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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 Warden, with 29 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.

#SurnameTotalIndex
201Warden299.99x
202Connell283.96x
203Connor282.33x
204Dickie288.78x
205Greer2820.51x
206Quinn283.60x
207Shankland2838.64x
208Strachan284.00x
209Sweeney285.15x
210Tarbet2870.67x
211Cairney2729.65x
212Carroll273.31x
213Gilmour274.70x
214Innes274.29x
215Maxwell272.80x
216Shields274.30x
217Small272.62x
218Davie266.94x
219Richmond262.92x
220Dallas2516.29x
221Forsyth252.88x
222Fyfe256.70x
223Grieve255.31x
224Hannah254.73x
225Macfie2585.30x
226Murdoch253.62x
227Steele252.30x
228Templeton258.33x
229Andrew241.86x
230Barrie248.18x
231Ogilvie246.11x
232Symington2421.36x
233Telfer249.88x
234Agnew2310.06x
235Bone233.05x
236Calderwood2315.77x
237Cochrane233.65x
238Crossan2341.44x
239Henry232.24x
240Laurie236.59x
241Melvin2311.75x
242Neilson234.02x
243Taggart2314.99x
244Burnside2215.44x
245Calder223.87x
246Cassidy224.43x
247Dow224.49x
248Galbreath22261.59x
249Gunn222.21x
250Hardie224.15x
251Kincaid2244.18x
252Service2222.30x
253Wylie224.65x
254Flood215.89x
255Lennox218.71x
256Arbuckle2023.14x
257Auld208.17x
258Bryceland20216.92x
259Cumming202.58x
260Drysdale205.82x
261Macaskill2042.11x
262Macmillan2017.74x
263Sheridan208.18x
264Stirling203.79x
265Sweeny2021.24x
266Beveridge194.49x
267Bonnar1934.49x
268Brady192.64x
269Coyle196.88x
270Cullen192.67x
271Curran195.58x
272Elliot191.83x
273Erskine197.56x
274Farquhar196.01x
275Given1956.46x
276Hepburn195.26x
277Ker1922.44x
278Macdougall1930.84x
279Macpherson197.22x
280Maitland197.21x
281Moffat192.58x
282Prentice193.97x
283Roy195.14x
284Waddell195.27x
285Borland1810.24x
286Denny185.27x
287Falconer183.71x
288Ferns1820.57x
289Flockhart1823.39x
290Harkins1819.60x
291Horne182.04x
292Kidd182.18x
293Macquarrie18201.12x
294Mearns1813.73x
295Mill187.35x
296Milloy1853.92x
297Queen1810.81x
298Quigley188.65x
299Shannon185.72x
300Wyllie186.33x