1881 census place

Cathcart surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cathcart, Renfrewshire 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

527 surnames are listed for Cathcart, Renfrewshire, covering 5,826 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 179 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cathcart

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	Campbell	179	1.46%	8.64x
2	Stewart	168	1.37%	8.77x
3	Anderson	166	1.36%	6.86x
4	Robertson	129	1.05%	6.28x
5	Allan	105	0.860%	13.65x
6	Thomson	96	0.780%	5.87x
7	Murray	79	0.650%	5.20x
8	Hunter	70	0.570%	5.56x
9	Paterson	70	0.570%	8.40x
10	Crawford	65	0.530%	10.84x
11	Ross	62	0.510%	4.63x
12	Muir	61	0.500%	13.01x
13	Kennedy	60	0.490%	8.12x
14	Weir	56	0.460%	17.58x
15	Ferguson	54	0.440%	6.22x
16	Hamilton	54	0.440%	5.88x
17	Baird	50	0.410%	19.09x
18	Kerr	47	0.380%	7.04x
19	Barr	41	0.330%	13.84x
20	Gordon	40	0.330%	5.18x
21	Murdoch	40	0.330%	19.22x
22	Park	39	0.320%	10.27x
23	Todd	36	0.290%	5.78x
24	Gilmour	34	0.280%	19.61x
25	Greig	33	0.270%	17.02x
26	Hay	33	0.270%	7.35x
27	Fleming	32	0.260%	6.29x
28	Paton	32	0.260%	11.68x
29	Alexander	31	0.250%	4.78x
30	Buchanan	31	0.250%	9.79x
31	Dick	31	0.250%	11.35x
32	Whyte	31	0.250%	14.93x
33	Auld	30	0.240%	40.63x
34	Blair	30	0.240%	9.45x
35	Easton	30	0.240%	16.15x
36	Galloway	29	0.240%	13.75x
37	Muirhead	29	0.240%	30.69x
38	Donald	28	0.230%	11.35x
39	Findlay	28	0.230%	11.03x
40	Macdonald	28	0.230%	5.76x
41	Pollock	28	0.230%	15.74x
42	Ballantyne	27	0.220%	29.07x
43	Connell	27	0.220%	12.68x
44	Adam	26	0.210%	12.36x
45	Gibb	26	0.210%	12.02x
46	Gillespie	26	0.210%	13.39x
47	Hutcheson	26	0.210%	41.36x
48	Strang	25	0.200%	45.48x
49	Gemmell	24	0.200%	32.60x
50	Logan	24	0.200%	8.26x
51	Malcolm	24	0.200%	14.90x
52	Allison	23	0.190%	6.61x
53	Stirling	23	0.190%	14.45x
54	Carswell	22	0.180%	49.12x
55	Dunlop	22	0.180%	11.15x
56	Naismith	22	0.180%	67.48x
57	Waddell	22	0.180%	20.24x
58	Mackay	21	0.170%	4.74x
59	Beveridge	20	0.160%	15.69x
60	Downie	20	0.160%	13.92x
61	Steven	20	0.160%	21.55x
62	Cochrane	19	0.160%	10.01x
63	Fulton	19	0.160%	12.29x
64	Gillies	19	0.160%	10.85x
65	Hislop	19	0.160%	25.78x
66	Kidd	19	0.160%	7.62x
67	Laird	19	0.160%	13.82x
68	Stark	19	0.160%	11.33x
69	Devine	18	0.150%	14.76x
70	Eadie	18	0.150%	31.08x
71	Ewing	18	0.150%	15.94x
72	Finlayson	18	0.150%	12.76x
73	Gilchrist	18	0.150%	10.02x
74	Ralston	18	0.150%	43.66x
75	Rodger	18	0.150%	10.45x
76	Livingston	17	0.140%	15.45x
77	Meikle	17	0.140%	19.29x
78	Melville	17	0.140%	13.14x
79	Neilson	17	0.140%	9.85x
80	Patrick	17	0.140%	6.97x
81	Sneddon	17	0.140%	23.31x
82	Wardrop	17	0.140%	60.76x
83	Manson	16	0.130%	11.17x
84	Armour	15	0.120%	19.54x
85	Colquhoun	15	0.120%	20.67x
86	Fyfe	15	0.120%	13.34x
87	Mackinnon	15	0.120%	34.08x
88	Mathieson	15	0.120%	11.62x
89	Niven	15	0.120%	17.60x
90	Orr	15	0.120%	7.27x
91	Stalker	15	0.120%	24.88x
92	Strathern	15	0.120%	167.41x
93	Wilkie	15	0.120%	8.59x
94	Begg	14	0.110%	18.79x
95	Blackwood	14	0.110%	19.61x
96	Culbert	14	0.110%	150.05x
97	Danks	14	0.110%	26.25x
98	Devlin	14	0.110%	13.96x
99	Forrester	14	0.110%	8.51x
100	Galt	14	0.110%	50.41x