1881 census place

Dalziel surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dalziel, 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

398 surnames are listed for Dalziel, Lanarkshire, covering 4,124 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Ferguson, with 101 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dalziel

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	Ferguson	101	0.990%	14.02x
2	Russell	99	0.970%	7.98x
3	Reid	96	0.940%	8.99x
4	Thomson	93	0.920%	6.85x
5	Paterson	87	0.860%	12.58x
6	Hamilton	73	0.720%	9.57x
7	Cameron	61	0.600%	7.72x
8	Muir	59	0.580%	15.17x
9	Barr	55	0.540%	22.38x
10	Lindsay	54	0.530%	16.30x
11	Black	53	0.520%	8.05x
12	Morrison	53	0.520%	6.63x
13	Stevenson	52	0.510%	7.29x
14	Morton	47	0.460%	8.65x
15	Weir	45	0.440%	17.02x
16	Baillie	38	0.370%	36.03x
17	Cowie	36	0.350%	29.19x
18	Johnstone	35	0.340%	7.62x
19	Bulloch	34	0.330%	167.24x
20	Donaldson	34	0.330%	11.73x
21	Inglis	33	0.320%	19.44x
22	Donnelly	32	0.310%	25.02x
23	Forrest	31	0.310%	11.83x
24	Gillespie	31	0.310%	19.23x
25	Irvine	31	0.310%	13.84x
26	Summerhill	31	0.310%	445.40x
27	Bryce	30	0.300%	29.49x
28	Rodger	30	0.300%	21.00x
29	Prentice	28	0.280%	23.40x
30	Rankin	28	0.280%	18.54x
31	Merry	27	0.270%	35.55x
32	Neilson	27	0.270%	18.85x
33	Ralston	27	0.270%	78.92x
34	Downs	26	0.260%	14.38x
35	Frame	26	0.260%	40.32x
36	Haddow	26	0.260%	83.90x
37	Forsyth	25	0.250%	11.53x
38	Downie	23	0.230%	19.29x
39	Paul	23	0.230%	9.04x
40	Sneddon	23	0.230%	38.01x
41	Cullen	21	0.210%	11.79x
42	Easton	21	0.210%	13.62x
43	Gilmour	21	0.210%	14.60x
44	Alston	20	0.200%	30.20x
45	Docherty	20	0.200%	13.23x
46	Grieve	20	0.200%	16.98x
47	Loudon	20	0.200%	69.25x
48	Calderwood	19	0.190%	52.08x
49	Orr	19	0.190%	11.09x
50	Twaddle	19	0.190%	179.41x
51	Cairney	18	0.180%	79.05x
52	Dewar	18	0.180%	13.58x
53	Pollock	18	0.180%	12.19x
54	Colquhoun	17	0.170%	28.23x
55	Connelly	17	0.170%	18.01x
56	Dundas	17	0.170%	88.36x
57	Littlejohn	17	0.170%	34.67x
58	More	17	0.170%	21.51x
59	Nisbet	17	0.170%	15.84x
60	Rankine	17	0.170%	32.98x
61	Sheldon	17	0.170%	11.00x
62	Shields	17	0.170%	10.82x
63	Devine	16	0.160%	15.81x
64	Fullerton	16	0.160%	37.21x
65	Gibb	16	0.160%	8.92x
66	Whyte	16	0.160%	9.28x
67	Diamond	15	0.150%	31.75x
68	Dunlop	15	0.150%	9.16x
69	Findlay	15	0.150%	7.12x
70	Poulton	15	0.150%	18.38x
71	Smellie	15	0.150%	33.33x
72	Whitehouse	15	0.150%	5.67x
73	Easson	14	0.140%	71.25x
74	Gebbie	14	0.140%	134.87x
75	Hutchison	14	0.140%	8.38x
76	Laird	14	0.140%	12.27x
77	Lennox	14	0.140%	23.21x
78	Renwick	14	0.140%	20.19x
79	Whittingham	14	0.140%	18.32x
80	Wyper	14	0.140%	91.68x
81	Bunch	13	0.130%	79.12x
82	Caldwell	13	0.130%	8.17x
83	Callan	13	0.130%	39.78x
84	Dalziel	13	0.130%	28.93x
85	Falconer	13	0.130%	10.72x
86	Shearer	13	0.130%	9.97x
87	Waddell	13	0.130%	14.41x
88	Wardrop	13	0.130%	56.01x
89	Wassell	13	0.130%	81.66x
90	Cotter	12	0.120%	31.15x
91	Donelly	12	0.120%	51.33x
92	Eglinton	12	0.120%	153.06x
93	Gear	12	0.120%	31.63x
94	Hoey	12	0.120%	69.04x
95	Liddell	12	0.120%	12.87x
96	Mair	12	0.120%	12.77x
97	Bence	11	0.110%	73.68x
98	Brogan	11	0.110%	32.09x
99	Brownlee	11	0.110%	31.31x
100	Dyet	11	0.110%	222.22x