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1881 census place

Eastbourne surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Eastbourne, 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

1,320 surnames are listed for Eastbourne, Sussex, covering 10,221 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Watmore, with 1 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Eastbourne

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.

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1301Watmore15.26x
1302Weber13.46x
1303Week119.72x
1304Westmoreland12.75x
1305Whiteland112.47x
1306Whymark15.85x
1307Wiggan111.11x
1308Wigram114.37x
1309Wilcockson13.41x
1310Wilcot130.03x
1311Willans14.64x
1312Willman15.60x
1313Willshaw15.10x
1314Wilmer14.52x
1315Winterson16.61x
1316Withall14.32x
1317Wooller14.17x
1318Worledge16.99x
1319Wyne115.92x
1320Zimmermann130.03x