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 Chaplin, with 36 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
501	Chaplin	36	0.030%	1.97x
502	Childs	36	0.030%	1.54x
503	Claydon	36	0.030%	4.48x
504	Collier	36	0.030%	0.85x
505	George	36	0.030%	0.48x
506	How	36	0.030%	4.33x
507	Lancaster	36	0.030%	1.14x
508	Luck	36	0.030%	3.42x
509	Mercer	36	0.030%	1.08x
510	Merry	36	0.030%	3.78x
511	Moseley	36	0.030%	3.10x
512	Pettit	36	0.030%	3.58x
513	Rand	36	0.030%	7.24x
514	Sheppard	36	0.030%	0.82x
515	Sibley	36	0.030%	3.51x
516	Trew	36	0.030%	12.55x
517	Whiteman	36	0.030%	4.38x
518	Champion	35	0.030%	2.63x
519	Clayden	35	0.030%	8.74x
520	Croft	35	0.030%	1.16x
521	Kirby	35	0.030%	0.72x
522	Lovett	35	0.030%	3.01x
523	Mahoney	35	0.030%	2.57x
524	Merritt	35	0.030%	3.91x
525	Platt	35	0.030%	1.04x
526	Sadler	35	0.030%	1.17x
527	Spurgeon	35	0.030%	8.63x
528	Stacey	35	0.030%	1.22x
529	Stuart	35	0.030%	1.15x
530	Styles	35	0.030%	2.60x
531	Swift	35	0.030%	0.89x
532	Tilley	35	0.030%	2.09x
533	Watkinson	35	0.030%	2.35x
534	Wyatt	35	0.030%	0.94x
535	Balls	34	0.030%	2.08x
536	Bassett	34	0.030%	1.71x
537	Beard	34	0.030%	1.01x
538	Claridge	34	0.030%	4.59x
539	Coward	34	0.030%	2.33x
540	Cuthbert	34	0.030%	1.86x
541	Hay	34	0.030%	0.73x
542	Haynes	34	0.030%	0.75x
543	Heard	34	0.030%	2.51x
544	Maxwell	34	0.030%	1.12x
545	Morley	34	0.030%	0.67x
546	Quinn	34	0.030%	1.40x
547	Sayers	34	0.030%	2.42x
548	Southgate	34	0.030%	3.41x
549	Stagg	34	0.030%	4.01x
550	Staines	34	0.030%	4.84x
551	Stockdale	34	0.030%	3.43x
552	Stringer	34	0.030%	1.34x
553	Whitham	34	0.030%	4.59x
554	Whiting	34	0.030%	1.39x
555	Wooldridge	34	0.030%	4.89x
556	Blackwell	33	0.030%	1.42x
557	Chalmers	33	0.030%	1.09x
558	Cracknell	33	0.030%	3.74x
559	Craddock	33	0.030%	3.08x
560	Dowsett	33	0.030%	5.67x
561	Drew	33	0.030%	0.98x
562	Feast	33	0.030%	16.31x
563	Hurley	33	0.030%	2.22x
564	Jolly	33	0.030%	1.83x
565	Lovell	33	0.030%	1.24x
566	Pawley	33	0.030%	9.10x
567	Rivett	33	0.030%	6.97x
568	Rutledge	33	0.030%	17.10x
569	Wall	33	0.030%	0.74x
570	Ashby	32	0.030%	1.50x
571	Beech	32	0.030%	1.70x
572	Bevan	32	0.030%	1.03x
573	Buckingham	32	0.030%	1.89x
574	Derbyshire	32	0.030%	2.41x
575	Garner	32	0.030%	0.80x
576	Gower	32	0.030%	2.39x
577	Hearn	32	0.030%	1.90x
578	Lock	32	0.030%	0.88x
579	Montague	32	0.030%	5.00x
580	Rolfe	32	0.030%	1.94x
581	Thorpe	32	0.030%	0.64x
582	Wagner	32	0.030%	12.30x
583	Bedford	31	0.020%	1.03x
584	Conway	31	0.020%	1.30x
585	Cornell	31	0.020%	3.64x
586	Cowell	31	0.020%	1.70x
587	Crump	31	0.020%	2.25x
588	Downey	31	0.020%	3.44x
589	Dyer	31	0.020%	0.63x
590	Everitt	31	0.020%	2.90x
591	Faulkner	31	0.020%	0.90x
592	Hales	31	0.020%	1.70x
593	Hillier	31	0.020%	1.81x
594	Jewell	31	0.020%	2.32x
595	Lincoln	31	0.020%	3.23x
596	Lindsay	31	0.020%	0.75x
597	Painter	31	0.020%	1.78x
598	Pigram	31	0.020%	35.75x
599	Ransom	31	0.020%	4.50x
600	Rickett	31	0.020%	8.06x