1881 census place

Ayr surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ayr, Ayrshire 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

458 surnames are listed for Ayr, Ayrshire, covering 3,855 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Spier, with 5 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ayr

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	Spier	5	0.050%	74.40x
202	Warnock	5	0.050%	22.29x
203	Wemyss	5	0.050%	34.97x
204	Alden	4	0.040%	15.05x
205	Barrowman	4	0.040%	28.17x
206	Branney	4	0.040%	186.92x
207	Burnside	4	0.040%	11.06x
208	Calligan	4	0.040%	19.51x
209	Colston	4	0.040%	21.22x
210	Connel	4	0.040%	21.07x
211	Craigie	4	0.040%	12.34x
212	Drinnan	4	0.040%	58.91x
213	Gemmel	4	0.040%	43.15x
214	Glendening	4	0.040%	76.92x
215	Laughland	4	0.040%	70.80x
216	Lindores	4	0.040%	73.53x
217	Longmuir	4	0.040%	20.88x
218	Maclure	4	0.040%	80.65x
219	Mcclelland	4	0.040%	113.96x
220	Mccrorie	4	0.040%	2857.14x
221	Mcfadzen	4	0.040%	2857.14x
222	Mchardy	4	0.040%	888.89x
223	Mclaren	4	0.040%	45.71x
224	Meekin	4	0.040%	82.30x
225	Murchison	4	0.040%	38.42x
226	Niell	4	0.040%	122.32x
227	Perrie	4	0.040%	33.84x
228	Polland	4	0.040%	102.83x
229	Ralston	4	0.040%	11.52x
230	Rochester	4	0.040%	14.81x
231	Rusk	4	0.040%	102.83x
232	Strang	4	0.040%	8.64x
233	Whiteway	4	0.040%	27.91x
234	Buchannan	3	0.030%	20.63x
235	Clelland	3	0.030%	10.53x
236	Clydesdale	3	0.030%	43.73x
237	Corbet	3	0.030%	10.57x
238	Coughtrie	3	0.030%	1250.00x
239	Craw	3	0.030%	44.44x
240	Drennan	3	0.030%	21.51x
241	Fiddes	3	0.030%	15.60x
242	Folly	3	0.030%	44.91x
243	Georgeson	3	0.030%	14.56x
244	Grosset	3	0.030%	70.75x
245	Haddow	3	0.030%	9.54x
246	Hendrie	3	0.030%	11.86x
247	Kelso	3	0.030%	12.39x
248	Lauchlan	3	0.030%	42.25x
249	Mccartney	3	0.030%	78.53x
250	Mccosh	3	0.030%	3000.00x
251	Mccubbin	3	0.030%	379.75x
252	Mcdowall	3	0.030%	60.85x
253	Mckinlay	3	0.030%	135.75x
254	Mcleod	3	0.030%	17.59x
255	Milroy	3	0.030%	10.16x
256	Montgomerie	3	0.030%	15.25x
257	Mullany	3	0.030%	35.55x
258	Naismith	3	0.030%	10.93x
259	Naughton	3	0.030%	14.53x
260	Norrie	3	0.030%	9.38x
261	Ranken	3	0.030%	46.08x
262	Sibbald	3	0.030%	10.93x
263	Sloane	3	0.030%	12.58x
264	Torbet	3	0.030%	57.25x
265	Wharrie	3	0.030%	75.76x
266	Whitecross	3	0.030%	23.73x
267	Wield	3	0.030%	97.72x
268	Woodside	3	0.030%	53.10x
269	Bara	2	0.020%	2000.00x
270	Biggar	2	0.020%	14.03x
271	Boyde	2	0.020%	14.37x
272	Cadden	2	0.020%	36.50x
273	Crossan	2	0.020%	14.19x
274	Cuningham	2	0.020%	27.25x
275	Currans	2	0.020%	51.41x
276	Dunsmuir	2	0.020%	26.88x
277	Gilfillan	2	0.020%	10.03x
278	Goude	2	0.020%	69.93x
279	Govan	2	0.020%	10.63x
280	Gribbin	2	0.020%	17.75x
281	Hammel	2	0.020%	68.26x
282	Hasting	2	0.020%	31.75x
283	Haughan	2	0.020%	67.57x
284	Heenan	2	0.020%	24.18x
285	Heffernan	2	0.020%	53.19x
286	Hosie	2	0.020%	9.08x
287	Kilmartin	2	0.020%	29.94x
288	Lovel	2	0.020%	21.81x
289	Macnab	2	0.020%	21.41x
290	Mcandrew	2	0.020%	111.73x
291	Mcculloch	2	0.020%	52.77x
292	Mcgowan	2	0.020%	19.42x
293	Mcintosh	2	0.020%	19.10x
294	Mckerrow	2	0.020%	175.44x
295	Mcmurtrie	2	0.020%	588.24x
296	Mcneil	2	0.020%	33.00x
297	Mcphee	2	0.020%	307.69x
298	Niblock	2	0.020%	38.17x
299	Notman	2	0.020%	11.75x
300	Ochiltree	2	0.020%	66.01x