1881 census place

Bothwell surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bothwell, Lanarkshire 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

890 surnames are listed for Bothwell, Lanarkshire, covering 15,390 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Anderson, with 217 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bothwell

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	Anderson	217	0.850%	4.29x
2	Russell	217	0.850%	6.94x
3	Clark	212	0.830%	2.75x
4	Thomson	210	0.820%	6.13x
5	Paterson	207	0.810%	11.87x
6	Hamilton	191	0.750%	9.94x
7	Watson	188	0.730%	3.16x
8	Murray	174	0.680%	5.48x
9	Reid	174	0.680%	6.47x
10	Campbell	171	0.670%	3.94x
11	Scott	166	0.650%	2.56x
12	Young	152	0.590%	2.76x
13	Miller	142	0.550%	3.10x
14	Muir	139	0.540%	14.18x
15	Robertson	134	0.520%	3.12x
16	Marshall	130	0.510%	3.03x
17	Murphy	130	0.510%	6.35x
18	Stewart	129	0.500%	3.22x
19	Gray	119	0.460%	3.25x
20	Wallace	117	0.460%	6.67x
21	Graham	115	0.450%	3.91x
22	Kerr	112	0.440%	8.01x
23	Ferguson	109	0.430%	6.00x
24	Stevenson	107	0.420%	5.95x
25	Baird	104	0.410%	18.98x
26	Forrest	102	0.400%	15.44x
27	Bell	101	0.390%	2.10x
28	Millar	98	0.380%	10.48x
29	Hunter	97	0.380%	3.69x
30	Pollock	96	0.370%	25.79x
31	Kelly	93	0.360%	3.31x
32	Henderson	92	0.360%	3.30x
33	Burns	90	0.350%	5.23x
34	Aitken	88	0.340%	13.09x
35	Cowan	86	0.340%	16.46x
36	Barr	83	0.320%	13.40x
37	Black	80	0.310%	4.82x
38	Weir	78	0.300%	11.71x
39	Allan	77	0.300%	4.79x
40	Johnston	76	0.300%	3.68x
41	Grant	75	0.290%	2.95x
42	Jack	74	0.290%	13.59x
43	Ross	74	0.290%	2.64x
44	Alexander	73	0.280%	5.38x
45	Sneddon	73	0.280%	47.85x
46	Maxwell	72	0.280%	11.83x
47	Williamson	72	0.280%	3.13x
48	Crawford	71	0.280%	5.66x
49	Cameron	69	0.270%	3.46x
50	Kennedy	68	0.270%	4.40x
51	Donald	66	0.260%	12.80x
52	Forsyth	66	0.260%	12.07x
53	Morrison	65	0.250%	3.23x
54	Gallocher	64	0.250%	90.34x
55	Gilmour	63	0.250%	17.38x
56	Lindsay	63	0.250%	7.54x
57	Adam	62	0.240%	14.09x
58	Gilchrist	62	0.240%	16.51x
59	Oneil	62	0.240%	24.11x
60	Neilson	60	0.230%	16.61x
61	Watt	60	0.230%	6.11x
62	Smellie	59	0.230%	52.01x
63	Dick	58	0.230%	10.15x
64	Murdoch	58	0.230%	13.33x
65	Laird	56	0.220%	19.47x
66	Morton	56	0.220%	4.09x
67	Cullen	54	0.210%	12.03x
68	Docherty	54	0.210%	14.17x
69	Gardner	54	0.210%	3.10x
70	Park	54	0.210%	6.80x
71	Wotherspoon	54	0.210%	66.30x
72	Blair	52	0.200%	7.83x
73	Donaldson	52	0.200%	7.12x
74	Pettigrew	51	0.200%	41.00x
75	Wyper	51	0.200%	132.47x
76	Boyd	50	0.200%	5.56x
77	Buchan	50	0.200%	15.10x
78	Gillespie	50	0.200%	12.31x
79	Duffy	49	0.190%	8.76x
80	Waddell	48	0.190%	21.11x
81	Dickson	47	0.180%	4.95x
82	Fleming	47	0.180%	4.41x
83	Prentice	45	0.180%	14.92x
84	Douglas	44	0.170%	3.54x
85	Little	44	0.170%	3.63x
86	Law	43	0.170%	3.71x
87	Bryce	42	0.160%	16.38x
88	Goldie	42	0.160%	26.34x
89	Dunlop	41	0.160%	9.93x
90	Johnstone	40	0.160%	3.45x
91	Findlay	39	0.150%	7.35x
92	Kirkwood	39	0.150%	16.84x
93	Mullen	39	0.150%	15.92x
94	Yuill	39	0.150%	71.78x
95	Bruce	38	0.150%	3.17x
96	Meikle	38	0.150%	20.61x
97	Rae	38	0.150%	6.51x
98	Rankin	38	0.150%	9.98x
99	Steven	38	0.150%	19.57x
100	Swan	38	0.150%	5.73x