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 Fulton, with 325 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
101	Fulton	325	0.140%	10.77x
102	Moore	324	0.140%	0.68x
103	Houston	323	0.140%	10.61x
104	King	320	0.130%	0.61x
105	Gillespie	318	0.130%	8.39x
106	Armstrong	317	0.130%	1.73x
107	Gilmour	314	0.130%	9.28x
108	Barclay	309	0.130%	6.28x
109	Cairns	306	0.130%	5.92x
110	Hay	303	0.130%	3.46x
111	Baxter	301	0.130%	2.11x
112	Hart	301	0.130%	1.48x
113	Lang	300	0.130%	5.63x
114	Dunlop	296	0.120%	7.68x
115	Dick	295	0.120%	5.53x
116	Caldwell	294	0.120%	7.86x
117	Collins	292	0.120%	0.85x
118	Gilchrist	292	0.120%	8.33x
119	Moffat	289	0.120%	6.67x
120	Rae	286	0.120%	5.25x
121	Stirling	285	0.120%	9.17x
122	Green	283	0.120%	0.42x
123	Forsyth	282	0.120%	5.53x
124	Christie	281	0.120%	3.62x
125	Cochrane	281	0.120%	7.59x
126	Todd	281	0.120%	2.31x
127	Harvey	278	0.120%	1.09x
128	Donaldson	271	0.110%	3.97x
129	Hall	268	0.110%	0.38x
130	Jack	268	0.110%	5.27x
131	Cowan	264	0.110%	5.41x
132	Nelson	264	0.110%	2.28x
133	Mackay	257	0.110%	2.97x
134	Love	255	0.110%	4.50x
135	Mackie	253	0.110%	4.95x
136	Whyte	250	0.100%	6.17x
137	Rodger	249	0.100%	7.41x
138	Ward	248	0.100%	0.47x
139	Hendry	247	0.100%	6.52x
140	Montgomery	242	0.100%	6.38x
141	Cook	239	0.100%	0.50x
142	Higgins	238	0.100%	1.97x
143	Porter	238	0.100%	1.33x
144	Carmichael	237	0.100%	6.93x
145	Park	237	0.100%	3.20x
146	Ramsay	233	0.100%	3.78x
147	Mathieson	232	0.100%	9.21x
148	Finlay	230	0.100%	9.37x
149	Livingston	230	0.100%	10.71x
150	Hannah	228	0.100%	7.34x
151	Parker	228	0.100%	0.50x
152	Forrest	226	0.090%	3.67x
153	Forbes	225	0.090%	2.81x
154	Sharp	224	0.090%	1.12x
155	Welsh	224	0.090%	2.37x
156	Bruce	223	0.090%	1.99x
157	Maxwell	218	0.090%	3.84x
158	Allison	217	0.090%	3.19x
159	Cumming	217	0.090%	4.76x
160	Devine	216	0.090%	9.07x
161	Ewing	216	0.090%	9.80x
162	Oneil	216	0.090%	9.00x
163	Drummond	214	0.090%	4.50x
164	Fisher	214	0.090%	0.76x
165	Hutchison	214	0.090%	5.44x
166	Neil	214	0.090%	6.77x
167	Galbraith	213	0.090%	9.74x
168	Cooper	212	0.090%	0.36x
169	Carson	211	0.090%	8.01x
170	Adam	209	0.090%	5.09x
171	Gillies	209	0.090%	6.11x
172	Cassidy	208	0.090%	7.12x
173	Thompson	208	0.090%	0.29x
174	Tait	207	0.090%	2.94x
175	Devlin	205	0.090%	10.47x
176	Shearer	202	0.080%	6.58x
177	Mason	199	0.080%	0.62x
178	Waddell	199	0.080%	9.38x
179	Riddell	197	0.080%	9.82x
180	Forrester	195	0.080%	6.08x
181	Reilly	194	0.080%	7.64x
182	Downie	193	0.080%	6.88x
183	Inglis	193	0.080%	4.83x
184	Colquhoun	192	0.080%	13.56x
185	Dawson	191	0.080%	0.72x
186	Duffy	191	0.080%	3.66x
187	Beattie	190	0.080%	3.71x
188	Kirkwood	190	0.080%	8.79x
189	Leitch	190	0.080%	8.33x
190	Gibb	189	0.080%	4.48x
191	Law	188	0.080%	1.74x
192	Connell	186	0.080%	4.48x
193	Elliot	186	0.080%	3.05x
194	Baillie	185	0.080%	7.46x
195	Knox	185	0.080%	4.51x
196	Lynch	185	0.080%	2.93x
197	Nicol	185	0.080%	3.72x
198	Dickie	181	0.080%	9.65x
199	Rennie	181	0.080%	4.33x
200	Robinson	181	0.080%	0.24x