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 Urquhart, with 27 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
201	Urquhart	27	0.080%	5.56x
202	Cairns	26	0.080%	3.48x
203	Coats	26	0.080%	16.66x
204	Doherty	26	0.080%	9.22x
205	Husband	26	0.080%	12.91x
206	Lauchlan	26	0.080%	109.43x
207	Leslie	26	0.080%	4.55x
208	Steen	26	0.080%	38.60x
209	Carruthers	25	0.070%	5.47x
210	Dillon	25	0.070%	7.32x
211	Fitzpatrick	25	0.070%	4.95x
212	Forrest	25	0.070%	2.81x
213	Kean	25	0.070%	10.69x
214	Lafferty	25	0.070%	31.69x
215	Rankine	25	0.070%	14.27x
216	Sim	25	0.070%	6.44x
217	Sweenie	25	0.070%	83.03x
218	Bryson	24	0.070%	9.06x
219	Connelly	24	0.070%	7.48x
220	Crichton	24	0.070%	8.14x
221	Gillan	24	0.070%	19.76x
222	Templeton	24	0.070%	9.41x
223	Winning	24	0.070%	30.96x
224	Baillie	23	0.070%	6.42x
225	Callaghan	23	0.070%	5.88x
226	Doyle	23	0.070%	2.73x
227	English	23	0.070%	3.54x
228	Muldoon	23	0.070%	33.79x
229	Neil	23	0.070%	5.03x
230	Patrick	23	0.070%	3.34x
231	Bonnar	22	0.060%	46.98x
232	Carlin	22	0.060%	12.53x
233	Darroch	22	0.060%	24.42x
234	Devlin	22	0.060%	7.78x
235	Macgregor	22	0.060%	15.25x
236	Mack	22	0.060%	6.33x
237	Mackie	22	0.060%	2.98x
238	Moffat	22	0.060%	3.52x
239	Rowan	22	0.060%	9.89x
240	Steele	22	0.060%	2.38x
241	Bain	21	0.060%	2.45x
242	Conner	21	0.060%	7.86x
243	Killoch	21	0.060%	289.26x
244	Lamont	21	0.060%	6.84x
245	Mullen	21	0.060%	6.36x
246	Pettigrew	21	0.060%	12.52x
247	Rennie	21	0.060%	3.48x
248	Roxburgh	21	0.060%	19.64x
249	Shearer	21	0.060%	4.74x
250	Daily	20	0.060%	22.34x
251	Gardiner	20	0.060%	2.01x
252	Glassford	20	0.060%	133.42x
253	Greenan	20	0.060%	85.00x
254	Henry	20	0.060%	2.29x
255	Lochhead	20	0.060%	32.11x
256	Morrow	20	0.060%	14.21x
257	Scobie	20	0.060%	26.63x
258	Sellars	20	0.060%	9.34x
259	Bright	19	0.060%	2.72x
260	Lochrie	19	0.060%	85.35x
261	Mathie	19	0.060%	27.23x
262	Munn	19	0.060%	7.63x
263	Roy	19	0.060%	6.05x
264	Storrie	19	0.060%	34.17x
265	Whitehill	19	0.060%	68.08x
266	Wotherspoon	19	0.060%	17.30x
267	Byars	18	0.050%	98.79x
268	Carswell	18	0.050%	14.25x
269	Cowden	18	0.050%	66.13x
270	Dunbar	18	0.050%	4.54x
271	Easton	18	0.050%	3.44x
272	Forrester	18	0.050%	3.88x
273	Greer	18	0.050%	15.51x
274	Laing	18	0.050%	2.59x
275	Livingstone	18	0.050%	5.59x
276	Warnock	18	0.050%	23.97x
277	Agnew	17	0.050%	8.75x
278	Cassidy	17	0.050%	4.03x
279	Connolly	17	0.050%	4.24x
280	Coogan	17	0.050%	76.37x
281	Fyfe	17	0.050%	5.36x
282	Gebbie	17	0.050%	48.17x
283	Goudie	17	0.050%	15.55x
284	Gow	17	0.050%	6.23x
285	Harkins	17	0.050%	21.77x
286	Leckie	17	0.050%	15.70x
287	Mair	17	0.050%	5.32x
288	Manwell	17	0.050%	94.50x
289	Meiklejohn	17	0.050%	21.83x
290	Melville	17	0.050%	4.66x
291	Ohair	17	0.050%	162.06x
292	Peebles	17	0.050%	11.72x
293	Purdie	17	0.050%	11.90x
294	Robb	17	0.050%	2.85x
295	Rowat	17	0.050%	118.88x
296	Arrol	16	0.050%	104.30x
297	Blyth	16	0.050%	2.94x
298	Corrigan	16	0.050%	10.34x
299	Drummond	16	0.050%	2.33x
300	Elder	16	0.050%	4.39x