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 Potter, with 31 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
501	Potter	31	0.030%	0.44x
502	Riddell	31	0.030%	3.43x
503	Rule	31	0.030%	4.19x
504	Steven	31	0.030%	3.80x
505	Stuart	31	0.030%	1.21x
506	Arbuckle	30	0.030%	13.09x
507	Benson	30	0.030%	1.03x
508	Bulloch	30	0.030%	13.92x
509	Cram	30	0.030%	14.28x
510	Cummings	30	0.030%	1.81x
511	Dalrymple	30	0.030%	6.39x
512	Dixon	30	0.030%	0.25x
513	Flannigan	30	0.030%	11.21x
514	Girvan	30	0.030%	17.70x
515	Glegg	30	0.030%	33.90x
516	Grieve	30	0.030%	2.40x
517	Howden	30	0.030%	5.49x
518	Kilpatrick	30	0.030%	5.41x
519	Leighton	30	0.030%	2.59x
520	Lowe	30	0.030%	0.37x
521	Monaghan	30	0.030%	3.84x
522	Nicholson	30	0.030%	0.39x
523	Oneil	30	0.030%	2.77x
524	Prentice	30	0.030%	2.37x
525	Bellingham	29	0.030%	7.31x
526	Clarke	29	0.030%	0.13x
527	Cochran	29	0.030%	7.05x
528	Mann	29	0.030%	0.51x
529	Manson	29	0.030%	2.30x
530	Motherwell	29	0.030%	37.32x
531	Rattray	29	0.030%	5.51x
532	Shepherd	29	0.030%	0.37x
533	Sibbald	29	0.030%	10.11x
534	Allen	28	0.030%	0.14x
535	Bishop	28	0.030%	0.37x
536	Burden	28	0.030%	2.03x
537	Gunn	28	0.030%	1.06x
538	Lambie	28	0.030%	7.97x
539	Norval	28	0.030%	30.64x
540	Peebles	28	0.030%	6.19x
541	Sanderson	28	0.030%	0.63x
542	Straiton	28	0.030%	42.30x
543	Brownlie	27	0.030%	5.72x
544	Dearie	27	0.030%	45.76x
545	Faichney	27	0.030%	34.91x
546	Farmer	27	0.030%	0.80x
547	Halley	27	0.030%	6.67x
548	Lynch	27	0.030%	0.95x
549	Roughead	27	0.030%	63.07x
550	Sands	27	0.030%	2.24x
551	Templeton	27	0.030%	3.39x
552	Tough	27	0.030%	6.51x
553	Travers	27	0.030%	4.99x
554	Yeats	27	0.030%	9.07x
555	Brannan	26	0.020%	3.57x
556	Burnett	26	0.020%	0.87x
557	Connolly	26	0.020%	2.08x
558	Galt	26	0.020%	10.64x
559	Hamill	26	0.020%	14.11x
560	Howieson	26	0.020%	19.53x
561	Lennie	26	0.020%	11.22x
562	Linn	26	0.020%	10.58x
563	Makin	26	0.020%	2.81x
564	Moodie	26	0.020%	5.14x
565	Notman	26	0.020%	14.63x
566	Park	26	0.020%	0.78x
567	Samuel	26	0.020%	2.02x
568	Stalker	26	0.020%	4.90x
569	Woods	26	0.020%	0.38x
570	Younger	26	0.020%	4.46x
571	Barron	25	0.020%	1.50x
572	Bolton	25	0.020%	0.54x
573	Condie	25	0.020%	17.50x
574	Gavin	25	0.020%	4.69x
575	Herd	25	0.020%	3.16x
576	Jolly	25	0.020%	1.64x
577	Macadam	25	0.020%	26.73x
578	Mochrie	25	0.020%	47.28x
579	Monks	25	0.020%	2.87x
580	Odonnell	25	0.020%	3.61x
581	Philips	25	0.020%	1.25x
582	Rodger	25	0.020%	1.65x
583	Soutar	25	0.020%	6.51x
584	Tasker	25	0.020%	2.18x
585	Bilsland	24	0.020%	38.78x
586	Denholm	24	0.020%	5.32x
587	Edwards	24	0.020%	0.08x
588	Fairbairn	24	0.020%	3.02x
589	Fletcher	24	0.020%	0.20x
590	Hutcheson	24	0.020%	4.34x
591	Littlejohn	24	0.020%	4.62x
592	Torrance	24	0.020%	5.05x
593	Berry	23	0.020%	0.27x
594	Britton	23	0.020%	1.21x
595	Brownlee	23	0.020%	6.18x
596	Carlin	23	0.020%	4.20x
597	Carlyle	23	0.020%	7.75x
598	Colvin	23	0.020%	6.16x
599	Connor	23	0.020%	0.72x
600	Cruickshank	23	0.020%	1.90x