1881 census place

Mirfield surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Mirfield, 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

526 surnames are listed for Mirfield, Yorkshire, covering 9,871 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Sheard, with 313 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Mirfield

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	Sheard	313	1.97%	215.00x
2	Brook	277	1.74%	45.20x
3	Walker	230	1.45%	4.32x
4	Hirst	221	1.39%	42.62x
5	Sykes	218	1.37%	28.58x
6	Armitage	198	1.25%	48.84x
7	Ellis	198	1.25%	8.58x
8	Ledgard	169	1.06%	692.34x
9	Lockwood	157	0.990%	44.73x
10	Oates	139	0.870%	56.12x
11	Senior	132	0.830%	36.26x
12	Oldroyd	130	0.820%	161.69x
13	Schofield	128	0.810%	14.86x
14	Holt	122	0.770%	11.47x
15	Barker	111	0.700%	5.34x
16	Blackburn	104	0.650%	17.36x
17	Thornton	103	0.650%	12.89x
18	Lee	97	0.610%	3.73x
19	Crowther	96	0.600%	20.23x
20	France	95	0.600%	39.31x
21	Brooke	94	0.590%	39.70x
22	Jessop	94	0.590%	49.82x
23	Fisher	88	0.550%	4.73x
24	Holmes	86	0.540%	4.44x
25	Crawshaw	84	0.530%	67.93x
26	Hepworth	84	0.530%	46.35x
27	Dyson	83	0.520%	16.12x
28	Mann	80	0.500%	9.55x
29	Beaumont	79	0.500%	16.76x
30	Stead	79	0.500%	24.30x
31	Whitehead	79	0.500%	7.35x
32	Hallas	71	0.450%	119.77x
33	Tattersfield	71	0.450%	479.41x
34	Laycock	70	0.440%	32.05x
35	Lister	70	0.440%	15.45x
36	Midwood	65	0.410%	294.38x
37	Asquith	60	0.380%	64.53x
38	Newsome	59	0.370%	51.63x
39	Mellor	58	0.360%	10.36x
40	Milner	57	0.360%	15.64x
41	Peace	57	0.360%	39.56x
42	Mallinson	55	0.350%	41.94x
43	Clough	54	0.340%	15.22x
44	Hodgson	54	0.340%	4.90x
45	Dransfield	51	0.320%	91.27x
46	Hinchcliffe	50	0.310%	51.54x
47	Scholefield	50	0.310%	110.06x
48	Sutcliffe	50	0.310%	7.96x
49	North	48	0.300%	9.11x
50	Heely	47	0.300%	578.82x
51	Clegg	46	0.290%	8.50x
52	Street	46	0.290%	12.39x
53	Swithenbank	46	0.290%	226.94x
54	Chadwick	44	0.280%	6.33x
55	Firth	43	0.270%	8.15x
56	Gledhill	43	0.270%	18.24x
57	Broadbent	42	0.260%	12.32x
58	Denton	41	0.260%	14.04x
59	Rhodes	41	0.260%	5.56x
60	Buckley	39	0.250%	4.51x
61	Ramsden	39	0.250%	13.46x
62	Gooder	38	0.240%	210.64x
63	Hemingway	37	0.230%	34.74x
64	Charlesworth	36	0.230%	17.55x
65	Hanson	36	0.230%	7.02x
66	Swift	36	0.230%	7.33x
67	Crossley	35	0.220%	8.02x
68	Hammerton	35	0.220%	84.87x
69	Illingworth	35	0.220%	19.46x
70	Rothery	35	0.220%	59.74x
71	Kaye	34	0.210%	14.27x
72	Hopkinson	33	0.210%	12.70x
73	Robertshaw	33	0.210%	25.40x
74	Smithson	33	0.210%	21.66x
75	Ainley	32	0.200%	50.84x
76	Drake	32	0.200%	6.91x
77	Ellam	32	0.200%	80.08x
78	Cass	31	0.200%	27.51x
79	Muffitt	31	0.200%	729.41x
80	Stott	31	0.200%	6.24x
81	Auty	30	0.190%	56.31x
82	Eastwood	30	0.190%	7.98x
83	Howgate	30	0.190%	138.19x
84	Broadley	29	0.180%	26.96x
85	Moody	29	0.180%	6.99x
86	Pinder	29	0.180%	15.15x
87	Popplewell	29	0.180%	55.71x
88	Tolson	29	0.180%	64.06x
89	Fearnley	28	0.180%	28.97x
90	Greaves	28	0.180%	6.01x
91	Kershaw	27	0.170%	5.27x
92	Saynor	26	0.160%	147.14x
93	Appleyard	25	0.160%	17.20x
94	Barrowclough	25	0.160%	88.87x
95	Clarkson	25	0.160%	5.93x
96	Copley	25	0.160%	20.31x
97	Dutton	25	0.160%	6.95x
98	Leadbeater	25	0.160%	38.27x
99	Rushforth	25	0.160%	49.53x
100	Binns	24	0.150%	9.11x