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 Simms, with 24 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
801	Simms	24	0.020%	1.66x
802	Skelton	24	0.020%	1.30x
803	Stearn	24	0.020%	9.08x
804	Swan	24	0.020%	0.73x
805	Wakeling	24	0.020%	4.93x
806	Walden	24	0.020%	2.57x
807	Wheatley	24	0.020%	0.93x
808	Appleford	23	0.020%	16.49x
809	Baldock	23	0.020%	2.58x
810	Barham	23	0.020%	2.92x
811	Baylis	23	0.020%	1.72x
812	Bolt	23	0.020%	2.50x
813	Booker	23	0.020%	1.51x
814	Boyce	23	0.020%	1.21x
815	Burr	23	0.020%	2.25x
816	Cobb	23	0.020%	1.27x
817	Crush	23	0.020%	27.60x
818	Fenton	23	0.020%	0.91x
819	Game	23	0.020%	5.71x
820	Gleed	23	0.020%	8.68x
821	Goldsmith	23	0.020%	1.16x
822	Hardwick	23	0.020%	1.18x
823	Irons	23	0.020%	3.32x
824	Kain	23	0.020%	9.00x
825	Lipscombe	23	0.020%	6.73x
826	Lovegrove	23	0.020%	3.10x
827	March	23	0.020%	1.68x
828	Masters	23	0.020%	0.98x
829	Mccarthy	23	0.020%	3.77x
830	Neal	23	0.020%	0.61x
831	Paul	23	0.020%	0.72x
832	Pluckrose	23	0.020%	37.58x
833	Ridpath	23	0.020%	43.29x
834	Rix	23	0.020%	3.28x
835	Rudland	23	0.020%	10.91x
836	Saddington	23	0.020%	8.96x
837	Still	23	0.020%	2.87x
838	Taffs	23	0.020%	37.58x
839	Tuck	23	0.020%	1.41x
840	Turpin	23	0.020%	3.37x
841	Weeks	23	0.020%	0.84x
842	Abel	22	0.020%	2.68x
843	Ambrose	22	0.020%	1.96x
844	Avis	22	0.020%	3.60x
845	Beale	22	0.020%	1.36x
846	Bew	22	0.020%	12.47x
847	Broughton	22	0.020%	0.93x
848	Butt	22	0.020%	1.34x
849	Chalk	22	0.020%	2.62x
850	Challis	22	0.020%	2.73x
851	Dorrington	22	0.020%	5.48x
852	Doughty	22	0.020%	1.36x
853	Downes	22	0.020%	1.40x
854	Ferris	22	0.020%	1.75x
855	Fielder	22	0.020%	2.80x
856	Gant	22	0.020%	4.81x
857	Garrett	22	0.020%	0.76x
858	Gifford	22	0.020%	1.99x
859	Goult	22	0.020%	24.07x
860	Haydon	22	0.020%	2.76x
861	Hibbard	22	0.020%	5.91x
862	Hine	22	0.020%	2.19x
863	Hodder	22	0.020%	3.53x
864	Hogan	22	0.020%	1.72x
865	Hutton	22	0.020%	0.58x
866	Ireland	22	0.020%	0.74x
867	Jaques	22	0.020%	2.34x
868	Jeffreys	22	0.020%	2.90x
869	Jolley	22	0.020%	3.28x
870	Keene	22	0.020%	2.93x
871	Kendall	22	0.020%	0.80x
872	Knock	22	0.020%	9.10x
873	Knott	22	0.020%	0.87x
874	Lyons	22	0.020%	0.78x
875	Mayhew	22	0.020%	2.09x
876	Millard	22	0.020%	1.04x
877	Newson	22	0.020%	2.74x
878	Olley	22	0.020%	5.30x
879	Owers	22	0.020%	7.78x
880	Patmore	22	0.020%	6.96x
881	Poupard	22	0.020%	72.92x
882	Prentice	22	0.020%	1.47x
883	Reading	22	0.020%	2.23x
884	Rider	22	0.020%	1.77x
885	Rodwell	22	0.020%	3.20x
886	Shea	22	0.020%	2.57x
887	Spratt	22	0.020%	3.11x
888	Steadman	22	0.020%	2.81x
889	Stimson	22	0.020%	6.58x
890	Summers	22	0.020%	0.62x
891	Swallow	22	0.020%	1.71x
892	Varney	22	0.020%	3.30x
893	Westwood	22	0.020%	1.03x
894	Wickham	22	0.020%	2.56x
895	Ager	21	0.020%	4.22x
896	Anthony	21	0.020%	1.42x
897	Barr	21	0.020%	0.68x
898	Betts	21	0.020%	0.77x
899	Boyle	21	0.020%	0.64x
900	Bristow	21	0.020%	1.22x