1881 census place

Warley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Warley, 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

272 surnames are listed for Warley, Yorkshire, covering 4,583 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Greenwood, with 313 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Warley

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	313	3.74%	48.17x
2	Sutcliffe	210	2.51%	63.54x
3	Mitchell	159	1.90%	9.37x
4	Riley	82	0.980%	12.39x
5	Wade	80	0.960%	23.89x
6	Nicholl	76	0.910%	173.71x
7	Naylor	74	0.880%	23.47x
8	Crowther	73	0.870%	29.22x
9	Murgatroyd	73	0.870%	116.13x
10	Hoyle	68	0.810%	35.21x
11	Wormald	68	0.810%	179.37x
12	Ackroyd	66	0.790%	84.40x
13	Helliwell	61	0.730%	79.14x
14	Bates	60	0.720%	11.27x
15	Binns	60	0.720%	43.27x
16	Crossley	60	0.720%	26.12x
17	Whiteley	59	0.710%	39.25x
18	Firth	57	0.680%	20.51x
19	Pickles	56	0.670%	32.93x
20	Clay	55	0.660%	32.03x
21	Stansfield	54	0.650%	41.80x
22	Horsfall	52	0.620%	61.63x
23	Ingham	49	0.590%	23.55x
24	Butterworth	48	0.570%	15.98x
25	Broadbent	47	0.560%	26.19x
26	Lees	43	0.510%	11.59x
27	Eastwood	42	0.500%	21.23x
28	Lumb	42	0.500%	53.18x
29	Bedford	41	0.490%	20.65x
30	Kershaw	41	0.490%	15.19x
31	Waddington	40	0.480%	29.44x
32	Crabtree	38	0.450%	22.55x
33	Aspinall	37	0.440%	32.13x
34	Culpan	36	0.430%	356.08x
35	Farrar	36	0.430%	32.28x
36	Dyson	35	0.420%	12.91x
37	Horsfield	34	0.410%	60.54x
38	Sheard	34	0.410%	44.36x
39	Gaukroger	33	0.390%	382.39x
40	Law	33	0.390%	8.72x
41	Stott	33	0.390%	12.63x
42	Midgley	32	0.380%	28.54x
43	Wadsworth	32	0.380%	27.43x
44	Hanson	31	0.370%	11.48x
45	Horner	31	0.370%	19.47x
46	Tattersall	31	0.370%	26.69x
47	Calvert	30	0.360%	17.58x
48	Radcliffe	30	0.360%	30.86x
49	Woodhead	30	0.360%	19.13x
50	Foulds	29	0.350%	51.24x
51	Wilcock	28	0.330%	23.53x
52	Bottomley	27	0.320%	19.38x
53	Alderson	26	0.310%	22.40x
54	Jowett	26	0.310%	28.51x
55	Uttley	26	0.310%	64.45x
56	Cockroft	25	0.300%	70.68x
57	Ainley	24	0.290%	72.44x
58	Ogden	24	0.290%	10.15x
59	Feather	23	0.270%	53.70x
60	Maude	23	0.270%	72.35x
61	Whitworth	23	0.270%	16.45x
62	Heron	22	0.260%	27.42x
63	Hesselden	22	0.260%	856.03x
64	Milnes	22	0.260%	29.78x
65	Sugden	21	0.250%	21.71x
66	Teal	21	0.250%	65.81x
67	Beswick	20	0.240%	24.46x
68	Hellewell	20	0.240%	95.83x
69	Hopkinson	20	0.240%	14.62x
70	Birtwhistle	19	0.230%	205.41x
71	Oates	18	0.220%	13.80x
72	Widdop	18	0.220%	95.04x
73	Copley	17	0.200%	26.24x
74	Hellawell	17	0.200%	124.72x
75	Rawnsley	17	0.200%	62.16x
76	Summerskill	17	0.200%	519.88x
77	Earnshaw	16	0.190%	15.46x
78	Longbottom	16	0.190%	21.51x
79	Robertshaw	16	0.190%	23.40x
80	Crawshaw	15	0.180%	23.04x
81	Garside	15	0.180%	12.43x
82	Shackleton	15	0.180%	15.93x
83	Chew	14	0.170%	32.90x
84	Baxendale	13	0.160%	30.50x
85	Farnell	13	0.160%	42.41x
86	Hitchen	13	0.160%	22.82x
87	Scholefield	13	0.160%	54.35x
88	Sunderland	13	0.160%	13.54x
89	Boocock	12	0.140%	40.68x
90	Garnett	12	0.140%	11.55x
91	Marsland	12	0.140%	24.62x
92	Mattock	12	0.140%	55.27x
93	Mitchel	12	0.140%	14.67x
94	Nichol	12	0.140%	13.32x
95	Patchett	12	0.140%	29.91x
96	Rushworth	12	0.140%	17.35x
97	Shepley	12	0.140%	52.70x
98	Ambler	11	0.130%	14.89x
99	Franks	11	0.130%	10.55x
100	Goulding	11	0.130%	13.46x