1881 census place

East Greenock surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in East Greenock, 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

720 surnames are listed for East Greenock, Renfrewshire, covering 10,565 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 437 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in East Greenock

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	437	2.04%	12.08x
2	Stewart	179	0.840%	5.35x
3	Anderson	164	0.770%	3.88x
4	Cameron	151	0.710%	9.09x
5	Kerr	141	0.660%	12.09x
6	Thomson	139	0.650%	4.87x
7	Crawford	137	0.640%	13.10x
8	Boyd	117	0.550%	15.60x
9	Kelly	113	0.530%	4.83x
10	Murray	102	0.480%	3.85x
11	Ross	102	0.480%	4.37x
12	Docherty	99	0.460%	31.14x
13	Hamilton	99	0.460%	6.17x
14	Hunter	99	0.460%	4.51x
15	Reid	93	0.440%	4.14x
16	Black	87	0.410%	6.28x
17	Blair	83	0.390%	14.98x
18	Johnston	83	0.390%	4.81x
19	Wallace	80	0.370%	5.46x
20	Ferguson	77	0.360%	5.08x
21	Henderson	76	0.360%	3.27x
22	Orr	76	0.360%	21.10x
23	Barr	75	0.350%	14.51x
24	Russell	75	0.350%	2.87x
25	Hendry	73	0.340%	21.56x
26	Morrison	68	0.320%	4.05x
27	Buchanan	67	0.310%	12.13x
28	Kennedy	67	0.310%	5.20x
29	Pollock	66	0.310%	21.25x
30	Burns	63	0.290%	4.39x
31	Paterson	63	0.290%	4.33x
32	Weir	59	0.280%	10.61x
33	Houston	57	0.270%	20.94x
34	Paton	57	0.270%	11.92x
35	Muir	55	0.260%	6.72x
36	Love	53	0.250%	10.46x
37	Millar	53	0.250%	6.79x
38	Sharp	53	0.250%	2.97x
39	Gordon	52	0.240%	3.86x
40	Johnstone	50	0.230%	5.17x
41	Ritchie	49	0.230%	6.63x
42	Alexander	48	0.220%	4.24x
43	Barbour	47	0.220%	40.00x
44	Barclay	47	0.220%	10.68x
45	Currie	47	0.220%	7.81x
46	Lamont	47	0.220%	24.72x
47	Stevenson	47	0.220%	3.13x
48	Allan	46	0.220%	3.43x
49	Baxter	46	0.220%	3.61x
50	Carmichael	46	0.220%	15.03x
51	Watt	46	0.220%	5.61x
52	Galbraith	45	0.210%	23.01x
53	Irvine	45	0.210%	9.55x
54	Leitch	45	0.210%	22.06x
55	Farrell	44	0.210%	10.85x
56	Jamieson	44	0.210%	7.39x
57	Lyon	44	0.210%	9.82x
58	Boyle	43	0.200%	7.75x
59	Fleming	43	0.200%	4.84x
60	Lyle	43	0.200%	43.00x
61	Murdoch	43	0.200%	11.84x
62	Chalmers	42	0.200%	8.25x
63	Fulton	42	0.200%	15.57x
64	Neil	40	0.190%	14.15x
65	Cochrane	39	0.180%	11.78x
66	Nicol	39	0.180%	8.76x
67	Lang	38	0.180%	7.97x
68	Welsh	38	0.180%	4.49x
69	Crombie	36	0.170%	30.02x
70	Gallacher	36	0.170%	19.52x
71	Montgomery	36	0.170%	10.61x
72	Rodger	36	0.170%	11.98x
73	Cowan	35	0.160%	8.03x
74	Dunlop	35	0.160%	10.16x
75	Hay	35	0.160%	4.46x
76	Logan	35	0.160%	6.90x
77	Kane	34	0.160%	19.75x
78	Fyfe	32	0.150%	16.31x
79	Rennie	32	0.150%	8.57x
80	Beaton	31	0.150%	12.61x
81	Duff	31	0.150%	8.15x
82	Gillies	31	0.150%	10.14x
83	Mathieson	31	0.150%	13.76x
84	Ramsay	31	0.150%	5.63x
85	Steele	31	0.150%	5.42x
86	Rankin	30	0.140%	9.45x
87	Gilmour	29	0.140%	9.59x
88	Henry	29	0.140%	5.37x
89	Downie	28	0.130%	11.17x
90	Ewing	28	0.130%	14.21x
91	Laird	28	0.130%	11.67x
92	Patrick	28	0.130%	6.57x
93	Carson	27	0.130%	11.46x
94	Aitken	26	0.120%	4.63x
95	Allison	26	0.120%	4.28x
96	Bryce	26	0.120%	12.15x
97	Curran	26	0.120%	14.52x
98	Guthrie	26	0.120%	9.65x
99	Leslie	26	0.120%	7.35x
100	Spence	26	0.120%	3.68x