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 Cairns, with 37 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
101	Cairns	37	0.140%	6.68x
102	Thom	37	0.140%	16.15x
103	Devlin	36	0.140%	17.16x
104	Lang	36	0.140%	6.30x
105	Mackie	36	0.140%	6.57x
106	Notman	36	0.140%	85.19x
107	Bennet	35	0.140%	9.89x
108	Boyle	35	0.140%	5.27x
109	Cleland	35	0.140%	51.65x
110	Gallacher	35	0.140%	15.84x
111	Hutchison	35	0.140%	8.31x
112	Addie	34	0.130%	119.34x
113	Jaap	34	0.130%	397.20x
114	Love	34	0.130%	5.60x
115	Ritchie	34	0.130%	3.84x
116	Galloway	33	0.130%	7.48x
117	Logan	33	0.130%	5.43x
118	Lynch	33	0.130%	4.88x
119	Wilkie	33	0.130%	9.03x
120	Connelly	32	0.120%	13.45x
121	Gillon	32	0.120%	48.83x
122	Harvie	32	0.120%	38.17x
123	Hendrie	32	0.120%	50.96x
124	Mair	32	0.120%	13.51x
125	Shearer	32	0.120%	9.73x
126	Todd	32	0.120%	2.45x
127	Brownlie	31	0.120%	27.64x
128	Chalmers	31	0.120%	5.08x
129	Drummond	31	0.120%	6.09x
130	Flannigan	31	0.120%	48.70x
131	Lennox	31	0.120%	20.39x
132	Reilly	31	0.120%	11.40x
133	Shanks	31	0.120%	15.91x
134	Keenan	30	0.120%	13.82x
135	Knox	30	0.120%	6.82x
136	Rodger	30	0.120%	8.33x
137	Leckie	29	0.110%	36.10x
138	Patrick	29	0.110%	5.68x
139	Rooney	29	0.110%	12.69x
140	Scobbie	29	0.110%	118.13x
141	Buchanan	28	0.110%	4.23x
142	Frame	28	0.110%	17.22x
143	Hotchkiss	28	0.110%	45.97x
144	Moffat	28	0.110%	6.03x
145	Porteous	27	0.110%	15.80x
146	Stark	27	0.110%	7.70x
147	Sweeney	27	0.110%	7.87x
148	Connor	26	0.100%	3.44x
149	Donnelly	26	0.100%	8.06x
150	Inglis	26	0.100%	6.08x
151	Kirkland	26	0.100%	11.40x
152	Loudon	26	0.100%	35.71x
153	Orr	26	0.100%	6.02x
154	Penman	26	0.100%	15.51x
155	Queen	26	0.100%	24.77x
156	Rennie	26	0.100%	5.81x
157	Sommerville	26	0.100%	25.73x
158	Archibald	25	0.100%	11.30x
159	Barclay	25	0.100%	4.74x
160	Caldwell	25	0.100%	6.24x
161	Eglinton	25	0.100%	126.52x
162	Hay	25	0.100%	2.66x
163	Hendry	25	0.100%	6.16x
164	Jamieson	25	0.100%	3.50x
165	Speirs	25	0.100%	24.96x
166	Baillie	24	0.090%	9.03x
167	Boag	24	0.090%	32.35x
168	Frew	24	0.090%	18.64x
169	Kilpatrick	24	0.090%	18.19x
170	Meiklejohn	24	0.090%	41.56x
171	Milligan	24	0.090%	7.96x
172	Pringle	24	0.090%	5.95x
173	Broadfoot	23	0.090%	37.60x
174	Cairney	23	0.090%	40.06x
175	Currie	23	0.090%	3.19x
176	Fergusson	23	0.090%	17.73x
177	Greig	23	0.090%	5.67x
178	Lilly	23	0.090%	14.75x
179	Naismith	23	0.090%	33.73x
180	Broadley	22	0.090%	12.69x
181	Buchannan	22	0.090%	60.94x
182	Cochrane	22	0.090%	5.54x
183	Downs	22	0.090%	4.83x
184	Greer	22	0.090%	25.56x
185	Lambie	22	0.090%	26.32x
186	Mincher	22	0.090%	115.85x
187	Neil	22	0.090%	6.49x
188	Spiers	22	0.090%	10.43x
189	Stirling	22	0.090%	6.61x
190	Ballantyne	21	0.080%	10.81x
191	Brackenridge	21	0.080%	60.76x
192	Callaghan	21	0.080%	7.24x
193	Carruthers	21	0.080%	6.20x
194	Downie	21	0.080%	6.99x
195	Waugh	21	0.080%	6.01x
196	Bryson	20	0.080%	10.18x
197	Leslie	20	0.080%	4.71x
198	Roy	20	0.080%	8.59x
199	Russel	20	0.080%	11.31x
200	Barrie	19	0.070%	10.28x