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 Fleming, with 65 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
101	Fleming	65	0.170%	4.03x
102	Montgomery	65	0.170%	10.56x
103	Preston	64	0.170%	3.30x
104	Skimming	63	0.160%	284.42x
105	Aitken	62	0.160%	6.09x
106	Gibb	62	0.160%	9.05x
107	Burns	61	0.160%	2.34x
108	Dodds	61	0.160%	7.47x
109	Hughan	61	0.160%	334.06x
110	Kilpatrick	60	0.150%	30.04x
111	Murphy	60	0.150%	1.94x
112	Logan	57	0.150%	6.20x
113	Miller	57	0.150%	0.82x
114	Potts	57	0.150%	4.40x
115	Forsyth	56	0.140%	6.77x
116	Cairns	55	0.140%	6.56x
117	Weir	55	0.140%	5.45x
118	Horner	54	0.140%	7.31x
119	Turner	54	0.140%	0.50x
120	Airdrie	53	0.140%	629.45x
121	Allan	53	0.140%	2.18x
122	Kevan	53	0.140%	160.46x
123	Welsh	53	0.140%	3.45x
124	Williamson	52	0.130%	1.50x
125	Armstrong	50	0.130%	1.69x
126	Carson	50	0.130%	11.70x
127	Chalmers	50	0.130%	5.41x
128	Copeland	49	0.130%	13.35x
129	Malone	49	0.130%	15.78x
130	Mitchell	49	0.130%	0.62x
131	Orr	48	0.120%	7.34x
132	Stroyan	48	0.120%	239.16x
133	Lindsay	47	0.120%	3.72x
134	Nish	47	0.120%	180.56x
135	Bruce	46	0.120%	2.53x
136	Cowan	46	0.120%	5.81x
137	Drynan	46	0.120%	246.65x
138	Laidlaw	46	0.120%	13.38x
139	Lamont	45	0.120%	13.05x
140	Litterick	45	0.120%	439.88x
141	Gray	43	0.110%	0.78x
142	Hyslop	43	0.110%	19.28x
143	Jess	43	0.110%	142.48x
144	Lees	43	0.110%	2.50x
145	Monteith	43	0.110%	41.76x
146	Ohare	42	0.110%	44.12x
147	Richardson	42	0.110%	0.64x
148	Robb	42	0.110%	6.26x
149	Fergusson	41	0.110%	20.88x
150	Jardine	41	0.110%	11.34x
151	Park	41	0.110%	3.41x
152	Ritchie	41	0.110%	3.06x
153	Downie	40	0.100%	8.79x
154	Laurie	40	0.100%	12.00x
155	Jolly	39	0.100%	7.09x
156	Neil	39	0.100%	7.60x
157	Pettigrew	39	0.100%	20.71x
158	Porteous	39	0.100%	15.08x
159	Rice	39	0.100%	3.24x
160	Sproat	39	0.100%	51.21x
161	Blackwell	38	0.100%	5.38x
162	Bradford	38	0.100%	5.02x
163	Christie	38	0.100%	3.02x
164	Gourlay	38	0.100%	17.67x
165	Morland	38	0.100%	34.88x
166	Neill	38	0.100%	14.79x
167	Porter	38	0.100%	1.31x
168	Watt	38	0.100%	2.55x
169	Blair	37	0.100%	3.68x
170	Coid	37	0.100%	510.34x
171	Fisher	37	0.100%	0.81x
172	Moffat	37	0.100%	5.27x
173	Spence	37	0.100%	2.88x
174	Torbet	37	0.100%	187.91x
175	Baillie	36	0.090%	8.94x
176	Bryden	36	0.090%	21.99x
177	Halliday	36	0.090%	4.49x
178	Lockhart	36	0.090%	13.32x
179	Mills	36	0.090%	0.72x
180	Cosh	35	0.090%	112.61x
181	Dunlop	35	0.090%	5.60x
182	Hall	35	0.090%	0.31x
183	Rodgers	35	0.090%	3.30x
184	Harrison	34	0.090%	0.39x
185	Pollock	34	0.090%	6.03x
186	Cook	33	0.090%	0.43x
187	Dorman	33	0.090%	26.46x
188	Gardiner	33	0.090%	2.96x
189	Laverie	33	0.090%	472.10x
190	Shearer	33	0.090%	6.63x
191	Warren	33	0.090%	1.27x
192	Chambers	32	0.080%	1.45x
193	Mair	32	0.080%	8.93x
194	Millar	32	0.080%	2.26x
195	Moore	32	0.080%	0.41x
196	Morton	32	0.080%	1.54x
197	Sloan	32	0.080%	8.76x
198	Guthrie	31	0.080%	6.34x
199	Hood	31	0.080%	2.89x
200	King	31	0.080%	0.37x