1881 census county

Berwickshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Berwickshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

1,482 surnames are listed for Berwickshire, covering 32,204 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Scott, with 591 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Berwickshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Scott	591	1.67%	6.60x
2	Brown	543	1.53%	2.33x
3	Wilson	543	1.53%	3.34x
4	Johnston	540	1.53%	18.92x
5	Anderson	497	1.40%	7.11x
6	Purves	486	1.37%	210.13x
7	Aitchison	433	1.22%	174.63x
8	Robertson	400	1.13%	6.75x
9	Young	344	0.970%	4.53x
10	Patterson	342	0.970%	27.73x
11	Wood	339	0.960%	3.01x
12	Henderson	297	0.840%	7.72x
13	Cockburn	294	0.830%	65.14x
14	Smith	288	0.810%	0.58x
15	Paterson	285	0.810%	11.84x
16	Fairbairn	276	0.780%	105.63x
17	Kerr	264	0.750%	13.68x
18	Renton	262	0.740%	120.74x
19	Dickson	249	0.700%	19.01x
20	Allan	248	0.700%	11.17x
21	Gray	246	0.700%	4.87x
22	Bell	215	0.610%	3.23x
23	Cowe	215	0.610%	225.53x
24	Watson	210	0.590%	2.56x
25	Nisbet	204	0.580%	54.62x
26	White	204	0.580%	1.79x
27	Pringle	203	0.570%	36.43x
28	Rae	203	0.570%	25.19x
29	Hunter	199	0.560%	5.48x
30	Davidson	198	0.560%	6.66x
31	Simpson	193	0.550%	3.12x
32	Thomson	189	0.530%	4.00x
33	Collin	187	0.530%	101.48x
34	Dougal	187	0.530%	289.92x
35	Martin	185	0.520%	2.12x
36	Gibson	183	0.520%	4.26x
37	Miller	179	0.510%	2.83x
38	Tait	173	0.490%	16.61x
39	Turnbull	166	0.470%	11.13x
40	Trotter	157	0.440%	42.33x
41	Stewart	156	0.440%	2.82x
42	Hay	155	0.440%	11.95x
43	Rutherford	141	0.400%	16.33x
44	Murray	140	0.400%	3.19x
45	Black	137	0.390%	5.98x
46	Chisholm	137	0.390%	26.67x
47	Swanston	136	0.380%	179.07x
48	Walker	136	0.380%	1.15x
49	Hardie	134	0.380%	29.06x
50	Ford	132	0.370%	3.83x
51	Thompson	132	0.370%	1.25x
52	Redpath	129	0.360%	78.56x
53	Richardson	129	0.360%	2.14x
54	Laidlaw	126	0.360%	40.19x
55	Jeffrey	125	0.350%	19.11x
56	Darling	123	0.350%	36.31x
57	Gillie	117	0.330%	323.74x
58	Spence	116	0.330%	9.91x
59	Dodds	112	0.320%	15.04x
60	Lauder	112	0.320%	60.24x
61	Hastie	111	0.310%	49.56x
62	Lamb	110	0.310%	5.89x
63	Hume	108	0.310%	21.52x
64	Campbell	107	0.300%	1.79x
65	Robson	107	0.300%	4.60x
66	Douglas	106	0.300%	6.19x
67	Reid	105	0.300%	2.83x
68	Clark	104	0.290%	0.98x
69	Marshall	103	0.290%	1.74x
70	Taylor	103	0.290%	0.46x
71	Moffat	102	0.290%	15.92x
72	Oliver	100	0.280%	3.96x
73	Cairns	98	0.280%	12.81x
74	Lothian	96	0.270%	119.51x
75	Logan	94	0.270%	11.20x
76	Blackie	93	0.260%	64.11x
77	Paxton	93	0.260%	32.97x
78	Yule	90	0.250%	50.79x
79	Middlemiss	89	0.250%	106.27x
80	Burgon	87	0.250%	188.84x
81	Edgar	87	0.250%	15.97x
82	Gillies	87	0.250%	17.20x
83	Kinghorn	87	0.250%	85.14x
84	Bruce	85	0.240%	5.13x
85	Mitchell	84	0.240%	1.17x
86	Ferguson	82	0.230%	3.27x
87	Hamilton	82	0.230%	3.09x
88	Veitch	82	0.230%	35.16x
89	Wightman	82	0.230%	35.25x
90	Crombie	80	0.230%	40.31x
91	Elliot	78	0.220%	8.64x
92	Windram	77	0.220%	392.66x
93	Fortune	76	0.210%	41.11x
94	Guthrie	76	0.210%	17.05x
95	Lindsay	76	0.210%	6.59x
96	Grieve	74	0.210%	18.05x
97	Hope	74	0.210%	6.15x
98	Thorburn	74	0.210%	36.23x
99	Lawrie	73	0.210%	21.55x
100	Brunton	72	0.200%	25.90x