1881 census place

Falkirk surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Falkirk, Stirlingshire 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

788 surnames are listed for Falkirk, Stirlingshire, covering 16,684 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Anderson, with 318 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Falkirk

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	Anderson	318	1.26%	6.38x
2	Wilson	302	1.20%	2.61x
3	Miller	236	0.940%	5.23x
4	Mitchell	220	0.870%	4.30x
5	Campbell	219	0.870%	5.13x
6	Scott	215	0.850%	3.37x
7	Morrison	209	0.830%	10.54x
8	Johnston	200	0.790%	9.83x
9	Stewart	200	0.790%	5.07x
10	Thomson	194	0.770%	5.76x
11	Marshall	193	0.770%	4.56x
12	Russell	190	0.750%	6.17x
13	Reid	186	0.740%	7.02x
14	Henderson	185	0.730%	6.75x
15	Robertson	184	0.730%	4.35x
16	Walker	179	0.710%	2.12x
17	Graham	176	0.700%	6.08x
18	Baird	167	0.660%	30.96x
19	Allan	162	0.640%	10.23x
20	Hamilton	157	0.620%	8.30x
21	Martin	137	0.540%	2.21x
22	Simpson	136	0.540%	3.08x
23	Gillespie	131	0.520%	32.75x
24	Watson	130	0.520%	2.22x
25	Young	128	0.510%	2.36x
26	Fleming	126	0.500%	12.02x
27	Hunter	123	0.490%	4.75x
28	Paterson	118	0.470%	6.87x
29	Rae	117	0.460%	20.36x
30	Aitken	115	0.460%	17.38x
31	Binnie	111	0.440%	105.60x
32	Crawford	107	0.420%	8.67x
33	Kerr	107	0.420%	7.78x
34	Stevenson	106	0.420%	5.99x
35	Ferguson	104	0.410%	5.82x
36	Buchanan	103	0.410%	15.80x
37	Muirhead	102	0.400%	52.43x
38	Morton	96	0.380%	7.12x
39	Jamieson	91	0.360%	12.96x
40	Rennie	90	0.360%	20.43x
41	Black	86	0.340%	5.27x
42	Murray	85	0.340%	2.72x
43	Sutherland	85	0.340%	6.69x
44	Hendry	84	0.330%	21.02x
45	Fraser	82	0.330%	3.65x
46	Leishman	82	0.330%	95.83x
47	Rankine	81	0.320%	63.32x
48	Turnbull	81	0.320%	7.62x
49	Boyd	79	0.310%	8.93x
50	Chalmers	78	0.310%	12.99x
51	Gray	78	0.310%	2.17x
52	Neilson	73	0.290%	20.54x
53	Gibson	72	0.290%	2.35x
54	Harley	72	0.290%	22.15x
55	Forrester	71	0.280%	20.97x
56	Logan	71	0.280%	11.87x
57	Dick	70	0.280%	12.44x
58	Ross	70	0.280%	2.54x
59	Burns	69	0.270%	4.07x
60	Cameron	67	0.270%	3.42x
61	Nicol	66	0.260%	12.57x
62	Waddell	66	0.260%	29.48x
63	Callander	65	0.260%	126.53x
64	Cowan	62	0.250%	12.05x
65	Finlayson	61	0.240%	20.99x
66	Grant	61	0.240%	2.44x
67	Liddell	61	0.240%	26.37x
68	Sharp	60	0.240%	2.85x
69	Stark	60	0.240%	17.37x
70	Hardie	59	0.230%	17.94x
71	Hay	59	0.230%	6.38x
72	Drummond	58	0.230%	11.57x
73	Dunn	58	0.230%	2.77x
74	Adam	57	0.230%	13.16x
75	Gardner	57	0.230%	3.33x
76	Nimmo	56	0.220%	49.84x
77	Williamson	56	0.220%	2.48x
78	Lyon	55	0.220%	10.41x
79	Main	55	0.220%	13.32x
80	Dickson	54	0.210%	5.78x
81	Laing	54	0.210%	10.66x
82	Millar	54	0.210%	5.87x
83	Paton	54	0.210%	9.57x
84	Penman	53	0.210%	32.12x
85	Kirkwood	52	0.210%	22.81x
86	Malcolm	51	0.200%	15.38x
87	Muir	51	0.200%	5.28x
88	Munro	51	0.200%	4.53x
89	Grindlay	50	0.200%	181.55x
90	Menzies	50	0.200%	15.25x
91	Moffat	50	0.200%	10.94x
92	Niven	50	0.200%	28.49x
93	Sneddon	50	0.200%	33.30x
94	Bruce	48	0.190%	4.06x
95	Douglas	48	0.190%	3.93x
96	Higgins	48	0.190%	3.76x
97	Robb	48	0.190%	11.00x
98	Donaldson	47	0.190%	6.53x
99	Duffy	47	0.190%	8.53x
100	Burt	46	0.180%	7.68x