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1881 census place

Lanark surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Lanark, 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

315 surnames are listed for Lanark, Lanarkshire, covering 3,022 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Peggie, with 1 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Lanark

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.

#SurnameTotalIndex
301Peggie124.04x
302Purtill1131.58x
303Rossitter177.52x
304Scoular110.36x
305Smillie16.63x
306Snodgrass114.53x
307Sorbie118.59x
308Tees125.25x
309Terris128.17x
310Tervit199.01x
311Toes121.28x
312Toward114.93x
313Twaddle112.63x
314Walkinshaw111.59x
315Westland114.33x