1881 census place

Hamilton surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hamilton, 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

870 surnames are listed for Hamilton, Lanarkshire, covering 17,132 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hamilton, with 407 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hamilton

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	Hamilton	407	1.54%	20.59x
2	Wilson	372	1.41%	3.07x
3	Brown	362	1.37%	2.08x
4	Thomson	299	1.13%	8.49x
5	Robertson	271	1.03%	6.14x
6	Paterson	267	1.01%	14.89x
7	Russell	219	0.830%	6.81x
8	Stewart	209	0.790%	5.07x
9	Scott	196	0.740%	2.94x
10	Watson	195	0.740%	3.19x
11	Anderson	181	0.690%	3.48x
12	Campbell	180	0.680%	4.04x
13	Allan	173	0.660%	10.46x
14	Reid	172	0.650%	6.21x
15	Fleming	162	0.610%	14.80x
16	Clark	160	0.610%	2.02x
17	Kerr	154	0.580%	10.72x
18	Young	148	0.560%	2.61x
19	Lindsay	145	0.550%	16.88x
20	Bell	139	0.530%	2.81x
21	Muir	123	0.470%	12.20x
22	Miller	122	0.460%	2.59x
23	Dick	119	0.450%	20.25x
24	Dunn	117	0.440%	5.34x
25	Barr	116	0.440%	18.20x
26	Frame	114	0.430%	68.19x
27	Gray	114	0.430%	3.03x
28	Ferguson	111	0.420%	5.94x
29	Murray	107	0.410%	3.27x
30	Burns	104	0.390%	5.88x
31	Davidson	101	0.380%	4.56x
32	Brownlie	99	0.380%	85.83x
33	Millar	97	0.370%	10.09x
34	Neilson	95	0.360%	25.58x
35	Morrison	93	0.350%	4.49x
36	Jack	92	0.350%	16.43x
37	Marshall	91	0.350%	2.06x
38	Gibson	88	0.330%	2.75x
39	Mackie	86	0.330%	15.26x
40	Graham	83	0.320%	2.74x
41	Murphy	83	0.320%	3.94x
42	Lang	81	0.310%	13.79x
43	Park	81	0.310%	9.92x
44	Pollock	77	0.290%	20.12x
45	Naismith	75	0.280%	106.94x
46	Forrest	74	0.280%	10.89x
47	Stevenson	74	0.280%	4.00x
48	Baird	73	0.280%	12.96x
49	Hunter	73	0.280%	2.70x
50	Rae	73	0.280%	12.16x
51	Lawson	72	0.270%	4.63x
52	Nicol	72	0.270%	13.13x
53	Ballantyne	71	0.270%	35.53x
54	Cowan	69	0.260%	12.84x
55	Rankin	69	0.260%	17.63x
56	Rodger	68	0.260%	18.36x
57	Ross	68	0.260%	2.36x
58	Docherty	67	0.250%	17.10x
59	Henderson	67	0.250%	2.34x
60	Johnstone	66	0.250%	5.54x
61	Chalmers	64	0.240%	10.20x
62	Maxwell	64	0.240%	10.22x
63	Prentice	61	0.230%	19.67x
64	Frew	60	0.230%	45.31x
65	Queen	60	0.230%	55.58x
66	Reilly	60	0.230%	21.45x
67	Douglas	59	0.220%	4.62x
68	Currie	58	0.220%	7.82x
69	Gordon	57	0.220%	3.43x
70	Weir	57	0.220%	8.32x
71	Orr	56	0.210%	12.61x
72	Johnston	55	0.210%	2.59x
73	Steven	53	0.200%	26.55x
74	Black	52	0.200%	3.05x
75	Buchanan	51	0.190%	7.49x
76	Forsyth	51	0.190%	9.07x
77	Lees	51	0.190%	4.37x
78	Ramsay	51	0.190%	7.51x
79	Gilmour	50	0.190%	13.41x
80	Rennie	50	0.190%	10.86x
81	Summers	50	0.190%	6.77x
82	Kane	49	0.190%	23.09x
83	Kennedy	49	0.190%	3.08x
84	Paton	49	0.190%	8.31x
85	Sneddon	48	0.180%	30.59x
86	Boyle	47	0.180%	6.87x
87	Gillespie	47	0.180%	11.25x
88	Cairns	46	0.170%	8.07x
89	Kemp	46	0.170%	3.15x
90	Alexander	45	0.170%	3.23x
91	Gilchrist	45	0.170%	11.65x
92	Crawford	44	0.170%	3.41x
93	Hendry	44	0.170%	10.54x
94	Kay	44	0.170%	3.21x
95	Torrance	44	0.170%	37.89x
96	Wallace	44	0.170%	2.44x
97	Inglis	43	0.160%	9.77x
98	Shearer	43	0.160%	12.72x
99	Stirling	43	0.160%	12.56x
100	Dickson	42	0.160%	4.30x