1881 census place

Brighton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Brighton, Sussex 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

5,068 surnames are listed for Brighton, Sussex, covering 75,381 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Batchelor, with 126 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Brighton

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
101	Batchelor	126	0.130%	7.48x
102	Hammond	126	0.130%	2.23x
103	Terry	125	0.130%	4.92x
104	Nye	124	0.120%	19.96x
105	Hills	121	0.120%	4.40x
106	Gates	120	0.120%	7.80x
107	Gibbs	119	0.120%	2.44x
108	Lee	119	0.120%	0.73x
109	Osborne	118	0.120%	2.49x
110	Long	116	0.120%	1.80x
111	Upton	115	0.120%	6.07x
112	Peters	114	0.110%	3.27x
113	Stenning	114	0.110%	40.80x
114	Harvey	113	0.110%	1.07x
115	Howell	113	0.110%	2.70x
116	Waller	113	0.110%	4.51x
117	Virgo	112	0.110%	44.07x
118	Brooks	111	0.110%	1.14x
119	Piper	111	0.110%	5.65x
120	Botting	110	0.110%	29.57x
121	Fuller	110	0.110%	2.74x
122	Burtenshaw	109	0.110%	47.13x
123	Pearce	109	0.110%	1.19x
124	Jenner	108	0.110%	9.15x
125	May	108	0.110%	1.71x
126	Ayling	107	0.110%	14.87x
127	Burton	107	0.110%	1.26x
128	Gardner	107	0.110%	1.59x
129	Spicer	107	0.110%	8.01x
130	Day	104	0.100%	1.11x
131	Moon	104	0.100%	4.96x
132	French	102	0.100%	2.10x
133	Holman	102	0.100%	7.23x
134	Weston	102	0.100%	2.52x
135	Dean	101	0.100%	1.46x
136	Maynard	101	0.100%	6.61x
137	Lambert	99	0.100%	1.83x
138	Potter	97	0.100%	1.51x
139	Fox	96	0.100%	1.04x
140	Streeter	96	0.100%	23.15x
141	Chatfield	95	0.100%	19.83x
142	Comber	95	0.100%	28.46x
143	Bailey	94	0.090%	0.63x
144	Goble	94	0.090%	32.64x
145	Greenfield	94	0.090%	8.51x
146	Hawkins	94	0.090%	1.31x
147	Gearing	93	0.090%	36.68x
148	Read	93	0.090%	1.45x
149	Standing	93	0.090%	14.67x
150	Fisher	92	0.090%	0.79x
151	Hillman	92	0.090%	10.75x
152	Butcher	91	0.090%	2.17x
153	Sheppard	90	0.090%	2.61x
154	Gray	89	0.090%	0.63x
155	Marsh	89	0.090%	1.26x
156	Arnold	88	0.090%	1.64x
157	Short	88	0.090%	2.27x
158	Gander	87	0.090%	31.14x
159	Guy	87	0.090%	4.00x
160	Pratt	87	0.090%	1.52x
161	Smart	87	0.090%	1.92x
162	Ticehurst	87	0.090%	60.42x
163	Mockford	86	0.090%	51.73x
164	Godley	85	0.090%	27.14x
165	Langridge	85	0.090%	14.56x
166	Spencer	85	0.090%	0.94x
167	Stringer	85	0.090%	4.29x
168	Wilkins	85	0.090%	1.94x
169	Beck	84	0.080%	3.61x
170	Chambers	84	0.080%	1.49x
171	Coppard	84	0.080%	45.37x
172	Cowley	84	0.080%	4.60x
173	Paine	84	0.080%	6.14x
174	Leggatt	83	0.080%	28.88x
175	Matthews	83	0.080%	0.96x
176	Powell	83	0.080%	0.67x
177	Coates	82	0.080%	2.21x
178	Harding	82	0.080%	1.14x
179	Steer	82	0.080%	7.07x
180	Cheeseman	81	0.080%	10.35x
181	Rich	81	0.080%	6.50x
182	Salvage	81	0.080%	76.77x
183	Beard	80	0.080%	3.06x
184	Cooke	80	0.080%	1.46x
185	Dunk	80	0.080%	24.33x
186	Tugwell	80	0.080%	40.45x
187	Anscombe	79	0.080%	37.44x
188	Cornford	79	0.080%	35.27x
189	Winter	79	0.080%	2.24x
190	Coleman	78	0.080%	1.58x
191	Farrant	78	0.080%	13.24x
192	Redman	78	0.080%	5.96x
193	Hollingdale	77	0.080%	61.07x
194	Tullett	77	0.080%	37.07x
195	Ansell	76	0.080%	6.62x
196	Crowhurst	76	0.080%	16.38x
197	Lower	76	0.080%	40.32x
198	Scrase	76	0.080%	67.97x
199	Austin	75	0.080%	1.54x
200	Barnett	75	0.080%	1.67x