1881 census place

Portpatrick surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Portpatrick, Wigtownshire 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

44 surnames are listed for Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, covering 289 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wither, with 33 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Portpatrick

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	Wither	33	2.54%	2894.74x
2	Milroy	22	1.69%	591.40x
3	Cain	21	1.62%	77.78x
4	Biggam	17	1.31%	2297.30x
5	Glass	15	1.15%	111.52x
6	Vint	15	1.15%	1339.29x
7	Rankin	13	1.00%	67.32x
8	Curran	12	0.920%	110.19x
9	Downie	11	0.850%	72.13x
10	Fergusson	10	0.770%	151.98x
11	Service	9	0.690%	284.81x
12	Boe	8	0.620%	1702.13x
13	Hannay	8	0.620%	250.00x
14	Maltman	8	0.620%	476.19x
15	Auld	7	0.540%	89.29x
16	Brownlee	6	0.460%	133.63x
17	Digney	6	0.460%	1935.48x
18	Adair	5	0.380%	123.46x
19	Bunten	5	0.380%	520.83x
20	Greer	5	0.380%	114.42x
21	Slavin	5	0.380%	581.40x
22	Blain	4	0.310%	88.69x
23	Drynan	4	0.310%	634.92x
24	Jess	4	0.310%	396.04x
25	Beggs	3	0.230%	172.41x
26	Buyers	3	0.230%	508.47x
27	Calderwood	3	0.230%	64.24x
28	Carnochan	3	0.230%	416.67x
29	Cully	3	0.230%	208.33x
30	Kenneday	3	0.230%	625.00x
31	Cosh	2	0.150%	192.31x
32	Ledingham	2	0.150%	104.71x
33	Lithgow	2	0.150%	86.96x
34	Neven	2	0.150%	571.43x
35	Cluckie	1	0.080%	666.67x
36	Craige	1	0.080%	277.78x
37	Finigan	1	0.080%	49.51x
38	Gilespie	1	0.080%	243.90x
39	Laury	1	0.080%	434.78x
40	Meldon	1	0.080%	263.16x
41	Rodie	1	0.080%	208.33x
42	Snodgrass	1	0.080%	84.75x
43	Stroyan	1	0.080%	149.25x
44	Trayner	1	0.080%	80.65x