Burnsley Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 3
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Burnsley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Burnsley family

Profession Census Frequency
Former 1
Prisoner 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Burnsley

Name Census Frequency
John Burnsley 20
Joseph Burnsley 14
Mary Burnsley 13
William Burnsley 13
Elizabeth Burnsley 10
Annie Burnsley 6
Ann Burnsley 5
James Burnsley 5
Sarah Burnsley 5
Thomas Burnsley 5
Charles Burnsley 4
Esther Burnsley 4
Florence Burnsley 4
Jessie Burnsley 4
Alfred Burnsley 3
Edith Burnsley 3
Frederick Burnsley 3
George Burnsley 3
Hannah Burnsley 3
Jane Burnsley 3
Lucy Burnsley 3
Margaret Burnsley 3
Martha Burnsley 3
Eliza Burnsley 2
Flora Burnsley 2

Burnsley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Barnsley 88% 7,985
2 Brinsley 75% 1,361
3 Bransley 75% 333
4 Burnsley 100% 203
5 Barnesley 78% 182

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The surname Burnsley is the 4th most popular variant of Barnsley.

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