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UK surname

Easby

In the 1881 census there were 242 people recorded with the Easby surname, ranking it #11,333 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 364, ranked #12,748, down from #11,333 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to Darlington, Beeford and Gateshead. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include Stockton-on-Tees and Hambleton.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Easby is 390 in 2001. Compared with 1881, the name has grown by 50.4%.

1881 census count

242

Ranked #11,333

Modern count

364

2016, ranked #12,748

Peak year

2001

390 bearers

Map years

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1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Easby had 242 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #11,333 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 364 in 2016, ranked #12,748.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 357 in 1911.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Small Town Suburbia.

Easby surname distribution map

The map shows where the Easby surname is concentrated in each census or modern distribution year. Darker areas mean a stronger local concentration.

Distribution map

Easby surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Easby over time

The table below tracks recorded surname counts and rank from the 19th-century census years through the modern adult-register period.

Year Period Count Rank
1851 historical 135 #13,964
1861 historical 162 #14,310
1881 historical 242 #11,333
1891 historical 260 #12,367
1901 historical 281 #12,167
1911 historical 357 #10,132
1997 modern 354 #12,060
1998 modern 365 #12,175
1999 modern 369 #12,147
2000 modern 386 #11,718
2001 modern 390 #11,420
2002 modern 373 #12,060
2003 modern 360 #12,152
2004 modern 376 #11,798
2005 modern 368 #11,926
2006 modern 378 #11,714
2007 modern 372 #12,032
2008 modern 370 #12,182
2009 modern 382 #12,150
2010 modern 383 #12,394
2011 modern 383 #12,244
2012 modern 358 #12,724
2013 modern 355 #13,045
2014 modern 361 #12,979
2015 modern 359 #12,906
2016 modern 364 #12,748

Geography

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Where Easbys are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around Darlington, Beeford, Gateshead, Smeeton, Great and Middlesborough. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to Stockton-on-Tees and Hambleton. Treat these as concentration signals, not proof that every family line began there.

Some modern areas include a three-digit suffix, such as Leeds 110. The suffix is a small-area code, so it stays in the table while the prose uses the plain place name.

Top historical parishes

Rank Parish Area
1 Darlington Durham
2 Beeford Yorkshire, East Riding
3 Gateshead Durham
4 Smeeton, Great Yorkshire, North Riding
5 Middlesborough Durham

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 Stockton-on-Tees 009 Stockton-on-Tees
2 Stockton-on-Tees 008 Stockton-on-Tees
3 Hambleton 009 Hambleton
4 Stockton-on-Tees 015 Stockton-on-Tees
5 Stockton-on-Tees 018 Stockton-on-Tees

Forenames

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First names often paired with Easby

These lists show first names that appear often with the Easby surname in historical and recent records.

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Easby

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Easby, this points to the kinds of places where the surname is most concentrated today.

These neighbourhood labels describe areas, not individual people. They are useful because surnames often cluster through family history, migration, housing patterns and local work. A surname can be strongest in one type of neighbourhood even when people with that name live across the country.

The UK classification gives the national picture. The London classification is more specific to the capital, where housing, age profile, tenure and population mix can look quite different from the rest of the UK.

UK neighbourhood type

UK Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Retired Professionals

Group

Small Town Suburbia

Nationally, the Easby surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Small Town Suburbia, within Retired Professionals. This does not mean every Easby household fits that profile, but it gives a useful signal about where the modern surname distribution is strongest.

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Group profile

This Group is predominantly comprised of married couples with no resident dependent children, living in areas characterised neither by under-occupancy nor overcrowding throughout the UK in or adjacent to small towns. White ethnic groups and affiliation with Christianity predominates. Housing tends to be predominantly semi-detached or detached and workers are employed principally in managerial and professional occupations, with semi-skilled occupations also in evidence. These areas of the Supergroup are of higher population density.

