1881 census place

West Ham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in West Ham, 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

6,340 surnames are listed for West Ham, Essex, covering 101,110 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brodie, with 21 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in West Ham

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
901	Brodie	21	0.020%	1.23x
902	Burford	21	0.020%	2.95x
903	Bye	21	0.020%	3.28x
904	Chilvers	21	0.020%	4.20x
905	Clare	21	0.020%	1.14x
906	Cope	21	0.020%	0.73x
907	Corbett	21	0.020%	0.84x
908	Crisp	21	0.020%	1.19x
909	Dangerfield	21	0.020%	5.66x
910	Dann	21	0.020%	2.62x
911	Dellow	21	0.020%	11.20x
912	Drury	21	0.020%	1.04x
913	Elliston	21	0.020%	8.53x
914	Farrant	21	0.020%	2.78x
915	Fell	21	0.020%	1.17x
916	Frith	21	0.020%	1.65x
917	Gamble	21	0.020%	1.15x
918	Gomm	21	0.020%	6.27x
919	Goodey	21	0.020%	7.03x
920	Hamblin	21	0.020%	3.65x
921	Hampshire	21	0.020%	2.91x
922	Hastings	21	0.020%	1.30x
923	Hatton	21	0.020%	0.84x
924	Hoffman	21	0.020%	7.74x
925	Horth	21	0.020%	32.94x
926	Hussey	21	0.020%	1.64x
927	Hutchings	21	0.020%	0.88x
928	Keeling	21	0.020%	1.89x
929	Lea	21	0.020%	0.84x
930	List	21	0.020%	9.78x
931	Mardell	21	0.020%	10.47x
932	Marks	21	0.020%	0.81x
933	Merrett	21	0.020%	2.70x
934	Moon	21	0.020%	0.78x
935	Muller	21	0.020%	4.43x
936	Perfect	21	0.020%	7.36x
937	Perks	21	0.020%	1.58x
938	Pollock	21	0.020%	1.14x
939	Quinlan	21	0.020%	7.48x
940	Ralph	21	0.020%	1.08x
941	Rankin	21	0.020%	1.11x
942	Regan	21	0.020%	1.61x
943	Robbins	21	0.020%	1.05x
944	Roche	21	0.020%	3.90x
945	Root	21	0.020%	5.06x
946	Saxton	21	0.020%	2.79x
947	Shipp	21	0.020%	5.28x
948	Simons	21	0.020%	1.25x
949	Speedy	21	0.020%	22.56x
950	Stiff	21	0.020%	4.75x
951	Stratton	21	0.020%	1.90x
952	Temple	21	0.020%	1.26x
953	Vine	21	0.020%	1.77x
954	Watford	21	0.020%	12.29x
955	Wiseman	21	0.020%	1.20x
956	Wooding	21	0.020%	3.79x
957	Woodman	21	0.020%	1.49x
958	Backhouse	20	0.020%	2.11x
959	Bateson	20	0.020%	2.51x
960	Bennewith	20	0.020%	102.25x
961	Blackman	20	0.020%	1.29x
962	Bland	20	0.020%	0.76x
963	Blows	20	0.020%	14.47x
964	Braybrook	20	0.020%	8.15x
965	Brewster	20	0.020%	1.62x
966	Brian	20	0.020%	3.37x
967	Cassidy	20	0.020%	1.29x
968	Coker	20	0.020%	3.33x
969	Cottrell	20	0.020%	1.76x
970	Craven	20	0.020%	0.81x
971	Dadd	20	0.020%	13.60x
972	Denman	20	0.020%	3.53x
973	Donnelly	20	0.020%	1.25x
974	Draper	20	0.020%	0.67x
975	Eve	20	0.020%	4.16x
976	Fisk	20	0.020%	2.97x
977	Flint	20	0.020%	0.88x
978	Garnham	20	0.020%	3.31x
979	Ginn	20	0.020%	5.68x
980	Goode	20	0.020%	1.21x
981	Goodridge	20	0.020%	4.71x
982	Harley	20	0.020%	1.22x
983	Hendry	20	0.020%	0.99x
984	Hibbs	20	0.020%	4.53x
985	Hickey	20	0.020%	2.52x
986	High	20	0.020%	3.47x
987	House	20	0.020%	1.21x
988	Kennard	20	0.020%	3.23x
989	Kenny	20	0.020%	1.31x
990	Laver	20	0.020%	4.08x
991	Leary	20	0.020%	1.74x
992	Markham	20	0.020%	1.32x
993	Maw	20	0.020%	4.30x
994	Mole	20	0.020%	2.02x
995	Nicoll	20	0.020%	1.73x
996	Oconnor	20	0.020%	2.75x
997	Oldfield	20	0.020%	0.95x
998	Patrick	20	0.020%	0.79x
999	Penny	20	0.020%	0.88x
1000	Percival	20	0.020%	1.00x