1881 census place

Bothkennar surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bothkennar, Stirlingshire 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

111 surnames are listed for Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, covering 1,138 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hunter, with 72 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bothkennar

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	Hunter	72	2.24%	21.80x
2	Rae	64	1.99%	87.35x
3	Laing	53	1.65%	82.03x
4	Laird	51	1.59%	141.27x
5	Penman	38	1.18%	180.61x
6	Waugh	38	1.18%	86.68x
7	Cowan	37	1.15%	56.41x
8	Jarvie	37	1.15%	438.39x
9	Sneddon	34	1.06%	177.55x
10	Leishman	29	0.900%	265.81x
11	Aitken	24	0.750%	28.44x
12	Lindsay	23	0.720%	21.94x
13	Love	22	0.680%	28.86x
14	Stirling	22	0.680%	52.66x
15	Dobbie	21	0.650%	149.47x
16	Hannah	21	0.650%	50.23x
17	Jack	20	0.620%	29.27x
18	Muirhead	20	0.620%	80.61x
19	Harrower	19	0.590%	263.52x
20	Croy	17	0.530%	1089.74x
21	Rennie	17	0.530%	30.27x
22	Caldwell	16	0.500%	31.80x
23	Hardie	16	0.500%	38.17x
24	Kirkwood	16	0.500%	55.04x
25	Ramage	16	0.500%	88.54x
26	Rankine	16	0.500%	98.10x
27	Nisbet	14	0.440%	41.23x
28	Hotchkiss	13	0.400%	169.93x
29	Blackadder	12	0.370%	530.97x
30	Sim	12	0.370%	33.21x
31	Drysdale	11	0.340%	40.46x
32	Ewing	11	0.340%	37.10x
33	Grindlay	10	0.310%	284.90x
34	Sibbald	10	0.310%	116.82x
35	Burk	9	0.280%	77.79x
36	Clelland	9	0.280%	101.35x
37	Duffin	9	0.280%	74.01x
38	Hastie	9	0.280%	44.20x
39	Oliphant	9	0.280%	71.89x
40	Doran	8	0.250%	29.93x
41	Ferrier	8	0.250%	42.76x
42	Haddow	8	0.250%	81.63x
43	Barnetson	7	0.220%	503.60x
44	Hendrie	7	0.220%	88.83x
45	Macgill	7	0.220%	614.04x
46	Pedersen	7	0.220%	921.05x
47	Sime	7	0.220%	54.31x
48	Callender	6	0.190%	91.88x
49	Faill	6	0.190%	576.92x
50	Gavin	6	0.190%	37.74x
51	Gorrie	6	0.190%	87.59x
52	Scobbie	6	0.190%	194.81x
53	Struthers	6	0.190%	41.72x
54	Yeats	6	0.190%	67.57x
55	Binnie	5	0.160%	37.31x
56	Clyne	5	0.160%	114.94x
57	Gormley	5	0.160%	132.98x
58	Howieson	5	0.160%	125.94x
59	Steuart	5	0.160%	268.82x
60	Sweeny	5	0.160%	67.11x
61	Terris	5	0.160%	333.33x
62	Ure	5	0.160%	50.05x
63	Wotherspoon	5	0.160%	48.92x
64	Annan	4	0.120%	88.69x
65	Arbuckle	4	0.120%	58.48x
66	Braes	4	0.120%	571.43x
67	Colvin	4	0.120%	35.87x
68	Durie	4	0.120%	74.21x
69	Fischer	4	0.120%	160.64x
70	Gentle	4	0.120%	37.77x
71	Provan	4	0.120%	62.21x
72	Balderston	3	0.090%	102.39x
73	Clubb	3	0.090%	53.38x
74	Cupples	3	0.090%	434.78x
75	Flannigan	3	0.090%	37.55x
76	Greenhorn	3	0.090%	139.53x
77	Ballingall	2	0.060%	43.20x
78	Brinkman	2	0.060%	129.03x
79	Carlaw	2	0.060%	202.02x
80	Codona	2	0.060%	1052.63x
81	Dollar	2	0.060%	186.92x
82	Haldane	2	0.060%	24.60x
83	Higgen	2	0.060%	714.29x
84	Holdon	2	0.060%	152.67x
85	Kindred	2	0.060%	79.37x
86	Oconner	2	0.060%	63.69x
87	Primrose	2	0.060%	47.62x
88	Ralston	2	0.060%	18.48x
89	Shirra	2	0.060%	108.11x
90	Auchterlonie	1	0.030%	45.25x
91	Binning	1	0.030%	22.03x
92	Bogue	1	0.030%	56.18x
93	Bulloch	1	0.030%	15.55x
94	Cowall	1	0.030%	227.27x
95	Docharty	1	0.030%	45.87x
96	Dun	1	0.030%	28.65x
97	Edmonston	1	0.030%	66.67x
98	Farral	1	0.030%	101.01x
99	Fegan	1	0.030%	26.53x
100	Hamill	1	0.030%	18.18x