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 Knight, with 69 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
101	Knight	69	0.120%	0.99x
102	Bower	68	0.120%	6.54x
103	Naylor	68	0.120%	3.18x
104	Rose	67	0.120%	1.59x
105	Wells	67	0.120%	1.42x
106	Tingle	66	0.120%	36.45x
107	Day	65	0.110%	1.22x
108	Harvey	65	0.110%	1.07x
109	Slater	65	0.110%	1.89x
110	Deakin	64	0.110%	8.16x
111	Goodwin	64	0.110%	2.14x
112	Batty	63	0.110%	7.26x
113	Norton	63	0.110%	3.34x
114	Pickering	63	0.110%	3.08x
115	Greaves	62	0.110%	3.73x
116	Oldfield	62	0.110%	6.61x
117	Spencer	62	0.110%	1.20x
118	Andrews	61	0.110%	1.12x
119	Hutchinson	61	0.110%	1.89x
120	Jenkinson	61	0.110%	6.14x
121	Sykes	61	0.110%	2.24x
122	Woodhouse	61	0.110%	4.53x
123	Stanley	60	0.110%	2.75x
124	Whitehead	60	0.110%	1.56x
125	Bates	59	0.100%	1.63x
126	Hodgson	59	0.100%	1.50x
127	Knowles	59	0.100%	1.95x
128	Beaumont	57	0.100%	3.39x
129	Poole	57	0.100%	2.08x
130	Stones	57	0.100%	8.44x
131	Bramhall	56	0.100%	31.09x
132	Bunting	55	0.100%	8.68x
133	Kelsey	55	0.100%	13.09x
134	Littlewood	55	0.100%	7.52x
135	Stevenson	55	0.100%	1.38x
136	Dalton	54	0.100%	4.14x
137	Stacey	54	0.100%	4.24x
138	Vernon	54	0.100%	5.78x
139	Ashforth	53	0.090%	53.76x
140	Glossop	53	0.090%	26.55x
141	North	53	0.090%	2.82x
142	Ashmore	52	0.090%	12.28x
143	Bellamy	52	0.090%	6.28x
144	Couldwell	52	0.090%	106.30x
145	Crookes	52	0.090%	20.99x
146	Sharp	52	0.090%	1.10x
147	Barlow	51	0.090%	1.66x
148	Greenwood	51	0.090%	1.16x
149	Short	51	0.090%	2.30x
150	Blythe	50	0.090%	11.59x
151	Frith	50	0.090%	8.83x
152	Slack	50	0.090%	5.59x
153	Best	49	0.090%	3.20x
154	Heath	49	0.090%	1.74x
155	Jubb	49	0.090%	17.24x
156	Platts	49	0.090%	12.93x
157	Staniforth	49	0.090%	22.75x
158	Barber	48	0.080%	1.40x
159	Curtis	48	0.080%	1.49x
160	Furniss	48	0.080%	19.08x
161	Stringer	48	0.080%	4.24x
162	Ogden	47	0.080%	2.93x
163	Cutts	46	0.080%	10.31x
164	Downing	46	0.080%	4.66x
165	Marriott	46	0.080%	3.62x
166	Bird	45	0.080%	1.04x
167	Brookes	45	0.080%	3.37x
168	Charlesworth	45	0.080%	6.14x
169	Gould	45	0.080%	2.19x
170	Innocent	45	0.080%	75.83x
171	Machin	45	0.080%	7.91x
172	Armitage	44	0.080%	3.04x
173	Atkin	44	0.080%	5.80x
174	Denton	43	0.080%	4.12x
175	Grayson	43	0.080%	10.15x
176	Hopkinson	43	0.080%	4.63x
177	Lister	43	0.080%	2.66x
178	Nelson	43	0.080%	1.56x
179	Cooke	42	0.070%	1.34x
180	Fearnley	42	0.070%	12.17x
181	Garner	42	0.070%	2.34x
182	Gillott	42	0.070%	20.67x
183	Pollard	42	0.070%	2.03x
184	Broughton	41	0.070%	3.87x
185	Butterworth	41	0.070%	2.01x
186	Dale	41	0.070%	1.71x
187	Frost	41	0.070%	1.28x
188	Hewitt	41	0.070%	1.48x
189	Hinchliffe	41	0.070%	8.37x
190	Proctor	41	0.070%	2.94x
191	Schofield	41	0.070%	1.33x
192	Bamforth	40	0.070%	15.80x
193	Charles	40	0.070%	3.41x
194	Cousins	40	0.070%	3.92x
195	Davy	40	0.070%	5.71x
196	Fellows	40	0.070%	5.21x
197	Hirst	40	0.070%	2.16x
198	Long	40	0.070%	1.09x
199	Travis	40	0.070%	6.01x
200	Bridges	39	0.070%	4.32x