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 Docherty, with 46 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
101	Docherty	46	0.180%	12.26x
102	Drysdale	46	0.180%	21.57x
103	Cockburn	45	0.180%	13.98x
104	Laird	44	0.170%	15.54x
105	Jarvie	43	0.170%	64.95x
106	Stirling	43	0.170%	13.12x
107	Galbraith	42	0.170%	18.21x
108	Hutton	42	0.170%	5.58x
109	Barrie	40	0.160%	21.98x
110	Glen	39	0.150%	15.62x
111	Jack	39	0.150%	7.28x
112	Waugh	39	0.150%	11.34x
113	Bain	38	0.150%	6.07x
114	Johnstone	38	0.150%	3.33x
115	Kidd	38	0.150%	7.40x
116	Ritchie	37	0.150%	4.25x
117	Shirra	37	0.150%	255.52x
118	Alexander	36	0.140%	2.70x
119	Maxwell	36	0.140%	6.01x
120	Whyte	36	0.140%	8.42x
121	Begg	35	0.140%	22.81x
122	Bryce	35	0.140%	13.87x
123	Finlay	35	0.140%	13.52x
124	Knox	35	0.140%	8.08x
125	Laurie	35	0.140%	16.15x
126	Strang	35	0.140%	30.92x
127	Swan	35	0.140%	5.36x
128	Spence	34	0.130%	4.08x
129	Allison	33	0.130%	4.60x
130	Cochrane	33	0.130%	8.45x
131	Ronald	33	0.130%	36.69x
132	Welsh	33	0.130%	3.30x
133	Frew	32	0.130%	25.25x
134	Inglis	32	0.130%	7.60x
135	Murdoch	32	0.130%	7.47x
136	Bennie	31	0.120%	44.46x
137	Gillies	31	0.120%	8.59x
138	Naismith	31	0.120%	46.19x
139	Patterson	31	0.120%	3.53x
140	Watt	31	0.120%	3.21x
141	Archibald	30	0.120%	13.78x
142	Dow	30	0.120%	9.87x
143	Towers	30	0.120%	10.27x
144	Arthur	29	0.120%	5.28x
145	Bellingham	29	0.120%	31.22x
146	Borthwick	29	0.120%	20.48x
147	Christie	29	0.120%	3.55x
148	Cowie	29	0.120%	9.48x
149	Dunlop	29	0.120%	7.14x
150	Ewing	29	0.120%	12.47x
151	Hastings	29	0.120%	9.03x
152	Liddle	29	0.120%	9.76x
153	Lindsay	29	0.120%	3.53x
154	Melville	29	0.120%	10.89x
155	Rule	29	0.120%	16.76x
156	Scobie	29	0.120%	52.89x
157	Forbes	28	0.110%	3.31x
158	Irvine	28	0.110%	5.04x
159	Lawrie	28	0.110%	11.59x
160	Forgie	27	0.110%	93.75x
161	Shanks	27	0.110%	14.08x
162	Arnot	26	0.100%	33.41x
163	Balloch	26	0.100%	148.40x
164	Cassidy	26	0.100%	8.43x
165	Erskine	26	0.100%	16.66x
166	Lapsley	26	0.100%	166.88x
167	Galloway	25	0.100%	5.75x
168	Barr	24	0.100%	3.93x
169	Gilchrist	24	0.100%	6.49x
170	Mathieson	24	0.100%	9.03x
171	Monteith	24	0.100%	35.85x
172	Mungall	24	0.100%	146.16x
173	Oswald	24	0.100%	20.71x
174	Pender	24	0.100%	29.29x
175	Cumming	23	0.090%	4.78x
176	Fotheringham	23	0.090%	21.69x
177	Low	23	0.090%	4.30x
178	Bow	22	0.090%	37.32x
179	Crombie	22	0.090%	15.55x
180	Duff	22	0.090%	4.90x
181	Gibb	22	0.090%	4.94x
182	Hume	22	0.090%	6.15x
183	Mackie	22	0.090%	4.08x
184	Philip	22	0.090%	13.07x
185	Rintoul	22	0.090%	38.19x
186	Watters	22	0.090%	27.35x
187	Carmichael	21	0.080%	5.82x
188	Findlay	21	0.080%	4.02x
189	Gentleman	21	0.080%	96.64x
190	Howden	21	0.080%	16.43x
191	Paul	21	0.080%	3.33x
192	Ramsay	21	0.080%	3.23x
193	Trapp	21	0.080%	74.44x
194	Brock	20	0.080%	6.82x
195	Gardiner	20	0.080%	2.76x
196	Grainger	20	0.080%	5.16x
197	Sorley	20	0.080%	102.83x
198	Ure	20	0.080%	25.54x
199	Brand	19	0.080%	5.10x
200	Calder	19	0.080%	5.39x