Wider pattern

Typically married but no longer with resident dependent children, these well-educated households either remain working in their managerial, professional, administrative or other skilled occupations, or are retired from them – the modal individual age is beyond normal retirement age. Underoccupied detached and semi-detached properties predominate, and unpaid care is more prevalent than reported disability. The prevalence of this Supergroup outside most urban conurbations indicates that rural lifestyles prevail, typically sustained by using two or more cars per household.

London neighbourhood type

London Output Area Classification

Supergroup

Central Connected Professionals and Managers

Group

Senior Professionals

Within London, Easby is most associated with areas classed as Senior Professionals, part of Central Connected Professionals and Managers. This gives the surname a London-specific profile rather than forcing the capital into the same pattern as the rest of the country.

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Group profile

These very central neighbourhoods house residents whose ages are more skewed towards older age cohorts than elsewhere in the Supergroup. Few households have young children. Rates of illness are low. Indian ethnicity is rare compared to the Supergroup mean. Property under occupation is more common, despite the centrality of neighbourhoods, and more residents live in communal establishments than elsewhere in the Supergroup.

Wider London pattern

Adult residents of these neighbourhoods are typically aged 25 to 44, working full-time in professional, managerial or associate professional occupations. There are few families with dependent children. The predominantly Inner London neighbourhoods have an international character, including many residents born elsewhere in Europe alongside high numbers of individuals identifying as of Chinese ethnicity. Many individuals are never married, childless and/or living alone. Above average numbers of individuals, likely to be full-time students, live in communal establishments. Elsewhere, privately rented flats are the dominant housing type. Residents of these areas are well-qualified, with a significant number holding Level 4 or above qualifications. There is a correspondingly high level of individuals employed full-time in professional, managerial and associated professional or technical occupations. Employing industries are financial, real estate, professional, administration, and, to a lesser degree, transport and communications. Unemployment is uncommon.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Easby is most concentrated in decile 8 for access to healthy assets and hazards. This places the surname towards the healthier end of the index.

Lower deciles point towards weaker access to healthy assets or stronger exposure to local hazards. Higher deciles point towards stronger access and fewer hazards.

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Lower access Higher access

Neighbourhood deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation

Easby falls in decile 1 for neighbourhood deprivation. This puts the surname towards the more deprived end of the index.

Decile 1 represents the more deprived end of the scale. Decile 10 represents the less deprived end.

1
More deprived Less deprived

Broadband speed

Fixed broadband download speed

The modern neighbourhood pattern for Easby is most associated with a typical fixed broadband download band of Over 70 mbit/s.

The scale below places that band in context, from slower local download bands through to faster ones.

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Slower band Faster band

Area snapshot

Ethnic group estimate

Most common ethnic group estimate
White - British

This describes the area pattern most associated with Easby, not the ethnicity of every person with the surname.

1881 census detail

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Easby families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Easby surname. Use the location tables for concentration, then the name and occupation tables for the people behind the surname.

Top counties

Total is the county count. Frequency and index adjust for local population size, so they are better concentration signals. Yorkshire leads with 160 Easbys recorded in 1881 and an index of 6.90x.

County Total Index
Yorkshire 160 6.90x
Durham 49 7.04x
Middlesex 11 0.47x
Cambridgeshire 7 4.72x
Lancashire 7 0.25x
Hampshire 3 0.63x
Essex 1 0.22x
Hertfordshire 1 0.62x
Suffolk 1 0.35x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Stockton On Tees in Durham leads with 24 Easbys recorded in 1881 and an index of 71.49x.

