1881 census place

Paisley High Church surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Paisley High Church, Renfrewshire 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

617 surnames are listed for Paisley High Church, Renfrewshire, covering 10,185 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 265 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Paisley High Church

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	Wilson	265	1.47%	3.20x
2	Campbell	163	0.900%	5.34x
3	Stewart	148	0.820%	5.25x
4	Thomson	148	0.820%	6.15x
5	Young	142	0.790%	3.67x
6	Robertson	138	0.770%	4.57x
7	Stevenson	125	0.690%	9.88x
8	Hamilton	124	0.690%	9.17x
9	Ferguson	116	0.640%	9.08x
10	Cochran	115	0.640%	167.18x
11	Murray	114	0.630%	5.10x
12	Crawford	106	0.590%	12.02x
13	Wallace	105	0.580%	8.51x
14	Reid	103	0.570%	5.44x
15	Paterson	101	0.560%	8.23x
16	Muir	99	0.550%	14.35x
17	Adam	98	0.540%	31.65x
18	Johnstone	96	0.530%	11.78x
19	Barr	95	0.530%	21.80x
20	Gibson	94	0.520%	4.30x
21	Graham	94	0.520%	4.54x
22	Blair	90	0.500%	19.26x
23	Kerr	89	0.490%	9.05x
24	Russell	86	0.480%	3.91x
25	Millar	85	0.470%	12.92x
26	Hunter	83	0.460%	4.48x
27	Kennedy	81	0.450%	7.45x
28	Allison	78	0.430%	15.23x
29	Pollock	78	0.430%	29.79x
30	Buchanan	77	0.430%	16.53x
31	Henderson	76	0.420%	3.88x
32	Orr	74	0.410%	24.37x
33	Lang	73	0.410%	18.17x
34	Black	72	0.400%	6.17x
35	Leitch	72	0.400%	41.87x
36	Boyd	66	0.370%	10.44x
37	Alexander	63	0.350%	6.60x
38	Fulton	63	0.350%	27.70x
39	Cameron	62	0.340%	4.43x
40	Gilmour	62	0.340%	24.31x
41	Watt	62	0.340%	8.97x
42	Paton	60	0.330%	14.88x
43	Kirkwood	54	0.300%	33.14x
44	Wylie	54	0.300%	25.74x
45	Erskine	53	0.290%	47.52x
46	Allan	52	0.290%	4.60x
47	Elliot	52	0.290%	11.31x
48	Fleming	52	0.290%	6.94x
49	Forsyth	52	0.290%	13.52x
50	Love	52	0.290%	12.17x
51	Ritchie	52	0.290%	8.35x
52	Caldwell	51	0.280%	18.08x
53	Welsh	50	0.280%	7.01x
54	Gordon	49	0.270%	4.31x
55	Weir	46	0.260%	9.81x
56	Andrew	45	0.250%	7.88x
57	Gibb	45	0.250%	14.14x
58	Jamieson	45	0.250%	8.96x
59	Semple	45	0.250%	52.39x
60	Burns	44	0.240%	3.64x
61	Goudie	44	0.240%	77.11x
62	Cumming	43	0.240%	12.50x
63	Glen	43	0.240%	24.10x
64	Park	42	0.230%	7.52x
65	Jack	41	0.230%	10.70x
66	Wilkie	41	0.230%	15.95x
67	Christie	40	0.220%	6.84x
68	Logan	40	0.220%	9.36x
69	Pattison	39	0.220%	13.60x
70	Knox	37	0.210%	11.96x
71	Balfour	36	0.200%	28.67x
72	Neilson	36	0.200%	14.17x
73	Provan	35	0.190%	97.09x
74	Donald	34	0.190%	9.37x
75	Niven	34	0.190%	27.11x
76	Colquhoun	33	0.180%	30.91x
77	Connelly	33	0.180%	19.72x
78	Dunsmore	33	0.180%	71.21x
79	Gilchrist	33	0.180%	12.49x
80	Connell	32	0.180%	10.21x
81	Dunlop	32	0.180%	11.02x
82	Currie	31	0.170%	6.11x
83	Lyle	31	0.170%	36.76x
84	Renfrew	31	0.170%	107.75x
85	Coats	30	0.170%	36.84x
86	Richmond	30	0.170%	7.60x
87	Strachan	30	0.170%	9.65x
88	Drennan	29	0.160%	118.95x
89	Neil	29	0.160%	12.16x
90	Nicol	29	0.160%	7.73x
91	Giblin	28	0.160%	80.21x
92	Maxwell	28	0.160%	6.54x
93	Whiteford	28	0.160%	58.59x
94	Arthur	27	0.150%	6.87x
95	Baird	27	0.150%	7.01x
96	Dickson	27	0.150%	4.05x
97	Gemmell	27	0.150%	24.92x
98	Speirs	27	0.150%	38.31x
99	Boyle	26	0.140%	5.56x
100	Ewing	26	0.140%	15.65x