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 Crowley, with 27 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
601	Crowley	27	0.030%	4.21x
602	Curd	27	0.030%	11.61x
603	Dennis	27	0.030%	0.92x
604	Ede	27	0.030%	4.98x
605	Forrest	27	0.030%	1.05x
606	Fryer	27	0.030%	1.46x
607	Grainger	27	0.030%	1.77x
608	Horscroft	27	0.030%	52.51x
609	Hutson	27	0.030%	6.91x
610	Isaacs	27	0.030%	3.15x
611	Joel	27	0.030%	12.04x
612	Mace	27	0.030%	3.08x
613	Marks	27	0.030%	1.33x
614	Napper	27	0.030%	8.82x
615	Prior	27	0.030%	1.17x
616	Rolf	27	0.030%	15.50x
617	Simms	27	0.030%	2.39x
618	Swan	27	0.030%	1.05x
619	Thorne	27	0.030%	1.29x
620	Addison	26	0.030%	1.89x
621	Ayres	26	0.030%	1.88x
622	Blaber	26	0.030%	27.89x
623	Coster	26	0.030%	8.88x
624	Dacosta	26	0.030%	39.58x
625	Duly	26	0.030%	30.49x
626	Edmonds	26	0.030%	1.37x
627	Greaves	26	0.030%	0.89x
628	Haynes	26	0.030%	0.73x
629	Lindfield	26	0.030%	20.95x
630	Medhurst	26	0.030%	6.81x
631	Morling	26	0.030%	25.36x
632	Rice	26	0.030%	0.84x
633	Sharpe	26	0.030%	0.89x
634	Stapley	26	0.030%	9.42x
635	Trott	26	0.030%	3.98x
636	Whittington	26	0.030%	3.72x
637	Agate	25	0.030%	15.13x
638	Baines	25	0.030%	1.31x
639	Ballard	25	0.030%	1.68x
640	Barrow	25	0.030%	1.19x
641	Bollen	25	0.030%	21.90x
642	Boys	25	0.030%	6.40x
643	Cager	25	0.030%	96.60x
644	Castle	25	0.030%	1.27x
645	Eaton	25	0.030%	0.90x
646	Feldwick	25	0.030%	69.77x
647	Fisk	25	0.030%	4.76x
648	Gale	25	0.030%	0.84x
649	Harriott	25	0.030%	32.20x
650	Humphry	25	0.030%	8.11x
651	Kenward	25	0.030%	9.82x
652	Mepham	25	0.030%	13.72x
653	Mockett	25	0.030%	25.03x
654	Roe	25	0.030%	1.29x
655	Savage	25	0.030%	0.65x
656	Scrace	25	0.030%	43.06x
657	Tozer	25	0.030%	4.20x
658	Whitehouse	25	0.030%	0.97x
659	Wisden	25	0.030%	123.58x
660	Wiseman	25	0.030%	1.83x
661	Bacon	24	0.020%	0.96x
662	Bartholomew	24	0.020%	2.98x
663	Blundell	24	0.020%	2.05x
664	Brewer	24	0.020%	0.91x
665	Camfield	24	0.020%	24.19x
666	Carroll	24	0.020%	1.20x
667	Cogan	24	0.020%	11.90x
668	Dell	24	0.020%	4.12x
669	Durrant	24	0.020%	1.54x
670	Eason	24	0.020%	5.64x
671	Goodchild	24	0.020%	2.48x
672	Grace	24	0.020%	1.80x
673	Gurr	24	0.020%	7.05x
674	Hacker	24	0.020%	6.46x
675	Harmes	24	0.020%	37.87x
676	Hide	24	0.020%	6.27x
677	Hoad	24	0.020%	6.65x
678	Ingram	24	0.020%	0.79x
679	Linington	24	0.020%	52.04x
680	Meads	24	0.020%	7.41x
681	Newland	24	0.020%	4.03x
682	Salmon	24	0.020%	1.06x
683	Sherwood	24	0.020%	1.89x
684	Styles	24	0.020%	2.29x
685	Wickens	24	0.020%	3.84x
686	Arthur	23	0.020%	1.06x
687	Bateman	23	0.020%	0.90x
688	Burford	23	0.020%	4.14x
689	Burstow	23	0.020%	29.49x
690	Carrington	23	0.020%	2.20x
691	Carver	23	0.020%	2.56x
692	Cherriman	23	0.020%	72.21x
693	Croft	23	0.020%	0.98x
694	Crouch	23	0.020%	1.73x
695	Grossmith	23	0.020%	31.65x
696	Hitchings	23	0.020%	7.49x
697	Huntley	23	0.020%	3.28x
698	Manser	23	0.020%	10.19x
699	Mitchener	23	0.020%	26.16x
700	Munn	23	0.020%	3.21x