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 Morton, with 42 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
101	Morton	42	0.160%	2.98x
102	Tonner	42	0.160%	123.35x
103	Welsh	42	0.160%	4.03x
104	Cassels	40	0.150%	83.88x
105	Clelland	40	0.150%	54.97x
106	Cochrane	40	0.150%	9.80x
107	Meikle	40	0.150%	21.09x
108	Watt	40	0.150%	3.96x
109	Aird	39	0.150%	28.45x
110	Bulloch	39	0.150%	74.00x
111	Cullen	39	0.150%	8.45x
112	Haddow	39	0.150%	48.55x
113	Irvine	38	0.140%	6.55x
114	Higgins	37	0.140%	2.78x
115	Cockburn	36	0.140%	10.71x
116	Dalziel	36	0.140%	30.90x
117	Patterson	36	0.140%	3.92x
118	Dunlop	35	0.130%	8.24x
119	Tait	35	0.130%	4.51x
120	Wyper	35	0.130%	88.38x
121	Barrie	34	0.130%	17.88x
122	Bryson	34	0.130%	16.83x
123	Milligan	34	0.130%	10.96x
124	Ritchie	34	0.130%	3.73x
125	Speirs	34	0.130%	33.00x
126	Jamieson	33	0.130%	4.50x
127	Thorburn	33	0.130%	21.69x
128	Winning	33	0.130%	55.81x
129	Connor	32	0.120%	4.11x
130	Donaldson	32	0.120%	4.26x
131	Love	32	0.120%	5.12x
132	Mullen	32	0.120%	12.70x
133	Murdoch	32	0.120%	7.15x
134	Finlay	31	0.120%	11.46x
135	Kyle	31	0.120%	21.16x
136	Waddell	31	0.120%	13.25x
137	Whitehouse	31	0.120%	4.52x
138	Halliday	30	0.110%	5.51x
139	Hodge	30	0.110%	4.52x
140	Menzies	30	0.110%	8.76x
141	Smellie	30	0.110%	25.71x
142	Struthers	30	0.110%	25.46x
143	Finlayson	29	0.110%	9.55x
144	Kirkland	29	0.110%	12.36x
145	Mackay	29	0.110%	3.04x
146	Robb	29	0.110%	6.36x
147	Christie	28	0.110%	3.28x
148	Colquhoun	28	0.110%	17.94x
149	Corbett	28	0.110%	5.42x
150	Napier	28	0.110%	13.22x
151	Paul	28	0.110%	4.25x
152	Aiton	27	0.100%	160.71x
153	Farrell	27	0.100%	5.40x
154	Fulton	27	0.100%	8.12x
155	Lynch	27	0.100%	3.88x
156	Strachan	27	0.100%	5.94x
157	Brannan	26	0.100%	14.59x
158	Bryce	26	0.100%	9.86x
159	Cain	26	0.100%	4.75x
160	Dykes	26	0.100%	14.34x
161	Sweeney	26	0.100%	7.37x
162	Aitken	25	0.090%	3.62x
163	Gallacher	25	0.090%	11.00x
164	Gowans	25	0.090%	29.47x
165	Kirkpatrick	25	0.090%	11.02x
166	Lyons	25	0.090%	4.26x
167	Nisbet	25	0.090%	8.99x
168	Rowan	25	0.090%	14.74x
169	Binning	24	0.090%	64.48x
170	Cuthbertson	24	0.090%	11.79x
171	Doherty	24	0.090%	11.16x
172	Falconer	24	0.090%	7.64x
173	Gallagher	24	0.090%	5.99x
174	Gardiner	24	0.090%	3.17x
175	Tainsh	24	0.090%	115.61x
176	Archibald	23	0.090%	10.11x
177	Cassidy	23	0.090%	7.14x
178	Donald	23	0.090%	4.34x
179	Duffy	23	0.090%	4.00x
180	Kilpatrick	23	0.090%	16.95x
181	Stuart	23	0.090%	3.66x
182	Telford	23	0.090%	9.90x
183	Baillie	22	0.080%	8.04x
184	Barrowman	22	0.080%	60.69x
185	Cathcart	22	0.080%	54.35x
186	Cather	22	0.080%	367.89x
187	Donnelly	22	0.080%	6.63x
188	Hepburn	22	0.080%	9.39x
189	Houston	22	0.080%	6.56x
190	Mathieson	22	0.080%	7.92x
191	Moffat	22	0.080%	4.61x
192	Strang	22	0.080%	18.60x
193	Connell	21	0.080%	4.59x
194	Dobbie	21	0.080%	18.25x
195	Findlay	21	0.080%	3.85x
196	Gillon	21	0.080%	31.16x
197	Gourlay	21	0.080%	14.38x
198	Hardie	21	0.080%	6.11x
199	Lightbody	21	0.080%	45.38x
200	Oneill	21	0.080%	12.52x