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 Rider, with 23 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
701	Rider	23	0.020%	2.38x
702	Shoosmith	23	0.020%	42.26x
703	Southon	23	0.020%	19.15x
704	Sparks	23	0.020%	1.53x
705	Thwaites	23	0.020%	3.87x
706	Wakeford	23	0.020%	6.68x
707	Waterman	23	0.020%	2.98x
708	Wingfield	23	0.020%	5.01x
709	Banfield	22	0.020%	4.84x
710	Braiden	22	0.020%	127.54x
711	Challen	22	0.020%	12.39x
712	Clout	22	0.020%	19.16x
713	Cotton	22	0.020%	0.93x
714	Crook	22	0.020%	0.77x
715	Dalton	22	0.020%	0.96x
716	Darby	22	0.020%	1.38x
717	Geall	22	0.020%	45.42x
718	Greenway	22	0.020%	2.98x
719	Hoskins	22	0.020%	2.27x
720	Illman	22	0.020%	27.63x
721	Jackman	22	0.020%	2.38x
722	Killick	22	0.020%	4.34x
723	Munday	22	0.020%	1.89x
724	Mussell	22	0.020%	16.25x
725	Pannell	22	0.020%	7.41x
726	Piercey	22	0.020%	24.47x
727	Pont	22	0.020%	24.20x
728	Postlewaite	22	0.020%	52.62x
729	Ralph	22	0.020%	1.45x
730	Rusbridge	22	0.020%	39.01x
731	Silsby	22	0.020%	44.50x
732	Stunell	22	0.020%	184.25x
733	Thatcher	22	0.020%	2.41x
734	Tidy	22	0.020%	6.13x
735	Trangmar	22	0.020%	120.61x
736	Trussler	22	0.020%	17.13x
737	Tyrrell	22	0.020%	3.01x
738	Whittle	22	0.020%	1.02x
739	Willson	22	0.020%	1.97x
740	Allfrey	21	0.020%	40.57x
741	Ashby	21	0.020%	1.26x
742	Back	21	0.020%	3.96x
743	Betteridge	21	0.020%	4.69x
744	Bish	21	0.020%	16.40x
745	Blann	21	0.020%	46.89x
746	Brill	21	0.020%	16.53x
747	Browne	21	0.020%	1.15x
748	Buckwell	21	0.020%	17.15x
749	Budgen	21	0.020%	10.13x
750	Bush	21	0.020%	0.86x
751	Card	21	0.020%	3.60x
752	Carey	21	0.020%	1.12x
753	Chate	21	0.020%	84.41x
754	Colman	21	0.020%	2.27x
755	Dancy	21	0.020%	35.97x
756	Denman	21	0.020%	4.74x
757	Downer	21	0.020%	5.50x
758	Elms	21	0.020%	5.55x
759	Hatchard	21	0.020%	15.86x
760	Heywood	21	0.020%	1.06x
761	Leppard	21	0.020%	15.82x
762	Longley	21	0.020%	3.11x
763	Luck	21	0.020%	2.56x
764	Lusted	21	0.020%	26.71x
765	Mansell	21	0.020%	1.81x
766	Mechen	21	0.020%	105.53x
767	Pentecost	21	0.020%	20.82x
768	Philips	21	0.020%	1.14x
769	Pickett	21	0.020%	2.63x
770	Reeve	21	0.020%	0.90x
771	Sampson	21	0.020%	1.24x
772	Silvester	21	0.020%	2.73x
773	Snow	21	0.020%	1.56x
774	Worsley	21	0.020%	2.42x
775	Abraham	20	0.020%	2.04x
776	Blyth	20	0.020%	1.28x
777	Bone	20	0.020%	1.09x
778	Boore	20	0.020%	35.04x
779	Boucher	20	0.020%	3.82x
780	Burfield	20	0.020%	16.74x
781	Carden	20	0.020%	9.11x
782	Clear	20	0.020%	9.64x
783	Dowling	20	0.020%	1.82x
784	Eves	20	0.020%	4.81x
785	Farrell	20	0.020%	1.06x
786	Fenn	20	0.020%	1.98x
787	Fitzgerald	20	0.020%	1.15x
788	Godden	20	0.020%	2.91x
789	Greenland	20	0.020%	6.39x
790	Hamlin	20	0.020%	6.91x
791	Hatton	20	0.020%	1.03x
792	Hider	20	0.020%	19.63x
793	Hollis	20	0.020%	1.45x
794	Hubbard	20	0.020%	0.83x
795	Hutchings	20	0.020%	1.07x
796	Jeffrey	20	0.020%	1.09x
797	Leslie	20	0.020%	1.22x
798	Madden	20	0.020%	2.33x
799	Muggeridge	20	0.020%	9.80x
800	Pumphrey	20	0.020%	31.73x