Place Total Index
Stockton On Tees 24 71.49x
Appleton Wiske 23 8518.52x
Bilsdale Midcable 9 1666.67x
Thirsk 8 298.51x
Harton 7 254.55x
March 7 141.13x
Middlesbrough 7 23.17x
Neasham 7 2058.82x
Ormesby 7 112.36x
Upper Poppleton 7 3043.48x
Walton On Hill 7 46.51x
Batley 6 27.21x
Clifton In York 6 123.71x
Horton In Bradford 6 16.56x
Whitton 6 1090.91x
Beeford 5 877.19x
Foston On Wolds 5 2173.91x
Green Hammerton 5 2083.33x
Manningham 5 17.49x
Redcar 5 271.74x
Ecclesall Bierlow 4 8.48x
Hackforth 4 3076.92x
Hammersmith London 4 6.94x
Kippax 4 196.08x
Normanby In 4 64.52x
Sowerby In Thirsk 4 285.71x
St George Hanover Square 4 9.70x
Boltby 3 1250.00x
Great Ayton 3 211.27x
Marske In Guisbrough 3 72.82x
Northallerton 3 101.35x
Northwood 3 43.92x
Bilsdale West Side 2 1666.67x
Darlington 2 7.44x
Knayton With Brawith 2 714.29x
Leeds 2 1.53x
North Bailey South 2 571.43x
Scorton 2 606.06x
Stokesley 2 137.93x
Aiskew 1 149.25x
Asenby 1 714.29x
Ealing 1 4.78x
Eston 1 19.80x
Farnham 1 833.33x
Great Ouseburn 1 250.00x
Guisbrough 1 19.72x
Hackney London 1 0.76x
Hartlepool 1 10.10x
Kirkleatham 1 31.95x
Low Worsall 1 625.00x
Nether Hallam 1 3.19x
Quendon 1 666.67x
Saxmundham 1 94.34x
Scruton 1 344.83x
Seamer In Stokesley 1 500.00x
Sheffield 1 1.35x
St Marylebone London 1 0.80x
Stevenage 1 40.00x
West Witton 1 250.00x
Winton 1 1428.57x

Top female names

These are the female first names most often recorded with the Easby surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
Mary 19
Ann 10
Elizabeth 9
Jane 9
Sarah 8
Annie 4
Margaret 4
Martha 4
Alice 3
Fanny 3
Frances 3
Catherine 2
Eleanor 2
Emma 2
Grace 2
Isabella 2
Louisa 2
Maud 2
Rachel 2
Ada 1
Anne 1
Cordelia 1
Dorothy 1
Eliza 1
Elizabth. 1
Ellen 1
Flora 1
Florence 1
Gertrude 1
Hannah 1
Harriet 1
Ida 1
Isabel 1
Kate 1
Laura 1
Lorna 1
M. 1
Maria 1
Matilda 1
Meggie 1
Nellie 1
Priscilla 1
Rose 1
Salley 1

Top male names

These are the male first names most often recorded with the Easby surname in 1881. Names are not merged, so initials, variant spellings and transcription quirks can appear as separate rows.

Name Count
John 20
William 19
Joseph 11
Robert 10
Thomas 7
James 6
Frederick 5
Richard 5
Charles 4
George 4
Frank 3
Henry 3
Edwin 2
Infant 2
Tom 2
Walter 2
Albert 1
Alfred 1
Arthur 1
Chas 1
Christopher 1
Cornforth 1
Geo. 1
Herbert 1
J. 1
Jas.Septimus 1
Jas.Urwin 1
Joeph 1
Mark 1
Owen 1
Ralph 1
Robt. 1
Thos. 1
Wm. 1

FAQ

Easby surname: questions and answers

How common was the Easby surname in 1881?

In 1881, 242 people were recorded with the Easby surname. That placed it at #11,333 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Easby surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 364 in 2016. That gives Easby a modern rank of #12,748.

What does the Easby map show?

The map shows local surname concentration for the selected year. Darker areas have a stronger concentration of Easby bearers relative to the surrounding population.

What records is this surname page based on?

The historical counts come from census surname records. The modern counts and neighbourhood summaries come from later surname distribution records. Counts are recorded bearers in those records, not a live estimate of everyone with the name today.