1881 census place

St Ninians surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in St Ninians, Stirlingshire 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

331 surnames are listed for St Ninians, Stirlingshire, covering 5,282 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Stevenson, with 227 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in St Ninians

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	Stevenson	227	2.13%	30.29x
2	Robertson	211	1.98%	11.79x
3	Paterson	174	1.63%	23.94x
4	Campbell	128	1.20%	7.08x
5	Stewart	122	1.14%	7.30x
6	Forsyth	116	1.09%	50.91x
7	Miller	110	1.03%	5.76x
8	Paton	86	0.810%	35.99x
9	Ferguson	84	0.790%	11.10x
10	Hunter	82	0.770%	7.48x
11	Buchanan	81	0.760%	29.34x
12	Henderson	77	0.720%	6.63x
13	Gillespie	75	0.700%	44.28x
14	Muirhead	74	0.690%	89.83x
15	Christie	71	0.660%	20.50x
16	Johnston	67	0.630%	7.77x
17	Morrison	67	0.630%	7.98x
18	Adam	66	0.620%	35.98x
19	Donaldson	62	0.580%	20.36x
20	Crawford	61	0.570%	11.67x
21	Kerr	60	0.560%	10.30x
22	Turnbull	58	0.540%	12.88x
23	Cowan	56	0.520%	25.71x
24	Millar	53	0.500%	13.60x
25	Munnoch	52	0.490%	1566.27x
26	Dewar	51	0.480%	36.61x
27	Liddell	51	0.480%	52.06x
28	Dick	49	0.460%	20.57x
29	Meiklejohn	48	0.450%	199.42x
30	Aitken	46	0.430%	16.42x
31	Galloway	46	0.430%	25.01x
32	Drummond	44	0.410%	20.73x
33	Bowie	43	0.400%	46.22x
34	Welsh	43	0.400%	10.17x
35	Ewing	41	0.380%	41.64x
36	Brisbane	40	0.370%	409.42x
37	Ogilvie	39	0.370%	37.75x
38	Walls	38	0.360%	29.58x
39	Jeffrey	37	0.350%	18.74x
40	Denovan	36	0.340%	711.46x
41	Jaffray	35	0.330%	236.49x
42	Lennox	33	0.310%	52.08x
43	Barclay	32	0.300%	14.56x
44	Chalmers	32	0.300%	12.59x
45	Murdoch	30	0.280%	16.54x
46	Baird	27	0.250%	11.82x
47	Dobbie	27	0.250%	57.88x
48	Hay	27	0.250%	6.89x
49	Cowie	26	0.240%	20.06x
50	Lockhart	26	0.240%	34.95x
51	Nisbet	26	0.240%	23.06x
52	Weir	26	0.240%	9.36x
53	Brodie	25	0.230%	17.44x
54	Meldrum	25	0.230%	37.17x
55	Shirra	24	0.220%	391.52x
56	Cairns	23	0.220%	9.96x
57	Stirling	23	0.220%	16.58x
58	Bain	22	0.210%	8.30x
59	Leighton	22	0.210%	19.15x
60	Gilchrist	21	0.200%	13.41x
61	Rennie	21	0.200%	11.26x
62	Buchan	20	0.190%	14.49x
63	Glen	20	0.190%	18.92x
64	Maxwell	20	0.190%	7.88x
65	Bennie	19	0.180%	64.34x
66	Don	19	0.180%	78.13x
67	Finlayson	19	0.180%	15.44x
68	Laird	19	0.180%	15.85x
69	Bryson	18	0.170%	21.98x
70	Eadie	18	0.170%	35.64x
71	Nicol	18	0.170%	8.10x
72	Obrien	18	0.170%	11.41x
73	Condie	17	0.160%	120.06x
74	Duncanson	17	0.160%	82.48x
75	Gilfillan	17	0.160%	82.32x
76	Goldie	17	0.160%	25.58x
77	Jaffrey	17	0.160%	169.66x
78	Trotter	17	0.160%	15.18x
79	Donnachie	16	0.150%	173.91x
80	Laurie	16	0.150%	17.44x
81	Ramage	16	0.150%	26.66x
82	Archibald	15	0.140%	16.27x
83	Carson	15	0.140%	12.75x
84	Corser	15	0.140%	203.25x
85	Gow	15	0.140%	17.78x
86	Yule	15	0.140%	28.04x
87	Abercromby	14	0.130%	209.90x
88	Dow	14	0.130%	10.88x
89	Leitch	14	0.130%	13.74x
90	Troup	14	0.130%	56.66x
91	Calder	13	0.120%	8.70x
92	Forfar	13	0.120%	208.33x
93	Hislop	13	0.120%	20.23x
94	Imrie	13	0.120%	31.13x
95	Leckie	13	0.120%	38.82x
96	Pollock	13	0.120%	8.38x
97	Somerville	13	0.120%	14.62x
98	Wilkie	13	0.120%	8.54x
99	Cochran	12	0.110%	29.44x
100	Fotheringham	12	0.110%	26.73x