1881 census place

North Bierley surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in North Bierley, 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

408 surnames are listed for North Bierley, Yorkshire, covering 10,544 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Barraclough, with 457 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in North Bierley

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	Barraclough	457	2.92%	295.43x
2	Wilkinson	345	2.21%	14.46x
3	Priestley	315	2.02%	119.09x
4	Kellett	273	1.75%	200.79x
5	Woodhead	239	1.53%	81.57x
6	Wright	233	1.49%	4.65x
7	Thornton	187	1.20%	23.80x
8	Tordoff	170	1.09%	461.33x
9	Pearson	159	1.02%	8.76x
10	Holden	141	0.900%	16.47x
11	Hodgson	138	0.880%	12.74x
12	Ellis	132	0.840%	5.82x
13	Firth	131	0.840%	25.24x
14	Lightowlers	131	0.840%	1189.83x
15	Brook	124	0.790%	20.58x
16	Hanson	121	0.770%	23.99x
17	Haley	118	0.760%	63.35x
18	Holdsworth	115	0.740%	43.68x
19	Fletcher	114	0.730%	6.39x
20	Ormondroyd	114	0.730%	1285.23x
21	Lightowler	110	0.700%	299.40x
22	Crowther	104	0.670%	22.29x
23	Benn	101	0.650%	113.43x
24	Pyrah	97	0.620%	344.83x
25	Briggs	96	0.610%	11.31x
26	Barker	87	0.560%	4.25x
27	Greenough	86	0.550%	217.94x
28	Mortimer	85	0.540%	26.01x
29	Illingworth	83	0.530%	46.92x
30	Bastow	82	0.520%	158.85x
31	Sharp	82	0.520%	6.30x
32	Worsnop	81	0.520%	246.73x
33	Clough	74	0.470%	21.21x
34	Garside	72	0.460%	31.93x
35	Jagger	71	0.450%	57.35x
36	Bottomley	69	0.440%	26.51x
37	Pollard	69	0.440%	12.11x
38	Dalby	68	0.440%	53.73x
39	Emmett	68	0.440%	51.97x
40	Seed	66	0.420%	58.46x
41	Sugden	65	0.420%	35.96x
42	Terry	65	0.420%	16.27x
43	Bateman	64	0.410%	15.85x
44	Greenwood	61	0.390%	5.03x
45	Sutcliffe	61	0.390%	9.88x
46	Arnold	60	0.380%	7.12x
47	Pickles	59	0.380%	18.58x
48	Bentley	58	0.370%	8.77x
49	Peel	58	0.370%	20.68x
50	Stead	57	0.360%	17.83x
51	Downs	56	0.360%	20.15x
52	Horsley	55	0.350%	37.64x
53	Jowett	52	0.330%	30.53x
54	Woodcock	52	0.330%	11.66x
55	Best	50	0.320%	11.87x
56	Hoyle	50	0.320%	13.86x
57	Sucksmith	50	0.320%	610.50x
58	Hainsworth	49	0.310%	49.31x
59	Bartle	48	0.310%	52.14x
60	Bower	48	0.310%	16.76x
61	Hirst	47	0.300%	9.22x
62	Bywater	46	0.290%	58.45x
63	Clayton	46	0.290%	5.41x
64	Clegg	46	0.290%	8.64x
65	Oddy	46	0.290%	47.88x
66	Boyes	45	0.290%	27.55x
67	Myers	45	0.290%	11.04x
68	Naylor	45	0.290%	7.64x
69	Rhodes	45	0.290%	6.20x
70	Wilman	45	0.290%	142.54x
71	Parkinson	44	0.280%	5.87x
72	Tempest	44	0.280%	60.48x
73	Kneeshaw	43	0.280%	315.71x
74	Womersley	43	0.280%	88.59x
75	Brayshaw	42	0.270%	73.89x
76	Lister	42	0.270%	9.43x
77	Waddington	42	0.270%	16.54x
78	Ackroyd	41	0.260%	28.07x
79	Binns	40	0.260%	15.44x
80	Bolton	40	0.260%	5.94x
81	North	40	0.260%	7.72x
82	Kershaw	39	0.250%	7.74x
83	Mallinson	38	0.240%	29.47x
84	Oates	38	0.240%	15.60x
85	Wardman	38	0.240%	94.81x
86	Townend	37	0.240%	27.65x
87	Birkby	36	0.230%	204.66x
88	Laycock	36	0.230%	16.76x
89	Robertshaw	35	0.220%	27.40x
90	Asquith	34	0.220%	37.18x
91	Hood	34	0.220%	7.86x
92	Lumb	34	0.220%	23.04x
93	Greenhough	33	0.210%	93.54x
94	Wilks	33	0.210%	13.42x
95	Cordingley	32	0.200%	59.30x
96	Hinchcliffe	32	0.200%	33.54x
97	Ingham	32	0.200%	8.23x
98	Lockwood	32	0.200%	9.27x
99	Patchett	32	0.200%	42.70x
100	Speight	32	0.200%	25.19x