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 Slaughter, with 31 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
601	Slaughter	31	0.020%	4.93x
602	Stalley	31	0.020%	32.12x
603	Tomlin	31	0.020%	2.72x
604	Tricker	31	0.020%	10.87x
605	Waite	31	0.020%	1.17x
606	Wakefield	31	0.020%	1.36x
607	Welch	31	0.020%	0.69x
608	Weller	31	0.020%	1.69x
609	Camp	30	0.020%	4.09x
610	Constable	30	0.020%	2.13x
611	Dexter	30	0.020%	3.21x
612	Foot	30	0.020%	2.38x
613	Gage	30	0.020%	4.19x
614	Gladwin	30	0.020%	6.27x
615	Griffith	30	0.020%	0.72x
616	Haley	30	0.020%	1.98x
617	Henry	30	0.020%	0.93x
618	Horne	30	0.020%	1.08x
619	Hoy	30	0.020%	4.10x
620	Jobson	30	0.020%	4.01x
621	Keen	30	0.020%	1.18x
622	Legg	30	0.020%	1.43x
623	Mayne	30	0.020%	3.98x
624	Melton	30	0.020%	6.68x
625	Milton	30	0.020%	1.71x
626	Nice	30	0.020%	10.00x
627	Patten	30	0.020%	3.76x
628	Rouse	30	0.020%	1.64x
629	Sage	30	0.020%	2.65x
630	Smithers	30	0.020%	4.36x
631	South	30	0.020%	2.50x
632	Stubbs	30	0.020%	0.89x
633	Swain	30	0.020%	1.22x
634	Terry	30	0.020%	0.92x
635	Turnbull	30	0.020%	0.56x
636	Way	30	0.020%	2.14x
637	Woodley	30	0.020%	2.64x
638	Bannister	29	0.020%	1.32x
639	Beach	29	0.020%	2.39x
640	Denny	29	0.020%	2.71x
641	Dudley	29	0.020%	1.52x
642	Edmonds	29	0.020%	1.19x
643	Farmer	29	0.020%	0.73x
644	Gardener	29	0.020%	1.27x
645	Grey	29	0.020%	1.05x
646	Hawkes	29	0.020%	1.41x
647	Hollingsworth	29	0.020%	3.44x
648	Key	29	0.020%	1.65x
649	Lewin	29	0.020%	2.82x
650	Murrell	29	0.020%	3.20x
651	Pain	29	0.020%	2.53x
652	Pearl	29	0.020%	10.91x
653	Risley	29	0.020%	18.19x
654	Slade	29	0.020%	1.14x
655	Spooner	29	0.020%	1.58x
656	Springford	29	0.020%	46.10x
657	Street	29	0.020%	0.98x
658	Strong	29	0.020%	1.53x
659	Unwin	29	0.020%	2.29x
660	Ayres	28	0.020%	1.58x
661	Bartram	28	0.020%	4.44x
662	Bass	28	0.020%	1.94x
663	Bourne	28	0.020%	1.13x
664	Bowman	28	0.020%	0.84x
665	Cocks	28	0.020%	3.31x
666	Colman	28	0.020%	2.36x
667	Gough	28	0.020%	0.75x
668	Hardie	28	0.020%	1.69x
669	Kettle	28	0.020%	2.51x
670	Layton	28	0.020%	2.75x
671	Mack	28	0.020%	2.19x
672	Mott	28	0.020%	2.91x
673	Poulter	28	0.020%	2.96x
674	Quick	28	0.020%	1.96x
675	Saville	28	0.020%	2.42x
676	Spinks	28	0.020%	3.26x
677	Timms	28	0.020%	2.18x
678	Woollard	28	0.020%	6.25x
679	Wren	28	0.020%	2.03x
680	Ainsworth	27	0.020%	1.07x
681	Aston	27	0.020%	1.29x
682	Beadle	27	0.020%	3.02x
683	Budd	27	0.020%	1.67x
684	Coombs	27	0.020%	1.25x
685	Cornish	27	0.020%	1.47x
686	Dawkins	27	0.020%	2.93x
687	Dell	27	0.020%	3.62x
688	Duffield	27	0.020%	2.44x
689	Easy	27	0.020%	19.72x
690	Fennell	27	0.020%	4.53x
691	Fulcher	27	0.020%	4.19x
692	Furlong	27	0.020%	6.08x
693	Jenner	27	0.020%	1.79x
694	Jupp	27	0.020%	3.80x
695	Keys	27	0.020%	4.26x
696	Nye	27	0.020%	3.39x
697	Orchard	27	0.020%	2.00x
698	Petty	27	0.020%	2.14x
699	Player	27	0.020%	5.51x
700	Plumb	27	0.020%	2.62x