1881 census county

Dumfriesshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dumfriesshire 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

2,045 surnames are listed for Dumfriesshire, covering 56,726 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Borthwick, with 123 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dumfriesshire

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
101	Borthwick	123	0.190%	33.96x
102	Shankland	123	0.190%	106.89x
103	Patterson	122	0.190%	5.42x
104	Thorburn	121	0.190%	32.48x
105	Boyd	119	0.180%	5.26x
106	Hill	119	0.180%	0.72x
107	Grieve	118	0.180%	15.78x
108	Burgess	115	0.180%	2.57x
109	Swan	113	0.180%	6.76x
110	Inglis	109	0.170%	10.11x
111	Fraser	107	0.170%	1.86x
112	Park	106	0.160%	5.30x
113	Turnbull	106	0.160%	3.90x
114	Marshall	105	0.160%	0.97x
115	Adamson	104	0.160%	6.09x
116	Lorimer	104	0.160%	40.32x
117	Millar	104	0.160%	4.42x
118	Russell	103	0.160%	1.31x
119	Wood	103	0.160%	0.50x
120	Rutherford	102	0.160%	6.48x
121	Geddes	101	0.160%	13.06x
122	Robison	101	0.160%	70.06x
123	Gracie	100	0.160%	74.25x
124	Hall	99	0.150%	0.52x
125	Hastie	99	0.150%	24.23x
126	Porteous	98	0.150%	22.77x
127	Blackstock	97	0.150%	102.07x
128	Baxter	96	0.150%	2.50x
129	Cook	96	0.150%	0.75x
130	Donaldson	96	0.150%	5.22x
131	Baird	93	0.140%	6.74x
132	Duff	91	0.140%	7.92x
133	Ewart	91	0.140%	25.08x
134	Farish	91	0.140%	116.03x
135	Creighton	90	0.140%	35.36x
136	Stevenson	90	0.140%	1.99x
137	Hiddleston	89	0.140%	240.15x
138	Nelson	89	0.140%	2.85x
139	Carson	88	0.140%	12.38x
140	Dalrymple	86	0.130%	30.61x
141	Bryson	85	0.130%	17.18x
142	Gillespie	85	0.130%	8.31x
143	Murdoch	85	0.130%	7.75x
144	Haining	84	0.130%	103.40x
145	Renwick	84	0.130%	19.08x
146	Rome	84	0.130%	66.07x
147	Sharp	84	0.130%	1.56x
148	Chalmers	82	0.130%	5.34x
149	Palmer	82	0.130%	1.08x
150	Shannon	82	0.130%	16.42x
151	Gass	81	0.130%	78.81x
152	Lawson	81	0.130%	2.13x
153	Ritchie	81	0.130%	3.63x
154	Forsyth	80	0.120%	5.81x
155	Nicol	80	0.120%	5.96x
156	Weir	80	0.120%	4.77x
157	Turner	79	0.120%	0.44x
158	King	78	0.120%	0.55x
159	Lockhart	78	0.120%	17.35x
160	Calvert	77	0.120%	5.85x
161	Glencross	77	0.120%	137.97x
162	Kelly	77	0.120%	1.09x
163	Nichol	77	0.120%	11.08x
164	Welsh	77	0.120%	3.01x
165	Fleming	76	0.120%	2.83x
166	Jamieson	76	0.120%	4.23x
167	Gray	75	0.120%	0.81x
168	Aitken	74	0.110%	4.37x
169	Barton	74	0.110%	2.12x
170	Broatch	74	0.110%	213.32x
171	Lindsay	74	0.110%	3.52x
172	Gardiner	73	0.110%	3.94x
173	Irvine	73	0.110%	5.13x
174	Burnie	71	0.110%	89.53x
175	Carmichael	71	0.110%	7.69x
176	Roddick	71	0.110%	149.76x
177	Houston	70	0.110%	8.52x
178	Ballantyne	69	0.110%	14.10x
179	Cameron	69	0.110%	1.38x
180	Hutchison	69	0.110%	6.50x
181	Wightman	69	0.110%	16.26x
182	Easton	68	0.110%	6.95x
183	Morton	68	0.110%	1.97x
184	Barbour	67	0.100%	18.89x
185	Lockerbie	67	0.100%	185.08x
186	Mundell	67	0.100%	74.03x
187	Corrie	66	0.100%	44.98x
188	Cairns	65	0.100%	4.66x
189	Foster	65	0.100%	0.75x
190	Aitchison	64	0.100%	14.15x
191	Austin	64	0.100%	2.03x
192	Copland	64	0.100%	17.71x
193	Muirhead	64	0.100%	12.86x
194	Callander	63	0.100%	47.93x
195	Dempster	62	0.100%	13.66x
196	Sloan	62	0.100%	10.20x
197	Menzies	61	0.090%	7.27x
198	Oliver	61	0.090%	1.33x
199	Burns	60	0.090%	1.38x
200	Dunbar	60	0.090%	8.09x