1881 census place

Alloa surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Alloa, Clackmannanshire 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

388 surnames are listed for Alloa, Clackmannanshire, covering 6,096 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Paterson, with 327 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Alloa

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	Paterson	327	2.79%	41.07x
2	Mitchell	225	1.92%	9.48x
3	Hunter	214	1.83%	17.81x
4	Thomson	210	1.79%	13.43x
5	Fraser	131	1.12%	12.58x
6	Robertson	129	1.10%	6.58x
7	Dawson	124	1.06%	9.61x
8	Stewart	122	1.04%	6.66x
9	Ferguson	116	0.990%	13.99x
10	Morrison	101	0.860%	10.98x
11	Reid	93	0.790%	7.57x
12	Archibald	89	0.760%	88.13x
13	Allan	86	0.740%	11.71x
14	Snaddon	85	0.730%	750.22x
15	Henderson	78	0.670%	6.13x
16	Drummond	77	0.660%	33.11x
17	Fyfe	69	0.590%	64.25x
18	Drysdale	64	0.550%	64.70x
19	Carmichael	53	0.450%	31.65x
20	Honeyman	46	0.390%	120.26x
21	Galloway	45	0.380%	22.33x
22	Ramage	45	0.380%	68.44x
23	Dempster	44	0.380%	53.45x
24	Donaldson	44	0.380%	13.19x
25	Izatt	43	0.370%	382.22x
26	Adamson	42	0.360%	13.57x
27	Michie	42	0.360%	73.34x
28	Bowie	40	0.340%	39.24x
29	Hutton	40	0.340%	11.45x
30	Rankine	38	0.320%	64.04x
31	Hutchison	37	0.320%	19.23x
32	Millar	37	0.320%	8.66x
33	Syme	37	0.320%	84.11x
34	Alexander	35	0.300%	5.65x
35	Christie	35	0.300%	9.23x
36	Fife	33	0.280%	105.97x
37	Gall	33	0.280%	43.72x
38	Beveridge	32	0.270%	26.28x
39	Jack	31	0.270%	12.47x
40	Ewing	30	0.260%	27.81x
41	Fotheringham	30	0.260%	60.99x
42	Gillespie	30	0.260%	16.17x
43	Lindsay	30	0.260%	7.87x
44	Scotland	30	0.260%	89.93x
45	Cochrane	29	0.250%	16.00x
46	Harrower	29	0.250%	110.64x
47	Irvine	29	0.250%	11.25x
48	Prentice	29	0.250%	21.06x
49	Dick	28	0.240%	10.73x
50	Greig	28	0.240%	15.12x
51	Bauchop	27	0.230%	531.50x
52	Jamieson	27	0.230%	8.29x
53	Rintoul	27	0.230%	101.05x
54	Aitken	26	0.220%	8.47x
55	Cowie	26	0.220%	18.31x
56	Glass	26	0.220%	21.48x
57	Moir	26	0.220%	16.16x
58	Paton	26	0.220%	9.93x
59	Davie	25	0.210%	23.19x
60	Erskine	25	0.210%	34.54x
61	Harley	25	0.210%	16.58x
62	Ramsay	25	0.210%	8.30x
63	Laing	23	0.200%	9.78x
64	Melville	23	0.200%	18.62x
65	Swan	23	0.200%	7.59x
66	Bain	21	0.180%	7.23x
67	Buchanan	21	0.180%	6.94x
68	Cairns	21	0.180%	8.30x
69	Dewar	21	0.180%	13.76x
70	Nicol	21	0.180%	8.62x
71	Starkey	21	0.180%	18.09x
72	Dickie	20	0.170%	21.78x
73	Duncanson	20	0.170%	88.57x
74	Gardener	20	0.170%	9.53x
75	Melvin	20	0.170%	35.50x
76	Petrie	20	0.170%	14.38x
77	Monteath	19	0.160%	176.25x
78	Whitelaw	19	0.160%	27.24x
79	Barclay	18	0.150%	7.48x
80	Binnie	18	0.150%	36.92x
81	Cram	18	0.150%	78.88x
82	Knox	18	0.150%	8.96x
83	Lennox	18	0.150%	25.93x
84	Liddell	18	0.150%	16.77x
85	Ure	18	0.150%	49.55x
86	Arnott	17	0.150%	17.29x
87	Cock	17	0.150%	13.21x
88	Robb	17	0.150%	8.40x
89	Stirling	17	0.150%	11.18x
90	Westwood	17	0.150%	8.66x
91	Cumming	16	0.140%	7.17x
92	Cuthbert	16	0.140%	9.52x
93	Dobbie	16	0.140%	31.31x
94	Sneddon	16	0.140%	22.97x
95	Crichton	15	0.130%	15.03x
96	Gourlay	15	0.130%	23.13x
97	Jeffrey	15	0.130%	6.93x
98	Stein	15	0.130%	54.15x
99	Swanson	15	0.130%	17.51x
100	Trotter	15	0.130%	12.23x