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UK surname

Hoggarth

A locational surname derived from a place name meaning "hog enclosure".

In the 1881 census there were 737 people recorded with the Hoggarth surname, ranking it #4,971 among surnames in the records. By 2016, the modern count was 984, ranked #5,874, down from #4,971 in 1881.

The strongest historical links point to Lancaster Borough, Whitby and Gateshead. In the modern distribution records, the strongest local clusters include Copeland, South Lakeland and Scarborough.

Across the surname records, the highest recorded count for Hoggarth is 1,042 in 2010. Compared with 1881, the name has grown by 33.5%.

1881 census count

737

Ranked #4,971

Modern count

984

2016, ranked #5,874

Peak year

2010

1,042 bearers

Map years

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1851 to 2016

Key insights

  • Hoggarth had 737 recorded bearers in 1881, making it the #4,971 surname in that year.
  • The latest modern count shown here is 984 in 2016, ranked #5,874.
  • Within the historical census years, the highest count was 962 in 1901.
  • The contemporary neighbourhood profile most associated with the surname is Rural Amenity.

Hoggarth surname distribution map

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

Distribution map

Hoggarth surname density by area, 1881 census.

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Timeline

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Hoggarth 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 539 #4,676
1861 historical 535 #4,913
1881 historical 737 #4,971
1891 historical 957 #4,323
1901 historical 962 #4,885
1911 historical 940 #4,777
1997 modern 969 #5,633
1998 modern 1,006 #5,647
1999 modern 1,008 #5,677
2000 modern 1,017 #5,604
2001 modern 994 #5,602
2002 modern 1,027 #5,581
2003 modern 994 #5,616
2004 modern 971 #5,737
2005 modern 969 #5,675
2006 modern 970 #5,690
2007 modern 1,001 #5,607
2008 modern 1,017 #5,575
2009 modern 1,023 #5,664
2010 modern 1,042 #5,685
2011 modern 1,007 #5,787
2012 modern 994 #5,764
2013 modern 1,022 #5,722
2014 modern 1,020 #5,767
2015 modern 999 #5,812
2016 modern 984 #5,874

Geography

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Where Hoggarths are most common

Historical parish links are strongest around Lancaster Borough, Whitby, Gateshead, Dalton-in-Furness and Preston. These are the places where the surname stands out most clearly in the older records.

The modern local-area list points to Copeland, South Lakeland and Scarborough. 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 Lancaster Borough Lancashire
2 Whitby Yorkshire, North Riding
3 Gateshead Durham
4 Dalton-in-Furness Lancashire
5 Preston Lancashire

Top modern areas

Rank Area District
1 Copeland 008 Copeland
2 South Lakeland 009 South Lakeland
3 Scarborough 002 Scarborough
4 South Lakeland 005 South Lakeland
5 South Lakeland 003 South Lakeland

Forenames

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First names often paired with Hoggarth

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

Modern profile

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Neighbourhood profile for Hoggarth

Modern surname records can be compared with neighbourhood classifications. For Hoggarth, 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 Hoggarth surname is most associated with neighbourhoods classed as Rural Amenity, within Suburbanites and Peri-Urbanities. This does not mean every Hoggarth 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

Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles

Group

Established Homeowners with Children

Within London, Hoggarth is most associated with areas classed as Established Homeowners with Children, part of Professional Employment and Family Lifecycles. 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 predominantly British-born residents are typically married/in civil partnerships and own the properties in which they are raising their children. Parents are typically over 45, and many other residents are beyond normal retirement age. Detached and semi-detached houses predominate and multiple car ownership is common.

Wider London pattern

These neighbourhoods house people of all ages, predominantly of White British or European extraction. Resident turnover is low. Religious affiliation is less common than average and tends to be Christian if expressed. Homeownership, typically of terraced houses, is common but use of the social rented sector is not. Employment is typically in professional, managerial and associate professional or technical occupations. There are few full-time students. Level 4 qualifications are common. More households lack dependent children than have them which, considered alongside low levels of crowding and over-all age structure, indicates that many households may be post child-rearing and in late middle age. Incidence of disability is low, as is residence in communal establishments.

