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 Sedgwick, with 20 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
801	Sedgwick	20	0.020%	2.77x
802	Self	20	0.020%	2.83x
803	Sharman	20	0.020%	1.46x
804	Sickelmore	20	0.020%	194.55x
805	Tamkin	20	0.020%	133.96x
806	Town	20	0.020%	4.06x
807	Weaver	20	0.020%	0.77x
808	Welling	20	0.020%	14.22x
809	Wilmshurst	20	0.020%	14.12x
810	Winyard	20	0.020%	60.28x
811	Woodhouse	20	0.020%	0.85x
812	Alderton	19	0.020%	4.28x
813	Attridge	19	0.020%	12.96x
814	Bax	19	0.020%	15.31x
815	Bayley	19	0.020%	1.19x
816	Brett	19	0.020%	1.01x
817	Buckland	19	0.020%	1.81x
818	Buckman	19	0.020%	11.86x
819	Collis	19	0.020%	1.85x
820	Crunden	19	0.020%	45.44x
821	Dray	19	0.020%	8.51x
822	Foat	19	0.020%	48.13x
823	Garbutt	19	0.020%	2.65x
824	Golden	19	0.020%	4.54x
825	Haffenden	19	0.020%	15.43x
826	Hole	19	0.020%	2.23x
827	Hollyman	19	0.020%	26.76x
828	Jay	19	0.020%	2.19x
829	Lewes	19	0.020%	8.10x
830	Lidbetter	19	0.020%	33.49x
831	Linden	19	0.020%	14.04x
832	Muddle	19	0.020%	19.41x
833	Pettitt	19	0.020%	3.57x
834	Pitts	19	0.020%	1.86x
835	Pledge	19	0.020%	17.30x
836	Roffey	19	0.020%	7.66x
837	Routledge	19	0.020%	2.25x
838	Sandell	19	0.020%	10.41x
839	Scriven	19	0.020%	3.80x
840	Turpin	19	0.020%	3.56x
841	Verrell	19	0.020%	54.54x
842	Vigar	19	0.020%	23.09x
843	Wise	19	0.020%	0.92x
844	Apted	18	0.020%	19.65x
845	Baldey	18	0.020%	71.40x
846	Barnden	18	0.020%	27.68x
847	Beale	18	0.020%	1.43x
848	Bean	18	0.020%	1.40x
849	Benham	18	0.020%	3.39x
850	Blunden	18	0.020%	5.42x
851	Breach	18	0.020%	9.12x
852	Bridge	18	0.020%	0.89x
853	Brooke	18	0.020%	1.22x
854	Chessell	18	0.020%	25.23x
855	Churchill	18	0.020%	1.53x
856	Cousins	18	0.020%	1.01x
857	Cutler	18	0.020%	1.46x
858	Dallimore	18	0.020%	11.72x
859	Daniel	18	0.020%	0.82x
860	Dickenson	18	0.020%	1.19x
861	Dilloway	18	0.020%	32.29x
862	Earp	18	0.020%	4.98x
863	Feist	18	0.020%	30.48x
864	Fogden	18	0.020%	21.53x
865	Gilliam	18	0.020%	18.64x
866	Hales	18	0.020%	1.26x
867	Harfield	18	0.020%	11.14x
868	Hawes	18	0.020%	1.47x
869	Hedger	18	0.020%	6.69x
870	Hinton	18	0.020%	1.35x
871	House	18	0.020%	1.39x
872	Jeal	18	0.020%	10.01x
873	Juniper	18	0.020%	9.55x
874	Kennett	18	0.020%	3.26x
875	Kilner	18	0.020%	4.33x
876	Knee	18	0.020%	11.72x
877	Knott	18	0.020%	0.91x
878	Laurence	18	0.020%	1.27x
879	Leney	18	0.020%	27.97x
880	Meredith	18	0.020%	0.90x
881	Mobsby	18	0.020%	37.94x
882	Nicholas	18	0.020%	0.93x
883	Ovenden	18	0.020%	6.44x
884	Penn	18	0.020%	2.01x
885	Philcox	18	0.020%	20.32x
886	Quinton	18	0.020%	3.90x
887	Samson	18	0.020%	2.54x
888	Seager	18	0.020%	3.28x
889	Sinnock	18	0.020%	55.37x
890	Spiller	18	0.020%	3.19x
891	Streater	18	0.020%	42.06x
892	Swain	18	0.020%	0.94x
893	Tapner	18	0.020%	43.75x
894	Tomsett	18	0.020%	11.54x
895	Vernon	18	0.020%	1.10x
896	Waldron	18	0.020%	2.06x
897	Weekes	18	0.020%	7.14x
898	Wilks	18	0.020%	1.15x
899	William	18	0.020%	2.12x
900	Woodgate	18	0.020%	3.86x