1881 census place

Brightside Bierlow surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Brightside Bierlow, 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

2,643 surnames are listed for Brightside Bierlow, Yorkshire, covering 40,748 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 879 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Brightside Bierlow

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	Smith	879	1.55%	1.10x
2	Taylor	504	0.890%	1.39x
3	Walker	358	0.630%	1.88x
4	Brown	326	0.570%	0.87x
5	Wilson	324	0.570%	1.24x
6	Green	317	0.560%	1.98x
7	Wood	314	0.550%	1.74x
8	Robinson	303	0.530%	1.67x
9	Johnson	299	0.530%	1.57x
10	Jackson	288	0.510%	1.82x
11	Wright	280	0.490%	1.54x
12	Hall	274	0.480%	1.64x
13	Thompson	266	0.470%	1.56x
14	Cooper	259	0.460%	1.88x
15	White	247	0.440%	1.35x
16	Turner	236	0.420%	1.49x
17	Ward	234	0.410%	1.89x
18	Barker	231	0.410%	3.11x
19	Shaw	226	0.400%	2.17x
20	Booth	208	0.370%	3.71x
21	Hill	207	0.360%	1.43x
22	Clark	187	0.330%	1.10x
23	Rodgers	184	0.320%	11.84x
24	Foster	180	0.320%	2.37x
25	Allen	179	0.320%	1.67x
26	Lee	167	0.290%	1.80x
27	Hague	165	0.290%	18.48x
28	Holmes	165	0.290%	2.39x
29	Bennett	160	0.280%	1.71x
30	Harrison	160	0.280%	1.27x
31	Hobson	158	0.280%	10.73x
32	Parkin	155	0.270%	10.15x
33	Ellis	154	0.270%	1.87x
34	Watson	154	0.270%	1.17x
35	Wilkinson	151	0.270%	1.74x
36	Fox	146	0.260%	2.77x
37	Clarke	141	0.250%	1.23x
38	Bailey	138	0.240%	1.61x
39	Marshall	138	0.240%	1.45x
40	Simpson	136	0.240%	1.37x
41	Fletcher	128	0.230%	1.97x
42	Moore	128	0.230%	1.13x
43	Bell	126	0.220%	1.18x
44	Webster	115	0.200%	2.33x
45	Rhodes	112	0.200%	4.25x
46	Richardson	112	0.200%	1.16x
47	Mason	111	0.200%	1.45x
48	Cook	110	0.190%	0.98x
49	Thorpe	110	0.190%	4.90x
50	Marsh	107	0.190%	2.64x
51	Shepherd	107	0.190%	2.57x
52	Unwin	106	0.190%	18.79x
53	Pearson	104	0.180%	1.58x
54	Eyre	102	0.180%	14.99x
55	Hudson	101	0.180%	2.17x
56	Bradshaw	100	0.180%	4.29x
57	Tomlinson	100	0.180%	3.82x
58	Wragg	99	0.170%	18.84x
59	Gill	98	0.170%	2.44x
60	Senior	97	0.170%	7.46x
61	Carr	95	0.170%	2.32x
62	Newton	95	0.170%	2.18x
63	Bradley	94	0.170%	2.06x
64	Cox	94	0.170%	1.09x
65	Woodcock	94	0.170%	5.80x
66	Oxley	93	0.160%	11.70x
67	Wild	93	0.160%	4.02x
68	Firth	92	0.160%	4.88x
69	Walton	92	0.160%	2.30x
70	Atkinson	89	0.160%	1.61x
71	Elliott	89	0.160%	1.85x
72	Morton	88	0.160%	2.90x
73	Dyson	86	0.150%	4.68x
74	Mills	86	0.150%	1.17x
75	Hanson	85	0.150%	4.64x
76	Lindley	83	0.150%	14.79x
77	Nicholson	83	0.150%	2.06x
78	Swift	83	0.150%	4.73x
79	Adams	82	0.140%	0.98x
80	Lowe	82	0.140%	1.93x
81	Needham	80	0.140%	6.62x
82	Woodhead	80	0.140%	7.52x
83	Ashton	79	0.140%	2.84x
84	Kay	79	0.140%	2.68x
85	Coldwell	77	0.140%	30.98x
86	Fisher	77	0.140%	1.16x
87	Hartley	77	0.140%	2.16x
88	Holland	77	0.140%	1.90x
89	Chapman	76	0.130%	0.94x
90	Bingham	74	0.130%	8.87x
91	Goddard	74	0.130%	3.24x
92	Sanderson	73	0.130%	3.11x
93	May	72	0.130%	1.99x
94	Stocks	72	0.130%	11.65x
95	Clayton	71	0.130%	2.30x
96	Hallam	71	0.130%	6.71x
97	Williamson	71	0.130%	1.39x
98	Gibson	70	0.120%	1.02x
99	Siddall	70	0.120%	16.82x
100	Brooks	69	0.120%	1.24x