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 Pettigrew, with 21 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
201	Pettigrew	21	0.080%	16.41x
202	Quinn	21	0.080%	4.17x
203	Ramage	21	0.080%	14.18x
204	Sloan	21	0.080%	8.46x
205	Tennent	21	0.080%	48.91x
206	Doyle	20	0.080%	3.12x
207	Galbraith	20	0.080%	8.30x
208	Logan	20	0.080%	3.20x
209	Rielly	20	0.080%	52.62x
210	Sim	20	0.080%	6.76x
211	Blaney	19	0.070%	35.81x
212	Carmichael	19	0.070%	5.04x
213	Connolly	19	0.070%	6.21x
214	Devlin	19	0.070%	8.81x
215	Donachie	19	0.070%	56.38x
216	Dougan	19	0.070%	30.16x
217	Dyet	19	0.070%	147.86x
218	Fitzpatrick	19	0.070%	4.93x
219	Keith	19	0.070%	6.73x
220	Leggate	19	0.070%	101.88x
221	Lochhead	19	0.070%	39.99x
222	Quin	19	0.070%	6.73x
223	Rafferty	19	0.070%	13.98x
224	Whiteford	19	0.070%	27.20x
225	Alston	18	0.070%	10.49x
226	Bannatyne	18	0.070%	56.68x
227	Ewing	18	0.070%	7.41x
228	Penman	18	0.070%	10.44x
229	Rowatt	18	0.070%	150.38x
230	Stalker	18	0.070%	13.88x
231	Begg	17	0.060%	10.60x
232	Birrell	17	0.060%	13.23x
233	Dunbar	17	0.060%	5.61x
234	Ewart	17	0.060%	11.47x
235	Gaffney	17	0.060%	19.02x
236	Ginn	17	0.060%	23.33x
237	Macindoe	17	0.060%	152.19x
238	Neil	17	0.060%	4.88x
239	Oneil	17	0.060%	6.43x
240	Stratton	17	0.060%	7.45x
241	Wiseman	17	0.060%	4.70x
242	Aitchison	16	0.060%	8.66x
243	Blyth	16	0.060%	3.85x
244	Brodie	16	0.060%	4.52x
245	Carlin	16	0.060%	11.95x
246	Coats	16	0.060%	13.44x
247	Faulds	16	0.060%	19.90x
248	Gibb	16	0.060%	3.44x
249	Kirkwood	16	0.060%	6.72x
250	Loudon	16	0.060%	21.37x
251	Pinkerton	16	0.060%	24.67x
252	Warnock	16	0.060%	27.93x
253	Wilkie	16	0.060%	4.26x
254	Yuill	16	0.060%	28.64x
255	Canning	15	0.060%	8.01x
256	Downie	15	0.060%	4.85x
257	Easton	15	0.060%	3.75x
258	Gorman	15	0.060%	4.72x
259	Monaghan	15	0.060%	7.85x
260	Odonnell	15	0.060%	8.86x
261	Pringle	15	0.060%	3.61x
262	Purdie	15	0.060%	13.77x
263	Yule	15	0.060%	11.37x
264	Bowie	14	0.050%	6.10x
265	Caldwell	14	0.050%	3.40x
266	Cassells	14	0.050%	32.67x
267	Cherry	14	0.050%	5.19x
268	Howie	14	0.050%	5.42x
269	Keenan	14	0.050%	6.27x
270	Laird	14	0.050%	4.73x
271	Main	14	0.050%	3.25x
272	Meiklem	14	0.050%	244.76x
273	More	14	0.050%	6.83x
274	Semple	14	0.050%	11.15x
275	Sime	14	0.050%	13.26x
276	Somerville	14	0.050%	6.38x
277	Tinto	14	0.050%	130.48x
278	Vance	14	0.050%	27.92x
279	Acton	13	0.050%	8.52x
280	Brunton	13	0.050%	6.28x
281	Callison	13	0.050%	220.71x
282	Dalglish	13	0.050%	27.01x
283	Early	13	0.050%	13.29x
284	Fairley	13	0.050%	10.08x
285	Frazer	13	0.050%	6.37x
286	Gebbie	13	0.050%	48.29x
287	Gemmell	13	0.050%	8.21x
288	Gow	13	0.050%	6.24x
289	Grainger	13	0.050%	3.21x
290	Harvie	13	0.050%	15.08x
291	Jaap	13	0.050%	147.73x
292	Liddell	13	0.050%	5.38x
293	Lyle	13	0.050%	10.55x
294	Mair	13	0.050%	5.34x
295	Monteith	13	0.050%	18.58x
296	Montgomery	13	0.050%	3.11x
297	Obrien	13	0.050%	3.34x
298	Selkirk	13	0.050%	26.39x
299	Wylie	13	0.050%	4.24x
300	Arbuckle	12	0.050%	21.41x