1881 census county

Ayrshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ayrshire 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

4,011 surnames are listed for Ayrshire, covering 177,054 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Grahame, with 55 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ayrshire

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
501	Grahame	55	0.030%	9.61x
502	Lochhead	55	0.030%	13.95x
503	Trainer	55	0.030%	6.15x
504	Warnock	55	0.030%	11.57x
505	Woodside	55	0.030%	45.94x
506	Fairlie	54	0.020%	10.15x
507	Greenshields	54	0.020%	13.83x
508	Lafferty	54	0.020%	10.81x
509	Stevenston	54	0.020%	63.77x
510	Bennett	53	0.020%	0.15x
511	Corrigan	53	0.020%	5.41x
512	Dawson	53	0.020%	0.22x
513	Donachie	53	0.020%	18.96x
514	Guy	53	0.020%	1.11x
515	Hislop	53	0.020%	4.03x
516	Hope	53	0.020%	0.71x
517	Linton	53	0.020%	2.95x
518	Quin	53	0.020%	2.26x
519	Wark	53	0.020%	20.11x
520	Williams	53	0.020%	0.03x
521	Balfour	52	0.020%	3.41x
522	Drysdale	52	0.020%	2.81x
523	Haining	52	0.020%	18.89x
524	Innes	52	0.020%	1.54x
525	Longmuir	52	0.020%	12.81x
526	Lyle	52	0.020%	5.08x
527	Wagstaff	52	0.020%	1.91x
528	Wight	52	0.020%	4.62x
529	Cox	51	0.020%	0.15x
530	Crombie	51	0.020%	4.16x
531	Doyle	51	0.020%	0.96x
532	Lauchlan	51	0.020%	33.91x
533	Melvin	51	0.020%	4.84x
534	Moir	51	0.020%	1.70x
535	Newall	51	0.020%	4.07x
536	Newlands	51	0.020%	5.77x
537	Russel	51	0.020%	3.38x
538	Train	51	0.020%	10.37x
539	Darroch	50	0.020%	8.77x
540	Gracie	50	0.020%	10.96x
541	Harkness	50	0.020%	4.08x
542	Hopkins	50	0.020%	0.38x
543	Mullen	50	0.020%	2.39x
544	Cairney	49	0.020%	10.00x
545	Clifford	49	0.020%	1.09x
546	Dodds	49	0.020%	1.06x
547	English	49	0.020%	1.19x
548	Hume	49	0.020%	1.58x
549	Lee	49	0.020%	0.14x
550	Morrow	49	0.020%	5.50x
551	Tyre	49	0.020%	24.95x
552	Whiteside	49	0.020%	2.82x
553	Wills	49	0.020%	0.75x
554	Alston	48	0.020%	3.37x
555	Cherry	48	0.020%	2.15x
556	Curran	48	0.020%	2.62x
557	Fife	48	0.020%	8.25x
558	Grier	48	0.020%	15.05x
559	Irving	48	0.020%	0.99x
560	Limond	48	0.020%	74.73x
561	Milloy	48	0.020%	26.73x
562	Nixon	48	0.020%	0.72x
563	Connely	47	0.020%	11.66x
564	Falconer	47	0.020%	1.80x
565	Good	47	0.020%	1.73x
566	Hewitt	47	0.020%	0.44x
567	Spencer	47	0.020%	0.24x
568	Watters	47	0.020%	6.74x
569	Whitelaw	47	0.020%	3.61x
570	Arbuckle	46	0.020%	9.89x
571	Blue	46	0.020%	12.19x
572	Evans	46	0.020%	0.05x
573	Gillan	46	0.020%	5.98x
574	Gourlay	46	0.020%	3.80x
575	Keenan	46	0.020%	2.48x
576	Leggat	46	0.020%	9.09x
577	Lusk	46	0.020%	22.91x
578	Mercer	46	0.020%	0.80x
579	Norris	46	0.020%	0.49x
580	Strathern	46	0.020%	28.77x
581	Tyrie	46	0.020%	19.88x
582	Wyper	46	0.020%	14.00x
583	Yuille	46	0.020%	25.10x
584	Corbett	45	0.020%	1.05x
585	Fairbairn	45	0.020%	2.79x
586	Fullerton	45	0.020%	4.87x
587	Porteous	45	0.020%	3.09x
588	Rafferty	45	0.020%	3.99x
589	Ray	45	0.020%	1.04x
590	Skillen	45	0.020%	30.37x
591	Wales	45	0.020%	2.54x
592	Callaghan	44	0.020%	1.78x
593	Carrick	44	0.020%	2.80x
594	Colvin	44	0.020%	5.81x
595	Copland	44	0.020%	3.59x
596	Diamond	44	0.020%	4.33x
597	Forrester	44	0.020%	1.50x
598	Gaffney	44	0.020%	5.93x
599	Glasgow	44	0.020%	9.19x
600	Riddell	44	0.020%	2.40x