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 Horton, with 56 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
301	Horton	56	0.040%	1.19x
302	Nunn	56	0.040%	2.51x
303	Oakley	56	0.040%	2.08x
304	Peters	56	0.040%	1.25x
305	Prior	56	0.040%	1.90x
306	Wallace	56	0.040%	0.64x
307	Welsh	56	0.040%	1.11x
308	Benham	55	0.040%	8.09x
309	Bray	55	0.040%	1.28x
310	Bryan	55	0.040%	1.74x
311	Graves	55	0.040%	2.85x
312	Alexander	54	0.040%	0.80x
313	Humphreys	54	0.040%	1.20x
314	Ives	54	0.040%	3.62x
315	Robins	54	0.040%	2.00x
316	Stanford	54	0.040%	5.10x
317	Ware	54	0.040%	2.58x
318	Ashton	53	0.040%	0.85x
319	Byford	53	0.040%	9.21x
320	Dunn	53	0.040%	0.50x
321	Atkins	52	0.040%	1.09x
322	Cooke	52	0.040%	0.74x
323	Crick	52	0.040%	6.83x
324	Hull	52	0.040%	1.95x
325	Lamb	52	0.040%	0.77x
326	Noakes	52	0.040%	5.59x
327	Pritchard	52	0.040%	0.76x
328	Sargent	52	0.040%	2.65x
329	Savage	52	0.040%	1.06x
330	Smart	52	0.040%	0.90x
331	Bacon	51	0.040%	1.59x
332	Bruce	51	0.040%	0.86x
333	Dodd	51	0.040%	0.99x
334	Franks	51	0.040%	3.21x
335	Handley	51	0.040%	2.37x
336	Hopper	51	0.040%	2.80x
337	Horn	51	0.040%	1.76x
338	Love	51	0.040%	1.69x
339	Raven	51	0.040%	4.77x
340	Riches	51	0.040%	3.50x
341	Robson	51	0.040%	0.61x
342	Sampson	51	0.040%	2.35x
343	Warwick	51	0.040%	2.90x
344	Barlow	50	0.040%	0.73x
345	Brewer	50	0.040%	1.48x
346	Emery	50	0.040%	1.80x
347	Long	50	0.040%	0.61x
348	Sims	50	0.040%	1.31x
349	Sparks	50	0.040%	2.60x
350	Harper	49	0.040%	0.60x
351	Reeve	49	0.040%	1.65x
352	Thorn	49	0.040%	2.58x
353	Walsh	49	0.040%	0.72x
354	Casey	48	0.040%	2.56x
355	English	48	0.040%	2.01x
356	Gentry	48	0.040%	11.66x
357	Hare	48	0.040%	2.44x
358	Kidd	48	0.040%	1.85x
359	Mears	48	0.040%	4.00x
360	Owens	48	0.040%	0.76x
361	Pattison	48	0.040%	2.37x
362	Stanley	48	0.040%	0.98x
363	Stephens	48	0.040%	0.68x
364	Cannon	47	0.040%	2.04x
365	Goddard	47	0.040%	0.92x
366	Gooch	47	0.040%	4.21x
367	Gordon	47	0.040%	0.59x
368	Groves	47	0.040%	1.31x
369	Hayden	47	0.040%	4.73x
370	Lawson	47	0.040%	0.63x
371	Lines	47	0.040%	3.48x
372	Noble	47	0.040%	0.89x
373	Parish	47	0.040%	2.39x
374	Rayment	47	0.040%	8.30x
375	Stevenson	47	0.040%	0.53x
376	Bayley	46	0.040%	2.24x
377	Birch	46	0.040%	0.88x
378	Bolton	46	0.040%	0.84x
379	Church	46	0.040%	1.66x
380	Durrant	46	0.040%	2.31x
381	Goodwin	46	0.040%	0.69x
382	Head	46	0.040%	1.48x
383	Hilton	46	0.040%	1.05x
384	Hood	46	0.040%	1.31x
385	Little	46	0.040%	0.76x
386	Lynch	46	0.040%	1.37x
387	Marchant	46	0.040%	2.33x
388	Mayes	46	0.040%	3.75x
389	Peck	46	0.040%	2.14x
390	Cousins	45	0.040%	1.96x
391	Driscoll	45	0.040%	3.18x
392	Fleming	45	0.040%	0.85x
393	Harmer	45	0.040%	3.57x
394	Bone	44	0.030%	1.86x
395	Button	44	0.030%	2.91x
396	Godden	44	0.030%	5.00x
397	Hewitt	44	0.030%	0.71x
398	Mansell	44	0.030%	2.96x
399	Marriott	44	0.030%	1.54x
400	Morton	44	0.030%	0.65x