1881 census place

Penpont surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Penpont, Dumfriesshire 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

43 surnames are listed for Penpont, Dumfriesshire, covering 323 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hyslop, with 35 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Penpont

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	Hyslop	35	2.95%	513.20x
2	Dalziel	29	2.45%	553.44x
3	Carson	23	1.94%	175.98x
4	Maxwell	22	1.86%	78.07x
5	Kirkpatrick	17	1.43%	166.50x
6	Lorimer	14	1.18%	295.36x
7	Carruthers	13	1.10%	82.86x
8	Laurie	11	0.930%	107.95x
9	Crosbie	10	0.840%	164.20x
10	Harkness	10	0.840%	150.38x
11	Hewetson	10	0.840%	833.33x
12	Stitt	10	0.840%	595.24x
13	Grierson	9	0.760%	136.57x
14	Lind	9	0.760%	447.76x
15	Callander	7	0.590%	289.26x
16	Coupland	7	0.590%	93.21x
17	Muirhead	7	0.590%	76.50x
18	Sloane	7	0.590%	255.47x
19	Charters	6	0.510%	185.19x
20	Findlater	6	0.510%	342.86x
21	Hanning	6	0.510%	833.33x
22	Milroy	6	0.510%	176.99x
23	Hiddleston	5	0.420%	735.29x
24	Kellock	5	0.420%	344.83x
25	Lockerbie	5	0.420%	746.27x
26	Dalgliesh	4	0.340%	243.90x
27	Lean	4	0.340%	115.94x
28	Marchbank	4	0.340%	239.52x
29	Mathison	3	0.250%	93.46x
30	Moffet	3	0.250%	434.78x
31	Charteris	2	0.170%	277.78x
32	Shankland	2	0.170%	94.79x
33	Smail	2	0.170%	88.89x
34	Cron	1	0.080%	250.00x
35	Fallas	1	0.080%	121.95x
36	Glencross	1	0.080%	97.09x
37	Haining	1	0.080%	67.11x
38	Lamberton	1	0.080%	128.21x
39	Lockerby	1	0.080%	400.00x
40	Lowson	1	0.080%	36.90x
41	Lyden	1	0.080%	116.28x
42	Rorison	1	0.080%	303.03x
43	Slimmon	1	0.080%	217.39x