1881 census county

Stirlingshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stirlingshire 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

2,979 surnames are listed for Stirlingshire, covering 89,176 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 1,401 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stirlingshire

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
1	Brown	1,401	1.30%	1.97x
2	Stewart	1,161	1.08%	6.89x
3	Robertson	1,156	1.07%	6.40x
4	Wilson	1,137	1.06%	2.30x
5	Anderson	1,113	1.03%	5.23x
6	Smith	1,085	1.01%	0.71x
7	Campbell	1,066	0.990%	5.85x
8	Thomson	990	0.920%	6.88x
9	Taylor	945	0.880%	1.37x
10	Miller	915	0.850%	4.75x
11	Paterson	860	0.800%	11.73x
12	Hunter	823	0.760%	7.44x
13	Morrison	818	0.760%	9.66x
14	Marshall	805	0.750%	4.45x
15	Henderson	737	0.680%	6.29x
16	Reid	717	0.670%	6.34x
17	Walker	682	0.630%	1.89x
18	Graham	681	0.630%	5.50x
19	Young	672	0.620%	2.90x
20	Mitchell	659	0.610%	3.02x
21	Ferguson	645	0.600%	8.45x
22	Stevenson	645	0.600%	8.53x
23	Scott	635	0.590%	2.33x
24	Johnston	612	0.570%	7.04x
25	Buchanan	535	0.500%	19.21x
26	Watson	522	0.480%	2.09x
27	Gray	519	0.480%	3.37x
28	Russell	480	0.450%	3.65x
29	Hamilton	463	0.430%	5.73x
30	Allan	450	0.420%	6.65x
31	Wright	439	0.410%	1.27x
32	Baird	428	0.400%	18.58x
33	Gillespie	427	0.400%	24.99x
34	Kerr	416	0.390%	7.08x
35	Aitken	401	0.370%	14.18x
36	Clark	387	0.360%	1.20x
37	Murray	383	0.360%	2.87x
38	Fleming	368	0.340%	8.22x
39	Simpson	359	0.330%	1.90x
40	Bell	351	0.330%	1.73x
41	Rae	351	0.330%	14.30x
42	Cameron	349	0.320%	4.17x
43	Martin	348	0.320%	1.31x
44	Binnie	340	0.320%	75.72x
45	Forsyth	340	0.320%	14.79x
46	Donaldson	333	0.310%	10.84x
47	Millar	332	0.310%	8.44x
48	Shaw	327	0.300%	1.65x
49	Rennie	321	0.300%	17.06x
50	Drummond	311	0.290%	14.52x
51	White	311	0.290%	0.90x
52	Crawford	309	0.290%	5.86x
53	Dawson	309	0.290%	2.60x
54	Muirhead	308	0.290%	37.06x
55	Chalmers	303	0.280%	11.81x
56	Cowan	301	0.280%	13.70x
57	Sneddon	299	0.280%	46.61x
58	Stirling	299	0.280%	21.36x
59	Black	290	0.270%	4.16x
60	Turnbull	283	0.260%	6.23x
61	Burns	281	0.260%	3.88x
62	Johnstone	271	0.250%	5.56x
63	Laing	263	0.240%	12.15x
64	Adam	260	0.240%	14.05x
65	Kelly	258	0.240%	2.19x
66	Ross	255	0.240%	2.17x
67	Leishman	246	0.230%	67.30x
68	Paton	242	0.220%	10.04x
69	Forrester	240	0.220%	16.59x
70	Boyd	239	0.220%	6.32x
71	Welsh	239	0.220%	5.60x
72	Laird	238	0.220%	19.68x
73	Christie	236	0.220%	6.76x
74	Dick	230	0.210%	9.57x
75	Nicol	230	0.210%	10.25x
76	Gardner	228	0.210%	3.12x
77	Baxter	224	0.210%	3.49x
78	Fraser	222	0.210%	2.31x
79	Sharp	221	0.210%	2.46x
80	Ure	219	0.200%	65.45x
81	Blair	217	0.200%	7.77x
82	Liddell	216	0.200%	21.86x
83	Bennie	214	0.200%	71.84x
84	Gibson	212	0.200%	1.62x
85	Penman	210	0.190%	29.79x
86	Richardson	209	0.190%	1.14x
87	Grant	207	0.190%	1.94x
88	Hay	206	0.190%	5.21x
89	Jack	206	0.190%	9.00x
90	Davidson	202	0.190%	2.23x
91	Jenkins	200	0.190%	1.58x
92	Dobbie	198	0.180%	42.07x
93	Jamieson	198	0.180%	6.60x
94	Bain	196	0.180%	7.33x
95	Maxwell	196	0.180%	7.66x
96	Waddell	196	0.180%	20.50x
97	Hutton	195	0.180%	6.06x
98	Williamson	192	0.180%	1.99x
99	Dunn	191	0.180%	2.13x
100	Neilson	191	0.180%	12.58x