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 Best, with 75 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
201	Best	75	0.080%	2.80x
202	Norris	75	0.080%	1.76x
203	Carpenter	74	0.070%	2.17x
204	Pannett	74	0.070%	69.05x
205	Rose	74	0.070%	1.00x
206	Strong	74	0.070%	4.99x
207	Watkins	74	0.070%	1.23x
208	Howard	73	0.070%	0.75x
209	Bartlett	72	0.070%	1.65x
210	Boxall	72	0.070%	9.14x
211	Bridger	72	0.070%	8.60x
212	Gaston	72	0.070%	39.53x
213	Markwick	72	0.070%	50.00x
214	Beal	71	0.070%	7.60x
215	Herriott	71	0.070%	60.11x
216	Mann	71	0.070%	1.36x
217	Nicholson	71	0.070%	1.01x
218	Norman	71	0.070%	1.54x
219	Pelling	71	0.070%	27.33x
220	Tuppen	71	0.070%	81.67x
221	Ashdown	70	0.070%	12.43x
222	Barton	70	0.070%	1.30x
223	Blackman	70	0.070%	5.79x
224	Frost	70	0.070%	1.25x
225	Kirby	70	0.070%	1.86x
226	Randall	70	0.070%	2.25x
227	Briggs	69	0.070%	1.28x
228	Clifford	69	0.070%	3.38x
229	Curtis	69	0.070%	1.22x
230	Dyer	69	0.070%	1.79x
231	Foord	69	0.070%	15.92x
232	Grover	69	0.070%	11.16x
233	Butler	68	0.070%	0.70x
234	Diplock	68	0.070%	36.02x
235	Hunter	68	0.070%	0.67x
236	Winder	68	0.070%	10.42x
237	Hallett	67	0.070%	5.48x
238	Hilton	67	0.070%	1.96x
239	Newton	67	0.070%	0.88x
240	Palmer	67	0.070%	0.57x
241	Boniface	66	0.070%	18.40x
242	Slater	66	0.070%	1.10x
243	Vaughan	66	0.070%	1.95x
244	Verrall	66	0.070%	34.00x
245	Banks	65	0.070%	1.28x
246	Heasman	65	0.070%	25.08x
247	Shelley	65	0.070%	8.45x
248	Bradford	64	0.060%	3.30x
249	Dawes	64	0.060%	4.73x
250	Harmer	64	0.060%	6.50x
251	Homewood	64	0.060%	20.43x
252	Reynolds	64	0.060%	0.74x
253	Shepherd	64	0.060%	0.88x
254	Sutton	64	0.060%	1.01x
255	Cheesman	63	0.060%	12.41x
256	Holloway	63	0.060%	2.07x
257	Nicholls	63	0.060%	1.21x
258	Bond	62	0.060%	1.18x
259	Gorringe	62	0.060%	38.93x
260	Jordan	62	0.060%	1.41x
261	Langley	62	0.060%	2.84x
262	Monk	62	0.060%	2.97x
263	Pope	62	0.060%	1.81x
264	Warren	62	0.060%	0.93x
265	Hayward	61	0.060%	1.44x
266	Puttick	61	0.060%	30.90x
267	Sawyer	61	0.060%	3.33x
268	Stace	61	0.060%	30.24x
269	Tribe	61	0.060%	18.15x
270	Vine	61	0.060%	6.60x
271	Bourne	60	0.060%	3.11x
272	Kennard	60	0.060%	12.40x
273	Pierce	60	0.060%	4.11x
274	Hudson	59	0.060%	0.73x
275	Moppett	59	0.060%	114.74x
276	Skinner	59	0.060%	1.17x
277	Still	59	0.060%	9.43x
278	Wenham	59	0.060%	17.92x
279	Woolgar	59	0.060%	16.70x
280	Yeates	59	0.060%	10.76x
281	Huggett	58	0.060%	12.75x
282	Pullen	58	0.060%	4.43x
283	Collings	57	0.060%	4.82x
284	Harwood	57	0.060%	2.14x
285	Leach	57	0.060%	1.39x
286	Olliver	57	0.060%	27.80x
287	Stephens	57	0.060%	1.03x
288	Tutt	57	0.060%	19.95x
289	Winchester	57	0.060%	15.06x
290	Carr	56	0.060%	0.78x
291	Laycock	56	0.060%	4.10x
292	Baldwin	55	0.060%	1.30x
293	Emery	55	0.060%	2.53x
294	Hobden	55	0.060%	23.51x
295	Holder	55	0.060%	4.12x
296	Jeffery	55	0.060%	2.55x
297	Porter	55	0.060%	0.74x
298	Roser	55	0.060%	53.99x
299	Willis	55	0.060%	1.04x
300	Bowley	54	0.050%	9.90x