1881 census place

Whitechapel London surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Whitechapel London, Middlesex 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

1,473 surnames are listed for Whitechapel London, Middlesex, covering 10,851 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Cohen, with 458 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Whitechapel London

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
1	Cohen	458	1.59%	101.02x
2	Levy	331	1.15%	91.16x
3	Harris	249	0.860%	3.40x
4	Davis	195	0.680%	3.08x
5	Isaacs	178	0.620%	71.75x
6	Donovan	168	0.580%	36.71x
7	Jacobs	146	0.510%	21.17x
8	Solomons	143	0.500%	234.97x
9	Lyons	131	0.450%	20.44x
10	Goldstein	121	0.420%	205.64x
11	Hart	120	0.420%	4.89x
12	Barnett	119	0.410%	9.16x
13	Abrahams	118	0.410%	54.01x
14	Murphy	111	0.390%	4.83x
15	Marks	110	0.380%	18.67x
16	Solomon	90	0.310%	46.04x
17	Collins	89	0.310%	2.15x
18	Joseph	86	0.300%	36.84x
19	Myers	81	0.280%	10.78x
20	Hayes	72	0.250%	4.02x
21	Moses	70	0.240%	23.77x
22	Lazarus	64	0.220%	93.35x
23	Woolf	62	0.220%	64.61x
24	Rosenthal	59	0.200%	210.86x
25	Hurley	56	0.190%	16.67x
26	Benjamin	54	0.190%	35.75x
27	Hyams	53	0.180%	92.48x
28	Rosenberg	53	0.180%	134.11x
29	Alexander	50	0.170%	3.28x
30	Abraham	45	0.160%	15.84x
31	Driscoll	45	0.160%	14.04x
32	Regan	43	0.150%	14.56x
33	Goldberg	42	0.150%	110.03x
34	Coleman	41	0.140%	2.86x
35	Mahoney	40	0.140%	12.99x
36	Buckley	38	0.130%	2.42x
37	Nathan	38	0.130%	39.60x
38	Connor	35	0.120%	4.12x
39	Gibbs	35	0.120%	2.47x
40	Barry	34	0.120%	6.53x
41	Kemp	34	0.120%	2.13x
42	Bernstein	33	0.110%	119.57x
43	Leary	33	0.110%	12.68x
44	Sheen	32	0.110%	16.64x
45	Goldman	31	0.110%	84.63x
46	Crawley	30	0.100%	8.02x
47	Goodman	30	0.100%	3.57x
48	Jacob	29	0.100%	12.94x
49	Levene	29	0.100%	290.00x
50	Weber	29	0.100%	78.95x
51	Franklin	28	0.100%	2.93x
52	Joel	28	0.100%	43.08x
53	Stein	28	0.100%	41.07x
54	Samuels	27	0.090%	22.16x
55	Simmons	27	0.090%	2.30x
56	Thorn	27	0.090%	6.27x
57	Warner	27	0.090%	2.57x
58	Israel	26	0.090%	68.64x
59	Lynch	25	0.090%	3.29x
60	Mccarthy	25	0.090%	18.11x
61	Simons	25	0.090%	6.58x
62	Brien	24	0.080%	24.40x
63	Casey	24	0.080%	5.65x
64	Condon	24	0.080%	30.07x
65	Emanuel	24	0.080%	43.41x
66	Godfrey	24	0.080%	2.81x
67	Sampson	24	0.080%	4.89x
68	Daniels	23	0.080%	2.54x
69	Freedman	23	0.080%	73.39x
70	Hyman	23	0.080%	40.07x
71	Squires	23	0.080%	5.64x
72	Fitzgerald	22	0.080%	4.37x
73	Harrington	22	0.080%	4.03x
74	Posner	22	0.080%	282.41x
75	Rayner	22	0.080%	3.06x
76	Vincent	22	0.080%	2.45x
77	Crane	21	0.070%	3.46x
78	Greenberg	21	0.070%	169.35x
79	Lipman	21	0.070%	114.94x
80	Michaels	21	0.070%	134.79x
81	Mordecai	21	0.070%	100.67x
82	Wiseman	21	0.070%	5.31x
83	Donohue	20	0.070%	30.06x
84	Lake	20	0.070%	3.13x
85	Reardon	20	0.070%	15.85x
86	Ansell	19	0.070%	5.71x
87	Citron	19	0.070%	989.58x
88	Gluckstein	19	0.070%	387.76x
89	Goldsmith	19	0.070%	4.25x
90	Hawes	19	0.070%	5.35x
91	Head	19	0.070%	2.71x
92	Hearn	19	0.070%	4.99x
93	Hickey	19	0.070%	10.60x
94	Jaffe	19	0.070%	520.55x
95	Sawyer	19	0.070%	3.58x
96	Bosman	18	0.060%	317.46x
97	Herman	18	0.060%	34.60x
98	Josephs	18	0.060%	101.18x
99	Newbury	18	0.060%	10.27x
100	Ragan	18	0.060%	38.21x