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UK surname

Hildyard

In the 1881 census there were 175 people recorded with the Hildyard surname, ranking it #13,982 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 171, ranked #21,726, down from #13,982 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to Sutton and Stoneferry, London parishes and St Dunstan Stepney. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull and North Dorset.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Hildyard is 246 in 1891. Compared with 1881, the name has stayed broadly stable by 2.3%.

1881 census count

175

Ranked #13,982

Modern count

171

2016, ranked #21,726

Peak year

1891

246 bearers

Map years

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1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Hildyard had 175 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #13,982 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 171 in 2016, ranked #21,726.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 246 in 1891.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Rural Amenity.

Hildyard surname distribution map

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

Distribution map

Hildyard surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Hildyard 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 143 #13,343
1861 historical 185 #12,799
1881 historical 175 #13,982
1891 historical 246 #12,912
1901 historical 237 #13,574
1911 historical 234 #13,526
1997 modern 154 #20,780
1998 modern 161 #20,754
1999 modern 164 #20,621
2000 modern 165 #20,501
2001 modern 156 #20,974
2002 modern 171 #20,177
2003 modern 169 #20,092
2004 modern 167 #20,367
2005 modern 163 #20,627
2006 modern 163 #20,789
2007 modern 165 #20,893
2008 modern 162 #21,350
2009 modern 175 #20,707
2010 modern 176 #21,101
2011 modern 171 #21,337
2012 modern 176 #20,915
2013 modern 189 #20,273
2014 modern 180 #21,115
2015 modern 177 #21,220
2016 modern 171 #21,726

Geography

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Where Hildyards are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around Sutton and Stoneferry, London parishes, St Dunstan Stepney, St John Hackney and Woodbridge. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Dorset, Gwynedd and Lewes. 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 Sutton and Stoneferry Yorkshire, East Riding
2 London parishes London 3
3 St Dunstan Stepney London (East Districts)
4 St John Hackney London (North Districts)
5 Woodbridge Suffolk

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 East Riding of Yorkshire 014 East Riding of Yorkshire
2 Kingston upon Hull 014 Kingston upon Hull, City of
3 North Dorset 008 North Dorset
4 Gwynedd 011 Gwynedd
5 Lewes 002 Lewes

Forenames

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First names often paired with Hildyard

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

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Hildyard

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Hildyard, 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

Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities

Group

Rural Amenity

Nationally, the Hildyard surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Rural Amenity, within Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities. This does not mean every Hildyard 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 comprises older parents or retirees, with no resident dependent children, and with the lowest residential densities in this Supergroup. Predominantly UK-born, residents typically live in detached houses, although others do live in semi-detached and terraced properties. The level of multiple car ownership is the highest in this Supergroup. Most houses are owner occupied although social renting is also present. Many concentrations occur in high amenity rural locations, such as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Wider pattern

Pervasive throughout the UK, members of this Supergroup typically own (or are buying) their detached, semi-detached or terraced homes. They are also typically educated to A Level/Highers or degree level and work in skilled or professional occupations. Typically born in the UK, some families have children, although the median adult age is above 45 and some property has become under-occupied after children have left home. This Supergroup is pervasive not only in suburban locations, but also in neighbourhoods at or beyond the edge of cities that adjoin rural parts of the country.

London neighbourhood type

London Output Area Classification

Supergroup

The Greater London Mix

Group

Social Rented Sector Professional Support Workers

Within London, Hildyard is most associated with areas classed as Social Rented Sector Professional Support Workers, part of The Greater London Mix. 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

Mainly located in Inner London, these neighbourhoods retain a diverse employment structure, with some concentration in associated professional and technical occupations rather than skilled trades or construction. Social renting is more common and levels of homeownership are low. Many residents identify as Black. There is a lower than average rate of marriage or civil partnership, few that are very old (85 or over) and higher than average incidence of disability.

Wider London pattern

A Supergroup embodying London's diversity in many respects, apart from low numbers of residents identifying as of Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani or Other (non-Chinese) Asian ethnicity. There is lower than average prevalence of families with dependent children, while there are above average occurrences of never-married individuals and single-person households. The age distribution is skewed towards younger, single residents and couples without children, with many individuals identifying as of mixed or multiple ethnicity. Social rented or private rented housing is slightly more prevalent than average, and many residents live in flats. Individuals typically work in professional and associated roles in public administration, education or health rather than in elementary occupations in agriculture, energy, water, construction or manufacturing. Incidence of students is slightly below average. Individuals declaring no religion are more prevalent than average and non-use of English at home is below average.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Hildyard is most concentrated in decile 7 for access to healthy assets and hazards. This places the surname near the middle of the scale.

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

Hildyard falls in decile 9 for neighbourhood deprivation. This puts the surname towards the less deprived end of the index.

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

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More deprived Less deprived

Broadband speed

Fixed broadband download speed

The modern neighbourhood pattern for Hildyard is most associated with a typical fixed broadband download band of 30-40 mbit/s.

