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 Mcdowall, with 35 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
701	Mcdowall	35	0.020%	33.53x
702	Morison	35	0.020%	3.14x
703	Murdock	35	0.020%	4.42x
704	Pritchard	35	0.020%	0.30x
705	Sanderson	35	0.020%	0.39x
706	Sherry	35	0.020%	4.56x
707	Stillie	35	0.020%	54.49x
708	Stoddart	35	0.020%	1.92x
709	Sym	35	0.020%	30.73x
710	Bannerman	34	0.020%	4.44x
711	Bennet	34	0.020%	1.13x
712	Close	34	0.020%	1.78x
713	Colman	34	0.020%	1.67x
714	Cosgrove	34	0.020%	3.19x
715	Farrell	34	0.020%	0.82x
716	Kilgour	34	0.020%	4.23x
717	Lewis	34	0.020%	0.06x
718	Madden	34	0.020%	1.80x
719	Reilly	34	0.020%	1.47x
720	Rome	34	0.020%	7.89x
721	Short	34	0.020%	0.40x
722	Sime	34	0.020%	3.88x
723	Strang	34	0.020%	3.47x
724	Workman	34	0.020%	2.36x
725	Bertram	33	0.020%	3.16x
726	Best	33	0.020%	0.56x
727	Carroll	33	0.020%	0.75x
728	Colville	33	0.020%	4.41x
729	Conner	33	0.020%	1.95x
730	Dalgleish	33	0.020%	3.36x
731	Gairdner	33	0.020%	50.80x
732	Gavin	33	0.020%	3.05x
733	Gaw	33	0.020%	25.40x
734	Hanley	33	0.020%	1.83x
735	Keirs	33	0.020%	71.77x
736	Laverty	33	0.020%	10.25x
737	Leslie	33	0.020%	0.91x
738	Liddell	33	0.020%	1.65x
739	Loggie	33	0.020%	21.73x
740	Lowrie	33	0.020%	4.41x
741	Macfarlane	33	0.020%	2.64x
742	Rodman	33	0.020%	14.49x
743	Rose	33	0.020%	0.20x
744	Sellars	33	0.020%	2.43x
745	Smellie	33	0.020%	3.41x
746	Sommerville	33	0.020%	3.83x
747	Steen	33	0.020%	7.74x
748	Willison	33	0.020%	7.18x
749	Abbot	32	0.010%	3.10x
750	Beggs	32	0.010%	10.93x
751	Bowes	32	0.010%	1.59x
752	Brownlie	32	0.010%	3.34x
753	Byron	32	0.010%	4.00x
754	Climie	32	0.010%	78.32x
755	Develin	32	0.010%	17.26x
756	Ferrier	32	0.010%	2.52x
757	Flannagan	32	0.010%	7.21x
758	Flinn	32	0.010%	2.42x
759	Judge	32	0.010%	1.35x
760	Lammie	32	0.010%	29.82x
761	Magee	32	0.010%	3.33x
762	Mullin	32	0.010%	3.26x
763	Price	32	0.010%	0.08x
764	Riddle	32	0.010%	1.76x
765	Saunders	32	0.010%	0.16x
766	Small	32	0.010%	0.58x
767	Sprott	32	0.010%	17.19x
768	Swan	32	0.010%	0.57x
769	Thornton	32	0.010%	0.29x
770	Walkinshaw	32	0.010%	12.89x
771	Bigham	31	0.010%	27.40x
772	Caddis	31	0.010%	117.96x
773	Dearie	31	0.010%	25.89x
774	Fitzsimmons	31	0.010%	5.79x
775	Hastie	31	0.010%	2.24x
776	Kilday	31	0.010%	20.22x
777	Mulholland	31	0.010%	3.82x
778	Murry	31	0.010%	2.68x
779	Quigley	31	0.010%	2.77x
780	Robson	31	0.010%	0.22x
781	Rowat	31	0.010%	34.25x
782	Sheddon	31	0.010%	25.58x
783	Winning	31	0.010%	6.32x
784	Canning	30	0.010%	1.93x
785	Dalrymple	30	0.010%	3.15x
786	Denholm	30	0.010%	3.28x
787	Gass	30	0.010%	8.62x
788	Gault	30	0.010%	10.27x
789	Gouldie	30	0.010%	52.04x
790	Hector	30	0.010%	8.20x
791	Hynds	30	0.010%	22.58x
792	Lithgow	30	0.010%	7.77x
793	Lumsden	30	0.010%	1.65x
794	Money	30	0.010%	2.30x
795	Pattison	30	0.010%	0.86x
796	Pyper	30	0.010%	12.84x
797	Rorrison	30	0.010%	44.19x
798	Skilling	30	0.010%	13.70x
799	Smart	30	0.010%	0.30x
800	Vass	30	0.010%	4.04x