1881 census place

Kilmarnock surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire 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

752 surnames are listed for Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, covering 16,587 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 563 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Kilmarnock

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	Brown	563	2.16%	3.28x
2	Wilson	431	1.66%	3.61x
3	Thomson	416	1.60%	11.96x
4	Robertson	266	1.02%	6.10x
5	Young	251	0.960%	4.49x
6	Stewart	248	0.950%	6.09x
7	Gibson	233	0.900%	7.38x
8	Wallace	229	0.880%	12.85x
9	Campbell	201	0.770%	4.56x
10	Anderson	199	0.760%	3.87x
11	Clark	199	0.760%	2.54x
12	Murray	188	0.720%	5.83x
13	Boyd	163	0.630%	17.86x
14	Ferguson	160	0.610%	8.67x
15	Reid	147	0.560%	5.38x
16	Stevenson	146	0.560%	8.00x
17	Paton	142	0.550%	24.39x
18	Muir	140	0.540%	14.06x
19	Kerr	136	0.520%	9.58x
20	Armour	134	0.510%	82.16x
21	Hunter	134	0.510%	5.01x
22	Wyllie	134	0.510%	73.54x
23	Hamilton	127	0.490%	6.51x
24	Watson	126	0.480%	2.09x
25	Dunlop	124	0.480%	29.57x
26	Miller	121	0.470%	2.60x
27	Johnstone	117	0.450%	9.95x
28	Paterson	114	0.440%	6.44x
29	Fulton	112	0.430%	34.11x
30	Black	110	0.420%	6.53x
31	Morrison	107	0.410%	5.23x
32	Richmond	105	0.400%	18.42x
33	Findlay	104	0.400%	19.29x
34	Morton	104	0.400%	7.48x
35	Caldwell	97	0.370%	23.82x
36	Millar	97	0.370%	10.21x
37	Aird	96	0.370%	70.91x
38	Aitken	94	0.360%	13.77x
39	Templeton	94	0.360%	48.91x
40	Currie	92	0.350%	12.56x
41	Baird	91	0.350%	16.35x
42	Orr	89	0.340%	20.30x
43	Calderwood	88	0.340%	94.21x
44	Graham	88	0.340%	2.95x
45	Allan	87	0.330%	5.33x
46	Barr	87	0.330%	13.83x
47	Gilmour	87	0.330%	23.63x
48	Henderson	87	0.330%	3.08x
49	Dickie	82	0.320%	40.16x
50	Kelly	79	0.300%	2.77x
51	Rankin	79	0.300%	20.44x
52	Neil	78	0.300%	22.66x
53	Alexander	77	0.300%	5.59x
54	Gilchrist	77	0.300%	20.19x
55	Kennedy	77	0.300%	4.91x
56	Borland	74	0.280%	65.77x
57	Cameron	73	0.280%	3.61x
58	Barclay	72	0.280%	13.45x
59	Dick	72	0.280%	12.40x
60	Goldie	70	0.270%	43.22x
61	Cuthbertson	68	0.260%	33.82x
62	Hannah	68	0.260%	20.10x
63	Jamieson	64	0.250%	8.83x
64	Lindsay	64	0.250%	7.55x
65	Ramsay	64	0.250%	9.55x
66	Adam	63	0.240%	14.09x
67	Howie	63	0.240%	24.68x
68	Rodger	61	0.230%	16.68x
69	Turnbull	61	0.230%	5.56x
70	Andrew	58	0.220%	7.03x
71	Bunten	58	0.220%	302.08x
72	Johnston	58	0.220%	2.76x
73	Lambie	58	0.220%	68.32x
74	Hood	57	0.220%	7.91x
75	Cowan	56	0.220%	10.55x
76	Douglas	56	0.220%	4.44x
77	Roxburgh	56	0.220%	69.52x
78	Williamson	54	0.210%	2.31x
79	Burns	52	0.200%	2.98x
80	Cairns	52	0.200%	9.24x
81	Curdie	52	0.200%	554.37x
82	Samson	51	0.200%	27.44x
83	Nisbet	50	0.190%	18.20x
84	Weir	50	0.190%	7.39x
85	Irvine	49	0.190%	8.55x
86	Auld	48	0.180%	30.60x
87	Ritchie	47	0.180%	5.23x
88	Mair	46	0.180%	19.13x
89	Tannahill	46	0.180%	178.23x
90	Watt	46	0.180%	4.61x
91	Crawford	45	0.170%	3.53x
92	Woodburn	45	0.170%	54.57x
93	Cree	44	0.170%	56.64x
94	Boyle	43	0.170%	6.37x
95	Fleming	43	0.170%	3.98x
96	Laughland	43	0.170%	301.75x
97	Murdoch	43	0.170%	9.73x
98	Pollock	42	0.160%	11.11x
99	Dempster	41	0.160%	22.39x
100	Humphrey	41	0.160%	5.92x