Top surnames from the 1881 census in Little Langton, Yorkshire

Little Langton 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
WILKINSON1212.500081.91
SMITH1212.50008.85
ELLIOT77.2917285.71
WEBSTER66.250071.86
YOUNG33.125014.55
JOHNSON33.12509.30
SEVERS33.12502,307.69
BARTON22.083338.54
KNIGHT11.04178.45
AINSLEY11.0417370.37
HEWES11.0417833.33
STEWART11.04176.66
ROBINSON11.04173.27
BLACKBURN11.041727.62
NICKELSON11.04175,000.00
ALLEN11.04175.52
KERRY11.0417153.85
HENRY11.041741.15
DUFFIELD11.0417120.48
PARKIN11.041738.76
MAKEY11.04171,666.67
ALDERSON11.041775.19
WRIGHT11.04173.25
WAKE11.0417129.87
FOOT11.0417105.26
BROWN11.04171.58
ORD11.0417158.73
BANES11.04171,000.00

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
NICKELSON5,000.0011.0417
SEVERS2,307.6933.1250
MAKEY1,666.6711.0417
BANES1,000.0011.0417
HEWES833.3311.0417
AINSLEY370.3711.0417
ELLIOT285.7177.2917
ORD158.7311.0417
KERRY153.8511.0417
WAKE129.8711.0417
DUFFIELD120.4811.0417
FOOT105.2611.0417
WILKINSON81.911212.5000
ALDERSON75.1911.0417
WEBSTER71.8666.2500
HENRY41.1511.0417
PARKIN38.7611.0417
BARTON38.5422.0833
BLACKBURN27.6211.0417
YOUNG14.5533.1250
JOHNSON9.3033.1250
SMITH8.851212.5000
KNIGHT8.4511.0417
STEWART6.6611.0417
ALLEN5.5211.0417
ROBINSON3.2711.0417
WRIGHT3.2511.0417
BROWN1.5811.0417

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 1 people called NICKELSON in Little Langton 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 1.0417 in Little Langton means that 1.0417% of the people in Little Langton on census day were called NICKELSON.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called NICKELSON 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 NICKELSON 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 NICKELSON 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 NICKELSON here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 5,000.00 in Little Langton means that you are 5,000.00 times as likely to find someone with the surname of NICKELSON in Little Langton than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Little Langton in 1881

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

AINSLEY (1)  ALDERSON (1)  ALLEN (1)  BEAKS (1)  BANES (1)  BARTON (2)  BLACKBURN (1)  BROWN (1)  DUFFIELD (1)  ELGIE (4)  ELLIOT (7)  FOOT (1)  HENRY (1)  MAC HENSON (1)  HEWES (1)  JOHNSON (3)  KELLET (1)  KERRY (1)  KNIGHT (1)  MAKEY (1)  NICKELSON (1)  ORD (1)  PARKIN (1)  PICKTHALL (1)  POINTING (9)  REMAIN (1)  ROBINSON (1)  SANGERS (4)  SANGERSON (1)  SERVINE (1)  SEVERS (3)  SMITH (12)  STEWART (1)  SUNLEY (3)  WAKE (1)  WEBSTER (6)  WHITNALL (1)  WILKINSON (12)  WRIGHT (1)  YOUNG (3)