	63	2.09%	81.96x
9	Gledhill	62	2.06%	138.64x
10	Clay	51	1.69%	82.44x
11	Dodson	50	1.66%	214.32x
12	Garside	48	1.59%	110.37x
13	Meal	43	1.43%	1622.64x
14	Parkin	43	1.43%	53.05x
15	Eagland	38	1.26%	2773.72x
16	Pogson	38	1.26%	332.17x
17	Bottomley	33	1.09%	65.75x
18	Cock	33	1.09%	99.58x
19	Mellor	33	1.09%	31.08x
20	Varley	32	1.06%	77.28x
21	Sugden	30	1.00%	86.08x
22	Eastwood	23	0.760%	32.27x
23	Hopkinson	18	0.600%	36.53x
24	Lunn	18	0.600%	46.15x
25	Dransfield	12	0.400%	113.21x
26	Hey	12	0.400%	44.94x
27	Quarmby	12	0.400%	150.38x
28	Lightowlers	10	0.330%	471.70x
29	Hollingworth	9	0.300%	36.96x
30	Horsfall	9	0.300%	29.62x
31	Sheard	9	0.300%	32.60x
32	Savill	7	0.230%	49.02x
33	Tweed	7	0.230%	100.29x
34	Balmforth	6	0.200%	52.59x
35	Weavill	6	0.200%	937.50x
36	Pridgeon	4	0.130%	185.19x
37	Bleasdale	3	0.100%	32.47x
38	Rusby	3	0.100%	91.19x
39	Whitwam	3	0.100%	42.86x
40	Aspinal	2	0.070%	170.94x
41	Hellawell	1	0.030%	20.37x
42	Pitblado	1	0.030%	526.32x
43	Rawnsley	1	0.030%	10.15x
44	Sneyd	1	0.030%	33.78x
45	Wamsley	1	0.030%	74.07x