1881 census county

Wigtownshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Wigtownshire 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

1,658 surnames are listed for Wigtownshire, covering 27,870 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 412 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Wigtownshire

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	Smith	412	1.06%	0.75x
2	Gibson	392	1.01%	8.33x
3	Murray	390	1.01%	8.11x
4	Stewart	386	1.00%	6.36x
5	Thomson	352	0.910%	6.79x
6	Wilson	348	0.900%	1.95x
7	Hannah	343	0.880%	68.02x
8	Brown	342	0.880%	1.34x
9	Campbell	335	0.860%	5.10x
10	Kelly	265	0.680%	6.24x
11	Kerr	252	0.650%	11.91x
12	Hamilton	247	0.640%	8.49x
13	Muir	246	0.630%	16.57x
14	Wallace	224	0.580%	8.43x
15	Anderson	208	0.540%	2.71x
16	Bell	204	0.530%	2.80x
17	Paterson	197	0.510%	7.46x
18	Milroy	190	0.490%	171.17x
19	Ross	189	0.490%	4.46x
20	Douglas	187	0.480%	9.95x
21	Agnew	184	0.470%	84.31x
22	Heron	184	0.470%	49.46x
23	Scott	182	0.470%	1.85x
24	Reid	175	0.450%	4.30x
25	Martin	167	0.430%	1.75x
26	Graham	164	0.420%	3.68x
27	Gordon	157	0.400%	6.42x
28	Davidson	153	0.390%	4.69x
29	Wither	153	0.390%	449.21x
30	Boyd	150	0.390%	11.02x
31	Marshall	149	0.380%	2.29x
32	Johnstone	148	0.380%	8.44x
33	Rennie	146	0.380%	21.55x
34	Hunter	145	0.370%	3.64x
35	Morrison	143	0.370%	4.69x
36	Parker	141	0.360%	1.91x
37	Ferguson	138	0.360%	5.02x
38	Black	136	0.350%	5.41x
39	Johnston	134	0.350%	4.28x
40	Robertson	133	0.340%	2.05x
41	Nelson	132	0.340%	7.03x
42	Blain	127	0.330%	94.28x
43	Allison	125	0.320%	11.34x
44	Little	123	0.320%	6.70x
45	Kennedy	122	0.310%	5.22x
46	Alexander	120	0.310%	5.84x
47	Hannay	120	0.310%	125.54x
48	Wright	117	0.300%	0.94x
49	Cochrane	115	0.300%	19.14x
50	Edgar	115	0.300%	19.25x
51	Walker	110	0.280%	0.85x
52	Erskine	109	0.280%	45.41x
53	Adair	106	0.270%	87.71x
54	Thorburn	106	0.270%	47.33x
55	Milligan	105	0.270%	23.00x
56	Gilmour	103	0.270%	18.76x
57	Galloway	102	0.260%	15.27x
58	Rankin	100	0.260%	17.35x
59	Caldwell	99	0.260%	16.31x
60	Henry	96	0.250%	9.79x
61	Irvine	96	0.250%	11.23x
62	Young	96	0.250%	1.15x
63	Irving	95	0.240%	10.99x
64	Crawford	94	0.240%	4.95x
65	Fulton	93	0.240%	19.00x
66	Maxwell	93	0.240%	10.09x
67	Shaw	93	0.240%	1.31x
68	Nicholson	92	0.240%	3.34x
69	Thompson	92	0.240%	0.79x
70	Murdoch	91	0.230%	13.81x
71	Clark	89	0.230%	0.76x
72	Watson	88	0.230%	0.98x
73	Adams	86	0.220%	1.50x
74	Drysdale	86	0.220%	26.22x
75	Dalrymple	85	0.220%	50.33x
76	Love	85	0.220%	9.24x
77	Simpson	85	0.220%	1.25x
78	Broadfoot	84	0.220%	90.70x
79	Cain	84	0.220%	10.43x
80	Donnan	84	0.220%	390.70x
81	Hughes	82	0.210%	0.75x
82	Rodger	82	0.210%	15.04x
83	Cumming	81	0.210%	10.94x
84	Findlay	81	0.210%	10.08x
85	Biggam	80	0.210%	361.17x
86	Dickson	78	0.200%	5.43x
87	Harvey	77	0.200%	1.86x
88	Henderson	77	0.200%	1.83x
89	Stevenson	77	0.200%	2.83x
90	Templeton	77	0.200%	26.87x
91	White	77	0.200%	0.62x
92	Todd	76	0.200%	3.85x
93	Fraser	74	0.190%	2.14x
94	Hill	73	0.190%	0.74x
95	Taylor	72	0.190%	0.29x
96	Kyle	71	0.180%	32.92x
97	Patterson	71	0.180%	5.25x
98	Baird	70	0.180%	8.44x
99	Jamieson	70	0.180%	6.48x
100	Higgins	66	0.170%	3.37x