1881 census place

West Greenock surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in West Greenock, 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

1,252 surnames are listed for West Greenock, Renfrewshire, covering 24,209 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 737 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in West Greenock

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	Campbell	737	1.81%	10.72x
2	Brown	497	1.22%	1.86x
3	Stewart	382	0.940%	6.01x
4	Wilson	370	0.910%	1.98x
5	Scott	296	0.730%	2.88x
6	Robertson	293	0.720%	4.30x
7	Thomson	281	0.690%	5.18x
8	Ferguson	270	0.660%	9.37x
9	Cameron	263	0.650%	8.33x
10	Anderson	244	0.600%	3.04x
11	Blair	219	0.540%	20.79x
12	Crawford	207	0.510%	10.41x
13	Graham	207	0.510%	4.44x
14	Paterson	207	0.510%	7.49x
15	Black	201	0.490%	7.64x
16	Morrison	198	0.490%	6.20x
17	Gallacher	196	0.480%	55.92x
18	Kerr	181	0.450%	8.17x
19	Allan	174	0.430%	6.82x
20	Clark	174	0.430%	1.42x
21	Mitchell	174	0.430%	2.11x
22	Muir	171	0.420%	11.00x
23	Watson	169	0.420%	1.79x
24	Docherty	162	0.400%	26.80x
25	Millar	161	0.400%	10.85x
26	Murray	158	0.390%	3.14x
27	Boyd	157	0.390%	11.02x
28	Hamilton	154	0.380%	5.05x
29	Johnston	139	0.340%	4.24x
30	Boyle	138	0.340%	13.09x
31	Reid	137	0.340%	3.21x
32	Kennedy	136	0.330%	5.55x
33	Miller	133	0.330%	1.83x
34	Martin	132	0.320%	1.32x
35	Currie	131	0.320%	11.45x
36	Gray	130	0.320%	2.24x
37	Stevenson	123	0.300%	4.31x
38	Bell	117	0.290%	1.53x
39	Hunter	111	0.270%	2.66x
40	Jamieson	109	0.270%	9.63x
41	Williamson	109	0.270%	2.99x
42	Simpson	108	0.270%	1.52x
43	Henderson	107	0.260%	2.42x
44	Davidson	106	0.260%	3.10x
45	Johnstone	106	0.260%	5.77x
46	Ritchie	104	0.260%	7.41x
47	Orr	97	0.240%	14.17x
48	Munro	95	0.230%	5.24x
49	Weir	92	0.230%	8.71x
50	Hendry	90	0.220%	13.98x
51	Lang	90	0.220%	9.94x
52	Burns	89	0.220%	3.26x
53	Fleming	89	0.220%	5.27x
54	Carmichael	87	0.210%	14.96x
55	Alexander	81	0.200%	3.77x
56	Douglas	81	0.200%	4.11x
57	Murphy	81	0.200%	2.50x
58	Houston	80	0.200%	15.46x
59	Kelly	80	0.200%	1.80x
60	Ross	80	0.200%	1.80x
61	Fisher	79	0.190%	1.66x
62	Dick	78	0.190%	8.61x
63	Rodger	75	0.180%	13.13x
64	Wallace	75	0.180%	2.69x
65	Fraser	74	0.180%	2.05x
66	Gillies	74	0.180%	12.73x
67	Chalmers	73	0.180%	7.55x
68	Barr	71	0.170%	7.23x
69	Darroch	71	0.170%	67.00x
70	Gordon	71	0.170%	2.77x
71	Logan	71	0.170%	7.37x
72	Galbraith	68	0.170%	18.30x
73	Aitken	67	0.160%	6.28x
74	Fulton	67	0.160%	13.07x
75	Laird	66	0.160%	14.47x
76	Buchanan	65	0.160%	6.19x
77	Devlin	65	0.160%	19.54x
78	Whyte	65	0.160%	9.43x
79	Lyle	64	0.160%	33.67x
80	Neill	64	0.160%	23.78x
81	Park	63	0.160%	5.00x
82	Russell	62	0.150%	1.25x
83	Swan	62	0.150%	5.89x
84	Leitch	61	0.150%	15.74x
85	Macdonald	61	0.150%	3.78x
86	Kirkwood	60	0.150%	16.33x
87	Nicol	59	0.150%	6.97x
88	Livingston	58	0.140%	15.89x
89	Adam	57	0.140%	8.17x
90	Bruce	57	0.140%	2.99x
91	Baxter	56	0.140%	2.31x
92	Lamont	56	0.140%	15.50x
93	Sutherland	56	0.140%	2.74x
94	Downie	55	0.140%	11.54x
95	Nelson	55	0.140%	2.79x
96	Bradley	54	0.130%	1.66x
97	Grant	54	0.130%	1.34x
98	Sharp	54	0.130%	1.59x
99	Beaton	53	0.130%	11.34x
100	Donald	53	0.130%	6.48x