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 Chalmers, with 52 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
101	Chalmers	52	0.150%	6.32x
102	Donaldson	52	0.150%	5.28x
103	Ramsay	52	0.150%	5.84x
104	Maxwell	51	0.150%	6.21x
105	Murdoch	51	0.150%	8.69x
106	Forsyth	50	0.140%	6.78x
107	Galbraith	50	0.140%	15.83x
108	Douglas	49	0.140%	2.93x
109	Hendry	49	0.140%	8.95x
110	Herd	48	0.140%	18.92x
111	Higgins	48	0.140%	2.75x
112	Hood	48	0.140%	5.02x
113	Noble	48	0.140%	3.35x
114	Lynch	47	0.140%	5.16x
115	Kilpatrick	46	0.130%	25.86x
116	Monaghan	46	0.130%	18.37x
117	Semple	46	0.130%	27.95x
118	Dickson	45	0.130%	3.52x
119	Harper	45	0.130%	2.03x
120	Livingston	45	0.130%	14.50x
121	Gillespie	44	0.130%	8.03x
122	Watt	44	0.130%	3.32x
123	Andrew	43	0.120%	3.93x
124	Christie	43	0.120%	3.84x
125	Faulds	43	0.120%	40.79x
126	Hair	43	0.120%	31.92x
127	Lauder	43	0.120%	23.68x
128	Cumming	42	0.120%	6.37x
129	Blackburn	41	0.120%	3.15x
130	Colquhoun	40	0.120%	19.55x
131	Pattison	40	0.120%	7.28x
132	Beaton	39	0.110%	9.82x
133	Brodie	39	0.110%	8.41x
134	Hay	38	0.110%	3.00x
135	Kane	38	0.110%	13.66x
136	Bennie	37	0.110%	38.74x
137	Carmichael	37	0.110%	7.48x
138	Morning	37	0.110%	294.35x
139	Connor	36	0.100%	3.53x
140	Gilchrist	36	0.100%	7.11x
141	Howie	36	0.100%	10.62x
142	Inglis	36	0.100%	6.24x
143	Mathieson	36	0.100%	9.89x
144	Welsh	36	0.100%	2.63x
145	Dempster	35	0.100%	14.40x
146	Ewing	35	0.100%	10.99x
147	Jaffrey	35	0.100%	107.99x
148	Kyle	35	0.100%	18.22x
149	Lawrie	35	0.100%	10.58x
150	Muirhead	35	0.100%	13.14x
151	Todd	35	0.100%	1.99x
152	Arthur	34	0.100%	4.52x
153	Cherry	34	0.100%	9.62x
154	Cowan	34	0.100%	4.83x
155	Gallocher	34	0.100%	35.60x
156	Lees	34	0.100%	2.22x
157	Moodie	34	0.100%	20.96x
158	Oneil	34	0.100%	9.81x
159	Quin	34	0.100%	9.19x
160	Rankin	34	0.100%	6.63x
161	Deans	33	0.100%	14.09x
162	Dickie	33	0.100%	12.17x
163	Gibb	33	0.100%	5.41x
164	Leggat	33	0.100%	41.29x
165	Riddell	33	0.100%	11.39x
166	Hosie	32	0.090%	43.41x
167	Leitch	32	0.090%	9.71x
168	Donnelly	31	0.090%	7.13x
169	Hardie	31	0.090%	6.88x
170	Niven	31	0.090%	12.90x
171	Renfrew	31	0.090%	56.22x
172	Renton	31	0.090%	14.63x
173	Ferrie	30	0.090%	47.98x
174	Findlay	30	0.090%	4.19x
175	Lindsay	30	0.090%	2.66x
176	Nisbet	30	0.090%	8.23x
177	Telfer	30	0.090%	14.52x
178	Borland	29	0.080%	19.41x
179	Brannan	29	0.080%	12.42x
180	Devine	29	0.080%	8.43x
181	Downie	29	0.080%	7.16x
182	Duffy	29	0.080%	3.84x
183	Grieve	29	0.080%	7.25x
184	Hatrick	29	0.080%	314.19x
185	Hutton	29	0.080%	2.81x
186	Jack	29	0.080%	3.95x
187	Ralston	29	0.080%	24.94x
188	Tannahill	29	0.080%	84.65x
189	Erskine	28	0.080%	13.10x
190	Hannah	28	0.080%	6.24x
191	Hutchison	28	0.080%	4.93x
192	Keenan	28	0.080%	9.57x
193	Nicol	28	0.080%	3.89x
194	Rae	28	0.080%	3.56x
195	Tait	28	0.080%	2.75x
196	Coyle	27	0.080%	11.51x
197	Holms	27	0.080%	27.74x
198	Michael	27	0.080%	14.54x
199	Paul	27	0.080%	3.12x
200	Ronald	27	0.080%	21.92x