1881 census place

Barnsley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

1,230 surnames are listed for Barnsley, Yorkshire, covering 16,887 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is White, with 233 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Barnsley

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	White	233	0.780%	2.43x
2	Wilkinson	210	0.700%	4.61x
3	Green	205	0.690%	2.44x
4	Jackson	201	0.670%	2.41x
5	Robinson	191	0.640%	2.01x
6	Wood	188	0.630%	1.98x
7	Harrison	177	0.590%	2.67x
8	Walker	176	0.590%	1.76x
9	Ward	140	0.470%	2.15x
10	Hirst	136	0.460%	13.96x
11	Shaw	130	0.440%	2.37x
12	Denton	124	0.420%	22.60x
13	Carr	118	0.400%	5.48x
14	Guest	115	0.390%	18.03x
15	Senior	115	0.390%	16.81x
16	Marshall	112	0.380%	2.24x
17	Hinchliffe	109	0.370%	42.31x
18	Hyde	109	0.370%	11.87x
19	Firth	108	0.360%	10.89x
20	Richardson	101	0.340%	1.99x
21	Swift	101	0.340%	10.95x
22	Atkinson	100	0.330%	3.44x
23	Bradley	94	0.310%	3.92x
24	Hardcastle	91	0.300%	34.48x
25	Rushforth	91	0.300%	95.97x
26	Gill	90	0.300%	4.26x
27	Wainwright	86	0.290%	13.61x
28	Fisher	84	0.280%	2.40x
29	Foster	82	0.270%	2.05x
30	Fox	81	0.270%	2.92x
31	Booth	77	0.260%	2.61x
32	Hobson	76	0.250%	9.81x
33	Hepworth	75	0.250%	22.03x
34	Shepherd	73	0.240%	3.34x
35	Broadhead	68	0.230%	31.01x
36	Dyson	68	0.230%	7.03x
37	Winter	66	0.220%	6.23x
38	Sutcliffe	64	0.210%	5.43x
39	Chappell	63	0.210%	12.51x
40	Kaye	63	0.210%	14.08x
41	Ogley	63	0.210%	205.14x
42	Sykes	63	0.210%	4.40x
43	Walton	63	0.210%	3.00x
44	Beaumont	62	0.210%	7.00x
45	Gelder	62	0.210%	74.92x
46	Hawcroft	62	0.210%	251.73x
47	Cooke	61	0.200%	3.70x
48	Dickinson	61	0.200%	4.78x
49	Charlesworth	60	0.200%	15.57x
50	Blackburn	59	0.200%	5.24x
51	Greenwood	59	0.200%	2.54x
52	Holling	58	0.190%	191.99x
53	Schofield	58	0.190%	3.58x
54	Hodgson	56	0.190%	2.71x
55	Pickering	56	0.190%	5.20x
56	Asquith	55	0.180%	31.48x
57	Crossland	55	0.180%	20.96x
58	Scholey	55	0.180%	53.61x
59	Kay	54	0.180%	3.48x
60	Rose	54	0.180%	2.44x
61	Barraclough	53	0.180%	17.93x
62	Midgley	52	0.170%	13.00x
63	Burton	50	0.170%	1.97x
64	Rhodes	50	0.170%	3.61x
65	Bashforth	49	0.160%	226.54x
66	Batty	49	0.160%	10.74x
67	Burrows	49	0.160%	3.75x
68	Jaques	49	0.160%	22.19x
69	Nixon	48	0.160%	5.28x
70	Fleetwood	47	0.160%	45.15x
71	Dryden	46	0.150%	25.56x
72	Lodge	46	0.150%	8.47x
73	Armitage	45	0.150%	5.91x
74	Ashton	45	0.150%	3.08x
75	Hewitt	45	0.150%	3.09x
76	Bedford	44	0.150%	6.21x
77	Coldwell	44	0.150%	33.66x
78	Dunk	44	0.150%	44.53x
79	Gillott	44	0.150%	41.17x
80	Goodyear	44	0.150%	27.82x
81	Oxley	44	0.150%	10.52x
82	Turton	44	0.150%	13.12x
83	Bray	43	0.140%	4.28x
84	Cherry	43	0.140%	14.07x
85	Clegg	43	0.140%	4.23x
86	Kenworthy	43	0.140%	21.64x
87	Marsland	42	0.140%	24.14x
88	Hutchinson	41	0.140%	2.42x
89	Steele	41	0.140%	5.13x
90	Stott	41	0.140%	4.40x
91	Burkinshaw	40	0.130%	67.65x
92	Gaunt	40	0.130%	13.61x
93	Moxon	40	0.130%	23.89x
94	Buckley	39	0.130%	2.40x
95	Drake	39	0.130%	4.48x
96	Drury	39	0.130%	8.22x
97	Moody	39	0.130%	5.00x
98	Naylor	39	0.130%	3.47x
99	Needham	39	0.130%	6.14x
100	Osborne	39	0.130%	2.74x