1881 census place

Barony surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Barony, Lanarkshire 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

4,275 surnames are listed for Barony, Lanarkshire, covering 177,569 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 2,908 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Barony

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	Campbell	2,908	1.22%	7.19x
2	Smith	2,899	1.21%	0.86x
3	Brown	2,620	1.10%	1.66x
4	Wilson	2,487	1.04%	2.26x
5	Thomson	2,027	0.850%	6.34x
6	Stewart	1,993	0.830%	5.33x
7	Robertson	1,816	0.760%	4.53x
8	Miller	1,594	0.670%	3.73x
9	Anderson	1,559	0.650%	3.30x
10	Cameron	1,456	0.610%	7.83x
11	Reid	1,306	0.550%	5.20x
12	Hamilton	1,299	0.540%	7.24x
13	Murray	1,270	0.530%	4.28x
14	Young	1,252	0.520%	2.44x
15	Paterson	1,229	0.510%	7.55x
16	Ferguson	1,185	0.500%	6.99x
17	Watson	1,181	0.490%	2.13x
18	Walker	1,144	0.480%	1.43x
19	Scott	1,143	0.480%	1.89x
20	Henderson	1,038	0.430%	3.99x
21	Johnston	1,029	0.430%	5.33x
22	Morrison	1,009	0.420%	5.37x
23	Clark	999	0.420%	1.39x
24	Gray	990	0.410%	2.90x
25	Taylor	973	0.410%	0.64x
26	Graham	960	0.400%	3.50x
27	Martin	925	0.390%	1.57x
28	Crawford	920	0.380%	7.86x
29	Stevenson	882	0.370%	5.26x
30	Mitchell	871	0.360%	1.80x
31	Ross	865	0.360%	3.31x
32	Russell	863	0.360%	2.96x
33	Black	832	0.350%	5.37x
34	Marshall	809	0.340%	2.02x
35	Muir	791	0.330%	8.64x
36	Fraser	787	0.330%	3.70x
37	Kerr	779	0.330%	5.97x
38	Hunter	776	0.320%	3.16x
39	Kelly	762	0.320%	2.91x
40	Allan	737	0.310%	4.91x
41	Bell	714	0.300%	1.59x
42	Wallace	704	0.290%	4.30x
43	Gibson	687	0.290%	2.37x
44	White	684	0.290%	0.89x
45	Buchanan	680	0.280%	11.00x
46	Kennedy	670	0.280%	4.65x
47	Boyd	648	0.270%	7.73x
48	Davidson	644	0.270%	3.20x
49	Simpson	613	0.260%	1.47x
50	Burns	606	0.250%	3.77x
51	Wright	594	0.250%	0.77x
52	Barr	588	0.250%	10.17x
53	Munro	565	0.240%	5.29x
54	Alexander	550	0.230%	4.35x
55	Docherty	540	0.230%	15.18x
56	Shaw	530	0.220%	1.21x
57	Aitken	526	0.220%	8.38x
58	Millar	526	0.220%	6.03x
59	Currie	522	0.220%	7.76x
60	Lindsay	516	0.220%	6.62x
61	Boyle	499	0.210%	8.04x
62	Fleming	482	0.200%	4.85x
63	Johnstone	479	0.200%	4.43x
64	Gordon	467	0.200%	3.10x
65	Douglas	463	0.190%	4.00x
66	Dunn	460	0.190%	2.31x
67	Baird	454	0.190%	8.88x
68	Blair	449	0.190%	7.24x
69	Hill	443	0.190%	0.73x
70	Grant	440	0.180%	1.85x
71	Logan	440	0.180%	7.76x
72	Watt	436	0.180%	4.76x
73	Murphy	435	0.180%	2.28x
74	Gardner	429	0.180%	2.64x
75	Jamieson	425	0.180%	6.38x
76	Weir	423	0.180%	6.80x
77	Williamson	423	0.180%	1.97x
78	Paton	410	0.170%	7.66x
79	Dickson	403	0.170%	4.55x
80	Bain	391	0.160%	6.59x
81	Rankin	387	0.160%	10.89x
82	Pollock	379	0.160%	10.91x
83	Jackson	375	0.160%	0.56x
84	Morton	362	0.150%	2.83x
85	Chalmers	361	0.150%	6.34x
86	Neilson	358	0.150%	10.62x
87	Murdoch	356	0.150%	8.77x
88	Sutherland	355	0.150%	2.95x
89	Hughes	354	0.150%	0.53x
90	Turner	353	0.150%	0.53x
91	Adams	351	0.150%	1.00x
92	Findlay	351	0.150%	7.08x
93	Ritchie	349	0.150%	4.22x
94	Lawson	347	0.150%	2.46x
95	Wylie	346	0.140%	12.43x
96	Wood	339	0.140%	0.45x
97	Turnbull	336	0.140%	3.33x
98	Irvine	331	0.140%	6.28x
99	Orr	330	0.140%	8.19x
100	Gallacher	327	0.140%	15.86x