Healthy neighbourhoods

Access to healthy assets and hazards

Hoggarth is most concentrated in decile 4 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

Hoggarth falls in decile 8 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 Hoggarth 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 Hoggarth, not the ethnicity of every person with the surname.

Meaning and origin of Hoggarth

The surname Hoggarth is of English origin and is believed to have emerged in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a locational name derived from a place called Hoggard or Hogard, which was likely situated in the northern regions of England. This name is thought to come from the Old English words "hoga" meaning hill or ridge, and "geard" meaning an enclosed yard or pasture.

One of the earliest records of this surname can be found in the Yorkshire Poll Tax Returns of 1379, where a person named Johannes Hoggarth is listed. This suggests that the name was already well-established in that region by the late 14th century. Additionally, the name appears in various medieval documents from Yorkshire, such as the Wakefield Court Rolls from the 15th century.

The Hoggarth surname is also mentioned in the famous Domesday Book, a comprehensive survey of landowners and tenants commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086. This record includes references to places like "Hoggardby" and "Hogardesbi," which are believed to be early spellings of the place name that gave rise to the surname.

In the 16th century, a notable figure bearing this surname was William Hoggarth, a merchant and alderman from York who lived from around 1510 to 1585. Another individual of historical significance was Sir Godfrey Hoggarth, a prominent lawyer and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1628 to 1630.

As the surname spread across England, it underwent various spelling variations, such as Hogarth, Hogard, and Hoggart. One of the most famous bearers of this name was the 18th-century English artist and satirist, William Hogarth (1697-1764), best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings depicting contemporary life.

Another notable person with this surname was Sir Henry Trueman Wood Hoggarth (1841-1922), a British army officer who served in the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Boer War. He was knighted for his military service in 1900.

In the 19th century, John Hoggarth (1814-1887) was a prominent English architect who designed several notable buildings in Manchester and Liverpool, including the Manchester Town Hall Extension and the Liverpool Corn Exchange.

Sourced from namecensus.com.

1881 census detail

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Hoggarth families in the 1881 census

These tables use 1881 census entries for people recorded with the Hoggarth 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 207 Hoggarths recorded in 1881 and an index of 2.91x.

County Total Index
Yorkshire 207 2.91x
Lancashire 181 2.12x
Westmorland 144 91.14x
Cumberland 42 6.79x
Durham 33 1.54x
Northumberland 27 2.52x
Midlothian 23 2.39x
Roxburghshire 21 16.13x
Cheshire 9 0.57x
Surrey 9 0.26x
Selkirkshire 7 10.76x
Ayrshire 6 1.12x
Lincolnshire 6 0.52x
Lanarkshire 5 0.22x
Derbyshire 4 0.36x
Ross-shire 4 2.03x
Kent 2 0.08x
Nottinghamshire 2 0.21x
Argyllshire 1 0.50x
Berwickshire 1 1.15x
Dumfriesshire 1 0.63x
Renfrewshire 1 0.18x
Shropshire 1 0.16x

Top districts and towns

Districts give a more local view than counties. Total shows raw records, while frequency and index show local concentration. Kendal in Westmorland leads with 36 Hoggarths recorded in 1881 and an index of 124.48x.

