1881 census place

Wakefield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wakefield, 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

1,157 surnames are listed for Wakefield, Yorkshire, covering 10,688 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Walker, with 205 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wakefield

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	Walker	205	0.920%	2.76x
2	Blackburn	108	0.490%	12.89x
3	Ellis	106	0.480%	3.28x
4	Hodgson	95	0.430%	6.17x
5	Atkinson	91	0.410%	4.20x
6	Hartley	91	0.410%	6.53x
7	Gill	83	0.370%	5.28x
8	Hudson	83	0.370%	4.56x
9	Firth	81	0.360%	10.97x
10	Bedford	73	0.330%	13.84x
11	Dixon	71	0.320%	2.92x
12	Rhodes	66	0.300%	6.40x
13	Dobson	65	0.290%	6.63x
14	Senior	63	0.280%	12.38x
15	Rayner	58	0.260%	10.46x
16	Wigglesworth	58	0.260%	52.78x
17	Craven	57	0.260%	13.29x
18	Fawcett	57	0.260%	13.26x
19	Hirst	57	0.260%	7.86x
20	Sykes	56	0.250%	5.25x
21	Milsom	54	0.240%	71.06x
22	Pickles	54	0.240%	11.96x
23	Beaumont	53	0.240%	8.04x
24	Hardwick	53	0.240%	15.59x
25	Lodge	53	0.240%	13.12x
26	Briggs	51	0.230%	4.23x
27	Carr	51	0.230%	3.18x
28	Illingworth	51	0.230%	20.28x
29	Milnes	51	0.230%	25.99x
30	Brook	50	0.230%	5.84x
31	Brooke	50	0.230%	15.10x
32	Hepworth	50	0.230%	19.73x
33	Whitehead	50	0.230%	3.33x
34	Crowther	49	0.220%	7.39x
35	Whitaker	49	0.220%	7.80x
36	Lister	47	0.210%	7.42x
37	Sidebottom	47	0.210%	36.87x
38	Wilby	47	0.210%	36.05x
39	Speight	46	0.210%	25.47x
40	Stead	46	0.210%	10.12x
41	Mellor	45	0.200%	5.75x
42	Walsh	45	0.200%	3.80x
43	Holdsworth	44	0.200%	11.75x
44	Moorhouse	44	0.200%	16.00x
45	Wadsworth	44	0.200%	14.20x
46	Barratt	43	0.190%	9.54x
47	Wade	43	0.190%	4.83x
48	Broadbent	42	0.190%	8.81x
49	Grace	41	0.180%	13.77x
50	Lockwood	41	0.180%	8.35x
51	Sweeney	40	0.180%	13.44x
52	Calvert	39	0.180%	8.61x
53	Stringer	39	0.180%	8.81x
54	Wainwright	39	0.180%	8.29x
55	Whiteley	39	0.180%	9.77x
56	Dunnill	38	0.170%	445.49x
57	Armitage	37	0.170%	6.53x
58	Dyson	37	0.170%	5.14x
59	Kershaw	37	0.170%	5.16x
60	Crossland	36	0.160%	18.43x
61	Doyle	36	0.160%	6.65x
62	Gledhill	36	0.160%	10.92x
63	Thornton	36	0.160%	3.22x
64	Spurr	35	0.160%	37.70x
65	Howell	34	0.150%	3.63x
66	Land	34	0.150%	21.22x
67	Batty	33	0.150%	9.72x
68	Blakey	33	0.150%	18.51x
69	Gosnay	33	0.150%	500.00x
70	Laycock	33	0.150%	10.81x
71	Saville	33	0.150%	16.35x
72	Gilderdale	32	0.140%	459.11x
73	Glover	32	0.140%	3.38x
74	Parkin	32	0.140%	5.35x
75	Ramsden	32	0.140%	7.90x
76	Dolan	31	0.140%	16.04x
77	Hardman	30	0.140%	6.71x
78	Hemingway	30	0.140%	20.14x
79	Nolan	30	0.140%	9.90x
80	Siddle	30	0.140%	63.17x
81	Brady	29	0.130%	7.37x
82	Crawshaw	29	0.130%	16.77x
83	Hanson	29	0.130%	4.04x
84	Heptonstall	29	0.130%	138.56x
85	Tattersall	29	0.130%	9.40x
86	Clarkson	28	0.130%	4.75x
87	Cockell	28	0.130%	96.49x
88	Jaques	28	0.130%	17.03x
89	Mountain	28	0.130%	17.76x
90	Oxley	28	0.130%	9.00x
91	Perkin	28	0.130%	23.39x
92	Steele	28	0.130%	4.71x
93	Child	27	0.120%	7.15x
94	Hopkinson	27	0.120%	7.43x
95	Lumb	27	0.120%	12.87x
96	Pickard	27	0.120%	8.71x
97	Quinn	27	0.120%	6.36x
98	Duffy	26	0.120%	5.36x
99	Exley	26	0.120%	24.60x
100	Crossley	25	0.110%	4.10x