1881 census place

Abbotshall surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Abbotshall, Fife 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

241 surnames are listed for Abbotshall, Fife, covering 2,841 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Henderson, with 111 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Abbotshall

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	Henderson	111	1.72%	15.80x
2	Chalmers	75	1.16%	48.76x
3	Gourlay	73	1.13%	203.80x
4	Black	65	1.01%	15.53x
5	Page	64	0.990%	12.39x
6	Paterson	57	0.880%	12.96x
7	Wallace	50	0.770%	11.30x
8	Wishart	50	0.770%	98.78x
9	Elder	48	0.740%	70.33x
10	Bain	39	0.600%	24.32x
11	Baillie	37	0.570%	55.17x
12	Nicol	36	0.560%	26.76x
13	Balfour	35	0.540%	77.76x
14	Leslie	35	0.540%	32.72x
15	Cairns	33	0.510%	23.61x
16	Irvine	31	0.480%	21.77x
17	Kilgour	30	0.460%	126.16x
18	Hepburn	29	0.450%	50.45x
19	Stark	29	0.450%	32.77x
20	Mackie	28	0.430%	20.27x
21	Ramsay	28	0.430%	16.82x
22	Barclay	26	0.400%	19.55x
23	Lockhart	26	0.400%	57.76x
24	Birrell	25	0.390%	79.37x
25	Melville	25	0.390%	36.64x
26	Moyes	25	0.390%	90.16x
27	Rodger	25	0.390%	27.52x
28	Leitch	24	0.370%	38.93x
29	Aitken	23	0.360%	13.56x
30	Arnott	23	0.360%	42.37x
31	Swan	23	0.360%	13.74x
32	Westwater	23	0.360%	273.48x
33	Archibald	22	0.340%	39.44x
34	Crichton	22	0.340%	39.91x
35	Drummond	22	0.340%	17.13x
36	Beveridge	21	0.330%	31.22x
37	Dryburgh	21	0.330%	138.25x
38	Robb	21	0.330%	18.79x
39	Forrester	20	0.310%	23.06x
40	Herd	20	0.310%	42.15x
41	Kinnear	20	0.310%	63.80x
42	Buist	19	0.290%	149.02x
43	Dick	19	0.290%	13.18x
44	Downie	19	0.290%	25.07x
45	Heggie	19	0.290%	106.50x
46	Honeyman	19	0.290%	89.96x
47	Ness	19	0.290%	64.80x
48	Blyth	18	0.280%	17.67x
49	Dempster	17	0.260%	37.40x
50	Grieve	17	0.260%	22.71x
51	Mathewson	17	0.260%	108.83x
52	Whyte	17	0.260%	15.52x
53	Colville	16	0.250%	72.33x
54	Gillespie	16	0.250%	15.61x
55	Couper	15	0.230%	51.80x
56	Latto	15	0.230%	196.34x
57	Lumsden	15	0.230%	27.83x
58	Philp	15	0.230%	34.06x
59	Rennie	15	0.230%	13.29x
60	Leishman	14	0.220%	63.87x
61	Levack	14	0.220%	364.58x
62	Rintoul	14	0.220%	94.85x
63	Rough	14	0.220%	95.96x
64	Stoddart	14	0.220%	25.95x
65	Arnot	13	0.200%	65.20x
66	Reekie	13	0.200%	83.44x
67	Russel	13	0.200%	29.16x
68	Speed	13	0.200%	25.04x
69	Ballingall	12	0.190%	129.03x
70	Carrick	12	0.190%	25.82x
71	Crombie	12	0.190%	33.10x
72	Dow	12	0.190%	15.41x
73	Gow	12	0.190%	23.51x
74	Shand	12	0.190%	27.04x
75	Sim	12	0.190%	16.53x
76	Steedman	12	0.190%	71.94x
77	Dand	11	0.170%	205.61x
78	Dowds	11	0.170%	614.53x
79	Easson	11	0.170%	88.07x
80	Glass	11	0.170%	16.45x
81	Hogarth	11	0.170%	25.80x
82	Husband	11	0.170%	29.20x
83	Hutcheson	11	0.170%	33.17x
84	Renton	11	0.170%	27.75x
85	Tod	11	0.170%	43.72x
86	Bonthron	10	0.150%	425.53x
87	Braid	10	0.150%	42.18x
88	Glen	10	0.150%	15.63x
89	Haig	10	0.150%	39.37x
90	Lessels	10	0.150%	383.14x
91	Maiden	10	0.150%	56.31x
92	Malloch	10	0.150%	109.05x
93	Matthew	10	0.150%	20.50x
94	Methven	10	0.150%	67.75x
95	Neilson	10	0.150%	10.98x
96	Norval	10	0.150%	182.48x
97	Punt	10	0.150%	149.48x
98	Ralley	10	0.150%	392.16x
99	Snadden	10	0.150%	377.36x
100	Watters	10	0.150%	48.52x