1881 census county

Roxburghshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Roxburghshire 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

1,977 surnames are listed for Roxburghshire, covering 48,353 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Scott, with 2,287 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Roxburghshire

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	2,287	4.32%	17.08x
2	Turnbull	1,170	2.21%	52.46x
3	Wilson	743	1.40%	3.06x
4	Elliot	694	1.31%	51.42x
5	Brown	654	1.24%	1.87x
6	Murray	653	1.23%	9.95x
7	Thomson	613	1.16%	8.67x
8	Oliver	606	1.15%	16.05x
9	Anderson	549	1.04%	5.25x
10	Henderson	508	0.960%	8.83x
11	Bell	501	0.950%	5.04x
12	Rutherford	487	0.920%	37.71x
13	Douglas	484	0.910%	18.88x
14	Smith	444	0.840%	0.59x
15	Davidson	443	0.840%	9.96x
16	Robson	432	0.820%	12.41x
17	Young	400	0.760%	3.52x
18	Robertson	376	0.710%	4.24x
19	Laidlaw	350	0.660%	74.63x
20	Richardson	345	0.650%	3.83x
21	Wood	324	0.610%	1.92x
22	Gray	323	0.610%	4.28x
23	Hall	321	0.610%	2.06x
24	Beattie	303	0.570%	26.75x
25	Tait	301	0.570%	19.32x
26	Dickson	294	0.560%	15.00x
27	Armstrong	293	0.550%	7.24x
28	Little	266	0.500%	10.63x
29	Cairns	263	0.500%	22.98x
30	Stewart	260	0.490%	3.14x
31	Kerr	259	0.490%	8.97x
32	Reid	255	0.480%	4.59x
33	Fairbairn	251	0.470%	64.22x
34	Johnstone	249	0.470%	10.41x
35	Graham	247	0.470%	4.07x
36	Nichol	244	0.460%	42.83x
37	Clark	234	0.440%	1.47x
38	Watson	227	0.430%	1.85x
39	Dodds	226	0.430%	20.29x
40	Paterson	226	0.430%	6.28x
41	Taylor	223	0.420%	0.66x
42	Ballantyne	219	0.410%	54.58x
43	Hardie	216	0.410%	31.31x
44	Miller	216	0.410%	2.28x
45	Walker	214	0.400%	1.21x
46	Patterson	212	0.400%	11.49x
47	Hunter	211	0.400%	3.88x
48	Mitchell	210	0.400%	1.96x
49	Telfer	207	0.390%	65.41x
50	Hope	195	0.370%	10.83x
51	Grieve	194	0.370%	31.64x
52	Rae	190	0.360%	15.76x
53	Thompson	188	0.360%	1.19x
54	Riddell	187	0.350%	42.13x
55	White	181	0.340%	1.06x
56	Allan	180	0.340%	5.42x
57	Johnston	179	0.340%	4.19x
58	Simpson	177	0.330%	1.91x
59	Inglis	175	0.330%	19.80x
60	Ferguson	173	0.330%	4.61x
61	Wright	170	0.320%	1.00x
62	Pringle	169	0.320%	20.28x
63	Waugh	167	0.320%	23.15x
64	Chisholm	166	0.310%	21.60x
65	Campbell	157	0.300%	1.75x
66	Hislop	152	0.290%	47.74x
67	Hume	152	0.290%	20.25x
68	Crozier	150	0.280%	60.38x
69	Lamb	150	0.280%	5.37x
70	Huggan	149	0.280%	294.87x
71	Kennedy	149	0.280%	4.67x
72	Millar	146	0.280%	7.56x
73	Wight	146	0.280%	53.62x
74	Waldie	145	0.270%	127.82x
75	Purves	143	0.270%	41.33x
76	Moffat	138	0.260%	14.40x
77	Cowan	135	0.260%	12.51x
78	Currie	133	0.250%	8.93x
79	Aitchison	130	0.250%	35.05x
80	Jeffrey	130	0.250%	13.29x
81	Jardine	129	0.240%	26.16x
82	Easton	128	0.240%	15.95x
83	Irvine	124	0.230%	10.64x
84	Renwick	124	0.230%	34.35x
85	Gibson	122	0.230%	1.90x
86	Ormiston	121	0.230%	79.54x
87	Cockburn	116	0.220%	17.18x
88	Knox	116	0.220%	12.77x
89	Turner	115	0.220%	0.78x
90	Halliday	113	0.210%	10.33x
91	Aitken	112	0.210%	8.07x
92	Welsh	109	0.210%	5.20x
93	Lauder	106	0.200%	38.11x
94	Hamilton	105	0.200%	2.65x
95	Fox	104	0.200%	2.12x
96	Minto	104	0.200%	70.91x
97	Wallace	104	0.200%	2.87x
98	Hay	103	0.190%	5.31x
99	Jackson	102	0.190%	0.69x
100	Haig	101	0.190%	48.56x