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 Pyle, with 20 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
1001	Pyle	20	0.020%	3.85x
1002	Round	20	0.020%	1.71x
1003	Samuel	20	0.020%	1.32x
1004	Sands	20	0.020%	1.40x
1005	Seaton	20	0.020%	1.86x
1006	Sills	20	0.020%	5.00x
1007	Snell	20	0.020%	0.83x
1008	Snelling	20	0.020%	1.94x
1009	Stack	20	0.020%	7.65x
1010	Staples	20	0.020%	1.64x
1011	Stark	20	0.020%	1.15x
1012	Stephen	20	0.020%	0.90x
1013	Thornhill	20	0.020%	2.51x
1014	Upton	20	0.020%	0.82x
1015	Wait	20	0.020%	3.11x
1016	Wardell	20	0.020%	3.95x
1017	Washington	20	0.020%	3.12x
1018	Welham	20	0.020%	4.07x
1019	Wickens	20	0.020%	2.49x
1020	Wilks	20	0.020%	1.00x
1021	Willoughby	20	0.020%	1.81x
1022	Angel	19	0.010%	3.48x
1023	Bagnall	19	0.010%	1.74x
1024	Ballard	19	0.010%	0.99x
1025	Bamford	19	0.010%	0.99x
1026	Beasley	19	0.010%	1.38x
1027	Belcher	19	0.010%	1.24x
1028	Benjamin	19	0.010%	2.84x
1029	Bettis	19	0.010%	33.36x
1030	Birt	19	0.010%	3.52x
1031	Boys	19	0.010%	3.80x
1032	Branch	19	0.010%	2.92x
1033	Brunton	19	0.010%	1.90x
1034	Bunting	19	0.010%	1.34x
1035	Case	19	0.010%	1.49x
1036	Clement	19	0.010%	1.48x
1037	Clover	19	0.010%	5.22x
1038	Colton	19	0.010%	4.46x
1039	Copley	19	0.010%	1.93x
1040	Cumberland	19	0.010%	5.90x
1041	Digby	19	0.010%	2.88x
1042	Donald	19	0.010%	0.74x
1043	Dow	19	0.010%	1.24x
1044	Eagle	19	0.010%	2.69x
1045	Eden	19	0.010%	1.47x
1046	Fleet	19	0.010%	2.22x
1047	Garrard	19	0.010%	3.57x
1048	Garrod	19	0.010%	2.84x
1049	Gladstone	19	0.010%	5.52x
1050	Grove	19	0.010%	1.28x
1051	Hennessey	19	0.010%	8.55x
1052	Hepburn	19	0.010%	1.68x
1053	Herring	19	0.010%	1.46x
1054	Howes	19	0.010%	0.85x
1055	Huckle	19	0.010%	4.70x
1056	Jarrett	19	0.010%	1.63x
1057	Joslin	19	0.010%	3.88x
1058	Kendrick	19	0.010%	1.55x
1059	Killey	19	0.010%	9.95x
1060	Lacey	19	0.010%	0.81x
1061	Larkin	19	0.010%	1.66x
1062	Larkins	19	0.010%	5.00x
1063	Maguire	19	0.010%	1.46x
1064	Mepham	19	0.010%	8.14x
1065	Morse	19	0.010%	1.63x
1066	Perrin	19	0.010%	1.46x
1067	Pluck	19	0.010%	11.70x
1068	Ponsford	19	0.010%	6.51x
1069	Pratten	19	0.010%	13.84x
1070	Purkiss	19	0.010%	6.29x
1071	Redpath	19	0.010%	3.22x
1072	Richmond	19	0.010%	0.68x
1073	Rochester	19	0.010%	5.70x
1074	Roe	19	0.010%	0.77x
1075	Russel	19	0.010%	2.16x
1076	Sach	19	0.010%	11.73x
1077	Sansom	19	0.010%	2.21x
1078	Small	19	0.010%	0.59x
1079	Starkey	19	0.010%	1.50x
1080	Steggles	19	0.010%	12.77x
1081	Symonds	19	0.010%	1.24x
1082	Tansley	19	0.010%	4.03x
1083	Thatcher	19	0.010%	1.62x
1084	Walford	19	0.010%	2.43x
1085	Whitmarsh	19	0.010%	7.06x
1086	Wightman	19	0.010%	2.27x
1087	Ashford	18	0.010%	1.43x
1088	Ashley	18	0.010%	0.84x
1089	Aylett	18	0.010%	6.43x
1090	Baines	18	0.010%	0.74x
1091	Bedwell	18	0.010%	3.63x
1092	Bellamy	18	0.010%	0.97x
1093	Brayshaw	18	0.010%	3.89x
1094	Bridge	18	0.010%	0.70x
1095	Burch	18	0.010%	1.87x
1096	Burridge	18	0.010%	2.08x
1097	Charles	18	0.010%	0.68x
1098	Coppen	18	0.010%	11.26x
1099	Crosby	18	0.010%	1.19x
1100	Dawes	18	0.010%	1.04x