1881 census place

Southowram surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Southowram, 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

318 surnames are listed for Southowram, Yorkshire, covering 4,543 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 188 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Southowram

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	Greenwood	188	2.13%	27.40x
2	Sutcliffe	103	1.17%	29.51x
3	Naylor	96	1.09%	28.83x
4	Crowther	91	1.03%	34.50x
5	Hartley	88	1.00%	15.89x
6	Helliwell	73	0.830%	89.68x
7	Bottomley	68	0.770%	46.21x
8	Mallinson	68	0.770%	93.27x
9	Bentley	64	0.720%	17.12x
10	Oates	64	0.720%	46.48x
11	Jenkinson	54	0.610%	34.90x
12	Laycock	53	0.600%	43.65x
13	Pickles	52	0.590%	28.96x
14	Broadbent	50	0.570%	26.38x
15	Farrar	48	0.540%	40.75x
16	Barber	47	0.530%	8.84x
17	Gledhill	47	0.530%	35.85x
18	Hemingway	47	0.530%	79.37x
19	Clayton	46	0.520%	9.58x
20	Firth	46	0.520%	15.68x
21	Holdsworth	46	0.520%	30.90x
22	Crabtree	45	0.510%	25.29x
23	Robertshaw	45	0.510%	62.30x
24	Womersley	43	0.490%	156.71x
25	Eastwood	42	0.480%	20.10x
26	Priestley	42	0.480%	28.09x
27	Crossley	41	0.460%	16.90x
28	Brook	39	0.440%	11.45x
29	Fawthrop	39	0.440%	553.19x
30	Wadsworth	39	0.440%	31.65x
31	Hoyle	38	0.430%	18.63x
32	Ingham	38	0.430%	17.29x
33	Dewhirst	37	0.420%	88.18x
34	Fawcett	36	0.410%	21.07x
35	Sykes	36	0.410%	8.49x
36	Whitaker	36	0.410%	14.42x
37	Appleyard	35	0.400%	43.33x
38	Nettleton	35	0.400%	92.18x
39	Nicholl	35	0.400%	75.76x
40	Horsfall	33	0.370%	37.04x
41	Denton	32	0.360%	19.71x
42	Midgley	32	0.360%	27.03x
43	Sheard	32	0.360%	39.54x
44	Burke	31	0.350%	11.92x
45	Ainley	30	0.340%	85.74x
46	Ogden	30	0.340%	12.01x
47	Quinn	30	0.340%	17.76x
48	Shore	30	0.340%	31.57x
49	Hebblethwaite	29	0.330%	197.82x
50	Longbottom	29	0.330%	36.91x
51	Kershaw	28	0.320%	9.82x
52	Boothman	26	0.290%	76.83x
53	Jowett	26	0.290%	27.00x
54	Lomas	26	0.290%	15.93x
55	Maude	26	0.290%	77.43x
56	Woodhead	26	0.290%	15.70x
57	Brier	25	0.280%	170.53x
58	Drake	25	0.280%	9.71x
59	Sunderland	25	0.280%	24.65x
60	Whiteley	24	0.270%	15.12x
61	Barstow	23	0.260%	150.52x
62	Crossland	23	0.260%	29.62x
63	Culpan	23	0.260%	215.36x
64	Earnshaw	23	0.260%	21.05x
65	Malkin	23	0.260%	79.31x
66	Teal	23	0.260%	68.27x
67	Dennison	22	0.250%	32.21x
68	Kitchen	22	0.250%	14.62x
69	Ramsden	22	0.250%	13.65x
70	Collingwood	21	0.240%	43.17x
71	Kitson	21	0.240%	29.75x
72	Lumb	21	0.240%	25.18x
73	Milnes	21	0.240%	26.92x
74	Aspinall	20	0.230%	16.44x
75	Baistow	20	0.230%	699.30x
76	Broomhead	20	0.230%	50.62x
77	Whitworth	20	0.230%	13.55x
78	Jagger	19	0.220%	27.15x
79	Whitley	19	0.220%	26.26x
80	Holgate	18	0.200%	24.56x
81	Sugden	18	0.200%	17.62x
82	Emmett	17	0.190%	22.98x
83	Gaukroger	17	0.190%	186.40x
84	Marshell	17	0.190%	181.24x
85	Whelan	17	0.190%	28.40x
86	Astin	16	0.180%	62.40x
87	Baxendale	16	0.180%	35.54x
88	Cockroft	16	0.180%	42.84x
89	Hines	16	0.180%	21.25x
90	Keighley	16	0.180%	33.87x
91	Lupton	16	0.180%	25.05x
92	Vickerman	16	0.180%	101.91x
93	Denham	15	0.170%	19.26x
94	Parrott	14	0.160%	13.94x
95	Squires	14	0.160%	11.19x
96	Summerscales	14	0.160%	131.83x
97	Ambler	13	0.150%	16.66x
98	Cockhill	13	0.150%	310.26x
99	Holroyd	13	0.150%	13.23x
100	Iredale	13	0.150%	45.09x