1881 census county

Sussex surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Sussex in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

14,040 surnames are listed for Sussex, covering 442,758 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Couchman, with 62 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Sussex

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1301	Couchman	62	0.010%	3.85x
1302	Cragg	62	0.010%	1.98x
1303	Dancy	62	0.010%	21.42x
1304	Dilloway	62	0.010%	22.44x
1305	Filtness	62	0.010%	40.98x
1306	Grevatt	62	0.010%	51.65x
1307	Griffen	62	0.010%	3.85x
1308	Irish	62	0.010%	4.32x
1309	Maple	62	0.010%	8.14x
1310	Nutley	62	0.010%	8.67x
1311	Sayer	62	0.010%	0.96x
1312	Shoebridge	62	0.010%	9.04x
1313	Souter	62	0.010%	2.32x
1314	Tindall	62	0.010%	2.08x
1315	Wall	62	0.010%	0.36x
1316	Bruce	61	0.010%	0.26x
1317	Churchill	61	0.010%	1.04x
1318	Dunster	61	0.010%	4.60x
1319	Greenwood	61	0.010%	0.16x
1320	Hotston	61	0.010%	47.56x
1321	Kennedy	61	0.010%	0.21x
1322	Kilner	61	0.010%	2.96x
1323	Leeves	61	0.010%	26.69x
1324	Park	61	0.010%	0.40x
1325	Peachey	61	0.010%	3.09x
1326	Pritchard	61	0.010%	0.23x
1327	Purser	61	0.010%	3.36x
1328	Riley	61	0.010%	0.16x
1329	Swaine	61	0.010%	2.82x
1330	Weekes	61	0.010%	4.88x
1331	Beckett	60	0.010%	0.61x
1332	Beer	60	0.010%	0.76x
1333	Body	60	0.010%	3.56x
1334	Cousens	60	0.010%	4.94x
1335	Edmunds	60	0.010%	0.93x
1336	Farrow	60	0.010%	0.65x
1337	Goodger	60	0.010%	6.15x
1338	Hare	60	0.010%	0.79x
1339	Millyard	60	0.010%	31.45x
1340	Nelson	60	0.010%	0.25x
1341	Pentecost	60	0.010%	12.00x
1342	Rumary	60	0.010%	54.46x
1343	Selsby	60	0.010%	26.83x
1344	Staples	60	0.010%	1.27x
1345	Stiles	60	0.010%	2.20x
1346	Summers	60	0.010%	0.43x
1347	Vitler	60	0.010%	57.93x
1348	Barratt	59	0.010%	0.59x
1349	Bevis	59	0.010%	3.47x
1350	Blann	59	0.010%	26.58x
1351	Broad	59	0.010%	0.94x
1352	Chamberlain	59	0.010%	0.44x
1353	Chant	59	0.010%	2.88x
1354	Corbett	59	0.010%	0.61x
1355	Coster	59	0.010%	4.07x
1356	Enticknap	59	0.010%	24.41x
1357	Hinton	59	0.010%	0.89x
1358	Ratcliff	59	0.010%	1.86x
1359	Ricketts	59	0.010%	1.23x
1360	Wait	59	0.010%	2.37x
1361	Walden	59	0.010%	1.64x
1362	Ade	58	0.010%	28.91x
1363	Andrew	58	0.010%	0.37x
1364	Burrows	58	0.010%	0.27x
1365	Chalcraft	58	0.010%	11.79x
1366	Harden	58	0.010%	3.00x
1367	Huggins	58	0.010%	1.40x
1368	Langford	58	0.010%	0.75x
1369	Manning	58	0.010%	0.37x
1370	Pack	58	0.010%	2.51x
1371	Pescott	58	0.010%	24.32x
1372	Polhill	58	0.010%	23.05x
1373	Sampson	58	0.010%	0.69x
1374	Shawyer	58	0.010%	9.04x
1375	Sherwin	58	0.010%	2.19x
1376	Smallwood	58	0.010%	1.28x
1377	Venus	58	0.010%	10.47x
1378	Addison	57	0.010%	0.84x
1379	Bullock	57	0.010%	0.36x
1380	Dear	57	0.010%	1.56x
1381	Donovan	57	0.010%	0.73x
1382	Dorey	57	0.010%	3.36x
1383	Faith	57	0.010%	12.60x
1384	Good	57	0.010%	0.93x
1385	Hewson	57	0.010%	1.42x
1386	Heywood	57	0.010%	0.58x
1387	Homer	57	0.010%	1.52x
1388	Morling	57	0.010%	11.22x
1389	Mortimer	57	0.010%	0.55x
1390	Muggridge	57	0.010%	20.15x
1391	Norrell	57	0.010%	43.89x
1392	Offen	57	0.010%	11.14x
1393	Pavey	57	0.010%	2.71x
1394	Potten	57	0.010%	16.35x
1395	Southerden	57	0.010%	47.49x
1396	Tarrant	57	0.010%	1.64x
1397	Withers	57	0.010%	0.71x
1398	Wooller	57	0.010%	10.93x
1399	Allan	56	0.010%	0.18x
1400	Boxell	56	0.010%	29.36x