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 Snow, with 44 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
401	Snow	44	0.030%	2.55x
402	Felton	43	0.030%	4.91x
403	Hitchcock	43	0.030%	2.93x
404	Humphrey	43	0.030%	1.27x
405	Jay	43	0.030%	3.86x
406	Pollard	43	0.030%	0.93x
407	Underwood	43	0.030%	1.25x
408	Benton	42	0.030%	3.19x
409	Bowden	42	0.030%	1.14x
410	Brock	42	0.030%	2.84x
411	Hampton	42	0.030%	2.09x
412	Hawes	42	0.030%	2.67x
413	Hedges	42	0.030%	2.88x
414	Hooper	42	0.030%	0.78x
415	Howlett	42	0.030%	2.46x
416	Lester	42	0.030%	2.10x
417	Newell	42	0.030%	2.09x
418	Nicholas	42	0.030%	1.69x
419	Osborn	42	0.030%	1.59x
420	Reader	42	0.030%	3.82x
421	Rush	42	0.030%	3.07x
422	Sanderson	42	0.030%	0.80x
423	Storey	42	0.030%	1.30x
424	Tanner	42	0.030%	1.47x
425	Waters	42	0.030%	0.82x
426	Barry	41	0.030%	1.78x
427	Brett	41	0.030%	1.70x
428	Bright	41	0.030%	1.59x
429	Eaton	41	0.030%	1.15x
430	Flack	41	0.030%	4.57x
431	Gotobed	41	0.030%	28.04x
432	Grover	41	0.030%	5.17x
433	Holbrook	41	0.030%	4.47x
434	Low	41	0.030%	1.52x
435	Munday	41	0.030%	2.75x
436	Piper	41	0.030%	1.63x
437	Roach	41	0.030%	2.19x
438	Salter	41	0.030%	1.41x
439	Waller	41	0.030%	1.28x
440	Webber	41	0.030%	1.05x
441	Willmott	41	0.030%	5.14x
442	Wiltshire	41	0.030%	2.41x
443	Aylott	40	0.030%	18.02x
444	Banks	40	0.030%	0.61x
445	Burke	40	0.030%	1.07x
446	Cotton	40	0.030%	1.32x
447	Crabb	40	0.030%	3.03x
448	Dutton	40	0.030%	1.39x
449	Fish	40	0.030%	1.69x
450	Gibbons	40	0.030%	0.98x
451	Good	40	0.030%	2.53x
452	Leighton	40	0.030%	2.92x
453	Ling	40	0.030%	3.32x
454	Pipe	40	0.030%	7.08x
455	Ray	40	0.030%	1.59x
456	Amos	39	0.030%	1.86x
457	Barclay	39	0.030%	1.49x
458	Daley	39	0.030%	2.60x
459	East	39	0.030%	1.97x
460	Gates	39	0.030%	1.98x
461	Gunn	39	0.030%	1.25x
462	Harwood	39	0.030%	1.14x
463	Jenkinson	39	0.030%	1.75x
464	Kennedy	39	0.030%	0.51x
465	Nevill	39	0.030%	8.39x
466	Nightingale	39	0.030%	1.82x
467	Ryan	39	0.030%	0.99x
468	Wilcox	39	0.030%	1.63x
469	York	39	0.030%	2.32x
470	Cordery	38	0.030%	12.45x
471	Earl	38	0.030%	2.28x
472	Gould	38	0.030%	0.83x
473	Ingram	38	0.030%	0.98x
474	Neale	38	0.030%	1.26x
475	Pope	38	0.030%	0.87x
476	Ridley	38	0.030%	1.54x
477	Savill	38	0.030%	6.30x
478	Seaman	38	0.030%	3.85x
479	Squires	38	0.030%	2.11x
480	Stanton	38	0.030%	1.50x
481	Wilton	38	0.030%	3.10x
482	Argent	37	0.030%	6.12x
483	Batt	37	0.030%	4.29x
484	Browne	37	0.030%	1.59x
485	Child	37	0.030%	1.71x
486	Codling	37	0.030%	8.27x
487	Fitch	37	0.030%	3.71x
488	Harman	37	0.030%	1.95x
489	Holliday	37	0.030%	2.22x
490	Houghton	37	0.030%	0.83x
491	Judd	37	0.030%	2.24x
492	Lockwood	37	0.030%	1.32x
493	Newland	37	0.030%	4.85x
494	Offord	37	0.030%	9.22x
495	Sharpe	37	0.030%	0.99x
496	Wills	37	0.030%	0.97x
497	Barrow	36	0.030%	1.33x
498	Beck	36	0.030%	1.21x
499	Blackburn	36	0.030%	0.75x
500	Browning	36	0.030%	1.39x