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 Bartlett, with 82 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
201	Bartlett	82	0.060%	1.47x
202	Fenn	82	0.060%	6.34x
203	Miles	82	0.060%	1.09x
204	Bradley	81	0.060%	0.79x
205	Dennis	81	0.060%	2.15x
206	Dixon	81	0.060%	0.58x
207	Warner	81	0.060%	1.74x
208	Field	80	0.060%	1.26x
209	Finch	80	0.060%	1.89x
210	Bryant	79	0.060%	1.45x
211	Hills	79	0.060%	2.24x
212	Hubbard	79	0.060%	2.55x
213	Jacobs	79	0.060%	2.59x
214	Mansfield	79	0.060%	3.31x
215	Preston	79	0.060%	1.24x
216	Tucker	79	0.060%	1.12x
217	Carey	78	0.060%	3.25x
218	Bloomfield	77	0.060%	4.76x
219	Archer	76	0.060%	1.44x
220	Briggs	76	0.060%	1.10x
221	Norris	76	0.060%	1.39x
222	Salmon	76	0.060%	2.62x
223	Everett	75	0.060%	3.28x
224	Godfrey	75	0.060%	1.99x
225	Hopkins	75	0.060%	0.98x
226	Laurence	75	0.060%	4.14x
227	Mead	75	0.060%	2.53x
228	Nelson	75	0.060%	1.22x
229	Rice	75	0.060%	1.90x
230	Webster	75	0.060%	0.68x
231	Austin	74	0.060%	1.19x
232	Simmons	74	0.060%	1.42x
233	Woodcock	74	0.060%	2.04x
234	Dale	73	0.060%	1.36x
235	Dean	73	0.060%	0.83x
236	Stock	73	0.060%	4.61x
237	Law	72	0.060%	1.25x
238	Sewell	72	0.060%	2.68x
239	Arnold	71	0.060%	1.03x
240	Hobbs	71	0.060%	1.53x
241	Aldridge	70	0.060%	2.84x
242	Farrow	70	0.060%	2.93x
243	Weston	70	0.060%	1.35x
244	Woodward	70	0.060%	1.11x
245	Abbott	69	0.050%	1.23x
246	Crow	69	0.050%	3.59x
247	Donovan	69	0.050%	3.41x
248	Hamilton	69	0.050%	0.72x
249	Gardiner	68	0.050%	1.86x
250	Giles	68	0.050%	1.40x
251	Gill	68	0.050%	0.75x
252	Herbert	68	0.050%	1.43x
253	Holland	68	0.050%	0.75x
254	Vincent	68	0.050%	1.71x
255	Hayward	67	0.050%	1.23x
256	Searle	67	0.050%	2.62x
257	Crawley	66	0.050%	3.99x
258	Franklin	66	0.050%	1.56x
259	Golding	66	0.050%	2.94x
260	Maynard	66	0.050%	3.37x
261	Mumford	66	0.050%	5.37x
262	Bates	65	0.050%	0.80x
263	Brand	65	0.050%	3.46x
264	Buck	65	0.050%	2.38x
265	Burgess	65	0.050%	0.74x
266	Carpenter	65	0.050%	1.49x
267	North	65	0.050%	1.54x
268	Burrows	64	0.050%	1.15x
269	Thurston	64	0.050%	7.12x
270	Woodhouse	63	0.050%	2.09x
271	Brady	62	0.050%	2.75x
272	Joyce	62	0.050%	1.98x
273	Prince	61	0.050%	2.12x
274	Winter	61	0.050%	1.35x
275	Cable	60	0.050%	9.38x
276	Crouch	60	0.050%	3.52x
277	Hadley	60	0.050%	3.46x
278	Humphries	60	0.050%	2.09x
279	Rowland	60	0.050%	1.66x
280	Short	60	0.050%	1.21x
281	Crane	59	0.050%	2.20x
282	Goodman	59	0.050%	1.59x
283	Haines	59	0.050%	2.00x
284	Holden	59	0.050%	0.85x
285	Sawyer	59	0.050%	2.51x
286	Talbot	59	0.050%	1.86x
287	Coe	58	0.050%	2.80x
288	Coleman	58	0.050%	0.91x
289	Daniels	58	0.050%	1.45x
290	Osborne	58	0.050%	0.95x
291	Stafford	58	0.050%	2.14x
292	Chamberlain	57	0.040%	1.65x
293	Coote	57	0.040%	9.08x
294	Jeffries	57	0.040%	3.57x
295	Lake	57	0.040%	2.02x
296	Norton	57	0.040%	1.35x
297	Barnett	56	0.040%	0.98x
298	Fitzgerald	56	0.040%	2.52x
299	Griggs	56	0.040%	5.65x
300	Holt	56	0.040%	0.66x