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

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Area snapshot

Ethnic group estimate

Most common ethnic group estimate
White - British

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

1881 census detail

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Hildyard families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Hildyard 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. Middlesex leads with 68 Hildyards recorded in 1881 and an index of 3.98x.

County Total Index
Middlesex 68 3.98x
Yorkshire 46 2.72x
Essex 10 2.97x
Kent 9 1.55x
Suffolk 6 2.89x
Norfolk 5 1.91x
Surrey 5 0.60x
Lincolnshire 4 1.47x
Nottinghamshire 4 1.74x
Staffordshire 4 0.69x
Bedfordshire 3 3.39x
Lancashire 3 0.15x
Cheshire 2 0.53x
Sussex 2 0.70x
Buckinghamshire 1 0.97x
Devon 1 0.28x
Dorset 1 0.89x
Shropshire 1 0.68x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Poplar London in Middlesex leads with 13 Hildyards recorded in 1881 and an index of 40.35x.

Place Total Index
Poplar London 13 40.35x
Sculcoates 11 41.01x
Scarborough 10 65.06x
Bow London 9 41.42x
Hutton Bonville 8 11428.57x
Limehouse London 8 42.69x
Hackney London 7 7.31x
Southcoates 6 63.90x
St George Hanover Square 6 19.95x
Charlton Next Woolwich 5 82.37x
Colchester St Peter 5 370.37x
St George Bloomsbury 5 51.07x
Woodbridge 5 187.97x
Burslem 4 24.23x
Kensington London 4 4.22x
St Michael Paternoster 4 6666.67x
Sutton Stoneferry 4 82.64x
West Ham 4 5.38x
Bedford St Paul 3 49.51x
Ingoldsby 3 1428.57x
Kings Lynn St Margaret 3 38.07x
Lofthouse 3 118.58x
Salford 3 5.04x
Brighton 2 3.44x
Croydon 2 4.33x
Lewisham 2 6.44x
Mile End Old Town London 2 5.51x
Rotherhithe 2 9.48x
Rowley 2 540.54x
St Giles In Fields London 2 23.89x
St Marylebone London 2 2.19x
St Paul Covent Garden 2 116.96x
Swannington 2 1052.63x
Warsop Soulkholme 2 1052.63x
Bishop Thornton 1 357.14x
Chatham 1 6.24x
Devonport 1 24.51x
East Chelborough 1 1428.57x
Eton 1 42.74x
Framlingham 1 67.57x
Hyde 1 8.99x
Ilkley 1 36.23x
Leyton Low 1 14.60x
Nottingham St Mary 1 1.68x
Orpington 1 56.18x
Oxton 1 333.33x
Paddington London 1 1.59x
Sandbach 1 31.15x
Shrewsbury St Chad 1 19.31x
Southwark St George Martyr 1 2.91x
St Luke London 1 3.65x
St Martin In Fields 1 9.78x
St Pancras London 1 0.73x
St Peterat Arches 1 322.58x

Top female names

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

Name Count
Elizabeth 11
Mary 10
Eliza 5
Alice 3
Anne 3
Grace 3
Julia 3
Sarah 3
Ada 2
Amy 2
Ann 2
Edith 2
Eleanor 2
Evelyn 2
Harriet 2
Jane 2
Mabel 2
Maria 2
Susan 2
Anna 1
Caroline 1
Catherine 1
Christiana 1
Christine 1
Cicely 1
Clara 1
Dian 1
Ellen 1
Emily 1
Emma 1
Emmelina 1
Ethel 1
Florence 1
Frances 1
G.M. 1
Gertrude 1
Girtrude 1
Hannah 1
Harriett 1
Letitia 1
Lizzie 1
Lois 1
Marian 1
Mariane 1
Octavia 1
Phillis 1
Rachael 1
Rose 1
Ruby 1
Winifred 1

Top male names

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

Name Count
George 6
John 6
William 6
Frederick 5
Henry 5
Christopher 3
Edward 3
Harry 3
James 3
Robert 3
Charles 2
Thomas 2
Alexander 1
Alfred 1
Arthur 1
Austin 1
Chs.F. 1
Clarence 1
David 1
Duncan 1
Elias 1
Ernest 1
Fred 1
Frederic 1
Fredk. 1
Fredrick 1
Horace 1
Horatio 1
Jno.Gio.Bower 1
Mark 1
Marshall 1
Nathaniel 1
Richard 1
Richd. 1
Rowland 1
Tom 1
Walter 1
Willm. 1

FAQ

Hildyard surname: questions and answers

How common was the Hildyard surname in 1881?

In 1881, 175 people were recorded with the Hildyard surname. That placed it at #13,982 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Hildyard surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 171 in 2016. That gives Hildyard a modern rank of #21,726.

What does the Hildyard map show?

The map shows local surname concentration for the selected year. Darker areas have a stronger concentration of Hildyard 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.