1881 census place

Bow London surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bow London, Middlesex 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

2,080 surnames are listed for Bow London, Middlesex, covering 16,968 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wright, with 184 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bow London

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	Wright	184	0.490%	1.54x
2	Turner	151	0.410%	1.46x
3	King	149	0.400%	1.84x
4	White	146	0.390%	1.22x
5	Webb	145	0.390%	2.88x
6	Davis	143	0.380%	1.75x
7	Moore	135	0.360%	1.82x
8	Lee	119	0.320%	1.96x
9	Hunt	114	0.310%	2.31x
10	Parker	108	0.290%	1.53x
11	Cole	103	0.280%	3.04x
12	Miller	96	0.260%	1.44x
13	Cook	88	0.240%	1.19x
14	West	85	0.230%	2.37x
15	Saunders	78	0.210%	2.29x
16	Gray	76	0.200%	1.43x
17	Stevens	75	0.200%	1.93x
18	Wells	75	0.200%	2.42x
19	Adams	74	0.200%	1.35x
20	Chapman	74	0.200%	1.40x
21	Howard	74	0.200%	2.03x
22	Bryant	70	0.190%	4.41x
23	Day	70	0.190%	2.00x
24	Butler	66	0.180%	1.82x
25	Reynolds	64	0.170%	1.99x
26	Harvey	62	0.170%	1.56x
27	Barrett	59	0.160%	2.36x
28	Curtis	59	0.160%	2.80x
29	Hudson	58	0.160%	1.90x
30	Watts	57	0.150%	1.83x
31	Partridge	56	0.150%	5.76x
32	Willis	56	0.150%	2.83x
33	Finch	55	0.150%	4.44x
34	Andrews	54	0.150%	1.52x
35	Payne	52	0.140%	1.55x
36	Dunn	49	0.130%	1.58x
37	Hooper	49	0.130%	3.11x
38	Herbert	48	0.130%	3.45x
39	Lane	47	0.130%	1.83x
40	Hammond	46	0.120%	2.17x
41	Nicholls	46	0.120%	2.37x
42	Porter	46	0.120%	1.65x
43	Roper	46	0.120%	5.94x
44	Fuller	45	0.120%	2.99x
45	Godfrey	45	0.120%	4.08x
46	Newman	44	0.120%	1.59x
47	Nichols	44	0.120%	3.63x
48	Lawrence	43	0.120%	1.78x
49	Pratt	43	0.120%	2.01x
50	Rose	43	0.120%	1.56x
51	Higgins	42	0.110%	2.23x
52	Reeves	42	0.110%	2.76x
53	Heath	41	0.110%	2.22x
54	Kemp	41	0.110%	1.99x
55	Osborn	41	0.110%	5.30x
56	Daniels	40	0.110%	3.42x
57	May	40	0.110%	1.69x
58	Lawson	39	0.100%	1.78x
59	Bartlett	38	0.100%	2.33x
60	Garner	38	0.100%	3.23x
61	Skinner	38	0.100%	2.01x
62	Clements	36	0.100%	2.92x
63	Gibbs	36	0.100%	1.97x
64	Horton	36	0.100%	2.61x
65	Nunn	36	0.100%	5.53x
66	Smart	36	0.100%	2.13x
67	Hills	35	0.090%	3.40x
68	Unwin	34	0.090%	9.20x
69	Wills	34	0.090%	3.06x
70	Neal	33	0.090%	3.00x
71	Sorrell	33	0.090%	29.76x
72	Abel	32	0.090%	13.36x
73	Jordan	32	0.090%	1.95x
74	Abbott	31	0.080%	1.89x
75	Ballard	31	0.080%	5.56x
76	Dennis	31	0.080%	2.82x
77	Goodman	31	0.080%	2.86x
78	Norton	31	0.080%	2.51x
79	Monk	30	0.080%	3.84x
80	Jacobs	29	0.080%	3.26x
81	Paul	29	0.080%	3.12x
82	Bright	28	0.080%	3.72x
83	Farmer	28	0.080%	2.41x
84	Hodges	28	0.080%	2.57x
85	Brett	27	0.070%	3.82x
86	Burnett	27	0.070%	2.62x
87	Mears	27	0.070%	7.70x
88	Betts	26	0.070%	3.27x
89	Dalton	26	0.070%	3.05x
90	Dowling	26	0.070%	6.31x
91	Meggs	26	0.070%	116.33x
92	Sampson	26	0.070%	4.10x
93	Sawyer	26	0.070%	3.79x
94	Squires	26	0.070%	4.94x
95	Buckingham	25	0.070%	5.04x
96	Crawley	25	0.070%	5.17x
97	Crump	25	0.070%	6.22x
98	Hay	25	0.070%	1.83x
99	Neale	25	0.070%	2.83x
100	Valentine	25	0.070%	5.24x