1881 census place

Poplar London surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Poplar London, 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

3,188 surnames are listed for Poplar London, Middlesex, covering 32,114 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 829 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Poplar London

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	Smith	829	1.50%	1.06x
2	Brown	438	0.790%	1.21x
3	White	278	0.500%	1.57x
4	Clark	245	0.440%	1.48x
5	Wilson	227	0.410%	0.90x
6	Martin	208	0.380%	1.53x
7	Johnson	204	0.370%	1.10x
8	Cooper	191	0.350%	1.42x
9	Walker	190	0.340%	1.03x
10	Driscoll	187	0.340%	30.47x
11	Green	184	0.330%	1.19x
12	Turner	184	0.330%	1.20x
13	Hill	181	0.330%	1.29x
14	Allen	176	0.320%	1.69x
15	Anderson	167	0.300%	1.53x
16	Thompson	162	0.290%	0.98x
17	Young	158	0.290%	1.33x
18	Baker	154	0.280%	1.27x
19	Adams	150	0.270%	1.85x
20	King	147	0.270%	1.22x
21	Davis	144	0.260%	1.19x
22	Carter	143	0.260%	1.55x
23	Ward	139	0.250%	1.15x
24	Webb	136	0.250%	1.82x
25	Mitchell	135	0.240%	1.21x
26	Hart	132	0.240%	2.81x
27	Cox	125	0.230%	1.50x
28	Reed	119	0.220%	2.96x
29	Collins	116	0.210%	1.47x
30	Cook	115	0.210%	1.05x
31	Hunt	115	0.210%	1.57x
32	Cole	113	0.200%	2.25x
33	Miller	113	0.200%	1.15x
34	Palmer	106	0.190%	1.63x
35	Phillips	105	0.190%	1.06x
36	Wells	103	0.190%	2.25x
37	Warren	101	0.180%	2.74x
38	Harvey	100	0.180%	1.70x
39	Kelly	100	0.180%	1.66x
40	Bennett	99	0.180%	1.09x
41	Ellis	97	0.180%	1.21x
42	Mills	94	0.170%	1.31x
43	Chapman	90	0.160%	1.15x
44	Butler	88	0.160%	1.64x
45	Andrews	87	0.160%	1.65x
46	Day	86	0.160%	1.66x
47	Barker	84	0.150%	1.16x
48	Page	84	0.150%	1.91x
49	Pearce	84	0.150%	1.66x
50	Rogers	84	0.150%	1.17x
51	Donovan	83	0.150%	9.47x
52	Porter	81	0.150%	1.96x
53	Gibson	79	0.140%	1.18x
54	Marsh	79	0.140%	2.01x
55	Payne	79	0.140%	1.59x
56	Barnes	78	0.140%	1.18x
57	West	77	0.140%	1.45x
58	Hammond	75	0.140%	2.39x
59	Pearson	75	0.140%	1.17x
60	Read	75	0.140%	2.11x
61	French	74	0.130%	2.75x
62	Newman	74	0.130%	1.81x
63	Knight	73	0.130%	1.07x
64	Gray	71	0.130%	0.90x
65	Fitzgerald	70	0.130%	7.26x
66	Mccarthy	68	0.120%	25.72x
67	Watts	66	0.120%	1.43x
68	Lawrence	65	0.120%	1.82x
69	May	64	0.120%	1.82x
70	Bird	63	0.110%	1.50x
71	Fox	63	0.110%	1.23x
72	Baldwin	62	0.110%	2.64x
73	Hayes	62	0.110%	1.81x
74	Hicks	60	0.110%	2.60x
75	Regan	60	0.110%	10.61x
76	Burgess	58	0.110%	1.51x
77	Wilkins	58	0.110%	2.38x
78	Tucker	57	0.100%	1.87x
79	Edmonds	56	0.100%	5.32x
80	Lane	55	0.100%	1.45x
81	Stevens	55	0.100%	0.96x
82	Armstrong	51	0.090%	1.21x
83	Reynolds	51	0.090%	1.07x
84	Freeman	49	0.090%	1.39x
85	Fuller	49	0.090%	2.20x
86	Hawkins	49	0.090%	1.23x
87	Lock	49	0.090%	3.12x
88	Norton	49	0.090%	2.67x
89	Ryan	49	0.090%	2.87x
90	Saunders	49	0.090%	0.97x
91	Woods	49	0.090%	1.41x
92	Norman	48	0.090%	1.88x
93	Burke	47	0.090%	2.90x
94	Crawford	47	0.090%	1.74x
95	Hurley	47	0.090%	7.31x
96	Austin	46	0.080%	1.71x
97	Bryan	46	0.080%	3.36x
98	Finch	46	0.080%	2.51x
99	Potter	46	0.080%	1.29x
100	Stone	46	0.080%	1.15x