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 Dempsey, with 18 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
1101	Dempsey	18	0.010%	2.25x
1102	Doe	18	0.010%	2.95x
1103	Duncombe	18	0.010%	5.63x
1104	Farrell	18	0.010%	0.75x
1105	Finn	18	0.010%	1.55x
1106	Fothergill	18	0.010%	2.47x
1107	Frankham	18	0.010%	10.80x
1108	Gable	18	0.010%	19.42x
1109	Gillman	18	0.010%	5.03x
1110	Goater	18	0.010%	12.20x
1111	Godwin	18	0.010%	1.09x
1112	Goodchild	18	0.010%	1.45x
1113	Gosden	18	0.010%	6.98x
1114	Hamlin	18	0.010%	4.86x
1115	Hands	18	0.010%	1.41x
1116	Harden	18	0.010%	3.60x
1117	Hatcher	18	0.010%	2.41x
1118	Hathaway	18	0.010%	2.72x
1119	Hines	18	0.010%	1.66x
1120	Hoskins	18	0.010%	1.45x
1121	Hyland	18	0.010%	3.57x
1122	Inglis	18	0.010%	0.85x
1123	Jarman	18	0.010%	1.48x
1124	Kelsey	18	0.010%	1.91x
1125	Langford	18	0.010%	0.90x
1126	Laws	18	0.010%	1.27x
1127	Leman	18	0.010%	9.22x
1128	Lyon	18	0.010%	0.67x
1129	Negus	18	0.010%	4.96x
1130	Parham	18	0.010%	9.35x
1131	Pepper	18	0.010%	1.01x
1132	Peterson	18	0.010%	2.78x
1133	Philpot	18	0.010%	2.11x
1134	Prudence	18	0.010%	21.17x
1135	Roddam	18	0.010%	17.79x
1136	Rudd	18	0.010%	0.90x
1137	Sammons	18	0.010%	9.20x
1138	Sandy	18	0.010%	4.07x
1139	Scarborough	18	0.010%	5.00x
1140	Sears	18	0.010%	2.25x
1141	Singleton	18	0.010%	0.72x
1142	Skiggs	18	0.010%	35.89x
1143	Sorrell	18	0.010%	4.74x
1144	Stickland	18	0.010%	3.43x
1145	Strickland	18	0.010%	1.77x
1146	Tiffin	18	0.010%	7.96x
1147	Tullett	18	0.010%	6.76x
1148	Vickery	18	0.010%	1.95x
1149	Victory	18	0.010%	31.84x
1150	Waites	18	0.010%	5.63x
1151	Wilmot	18	0.010%	2.12x
1152	Winch	18	0.010%	3.14x
1153	Woolgar	18	0.010%	3.98x
1154	Ansell	17	0.010%	1.16x
1155	Atherton	17	0.010%	0.74x
1156	Atkin	17	0.010%	1.00x
1157	Bellinger	17	0.010%	8.85x
1158	Bellis	17	0.010%	2.35x
1159	Brackley	17	0.010%	7.75x
1160	Brice	17	0.010%	1.62x
1161	Byatt	17	0.010%	5.36x
1162	Chester	17	0.010%	1.09x
1163	Chilton	17	0.010%	1.66x
1164	Clifton	17	0.010%	0.94x
1165	Connolly	17	0.010%	1.15x
1166	Cornwell	17	0.010%	2.32x
1167	Courtney	17	0.010%	1.86x
1168	Cutts	17	0.010%	1.70x
1169	Daly	17	0.010%	1.35x
1170	Dines	17	0.010%	5.00x
1171	Dove	17	0.010%	1.17x
1172	Dykes	17	0.010%	1.94x
1173	Farley	17	0.010%	1.06x
1174	Fincham	17	0.010%	4.77x
1175	Gilchrist	17	0.010%	0.91x
1176	Gilman	17	0.010%	4.46x
1177	Greenaway	17	0.010%	2.13x
1178	Hewett	17	0.010%	1.15x
1179	Horner	17	0.010%	0.70x
1180	Howlet	17	0.010%	14.38x
1181	Hutchins	17	0.010%	1.32x
1182	Ingate	17	0.010%	38.08x
1183	Keith	17	0.010%	1.25x
1184	Kiley	17	0.010%	37.73x
1185	Lewes	17	0.010%	5.66x
1186	Ludlow	17	0.010%	2.56x
1187	Major	17	0.010%	0.99x
1188	Marlow	17	0.010%	1.14x
1189	Mountain	17	0.010%	1.88x
1190	Nott	17	0.010%	1.89x
1191	Okeefe	17	0.010%	13.42x
1192	Pascoe	17	0.010%	1.18x
1193	Peel	17	0.010%	0.74x
1194	Philips	17	0.010%	0.72x
1195	Pickard	17	0.010%	0.96x
1196	Pidgeon	17	0.010%	4.01x
1197	Pyne	17	0.010%	3.52x
1198	Quilter	17	0.010%	8.16x
1199	Reddell	17	0.010%	43.95x
1200	Ricks	17	0.010%	10.64x