1881 census place

Walthamstow surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Walthamstow, Essex 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

1,169 surnames are listed for Walthamstow, Essex, covering 7,143 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Baker, with 117 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Walthamstow

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	Baker	117	0.560%	2.57x
2	Day	68	0.330%	3.48x
3	Saunders	61	0.290%	3.20x
4	Penn	53	0.260%	28.28x
5	Godfrey	47	0.230%	7.64x
6	Cornell	43	0.210%	31.01x
7	Pledger	42	0.200%	82.22x
8	How	40	0.190%	29.52x
9	Kemp	40	0.190%	3.47x
10	Hodge	39	0.190%	7.46x
11	Challis	38	0.180%	28.93x
12	Wilkins	38	0.180%	4.14x
13	Archer	37	0.180%	4.31x
14	Pettit	37	0.180%	22.54x
15	Nunn	36	0.170%	9.90x
16	Poole	36	0.170%	3.60x
17	Barton	34	0.160%	3.03x
18	Fenn	32	0.150%	15.18x
19	Prior	32	0.150%	6.66x
20	Kirby	30	0.140%	3.81x
21	Wyatt	30	0.140%	4.93x
22	Calver	29	0.140%	31.30x
23	Partridge	29	0.140%	5.35x
24	Sayer	29	0.140%	10.67x
25	Simmons	29	0.140%	3.42x
26	Waterman	27	0.130%	16.75x
27	Drake	26	0.130%	4.30x
28	Durrant	26	0.130%	8.00x
29	Good	26	0.130%	10.07x
30	Groves	26	0.130%	4.46x
31	Ruggles	26	0.130%	144.28x
32	Neville	25	0.120%	10.14x
33	Johns	24	0.120%	4.48x
34	Humphries	23	0.110%	4.92x
35	Savill	23	0.110%	23.39x
36	Clover	22	0.110%	37.08x
37	Everett	22	0.110%	5.90x
38	Farrow	22	0.110%	5.65x
39	Fordham	22	0.110%	13.18x
40	Nightingale	22	0.110%	6.29x
41	Cowell	21	0.100%	7.07x
42	Crisp	21	0.100%	7.28x
43	Fish	21	0.100%	5.43x
44	Fitch	21	0.100%	12.93x
45	Ramsey	21	0.100%	9.31x
46	Crockford	20	0.100%	28.37x
47	Enever	20	0.100%	122.25x
48	Grimshaw	20	0.100%	5.77x
49	Grimwood	20	0.100%	23.41x
50	Maynard	20	0.100%	6.27x
51	Tarling	20	0.100%	47.62x
52	Bambury	19	0.090%	129.34x
53	Brett	19	0.090%	4.82x
54	Mead	19	0.090%	3.93x
55	Whitbread	19	0.090%	22.92x
56	Boulton	18	0.090%	4.81x
57	Cracknell	18	0.090%	12.50x
58	Ireland	18	0.090%	3.74x
59	Longhurst	18	0.090%	13.19x
60	Negus	18	0.090%	30.41x
61	Whitfield	18	0.090%	4.34x
62	Bass	17	0.080%	7.24x
63	Cann	17	0.080%	8.84x
64	Child	17	0.080%	4.82x
65	Kingston	17	0.080%	8.78x
66	Macklin	17	0.080%	29.20x
67	Meredith	17	0.080%	4.05x
68	Rolph	17	0.080%	22.24x
69	Wheatley	17	0.080%	4.02x
70	Bigg	16	0.080%	24.51x
71	Casey	16	0.080%	5.23x
72	Gibbard	16	0.080%	32.02x
73	Kinnear	16	0.080%	15.89x
74	Mayhew	16	0.080%	9.34x
75	Whiter	16	0.080%	112.60x
76	Whittingham	16	0.080%	10.25x
77	Bloomfield	15	0.070%	5.69x
78	Buckingham	15	0.070%	5.42x
79	Crowe	15	0.070%	7.24x
80	Everitt	15	0.070%	8.62x
81	Sheridan	15	0.070%	12.01x
82	Stotter	15	0.070%	284.63x
83	Watling	15	0.070%	13.95x
84	Aldous	14	0.070%	16.67x
85	Bowring	14	0.070%	20.95x
86	Braidwood	14	0.070%	47.09x
87	Chitty	14	0.070%	17.64x
88	Flack	14	0.070%	9.58x
89	Floyd	14	0.070%	7.10x
90	Frankland	14	0.070%	9.10x
91	Gillett	14	0.070%	6.39x
92	Glass	14	0.070%	6.52x
93	Griggs	14	0.070%	8.66x
94	Groome	14	0.070%	42.80x
95	Lye	14	0.070%	24.94x
96	Mayes	14	0.070%	7.00x
97	Thorn	14	0.070%	4.51x
98	Walter	14	0.070%	4.40x
99	Amey	13	0.060%	22.41x
100	Boreham	13	0.060%	15.77x