1881 census county

Perthshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Perthshire 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

3,210 surnames are listed for Perthshire, covering 103,345 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Gaffney, with 7 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Perthshire

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
1301	Gaffney	7	0.010%	1.57x
1302	Gay	7	0.010%	0.40x
1303	Golder	7	0.010%	1.96x
1304	Gollan	7	0.010%	7.37x
1305	Gorton	7	0.010%	0.86x
1306	Gulland	7	0.010%	8.64x
1307	Hadden	7	0.010%	1.20x
1308	Haig	7	0.010%	1.36x
1309	Halliday	7	0.010%	0.26x
1310	Hampton	7	0.010%	0.34x
1311	Hartley	7	0.010%	0.09x
1312	Hossack	7	0.010%	2.43x
1313	Howison	7	0.010%	8.88x
1314	Kesson	7	0.010%	12.30x
1315	Keys	7	0.010%	1.07x
1316	Kinnell	7	0.010%	6.66x
1317	Kirkaldy	7	0.010%	9.46x
1318	Landels	7	0.010%	10.80x
1319	Laurance	7	0.010%	2.02x
1320	Laws	7	0.010%	0.48x
1321	Lesslie	7	0.010%	7.80x
1322	Leven	7	0.010%	12.21x
1323	Lockart	7	0.010%	16.49x
1324	Lumsdon	7	0.010%	4.85x
1325	Lunn	7	0.010%	0.41x
1326	Lydon	7	0.010%	6.35x
1327	Macdougal	7	0.010%	22.52x
1328	Macnab	7	0.010%	5.90x
1329	Marriott	7	0.010%	0.24x
1330	Mcintyre	7	0.010%	2.66x
1331	Meade	7	0.010%	1.87x
1332	Miles	7	0.010%	0.09x
1333	Munroe	7	0.010%	1.97x
1334	Neville	7	0.010%	0.45x
1335	Newton	7	0.010%	0.07x
1336	Nichol	7	0.010%	0.50x
1337	Nisbet	7	0.010%	0.51x
1338	Odonnell	7	0.010%	0.83x
1339	Pate	7	0.010%	1.29x
1340	Pattie	7	0.010%	6.22x
1341	Patullo	7	0.010%	11.50x
1342	Pears	7	0.010%	1.16x
1343	Peterkin	7	0.010%	3.45x
1344	Phinn	7	0.010%	14.41x
1345	Pratt	7	0.010%	0.09x
1346	Preston	7	0.010%	0.11x
1347	Pritchard	7	0.010%	0.10x
1348	Read	7	0.010%	0.08x
1349	Riach	7	0.010%	3.06x
1350	Ribbons	7	0.010%	7.47x
1351	Rome	7	0.010%	2.71x
1352	Ryder	7	0.010%	0.31x
1353	Sadler	7	0.010%	0.23x
1354	Shanks	7	0.010%	0.70x
1355	Shannon	7	0.010%	0.69x
1356	Steedman	7	0.010%	2.07x
1357	Storrie	7	0.010%	3.32x
1358	Stothard	7	0.010%	2.41x
1359	Stubbs	7	0.010%	0.20x
1360	Sund	7	0.010%	178.12x
1361	Swanson	7	0.010%	0.73x
1362	Tannahill	7	0.010%	5.38x
1363	Thrift	7	0.010%	4.38x
1364	Tweedie	7	0.010%	1.38x
1365	Valley	7	0.010%	26.22x
1366	Vicars	7	0.010%	3.09x
1367	Wason	7	0.010%	6.27x
1368	Welham	7	0.010%	1.38x
1369	Wyllie	7	0.010%	0.76x
1370	Youngson	7	0.010%	4.30x
1371	Yuille	7	0.010%	6.37x
1372	Absolon	6	0.000%	17.35x
1373	Aiton	6	0.000%	7.18x
1374	Amess	6	0.000%	10.63x
1375	Armitage	6	0.000%	0.18x
1376	Askew	6	0.000%	0.41x
1377	Ball	6	0.000%	0.06x
1378	Bank	6	0.000%	4.79x
1379	Bannatyne	6	0.000%	3.80x
1380	Beardall	6	0.000%	4.38x
1381	Betson	6	0.000%	8.78x
1382	Blaikie	6	0.000%	3.80x
1383	Blaney	6	0.000%	2.27x
1384	Bolt	6	0.000%	0.63x
1385	Bonnar	6	0.000%	3.38x
1386	Bosomworth	6	0.000%	4.31x
1387	Boston	6	0.000%	1.00x
1388	Bourke	6	0.000%	1.87x
1389	Bowden	6	0.000%	0.16x
1390	Boyack	6	0.000%	10.23x
1391	Brady	6	0.000%	0.26x
1392	Brander	6	0.000%	3.05x
1393	Brittain	6	0.000%	0.59x
1394	Broadly	6	0.000%	5.23x
1395	Brooke	6	0.000%	0.31x
1396	Brow	6	0.000%	7.88x
1397	Brownlee	6	0.000%	1.32x
1398	Candlish	6	0.000%	3.92x
1399	Cant	6	0.000%	0.74x
1400	Charleston	6	0.000%	6.65x