1881 census place

Bowden surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Bowden, Roxburghshire 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

30 surnames are listed for Bowden, Roxburghshire, covering 176 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Hume, with 20 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Bowden

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	Hume	20	2.60%	183.15x
2	Hardie	13	1.69%	129.48x
3	Ormiston	12	1.56%	542.99x
4	Redpath	12	1.56%	336.13x
5	Ingles	10	1.30%	429.18x
6	Ainslie	9	1.17%	443.35x
7	Bonnington	9	1.17%	1607.14x
8	Learmonth	9	1.17%	720.00x
9	Sword	9	1.17%	592.11x
10	Galligan	8	1.04%	2222.22x
11	Blaikie	6	0.780%	645.16x
12	Lowrie	6	0.780%	227.27x
13	Minto	6	0.780%	281.69x
14	Aikman	5	0.650%	314.47x
15	Baptie	5	0.650%	793.65x
16	Buckham	5	0.650%	561.80x
17	Madder	5	0.650%	1428.57x
18	Ballingall	3	0.390%	270.27x
19	Carre	3	0.390%	340.91x
20	Conacher	3	0.390%	428.57x
21	Sked	3	0.390%	769.23x
22	Allardyce	2	0.260%	263.16x
23	Brack	2	0.260%	277.78x
24	Brims	2	0.260%	392.16x
25	Chesney	2	0.260%	204.08x
26	Mabon	2	0.260%	215.05x
27	Tinlin	2	0.260%	606.06x
28	Barth	1	0.130%	285.71x
29	Kench	1	0.130%	108.70x
30	Mean	1	0.130%	188.68x