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 Best, with 42 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
701	Best	42	0.020%	0.65x
702	Cormack	42	0.020%	2.32x
703	Lightbody	42	0.020%	10.00x
704	Macpherson	42	0.020%	2.71x
705	Mearns	42	0.020%	5.45x
706	Mullan	42	0.020%	9.69x
707	Ness	42	0.020%	3.87x
708	Purvis	42	0.020%	1.82x
709	Bald	41	0.020%	10.77x
710	Barrett	41	0.020%	0.26x
711	Carrol	41	0.020%	3.78x
712	Conn	41	0.020%	6.25x
713	Edmond	41	0.020%	5.08x
714	Gillon	41	0.020%	6.70x
715	Ireland	41	0.020%	0.74x
716	Kirkpatrick	41	0.020%	1.99x
717	Leggat	41	0.020%	7.41x
718	Luke	41	0.020%	1.76x
719	Norwood	41	0.020%	4.23x
720	Rogan	41	0.020%	6.52x
721	Ryan	41	0.020%	0.55x
722	Smyth	41	0.020%	1.84x
723	Wark	41	0.020%	14.23x
724	Whitson	41	0.020%	11.92x
725	Abbott	40	0.020%	0.38x
726	Bolton	40	0.020%	0.39x
727	Brand	40	0.020%	1.13x
728	Clyde	40	0.020%	11.82x
729	Coutts	40	0.020%	1.66x
730	Haldane	40	0.020%	6.62x
731	Heggie	40	0.020%	6.06x
732	Imrie	40	0.020%	4.28x
733	Melrose	40	0.020%	4.32x
734	Nairn	40	0.020%	3.38x
735	Savage	40	0.020%	0.44x
736	Scobie	40	0.020%	7.70x
737	Selkirk	40	0.020%	8.95x
738	Tannahill	40	0.020%	16.87x
739	Thorburn	40	0.020%	2.90x
740	Beith	39	0.020%	16.90x
741	Bilsland	39	0.020%	28.40x
742	Clelland	39	0.020%	5.91x
743	Corrigan	39	0.020%	3.64x
744	Dingwall	39	0.020%	4.12x
745	Gould	39	0.020%	0.45x
746	Gowans	39	0.020%	5.07x
747	Millan	39	0.020%	11.39x
748	Mullin	39	0.020%	3.64x
749	Potter	39	0.020%	0.25x
750	Bogle	38	0.020%	12.76x
751	Callaghan	38	0.020%	1.40x
752	Cherry	38	0.020%	1.55x
753	Gemmill	38	0.020%	10.89x
754	Jameson	38	0.020%	1.44x
755	Lochhead	38	0.020%	8.81x
756	Lundie	38	0.020%	9.17x
757	Macrae	38	0.020%	2.04x
758	Matheson	38	0.020%	1.16x
759	Scouller	38	0.020%	29.75x
760	Vallance	38	0.020%	3.53x
761	Abernethy	37	0.020%	6.70x
762	Barnet	37	0.020%	3.23x
763	Brough	37	0.020%	1.27x
764	Daily	37	0.020%	5.97x
765	Dalziel	37	0.020%	3.50x
766	Deans	37	0.020%	2.28x
767	Dobson	37	0.020%	0.35x
768	Doig	37	0.020%	2.63x
769	Flanagan	37	0.020%	1.97x
770	Fullerton	37	0.020%	3.66x
771	Mellon	37	0.020%	7.46x
772	Murchie	37	0.020%	9.34x
773	Pratt	37	0.020%	0.27x
774	Revie	37	0.020%	20.15x
775	Airlie	36	0.020%	36.37x
776	Carrigan	36	0.020%	7.72x
777	Carswell	36	0.020%	4.12x
778	Close	36	0.020%	1.73x
779	Coleman	36	0.020%	0.30x
780	Coyne	36	0.020%	2.84x
781	Flannigan	36	0.020%	6.06x
782	Herbert	36	0.020%	0.40x
783	Herd	36	0.020%	2.05x
784	Joyce	36	0.020%	0.61x
785	Liddle	36	0.020%	1.28x
786	Macaulay	36	0.020%	4.22x
787	Macintyre	36	0.020%	6.04x
788	Newlands	36	0.020%	3.73x
789	Robin	36	0.020%	7.58x
790	Sawers	36	0.020%	12.88x
791	Symington	36	0.020%	5.45x
792	Urie	36	0.020%	15.44x
793	Arneil	35	0.010%	33.73x
794	Binnie	35	0.010%	3.51x
795	Corbet	35	0.010%	5.32x
796	Espie	35	0.010%	27.92x
797	Finnie	35	0.010%	4.21x
798	Gall	35	0.010%	2.27x
799	Gavin	35	0.010%	2.96x
800	Girvan	35	0.010%	9.31x