1881 census place

Cambusnethan surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cambusnethan, 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

650 surnames are listed for Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, covering 12,629 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hamilton, with 313 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cambusnethan

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	Hamilton	313	1.49%	19.88x
2	Russell	309	1.47%	12.06x
3	Wilson	294	1.40%	3.05x
4	Muir	215	1.02%	26.77x
5	Reid	167	0.800%	7.58x
6	Paterson	154	0.730%	10.78x
7	Gray	153	0.730%	5.11x
8	Thomson	152	0.720%	5.42x
9	Robertson	147	0.700%	4.18x
10	Young	145	0.690%	3.22x
11	Scott	141	0.670%	2.66x
12	Anderson	134	0.640%	3.23x
13	Campbell	125	0.600%	3.52x
14	Marshall	123	0.590%	3.49x
15	Prentice	122	0.580%	49.39x
16	Miller	120	0.570%	3.20x
17	Lindsay	117	0.560%	17.11x
18	Gibb	112	0.530%	30.23x
19	Graham	109	0.520%	4.52x
20	Brownlie	103	0.490%	112.13x
21	Hunter	103	0.490%	4.78x
22	Johnstone	97	0.460%	10.23x
23	Fleming	96	0.460%	11.01x
24	Stewart	95	0.450%	2.89x
25	Black	88	0.420%	6.48x
26	Stevenson	85	0.410%	5.77x
27	Johnston	81	0.390%	4.78x
28	Watt	81	0.390%	10.07x
29	Allan	80	0.380%	6.07x
30	Forrest	79	0.380%	14.60x
31	Ferguson	76	0.360%	5.11x
32	Smellie	74	0.350%	79.65x
33	Morton	73	0.350%	6.51x
34	Frame	72	0.340%	54.08x
35	Loudon	72	0.340%	120.74x
36	Morrison	72	0.340%	4.37x
37	Chalmers	70	0.330%	14.01x
38	Baird	68	0.320%	15.15x
39	Barr	68	0.320%	13.40x
40	Dickson	68	0.320%	8.75x
41	Fraser	67	0.320%	3.59x
42	Steele	67	0.320%	11.93x
43	Kerr	66	0.310%	5.77x
44	Moffat	66	0.310%	17.36x
45	Millar	65	0.310%	8.49x
46	Baxter	62	0.300%	4.96x
47	Neilson	62	0.300%	20.96x
48	Nicol	61	0.290%	13.96x
49	Cairns	60	0.290%	13.22x
50	Kennedy	58	0.280%	4.58x
51	Mullen	57	0.270%	28.41x
52	Park	56	0.270%	8.61x
53	Paton	56	0.270%	11.93x
54	Rae	56	0.270%	11.71x
55	Dalziel	55	0.260%	59.29x
56	Docherty	55	0.260%	17.62x
57	Brownlee	52	0.250%	71.70x
58	Finlayson	52	0.250%	21.51x
59	Gold	51	0.240%	42.71x
60	Pettigrew	51	0.240%	50.06x
61	Boyle	50	0.240%	9.18x
62	Currie	49	0.230%	8.30x
63	Aitken	48	0.230%	8.72x
64	Moffatt	45	0.210%	33.33x
65	Crawford	44	0.210%	4.28x
66	Littlejohn	44	0.210%	43.46x
67	Naismith	44	0.210%	78.80x
68	Robb	44	0.210%	12.12x
69	Hay	43	0.200%	5.59x
70	Sneddon	43	0.200%	34.42x
71	Cowan	42	0.200%	9.81x
72	Nelson	42	0.200%	4.13x
73	Waddell	42	0.200%	22.55x
74	Wotherspoon	42	0.200%	62.97x
75	Alexander	41	0.200%	3.69x
76	Bryson	41	0.200%	25.48x
77	Laurie	40	0.190%	22.19x
78	Pollock	40	0.190%	13.12x
79	Ramsay	40	0.190%	7.40x
80	Inglis	39	0.190%	11.13x
81	Lyle	39	0.190%	39.73x
82	Maxwell	38	0.180%	7.62x
83	Armit	37	0.180%	215.62x
84	Bryce	37	0.180%	17.62x
85	Burt	37	0.180%	7.42x
86	Donaldson	37	0.180%	6.18x
87	Rankin	37	0.180%	11.87x
88	Sommerville	37	0.180%	44.71x
89	Stirling	37	0.180%	13.57x
90	Jack	36	0.170%	8.07x
91	Ritchie	36	0.170%	4.97x
92	Muirhead	35	0.170%	21.62x
93	Buchanan	34	0.160%	6.27x
94	Cochrane	33	0.160%	10.15x
95	Cullen	33	0.160%	8.97x
96	Denholm	33	0.160%	37.56x
97	Hyslop	33	0.160%	27.35x
98	Jamieson	33	0.160%	5.65x
99	Livingstone	33	0.160%	16.87x
100	Penman	33	0.160%	24.04x