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 Polley, with 27 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
701	Polley	27	0.020%	8.06x
702	Potts	27	0.020%	0.64x
703	Sear	27	0.020%	5.67x
704	Self	27	0.020%	2.99x
705	Springall	27	0.020%	11.53x
706	Sweeney	27	0.020%	1.58x
707	Alford	26	0.020%	2.40x
708	Alger	26	0.020%	8.93x
709	Allison	26	0.020%	0.72x
710	Avery	26	0.020%	1.22x
711	Back	26	0.020%	3.82x
712	Batchelor	26	0.020%	1.20x
713	Bateman	26	0.020%	0.79x
714	Bridges	26	0.020%	1.28x
715	Buckle	26	0.020%	1.88x
716	Castle	26	0.020%	1.03x
717	Cherry	26	0.020%	2.00x
718	Clifford	26	0.020%	0.99x
719	Coulson	26	0.020%	1.14x
720	Dalton	26	0.020%	0.89x
721	Gane	26	0.020%	7.21x
722	Gilson	26	0.020%	6.58x
723	Goodson	26	0.020%	4.10x
724	Greaves	26	0.020%	0.70x
725	Hemmings	26	0.020%	2.40x
726	Humm	26	0.020%	15.76x
727	Jessop	26	0.020%	1.72x
728	Johns	26	0.020%	0.79x
729	Leonard	26	0.020%	0.94x
730	Lynn	26	0.020%	2.34x
731	Marney	26	0.020%	10.35x
732	Parrish	26	0.020%	5.84x
733	Pryke	26	0.020%	5.74x
734	Spence	26	0.020%	0.62x
735	Strutt	26	0.020%	6.56x
736	Theobald	26	0.020%	3.21x
737	Wire	26	0.020%	34.55x
738	Abraham	25	0.020%	1.99x
739	Barratt	25	0.020%	0.97x
740	Bean	25	0.020%	1.52x
741	Beckett	25	0.020%	0.99x
742	Biddle	25	0.020%	2.73x
743	Briant	25	0.020%	7.21x
744	Cummings	25	0.020%	1.27x
745	Dear	25	0.020%	2.65x
746	Denham	25	0.020%	2.23x
747	Dodson	25	0.020%	2.54x
748	Fairweather	25	0.020%	2.53x
749	Girling	25	0.020%	3.08x
750	Gooding	25	0.020%	2.32x
751	Grimwood	25	0.020%	4.77x
752	Hodge	25	0.020%	0.78x
753	Horsley	25	0.020%	2.10x
754	Hosking	25	0.020%	2.63x
755	Jeffrey	25	0.020%	1.06x
756	Kilburn	25	0.020%	3.81x
757	Kingston	25	0.020%	2.10x
758	Lilley	25	0.020%	1.42x
759	Meadows	25	0.020%	1.40x
760	Neville	25	0.020%	1.65x
761	Park	25	0.020%	0.63x
762	Ramsey	25	0.020%	1.81x
763	Rawlings	25	0.020%	1.34x
764	Selby	25	0.020%	1.64x
765	Spicer	25	0.020%	1.46x
766	Trott	25	0.020%	2.99x
767	Usher	25	0.020%	1.78x
768	Wagstaff	25	0.020%	1.58x
769	Westley	25	0.020%	4.78x
770	Window	25	0.020%	29.40x
771	Bradford	24	0.020%	0.97x
772	Bugg	24	0.020%	4.17x
773	Burling	24	0.020%	10.23x
774	Christopher	24	0.020%	3.20x
775	Colledge	24	0.020%	7.40x
776	Darby	24	0.020%	1.17x
777	Deane	24	0.020%	2.26x
778	Dent	24	0.020%	0.99x
779	Duff	24	0.020%	1.06x
780	Everard	24	0.020%	6.18x
781	Fairchild	24	0.020%	8.35x
782	Fordham	24	0.020%	2.34x
783	Foskett	24	0.020%	8.04x
784	Grafton	24	0.020%	6.83x
785	Gunner	24	0.020%	5.74x
786	Hamshere	24	0.020%	134.45x
787	Hickman	24	0.020%	1.12x
788	Hoare	24	0.020%	0.97x
789	Hodges	24	0.020%	0.64x
790	Knox	24	0.020%	1.10x
791	Longhurst	24	0.020%	2.87x
792	Mortimer	24	0.020%	0.90x
793	Newby	24	0.020%	1.88x
794	Pardoe	24	0.020%	3.83x
795	Partridge	24	0.020%	0.72x
796	Pilgrim	24	0.020%	3.35x
797	Priest	24	0.020%	1.44x
798	Shearman	24	0.020%	4.60x
799	Shephard	24	0.020%	1.96x
800	Siggers	24	0.020%	25.66x