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 Palmer, with 66 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
501	Palmer	66	0.030%	0.23x
502	Yuill	66	0.030%	13.02x
503	Canning	65	0.030%	3.83x
504	Dale	65	0.030%	0.64x
505	Dodds	65	0.030%	1.29x
506	Doherty	65	0.030%	3.33x
507	Ferris	65	0.030%	2.75x
508	Keir	65	0.030%	5.44x
509	Lees	65	0.030%	0.61x
510	Macleod	65	0.030%	1.93x
511	Service	65	0.030%	11.20x
512	Smillie	65	0.030%	13.71x
513	Gow	64	0.030%	3.39x
514	Neill	64	0.030%	4.04x
515	Burke	63	0.030%	0.90x
516	Conway	63	0.030%	1.41x
517	Mather	63	0.030%	1.06x
518	Ohara	63	0.030%	4.58x
519	Sneddon	63	0.030%	4.43x
520	West	63	0.030%	0.27x
521	Berry	62	0.030%	0.33x
522	Dalglish	62	0.030%	14.20x
523	Denholm	62	0.030%	6.19x
524	Mack	62	0.030%	2.58x
525	Mowat	62	0.030%	3.78x
526	Bird	61	0.030%	0.33x
527	Downs	61	0.030%	1.43x
528	Hope	61	0.030%	0.75x
529	Leishman	61	0.030%	7.52x
530	Robson	61	0.030%	0.39x
531	Dolan	60	0.030%	2.88x
532	Duncanson	60	0.030%	13.00x
533	Horne	60	0.030%	1.15x
534	Penman	60	0.030%	3.84x
535	Short	60	0.030%	0.64x
536	Skinner	60	0.030%	0.49x
537	Warnock	60	0.030%	11.54x
538	Bisset	59	0.020%	3.15x
539	Coats	59	0.020%	5.46x
540	Corbett	59	0.020%	1.26x
541	Ferrie	59	0.020%	13.63x
542	Purdie	59	0.020%	5.97x
543	Roxburgh	59	0.020%	7.97x
544	Shepherd	59	0.020%	0.34x
545	Walls	59	0.020%	2.05x
546	Dougan	58	0.020%	10.15x
547	Frazer	58	0.020%	3.13x
548	Griffin	58	0.020%	0.52x
549	Hawthorn	58	0.020%	4.19x
550	Hendrie	58	0.020%	9.90x
551	Kelso	58	0.020%	10.33x
552	Smeaton	58	0.020%	8.63x
553	French	57	0.020%	0.49x
554	Stalker	57	0.020%	4.84x
555	Browning	56	0.020%	1.15x
556	Donachie	56	0.020%	18.31x
557	Greenlees	56	0.020%	12.03x
558	Longmuir	56	0.020%	12.62x
559	Owens	56	0.020%	0.47x
560	Reynolds	56	0.020%	0.27x
561	Ronald	56	0.020%	6.57x
562	Tod	56	0.020%	6.02x
563	Adamson	55	0.020%	0.87x
564	Brock	55	0.020%	1.98x
565	Burton	55	0.020%	0.27x
566	Cleland	55	0.020%	8.70x
567	Dykes	55	0.020%	3.34x
568	Hewitt	55	0.020%	0.47x
569	Hosie	55	0.020%	10.78x
570	Petrie	55	0.020%	1.94x
571	Seaton	55	0.020%	2.72x
572	Waugh	55	0.020%	1.69x
573	Buchan	54	0.020%	1.75x
574	Connolly	54	0.020%	1.95x
575	Cranston	54	0.020%	5.58x
576	Barrowman	53	0.020%	16.11x
577	Cree	53	0.020%	7.43x
578	Crosbie	53	0.020%	4.32x
579	Cummings	53	0.020%	1.44x
580	Dalrymple	53	0.020%	5.09x
581	Glendinning	53	0.020%	5.80x
582	Hammond	53	0.020%	0.39x
583	Monteith	53	0.020%	8.35x
584	Osborne	53	0.020%	0.46x
585	Trainer	53	0.020%	5.42x
586	Tulloch	53	0.020%	3.34x
587	Boag	52	0.020%	7.51x
588	Bryden	52	0.020%	5.15x
589	Cavanagh	52	0.020%	2.88x
590	Dunsmore	52	0.020%	8.46x
591	Fotheringham	52	0.020%	5.17x
592	Pinkerton	52	0.020%	8.84x
593	Risk	52	0.020%	18.35x
594	Rogerson	52	0.020%	1.77x
595	Alston	51	0.020%	3.27x
596	Dearie	51	0.020%	38.95x
597	Hair	51	0.020%	5.47x
598	Lorimer	51	0.020%	5.34x
599	Mulligan	51	0.020%	3.81x
600	Nichol	51	0.020%	1.98x