Place Total Index
Kendal 36 124.48x
Preston 24 10.52x
Whitby 24 99.96x
Lancaster 22 43.34x
Stow 22 444.44x
Millom 21 110.70x
Eckford 17 755.56x
Tynemouth 17 29.68x
Kilham 16 535.12x
Glaisdale 14 514.71x
Kirkby Lonsdale 13 304.45x
Barrow In Furness 12 10.34x
Ingleby Greenhow 12 1250.00x
Ruswarp 12 151.52x
Everton 11 4.05x
South Shields 11 57.74x
Firbank 10 1960.78x
Liverpool 10 1.93x
Witherslack 10 746.27x
Ambleside 9 183.67x
Cloughton 9 671.64x
Crosthwaite Lyth 9 473.68x
Filey 9 156.25x
Levens 9 386.27x
North Shields 9 42.15x
Whalley 9 72.41x
Camberwell 8 1.74x
Colton 8 179.78x
Culgaith 8 941.18x
Barnacre With Bonds 7 311.11x
Brotton 7 75.27x
Holme 7 364.58x
Upleatham 7 583.33x
Agdn In Whtchrch Brdly 6 952.38x
Ashton Under Lyne 6 3.22x
Bonby 6 600.00x
Byers Green 6 99.50x
Egton 6 192.31x
Galashiels 6 24.95x
Hackness 6 1176.47x
Helmington Row 6 60.24x
Holy Trinity 6 3.50x
Nether Graveship 6 397.35x
Salford 6 2.39x
Spotland 6 6.33x
Workington 6 16.93x
Burton 5 301.20x
Dalton In Furness 5 15.18x
Gillamoor 5 1063.83x
Glasgow 5 1.21x
Hunmanby 5 150.60x
Kirkby Ireleth 5 117.65x
Nether Wyresdale 5 335.57x
Preston Richard 5 344.83x
Settle 5 91.74x
Strickland Kettle 5 331.13x
Wardleworth 5 10.26x
Beith 4 24.92x
Blackburn 4 1.76x
Brompton In Scarborough 4 235.29x
Falsgrave 4 38.10x
Hornby 4 454.55x
Lowthorpe 4 833.33x
Mirfield 4 10.23x
Pickering 4 44.59x
Upper Holker 4 199.01x
Urray 4 65.25x
Waitby 4 2352.94x
Bradford 3 1.74x
Derwent 3 652.17x
Great Driffield 3 20.52x
Leeds 3 0.75x
Little Meolse 3 132.16x
Morebattle 3 120.48x
Newholme Cum Dunsley 3 306.12x
Old Hutton Holmescales 3 319.15x
Orton 3 267.86x
Reedley Hallows 3 181.82x
Staveley 3 300.00x
Whorlton 3 178.57x

Top female names

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

Name Count
Mary 60
Elizabeth 28
Sarah 27
Margaret 25
Jane 22
Hannah 16
Ann 15
Annie 12
Agnes 9
Alice 9
Ellen 7
Isabella 7
Esther 4
Frances 4
Eliza 3
Emma 3
Jessie 3
Martha 3
Amy 2
Betsy 2
Dinah 2
Elizth. 2
Francis 2
Gertrude 2
Harriet 2
Lucy 2
Maggie 2
Anna 1
Catherine 1
Charlotte 1
Christiana 1
Dora 1
Eleanor 1
Elinor 1
Elsie 1
Ethel 1
Evelyn 1
Fanny 1
Florence 1
Francess 1
Georgiana 1
H.M. 1
Helena 1
Henrietta 1
Hester 1
Janet 1
Lena 1
Mareret 1
Margareth 1
Susannah 1

Top male names

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

Name Count
John 65
William 45
Thomas 29
George 25
James 23
Robert 20
Joseph 12
Edward 11
Henry 10
Charles 8
Richard 7
Benjamin 6
Arthur 5
Francis 5
Frank 4
Albert 3
Andrew 3
Edmund 3
Lancelot 3
Mark 3
Thos. 3
Anthony 2
David 2
Edwin 2
Fred 2
Frederick 2
Isaac 2
Mathew 2
Michael 2
Miles 2
Philip 2
Richd. 2
Rowland 2
Samuel 2
Walter 2
Alonzo 1
Edwd.P. 1
Fred.B. 1
Fredric 1
Geo. 1
Geoerge 1
Infant 1
Issac 1
J.R. 1
Johnson 1
Levi 1
Nathen 1
Nelson 1
Peter 1
Wm.James 1

FAQ

Hoggarth surname: questions and answers

How common was the Hoggarth surname in 1881?

In 1881, 737 people were recorded with the Hoggarth surname. That placed it at #4,971 in the surname rankings for that year.

How common is the Hoggarth surname today?

The latest modern count shown here is 984 in 2016. That gives Hoggarth a modern rank of #5,874.

What does the Hoggarth surname mean?

A locational surname derived from a place name meaning "hog enclosure".

What does the Hoggarth map show?

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