1881 census place

Kirkintilloch surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire 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

403 surnames are listed for Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, covering 5,029 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Stirling, with 255 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Kirkintilloch

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	Stirling	255	2.39%	184.02x
2	Stewart	193	1.81%	11.57x
3	Graham	130	1.22%	10.62x
4	Campbell	120	1.13%	6.65x
5	Miller	104	0.980%	5.45x
6	Stark	99	0.930%	67.79x
7	Aitken	91	0.850%	32.52x
8	Gray	81	0.760%	5.32x
9	Reid	78	0.730%	6.96x
10	Wallace	70	0.660%	9.58x
11	Kirkwood	68	0.640%	70.54x
12	Kerr	66	0.620%	11.35x
13	Lang	66	0.620%	27.76x
14	Semple	62	0.580%	122.00x
15	Gartshore	59	0.550%	646.93x
16	Docherty	58	0.540%	36.57x
17	Hamilton	53	0.500%	6.62x
18	Ferguson	51	0.480%	6.75x
19	Jack	49	0.460%	21.62x
20	Dalrymple	48	0.450%	103.36x
21	Muir	48	0.450%	11.76x
22	Gillespie	47	0.440%	27.79x
23	Forsyth	46	0.430%	20.22x
24	Goodwin	46	0.430%	8.19x
25	Montgomery	46	0.430%	27.18x
26	Findlay	44	0.410%	19.91x
27	Alexander	41	0.380%	7.26x
28	Murdoch	39	0.370%	21.53x
29	Bain	38	0.360%	14.36x
30	Jarvie	37	0.350%	132.19x
31	Blair	36	0.340%	13.02x
32	Fleming	36	0.340%	8.12x
33	Buchanan	35	0.330%	12.70x
34	Rae	35	0.330%	14.40x
35	Nicol	34	0.320%	15.31x
36	Barr	33	0.310%	12.80x
37	Patrick	33	0.310%	15.53x
38	Arnott	32	0.300%	35.71x
39	Downie	30	0.280%	23.98x
40	Rodger	29	0.270%	19.34x
41	Caldwell	28	0.260%	16.78x
42	Cochrane	28	0.260%	16.95x
43	Knox	28	0.260%	15.29x
44	Millar	28	0.260%	7.19x
45	Baird	27	0.250%	11.84x
46	Connell	27	0.250%	14.57x
47	Hay	27	0.250%	6.90x
48	Somerville	27	0.250%	30.41x
49	Whitelaw	27	0.250%	42.47x
50	Bulloch	26	0.240%	121.89x
51	Ralston	25	0.230%	69.64x
52	Boyle	23	0.220%	8.31x
53	Differ	23	0.220%	1619.72x
54	Irvine	23	0.220%	9.79x
55	Shields	23	0.220%	13.95x
56	Chalmers	22	0.210%	8.67x
57	Hutton	22	0.210%	6.91x
58	Sawers	22	0.210%	176.57x
59	Cairns	21	0.200%	9.10x
60	Calder	21	0.200%	14.08x
61	Cassells	21	0.200%	121.11x
62	Cleland	21	0.200%	74.47x
63	Gibb	21	0.200%	11.15x
64	Horn	21	0.200%	8.67x
65	Hutcheson	21	0.200%	38.37x
66	Maxwell	21	0.200%	8.29x
67	Torrance	21	0.200%	44.67x
68	Cree	20	0.190%	62.81x
69	Duff	19	0.180%	10.01x
70	Ure	19	0.180%	57.37x
71	Winning	19	0.180%	79.40x
72	Haggarty	18	0.170%	87.59x
73	Mulholland	18	0.170%	45.41x
74	Gilchrist	17	0.160%	10.87x
75	Rennie	17	0.160%	9.13x
76	Scobbie	17	0.160%	166.34x
77	Syme	17	0.160%	42.39x
78	Edgar	16	0.150%	9.74x
79	Hopkin	16	0.150%	19.40x
80	Liddell	16	0.150%	16.35x
81	Meek	16	0.150%	12.90x
82	Waddell	16	0.150%	16.90x
83	Gallocher	15	0.140%	50.86x
84	Pollock	15	0.140%	9.68x
85	Rowden	15	0.140%	58.59x
86	Ferrie	14	0.130%	72.54x
87	Frew	14	0.130%	26.12x
88	Leitch	14	0.130%	13.76x
89	Malcolm	14	0.130%	9.98x
90	Muirhead	14	0.130%	17.02x
91	Sandeman	14	0.130%	96.35x
92	Alston	13	0.120%	18.71x
93	Bennie	13	0.120%	44.08x
94	Devine	13	0.120%	12.24x
95	Ewing	13	0.120%	13.22x
96	Guthrie	13	0.120%	9.67x
97	Haggerty	13	0.120%	65.89x
98	Hendry	13	0.120%	7.70x
99	Jardine	13	0.120%	13.08x
100	Kinniburgh	13	0.120%	190.06x