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 Picken, with 26 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
101	Picken	26	0.140%	34.56x
102	Quin	26	0.140%	13.46x
103	Sim	26	0.140%	12.84x
104	Waddell	26	0.140%	16.25x
105	Barbour	25	0.140%	25.23x
106	Conn	25	0.140%	50.54x
107	Fairlie	25	0.140%	56.97x
108	Rae	25	0.140%	6.09x
109	Dick	24	0.130%	5.97x
110	Gallocher	24	0.130%	48.15x
111	Howie	24	0.130%	13.57x
112	Bain	23	0.130%	5.14x
113	Canning	23	0.130%	17.96x
114	Flynn	23	0.130%	6.67x
115	Galbraith	23	0.130%	13.95x
116	Goldie	23	0.130%	20.50x
117	Pinkerton	23	0.130%	51.85x
118	Rowand	23	0.130%	298.70x
119	Docherty	22	0.120%	8.21x
120	Houston	22	0.120%	9.58x
121	Irvine	22	0.120%	5.54x
122	Kilpatrick	22	0.120%	23.70x
123	Lyall	22	0.120%	17.90x
124	Peden	22	0.120%	60.42x
125	Rennie	22	0.120%	6.99x
126	Cowan	21	0.120%	5.71x
127	Gavin	21	0.120%	23.56x
128	Lockhart	21	0.120%	16.73x
129	Shields	21	0.120%	7.54x
130	Dougan	20	0.110%	46.41x
131	Gallacher	20	0.110%	12.86x
132	Hardie	20	0.110%	8.51x
133	Steven	20	0.110%	14.64x
134	Storrie	20	0.110%	68.94x
135	Sunter	20	0.110%	73.86x
136	Armour	19	0.110%	16.82x
137	Murdoch	19	0.110%	6.21x
138	Obrien	19	0.110%	7.13x
139	Towns	19	0.110%	32.88x
140	Ballantyne	18	0.100%	13.17x
141	Blackie	18	0.100%	24.35x
142	Cowden	18	0.100%	126.76x
143	Donnelly	18	0.100%	7.93x
144	Greenlees	18	0.100%	51.30x
145	Greig	18	0.100%	6.31x
146	Hawthorn	18	0.100%	17.25x
147	Holms	18	0.100%	35.43x
148	Livingstone	18	0.100%	10.71x
149	Woodrow	18	0.100%	16.12x
150	Barclay	17	0.090%	4.58x
151	Kean	17	0.090%	13.93x
152	Kelso	17	0.090%	40.18x
153	Lauchlan	17	0.090%	137.10x
154	Mathieson	17	0.090%	8.95x
155	Odonnell	17	0.090%	14.67x
156	Parlane	17	0.090%	185.79x
157	Robin	17	0.090%	47.47x
158	Rodger	17	0.090%	6.71x
159	Sproul	17	0.090%	74.92x
160	Stirling	17	0.090%	7.26x
161	Borland	16	0.090%	20.53x
162	Carswell	16	0.090%	24.28x
163	Darroch	16	0.090%	34.04x
164	Dunbar	16	0.090%	7.73x
165	Lochrie	16	0.090%	137.69x
166	Meikle	16	0.090%	12.34x
167	Milton	16	0.090%	6.44x
168	Ohare	16	0.090%	36.17x
169	Tulloch	16	0.090%	13.38x
170	Baillie	15	0.080%	8.02x
171	Corrigan	15	0.080%	18.57x
172	Easton	15	0.080%	5.49x
173	Faulds	15	0.080%	27.27x
174	Gallagher	15	0.080%	5.48x
175	Howat	15	0.080%	27.12x
176	Mathie	15	0.080%	41.20x
177	Service	15	0.080%	34.28x
178	Templeton	15	0.080%	11.27x
179	Bannatyne	14	0.080%	64.43x
180	Brock	14	0.080%	6.68x
181	Brodie	14	0.080%	5.79x
182	Gold	14	0.080%	13.65x
183	Guthrie	14	0.080%	6.16x
184	Hector	14	0.080%	46.43x
185	Hutchison	14	0.080%	4.72x
186	Hyndman	14	0.080%	68.23x
187	Lawrie	14	0.080%	8.11x
188	Leggatt	14	0.080%	26.86x
189	Macaulay	14	0.080%	21.78x
190	Malcolm	14	0.080%	5.91x
191	Sawers	14	0.080%	66.45x
192	Arneil	13	0.070%	166.24x
193	Bailly	13	0.070%	257.43x
194	Begg	13	0.070%	11.85x
195	Bonnar	13	0.070%	53.21x
196	Bryce	13	0.070%	7.21x
197	Bryson	13	0.070%	9.41x
198	Dock	13	0.070%	198.17x
199	Hendry	13	0.070%	4.55x
200	Lamond	13	0.070%	21.11x