1881 census place

Abbey surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Abbey, Renfrewshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the district or town. Frequency and index show whether the surname was unusually common locally.

Place summary

1,058 surnames are listed for Abbey, Renfrewshire, covering 21,888 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 393 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Abbey

Small places can have high concentration scores even when the raw count is modest. The index column helps separate genuinely local surnames from names that simply appear in large numbers everywhere.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Wilson	393	1.14%	2.48x
2	Campbell	377	1.09%	6.45x
3	Stewart	350	1.01%	6.48x
4	Brown	320	0.930%	1.41x
5	Thomson	319	0.920%	6.91x
6	Reid	306	0.890%	8.43x
7	Stevenson	299	0.870%	12.34x
8	Robertson	284	0.820%	4.91x
9	Hamilton	217	0.630%	8.37x
10	Cameron	202	0.580%	7.52x
11	Adam	199	0.580%	33.54x
12	Barr	195	0.560%	23.34x
13	Anderson	185	0.540%	2.71x
14	Graham	184	0.530%	4.64x
15	Wallace	182	0.530%	7.69x
16	Young	182	0.530%	2.45x
17	Crawford	178	0.520%	10.53x
18	Allan	175	0.510%	8.07x
19	Watson	164	0.470%	2.05x
20	Scott	154	0.450%	1.76x
21	Clark	150	0.430%	1.44x
22	Fleming	148	0.430%	10.31x
23	Johnston	147	0.430%	5.27x
24	Gray	144	0.420%	2.92x
25	Kennedy	143	0.410%	6.87x
26	Buchanan	134	0.390%	15.01x
27	Kerr	127	0.370%	6.74x
28	Bell	124	0.360%	1.91x
29	Ferguson	124	0.360%	5.06x
30	Millar	122	0.350%	9.68x
31	Paterson	116	0.340%	4.93x
32	Caldwell	115	0.330%	21.28x
33	Aitken	112	0.320%	12.36x
34	Burns	111	0.320%	4.79x
35	Black	110	0.320%	4.92x
36	Murray	110	0.320%	2.57x
37	Gibson	108	0.310%	2.58x
38	Wylie	108	0.310%	26.87x
39	Fulton	107	0.310%	24.55x
40	Muir	107	0.310%	8.09x
41	Docherty	104	0.300%	20.24x
42	Love	104	0.300%	12.70x
43	Johnstone	103	0.300%	6.60x
44	Hunter	101	0.290%	2.85x
45	Kelly	101	0.290%	2.67x
46	Morrison	101	0.290%	3.72x
47	Allison	95	0.280%	9.68x
48	Boyle	94	0.270%	10.49x
49	Russell	94	0.270%	2.23x
50	Neilson	93	0.270%	19.10x
51	Gardner	92	0.270%	3.92x
52	Houston	92	0.270%	20.91x
53	Pollock	92	0.270%	18.34x
54	Boyd	90	0.260%	7.43x
55	Dunlop	89	0.260%	15.99x
56	Lang	89	0.260%	11.56x
57	Rodger	89	0.260%	18.33x
58	Gemmell	88	0.250%	42.39x
59	Paton	88	0.250%	11.39x
60	Hart	87	0.250%	2.95x
61	Laird	84	0.240%	21.66x
62	Park	82	0.240%	7.66x
63	Knox	81	0.230%	13.66x
64	Logan	79	0.230%	9.64x
65	Gilmour	78	0.230%	15.96x
66	Cochran	77	0.220%	58.40x
67	Orr	76	0.220%	13.06x
68	Armour	75	0.220%	34.64x
69	Baird	73	0.210%	9.88x
70	Henderson	72	0.210%	1.92x
71	Cochrane	71	0.210%	13.27x
72	Gallacher	71	0.210%	23.83x
73	Harvey	70	0.200%	1.90x
74	Ritchie	70	0.200%	5.87x
75	Bowie	69	0.200%	22.93x
76	Blair	66	0.190%	7.37x
77	Currie	65	0.190%	6.69x
78	Sproul	65	0.190%	149.49x
79	Williamson	65	0.190%	2.10x
80	Connell	63	0.180%	10.49x
81	Elliot	63	0.180%	7.15x
82	Spence	63	0.180%	5.51x
83	Fraser	62	0.180%	2.02x
84	Donald	61	0.180%	8.77x
85	Jamieson	60	0.170%	6.24x
86	Speirs	60	0.170%	44.42x
87	Blackwood	58	0.170%	28.80x
88	Daly	58	0.170%	17.00x
89	Kirkwood	58	0.170%	18.57x
90	Lyle	57	0.170%	35.27x
91	Barbour	56	0.160%	29.50x
92	Montgomery	56	0.160%	10.22x
93	Weir	56	0.160%	6.23x
94	Whyte	56	0.160%	9.56x
95	Alexander	55	0.160%	3.01x
96	Taggart	55	0.160%	42.16x
97	Glen	54	0.160%	15.79x
98	Stirling	54	0.160%	12.03x
99	Barclay	53	0.150%	7.46x
100	Irvine	53	0.150%	6.96x