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 Donald, with 178 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
201	Donald	178	0.070%	3.70x
202	Henry	178	0.070%	2.95x
203	Paul	178	0.070%	2.97x
204	Quin	178	0.070%	6.95x
205	Phillips	175	0.070%	0.41x
206	Lamont	174	0.070%	8.18x
207	Somerville	174	0.070%	8.74x
208	Tennant	174	0.070%	6.82x
209	Barrie	173	0.070%	10.03x
210	Kilpatrick	173	0.070%	14.05x
211	Laird	173	0.070%	6.44x
212	Rankine	173	0.070%	14.26x
213	Kay	172	0.070%	1.38x
214	Spence	172	0.070%	2.17x
215	Macdonald	170	0.070%	1.79x
216	Steven	169	0.070%	9.33x
217	Donnelly	168	0.070%	5.58x
218	Richardson	168	0.070%	0.41x
219	Bowie	167	0.070%	8.02x
220	Fletcher	167	0.070%	0.61x
221	Glen	167	0.070%	7.06x
222	Robb	167	0.070%	4.04x
223	Shields	167	0.070%	4.52x
224	Meikle	165	0.070%	9.59x
225	Hutton	164	0.070%	2.30x
226	Patrick	163	0.070%	3.42x
227	Mair	161	0.070%	7.29x
228	Woods	161	0.070%	1.07x
229	Cullen	160	0.070%	3.82x
230	Bryce	157	0.070%	6.56x
231	Connor	156	0.070%	2.21x
232	Elder	156	0.070%	6.18x
233	Gemmell	156	0.070%	10.85x
234	Whitelaw	156	0.070%	10.95x
235	Fitzpatrick	155	0.060%	4.43x
236	Harper	155	0.060%	1.01x
237	Kane	155	0.060%	8.05x
238	Little	155	0.060%	1.37x
239	Menzies	155	0.060%	4.99x
240	Roy	155	0.060%	7.13x
241	Dewar	153	0.060%	4.91x
242	Liddell	152	0.060%	6.93x
243	Milligan	152	0.060%	5.40x
244	Falconer	151	0.060%	5.29x
245	Stark	146	0.060%	4.46x
246	Guthrie	144	0.060%	4.78x
247	Mills	144	0.060%	0.46x
248	Templeton	144	0.060%	8.15x
249	Andrew	143	0.060%	1.89x
250	Duff	143	0.060%	3.36x
251	Macfarlane	143	0.060%	10.46x
252	Morris	143	0.060%	0.27x
253	Napier	142	0.060%	7.39x
254	Brodie	141	0.060%	4.39x
255	Mackenzie	141	0.060%	2.11x
256	Semple	141	0.060%	12.38x
257	Bradley	140	0.060%	0.73x
258	Obrien	140	0.060%	3.96x
259	Angus	139	0.060%	4.06x
260	Dow	139	0.060%	4.83x
261	Kean	139	0.060%	8.58x
262	Galloway	138	0.060%	3.35x
263	Hood	138	0.060%	2.08x
264	Livingstone	138	0.060%	6.19x
265	Dobbie	136	0.060%	13.02x
266	Arthur	135	0.060%	2.59x
267	Edgar	135	0.060%	3.67x
268	Goldie	135	0.060%	9.07x
269	Wilkie	135	0.060%	3.96x
270	Laing	134	0.060%	2.79x
271	Malcolm	134	0.060%	4.26x
272	Swan	134	0.060%	2.16x
273	Jardine	133	0.060%	5.97x
274	Pettigrew	133	0.060%	11.46x
275	Rodgers	133	0.060%	2.03x
276	Agnew	132	0.060%	9.81x
277	Mullen	132	0.060%	5.77x
278	Sweeney	132	0.060%	4.12x
279	Gunn	131	0.050%	2.24x
280	Bryson	130	0.050%	7.09x
281	Cuthbertson	130	0.050%	7.04x
282	Dunbar	130	0.050%	4.73x
283	Finlayson	130	0.050%	4.72x
284	Lyon	130	0.050%	2.59x
285	Main	130	0.050%	3.32x
286	Greig	129	0.050%	3.41x
287	Muirhead	129	0.050%	6.99x
288	Torrance	129	0.050%	12.24x
289	Harrison	128	0.050%	0.24x
290	Carrick	127	0.050%	7.38x
291	Hardie	126	0.050%	4.04x
292	Howie	126	0.050%	5.37x
293	Jeffrey	126	0.050%	2.85x
294	Mulholland	126	0.050%	14.18x
295	Queen	126	0.050%	12.86x
296	Brownlie	125	0.050%	11.94x
297	Bennett	124	0.050%	0.32x
298	Chisholm	124	0.050%	3.57x
299	Faulds	124	0.050%	16.99x
300	Sloan	124	0.050%	5.51x