Top surnames from the 1881 census in Hawkswick, Yorkshire

Hawkswick is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Yorkshire

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
TENNANT1019.60781,851.85
LISTER611.7647413.79
BATTY59.8039641.03
RUSHTON23.9216190.48
DRIVER23.9216212.77
SPENCER23.921642.92
BROOKS11.960820.04
LUPTON11.9608270.27
HEBDEN11.9608625.00
BOMER11.960810,000.00
MYERS11.960875.19
GILL11.960827.70
WOOD11.96086.15
BROWN11.96082.97
SMITH11.96081.39
BELL11.960810.44
METCALF11.960897.09
HOLMES11.960816.10
FOSTER11.960814.66

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
BOMER10,000.0011.9608
TENNANT1,851.851019.6078
BATTY641.0359.8039
HEBDEN625.0011.9608
LISTER413.79611.7647
LUPTON270.2711.9608
DRIVER212.7723.9216
RUSHTON190.4823.9216
METCALF97.0911.9608
MYERS75.1911.9608
SPENCER42.9223.9216
GILL27.7011.9608
BROOKS20.0411.9608
HOLMES16.1011.9608
FOSTER14.6611.9608
BELL10.4411.9608
WOOD6.1511.9608
BROWN2.9711.9608
SMITH1.3911.9608

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 1 people called BOMER in Hawkswick at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 1.9608 in Hawkswick means that 1.9608% of the people in Hawkswick on census day were called BOMER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called BOMER in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called BOMER as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called BOMER here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called BOMER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 10,000.00 in Hawkswick means that you are 10,000.00 times as likely to find someone with the surname of BOMER in Hawkswick than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Hawkswick in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

BATTY (5)  BELL (1)  BOMER (1)  BOWDIN (4)  BROOKS (1)  BROWN (1)  DOVENOR (1)  DRIVER (2)  FOSTER (1)  GILL (1)  HEBDEN (1)  HOLMES (1)  LISTER (6)  LUPTON (1)  METCALF (1)  MYERS (1)  RUSHTON (2)  SMITH (1)  SPENCER (2)  TENNANT (10)  WOOD (1)  WRATHALL (6)