Top surnames from the 1881 census in Burnsall, Yorkshire

Burnsall is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Yorkshire

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
THOMPSON1310.743835.86
INMAN119.09091,341.46
BINNS97.4380447.76
BIRCH97.4380181.45
WHITAKER86.6116233.92
FLETCHER75.785150.69
CARLISLE75.78511,093.75
JOY64.9587588.24
WORSLEY54.1322471.70
CLARKE32.479312.23
WHITLEY32.4793303.03
STOTT32.479379.37
WILKINSON21.652910.83
HORNER21.652986.96
HOLMES10.82646.79
ABBOTT10.826418.73
THWAITES10.8264138.89
GREEN10.82642.94
STOCKDALE10.8264106.38
BOLTON10.826419.19
IBBETSON10.8264370.37
BERRY10.826410.42
HISLOP10.8264136.99
MOOR10.826458.82
JACQUES10.826497.09
ARMISTEAD10.8264434.78
HIEBER10.826410,000.00
DALES10.8264263.16
METCALFE10.826436.23
BRADBURY10.826428.57

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
HIEBER10,000.0010.8264
INMAN1,341.46119.0909
CARLISLE1,093.7575.7851
JOY588.2464.9587
WORSLEY471.7054.1322
BINNS447.7697.4380
ARMISTEAD434.7810.8264
IBBETSON370.3710.8264
WHITLEY303.0332.4793
DALES263.1610.8264
WHITAKER233.9286.6116
BIRCH181.4597.4380
THWAITES138.8910.8264
HISLOP136.9910.8264
STOCKDALE106.3810.8264
JACQUES97.0910.8264
HORNER86.9621.6529
STOTT79.3732.4793
MOOR58.8210.8264
FLETCHER50.6975.7851
METCALFE36.2310.8264
THOMPSON35.861310.7438
BRADBURY28.5710.8264
BOLTON19.1910.8264
ABBOTT18.7310.8264
CLARKE12.2332.4793
WILKINSON10.8321.6529
BERRY10.4210.8264
HOLMES6.7910.8264
GREEN2.9410.8264

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 1 people called HIEBER in Burnsall at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 0.8264 in Burnsall means that 0.8264% of the people in Burnsall on census day were called HIEBER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called HIEBER in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called HIEBER as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called HIEBER here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called HIEBER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 10,000.00 in Burnsall means that you are 10,000.00 times as likely to find someone with the surname of HIEBER in Burnsall than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Burnsall in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

ABBOTT (1)  ARMISTEAD (1)  BERRY (1)  BINNS (9)  BIRCH (9)  BOLTON (1)  BRADBURY (1)  BROOKSBANK (7)  CARLISLE (7)  CLARKE (3)  DALES (1)  EMSLEY (2)  FLETCHER (7)  GREEN (1)  HESLETON (6)  HISLOP (1)  HEWBOULD (2)  HIEBER (1)  HOLMES (1)  HORNER (2)  IBBETSON (1)  INMAN (11)  JACQUES (1)  JOY (6)  METCALFE (1)  MOOR (1)  STOCKDALE (1)  STOTT (3)  THOMPSON (13)  THWAITES (1)  WHITAKER (8)  WHITLEY (3)  WILKINSON (2)  WORSLEY (5)