1881 census place

Stirling surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Stirling, 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

569 surnames are listed for Stirling, Stirlingshire, covering 6,337 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robertson, with 269 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Stirling

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	Robertson	269	1.98%	11.82x
2	Stewart	205	1.51%	9.64x
3	Campbell	147	1.08%	6.39x
4	Ferguson	144	1.06%	14.95x
5	Thomson	114	0.840%	6.28x
6	Henderson	110	0.810%	7.45x
7	Stevenson	96	0.710%	10.07x
8	Drummond	85	0.630%	31.48x
9	Christie	81	0.600%	18.39x
10	Morrison	75	0.550%	7.02x
11	Paterson	75	0.550%	8.11x
12	Cameron	73	0.540%	6.91x
13	Hunter	69	0.510%	4.95x
14	Donaldson	62	0.460%	16.00x
15	Finlayson	61	0.450%	38.98x
16	Johnston	57	0.420%	5.20x
17	Crawford	55	0.400%	8.27x
18	Millar	54	0.400%	10.89x
19	Ritchie	53	0.390%	11.29x
20	Davidson	51	0.380%	4.47x
21	Nicol	50	0.370%	17.68x
22	Allan	47	0.350%	5.51x
23	Johnstone	46	0.340%	7.49x
24	Welsh	46	0.340%	8.55x
25	Chalmers	45	0.330%	13.92x
26	Kerr	43	0.320%	5.80x
27	Kennedy	42	0.310%	5.13x
28	Dewar	41	0.300%	23.14x
29	Watt	41	0.300%	7.87x
30	Black	40	0.290%	4.55x
31	Forbes	37	0.270%	8.13x
32	Dow	36	0.270%	22.00x
33	Sutherland	36	0.270%	5.26x
34	Bain	35	0.260%	10.38x
35	Cairns	35	0.260%	11.91x
36	Ewing	34	0.250%	27.15x
37	Buchanan	33	0.240%	9.40x
38	Fleming	31	0.230%	5.49x
39	Galloway	31	0.230%	13.25x
40	Dowell	30	0.220%	44.09x
41	Hutton	30	0.220%	7.39x
42	Meiklejohn	30	0.220%	97.98x
43	Arthur	29	0.210%	9.80x
44	Chrystal	29	0.210%	154.83x
45	Dick	29	0.210%	9.57x
46	Menzies	29	0.210%	16.42x
47	Kane	28	0.210%	25.59x
48	Wylie	28	0.210%	17.71x
49	Forrester	27	0.200%	14.81x
50	Jack	27	0.200%	9.35x
51	Mackenzie	27	0.200%	7.10x
52	Davie	26	0.190%	20.78x
53	Elder	26	0.190%	18.12x
54	Findlay	26	0.190%	9.24x
55	Forsyth	26	0.190%	8.97x
56	Gillespie	26	0.190%	12.07x
57	Blair	25	0.180%	7.10x
58	Carmichael	24	0.180%	12.34x
59	Lindsay	24	0.180%	5.42x
60	Stirling	24	0.180%	13.60x
61	Crichton	23	0.170%	19.84x
62	Eadie	23	0.170%	35.81x
63	Ging	23	0.170%	1411.04x
64	Robb	23	0.170%	9.79x
65	Currie	22	0.160%	5.75x
66	Galbraith	22	0.160%	17.71x
67	Harley	22	0.160%	12.56x
68	Jamieson	22	0.160%	5.82x
69	Kenny	22	0.160%	13.52x
70	Laing	22	0.160%	8.06x
71	Oneil	22	0.160%	16.13x
72	Wingate	22	0.160%	45.54x
73	Adam	21	0.150%	9.00x
74	Boyle	21	0.150%	5.96x
75	Buchan	21	0.150%	11.96x
76	Cumming	21	0.150%	8.10x
77	Docherty	21	0.150%	10.39x
78	Rennie	21	0.150%	8.85x
79	Scotland	21	0.150%	54.21x
80	Walls	21	0.150%	12.85x
81	Drysdale	20	0.150%	17.41x
82	Easton	20	0.150%	9.71x
83	Ramsay	20	0.150%	5.72x
84	Conway	19	0.140%	7.46x
85	Fotheringham	19	0.140%	33.27x
86	Littlejohn	19	0.140%	28.99x
87	Archibald	18	0.130%	15.35x
88	Bowie	18	0.130%	15.21x
89	Denovan	18	0.130%	279.50x
90	Sneddon	18	0.130%	22.26x
91	Bisset	17	0.130%	15.97x
92	Fyfe	17	0.130%	13.63x
93	Govan	17	0.130%	68.63x
94	Guthrie	17	0.130%	9.93x
95	Heggie	17	0.130%	45.32x
96	Leitch	17	0.130%	13.12x
97	Neilson	17	0.130%	8.88x
98	Donnely	16	0.120%	76.01x
99	Duff	16	0.120%	6.62x
100	Glen	16	0.120%	11.90x