1881 census county

Argyllshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Argyllshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

1,915 surnames are listed for Argyllshire, covering 43,785 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Hay, with 69 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Argyllshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
101	Hay	69	0.080%	2.31x
102	May	69	0.080%	1.33x
103	Allan	67	0.080%	1.31x
104	Buie	67	0.080%	169.02x
105	Stalker	67	0.080%	16.74x
106	Cumming	66	0.080%	4.25x
107	Gibson	66	0.080%	0.67x
108	Ralston	66	0.080%	24.11x
109	Tait	66	0.080%	2.76x
110	Andrew	65	0.080%	2.52x
111	Greenlees	65	0.080%	41.06x
112	Davidson	64	0.080%	0.94x
113	Macfarlane	64	0.080%	13.76x
114	Brodie	62	0.080%	5.68x
115	Luke	62	0.080%	7.83x
116	Matheson	62	0.080%	5.58x
117	Barr	61	0.080%	3.10x
118	Macphail	61	0.080%	75.90x
119	Bain	60	0.070%	2.97x
120	Calder	60	0.070%	5.28x
121	Rowan	60	0.070%	11.46x
122	Dunlop	59	0.070%	4.50x
123	Carswell	57	0.070%	19.17x
124	Menzies	57	0.070%	5.39x
125	Macinnes	56	0.070%	54.42x
126	Moffat	56	0.070%	3.80x
127	Marshall	55	0.070%	0.40x
128	Patterson	55	0.070%	1.94x
129	Gilmour	53	0.070%	4.61x
130	Milloy	53	0.070%	79.34x
131	Simpson	53	0.070%	0.37x
132	Colville	52	0.060%	18.68x
133	Dick	52	0.060%	2.87x
134	Logan	52	0.060%	2.70x
135	Murdoch	51	0.060%	3.69x
136	Alexander	50	0.060%	1.16x
137	Dawson	50	0.060%	0.56x
138	Dow	50	0.060%	5.10x
139	Fleming	50	0.060%	1.48x
140	Grieve	50	0.060%	5.31x
141	Hyndman	50	0.060%	54.00x
142	Johnson	50	0.060%	0.18x
143	Lang	50	0.060%	2.76x
144	Wright	50	0.060%	0.19x
145	Baird	49	0.060%	2.82x
146	Gordon	49	0.060%	0.96x
147	Wylie	49	0.060%	5.18x
148	Thompson	48	0.060%	0.20x
149	Baxter	47	0.060%	0.97x
150	Girvan	47	0.060%	36.75x
151	Hall	47	0.060%	0.20x
152	Rae	46	0.060%	2.48x
153	Todd	46	0.060%	1.11x
154	Marquis	45	0.060%	31.93x
155	Connel	44	0.050%	29.41x
156	Gilles	44	0.050%	36.09x
157	Maceachen	44	0.050%	216.11x
158	Park	44	0.050%	1.75x
159	Macarthur	43	0.050%	44.11x
160	Nicolson	43	0.050%	4.58x
161	Wilkie	43	0.050%	3.71x
162	Duff	42	0.050%	2.90x
163	Macphee	42	0.050%	72.95x
164	Munroe	42	0.050%	19.10x
165	Rankine	42	0.050%	10.18x
166	Blackstock	41	0.050%	34.24x
167	Mackenzie	41	0.050%	1.80x
168	Rose	41	0.050%	0.68x
169	Docherty	40	0.050%	3.31x
170	Grahame	40	0.050%	18.79x
171	Haggart	40	0.050%	20.35x
172	Huie	40	0.050%	165.56x
173	Nisbet	40	0.050%	4.66x
174	Houston	39	0.050%	3.77x
175	Jones	39	0.050%	0.04x
176	Lawson	39	0.050%	0.81x
177	Macmillan	39	0.050%	17.28x
178	Macneil	39	0.050%	70.75x
179	Watt	39	0.050%	1.25x
180	Williamson	38	0.050%	0.52x
181	Bannatyne	37	0.050%	37.74x
182	Irvine	37	0.050%	2.07x
183	Macneill	37	0.050%	154.88x
184	Ramsay	37	0.050%	1.77x
185	Christie	36	0.040%	1.37x
186	Stirling	36	0.040%	3.41x
187	Beattie	35	0.040%	2.01x
188	Burns	35	0.040%	0.64x
189	Cairns	35	0.040%	1.99x
190	Glen	35	0.040%	4.35x
191	Wotherspoon	35	0.040%	13.54x
192	Dunn	34	0.040%	0.50x
193	Gemmell	34	0.040%	6.96x
194	Allison	33	0.040%	1.43x
195	Carmicheal	33	0.040%	138.13x
196	Forbes	33	0.040%	1.21x
197	Morison	33	0.040%	7.96x
198	Inglis	32	0.040%	2.36x
199	Macleod	32	0.040%	2.79x
200	Revie	32	0.040%	51.23x