1881 census place

Hornsey surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hornsey, Middlesex 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

2,297 surnames are listed for Hornsey, Middlesex, covering 14,462 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Clark, with 159 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hornsey

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
1	Clark	159	0.430%	1.43x
2	White	151	0.410%	1.27x
3	King	139	0.380%	1.73x
4	Cook	120	0.320%	1.64x
5	Newman	108	0.290%	3.93x
6	Webb	87	0.240%	1.74x
7	Porter	86	0.230%	3.10x
8	Mason	85	0.230%	1.71x
9	Chapman	81	0.220%	1.54x
10	Page	76	0.210%	2.57x
11	West	70	0.190%	1.97x
12	Day	68	0.180%	1.96x
13	Harvey	61	0.170%	1.55x
14	Saunders	60	0.160%	1.77x
15	Field	59	0.160%	3.21x
16	Burton	55	0.150%	1.75x
17	Hart	53	0.140%	1.68x
18	Potter	53	0.140%	2.21x
19	Warren	52	0.140%	2.11x
20	Matthews	51	0.140%	1.58x
21	Austin	50	0.140%	2.77x
22	Payne	50	0.140%	1.50x
23	Searle	48	0.130%	6.46x
24	Curtis	47	0.130%	2.24x
25	Nicholls	46	0.120%	2.38x
26	Frost	45	0.120%	2.17x
27	Griffin	45	0.120%	2.59x
28	Lawrence	45	0.120%	1.88x
29	Mead	45	0.120%	5.23x
30	Hammond	44	0.120%	2.09x
31	Archer	43	0.120%	2.81x
32	Hayward	43	0.120%	2.73x
33	Bishop	42	0.110%	1.63x
34	May	42	0.110%	1.79x
35	Willis	42	0.110%	2.14x
36	Houghton	41	0.110%	3.18x
37	Cooke	39	0.110%	1.91x
38	Kirby	39	0.110%	2.78x
39	Miles	39	0.110%	1.79x
40	Arnold	38	0.100%	1.91x
41	Butcher	38	0.100%	2.44x
42	Harper	38	0.100%	1.61x
43	Godfrey	37	0.100%	3.38x
44	Bacon	36	0.100%	3.88x
45	Browning	36	0.100%	4.79x
46	Wade	36	0.100%	2.43x
47	Emery	34	0.090%	4.22x
48	Hicks	33	0.090%	2.13x
49	Holloway	33	0.090%	2.92x
50	Mathews	33	0.090%	2.42x
51	Simmons	33	0.090%	2.19x
52	Chappell	32	0.090%	5.14x
53	Fuller	32	0.090%	2.14x
54	Norman	32	0.090%	1.87x
55	Atkins	31	0.080%	2.24x
56	Crane	31	0.080%	3.98x
57	Sheppard	31	0.080%	2.42x
58	Stokes	30	0.080%	1.92x
59	Burrows	29	0.080%	1.79x
60	Coates	29	0.080%	2.11x
61	Hume	29	0.080%	5.53x
62	Savage	29	0.080%	2.04x
63	Symonds	29	0.080%	6.51x
64	Pope	28	0.080%	2.20x
65	Short	28	0.080%	1.94x
66	Shorter	28	0.080%	16.31x
67	Dickenson	27	0.070%	4.82x
68	Garner	27	0.070%	2.31x
69	Garratt	27	0.070%	7.20x
70	Lowen	27	0.070%	84.83x
71	Osborn	27	0.070%	3.51x
72	Swift	27	0.070%	2.37x
73	Crouch	26	0.070%	5.25x
74	Howe	26	0.070%	1.79x
75	Ambrose	25	0.070%	7.68x
76	Brooke	25	0.070%	4.54x
77	Dalton	25	0.070%	2.95x
78	Fenner	25	0.070%	15.94x
79	Holding	25	0.070%	7.63x
80	Huggins	25	0.070%	8.04x
81	Jacob	25	0.070%	8.70x
82	Randall	25	0.070%	2.16x
83	Canning	24	0.070%	9.14x
84	Drake	24	0.070%	2.23x
85	Gale	24	0.070%	2.17x
86	Warr	24	0.070%	11.41x
87	Wills	24	0.070%	2.17x
88	Aldridge	23	0.060%	3.21x
89	Burrough	23	0.060%	28.78x
90	Lewin	23	0.060%	7.72x
91	Percy	23	0.060%	6.68x
92	Sears	23	0.060%	9.90x
93	Partridge	22	0.060%	2.28x
94	Sparrow	22	0.060%	4.70x
95	Temple	22	0.060%	4.54x
96	Weller	22	0.060%	4.14x
97	Baldock	21	0.060%	8.13x
98	Browne	21	0.060%	3.10x
99	Childs	21	0.060%	3.09x
100	Good	21	0.060%	4.57x