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 Sandford, with 14 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
1501	Sandford	14	0.010%	1.54x
1502	Saxon	14	0.010%	3.32x
1503	Scotchmer	14	0.010%	31.67x
1504	Scotney	14	0.010%	6.42x
1505	Slatter	14	0.010%	2.77x
1506	Somers	14	0.010%	3.25x
1507	Speller	14	0.010%	3.98x
1508	Springett	14	0.010%	3.61x
1509	Squirrell	14	0.010%	8.69x
1510	Summerfield	14	0.010%	1.70x
1511	Thake	14	0.010%	8.05x
1512	Thorogood	14	0.010%	2.47x
1513	Turvey	14	0.010%	2.34x
1514	Valentine	14	0.010%	0.86x
1515	Warr	14	0.010%	1.93x
1516	Whybrow	14	0.010%	5.65x
1517	Willett	14	0.010%	1.40x
1518	Willson	14	0.010%	0.98x
1519	Youles	14	0.010%	26.56x
1520	Youngman	14	0.010%	3.76x
1521	Alsford	13	0.010%	15.37x
1522	Arrowsmith	13	0.010%	1.32x
1523	Baily	13	0.010%	1.61x
1524	Bartley	13	0.010%	2.12x
1525	Benstead	13	0.010%	3.96x
1526	Bernard	13	0.010%	2.47x
1527	Bish	13	0.010%	7.92x
1528	Blagburn	13	0.010%	42.47x
1529	Blyth	13	0.010%	0.65x
1530	Boddington	13	0.010%	3.68x
1531	Brandon	13	0.010%	2.01x
1532	Brazier	13	0.010%	1.09x
1533	Breeze	13	0.010%	1.65x
1534	Brien	13	0.010%	2.99x
1535	Broad	13	0.010%	0.80x
1536	Brooke	13	0.010%	0.69x
1537	Brooker	13	0.010%	0.85x
1538	Bulling	13	0.010%	22.66x
1539	Byard	13	0.010%	7.23x
1540	Caldwell	13	0.010%	0.65x
1541	Cant	13	0.010%	1.65x
1542	Carlton	13	0.010%	1.99x
1543	Carrington	13	0.010%	0.97x
1544	Cock	13	0.010%	0.93x
1545	Collicott	13	0.010%	24.66x
1546	Corner	13	0.010%	1.40x
1547	Cossey	13	0.010%	7.35x
1548	Cotterill	13	0.010%	1.17x
1549	Cremer	13	0.010%	18.09x
1550	Crockford	13	0.010%	3.01x
1551	Crofts	13	0.010%	1.26x
1552	Croney	13	0.010%	20.39x
1553	Crowe	13	0.010%	1.02x
1554	Croxford	13	0.010%	4.63x
1555	Darkins	13	0.010%	22.16x
1556	Dearson	13	0.010%	109.34x
1557	Deeks	13	0.010%	3.19x
1558	Dredge	13	0.010%	3.94x
1559	Dunford	13	0.010%	1.69x
1560	Dwyer	13	0.010%	1.82x
1561	Eastman	13	0.010%	3.73x
1562	Ely	13	0.010%	1.94x
1563	Eyre	13	0.010%	0.85x
1564	Giffin	13	0.010%	10.16x
1565	Gillies	13	0.010%	0.71x
1566	Glen	13	0.010%	1.03x
1567	Grimes	13	0.010%	0.88x
1568	Groom	13	0.010%	0.73x
1569	Haggerty	13	0.010%	5.52x
1570	Halfpenny	13	0.010%	4.58x
1571	Hammett	13	0.010%	3.07x
1572	Hanney	13	0.010%	6.38x
1573	Haycock	13	0.010%	1.82x
1574	Hedgecock	13	0.010%	7.30x
1575	Hobday	13	0.010%	2.53x
1576	Hobdell	13	0.010%	40.78x
1577	Holder	13	0.010%	0.76x
1578	Holdgate	13	0.010%	12.96x
1579	Honeyball	13	0.010%	9.56x
1580	Hornsby	13	0.010%	1.57x
1581	Hosford	13	0.010%	36.85x
1582	Joseph	13	0.010%	1.26x
1583	Kane	13	0.010%	1.27x
1584	Kempton	13	0.010%	3.55x
1585	Kinsey	13	0.010%	1.56x
1586	Knapp	13	0.010%	1.50x
1587	Laundy	13	0.010%	25.70x
1588	Lear	13	0.010%	1.75x
1589	Lefevre	13	0.010%	13.01x
1590	Levy	13	0.010%	0.81x
1591	Line	13	0.010%	2.15x
1592	Livermore	13	0.010%	3.02x
1593	Longfoot	13	0.010%	54.62x
1594	Lucking	13	0.010%	6.10x
1595	Lumber	13	0.010%	13.35x
1596	Malyon	13	0.010%	6.18x
1597	Manly	13	0.010%	6.84x
1598	Maskell	13	0.010%	1.45x
1599	Mays	13	0.010%	1.79x
1600	Medcalf	13	0.010%	2.62x