1881 census place

Cockburnspath surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire 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

45 surnames are listed for Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, covering 329 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Fairbairn, with 82 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cockburnspath

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	Fairbairn	82	7.25%	982.04x
2	Cockburn	26	2.30%	180.18x
3	Glass	17	1.50%	145.30x
4	Trotter	17	1.50%	143.34x
5	Tunnah	16	1.41%	1818.18x
6	Nisbet	15	1.33%	125.63x
7	Renton	14	1.24%	201.73x
8	Purves	13	1.15%	175.91x
9	Grieve	12	1.06%	91.60x
10	Laidlaw	12	1.06%	119.76x
11	Rentoul	10	0.880%	8333.33x
12	Cowe	8	0.710%	262.30x
13	Yule	7	0.620%	123.67x
14	Crosbie	6	0.530%	103.45x
15	Souness	6	0.530%	1875.00x
16	Wight	6	0.530%	103.09x
17	Bald	5	0.440%	277.78x
18	Barbar	5	0.440%	1785.71x
19	Denholm	5	0.440%	105.49x
20	Fergie	5	0.440%	943.40x
21	Skirving	5	0.440%	625.00x
22	Trickett	5	0.440%	101.83x
23	Flyn	4	0.350%	287.77x
24	Aitchinson	2	0.180%	540.54x
25	Aylmer	2	0.180%	270.27x
26	Craib	2	0.180%	143.88x
27	Lough	2	0.180%	99.01x
28	Shillinglaw	2	0.180%	270.27x
29	Virtue	2	0.180%	163.93x
30	Aitcheson	1	0.090%	91.74x
31	Blackadder	1	0.090%	126.58x
32	Christison	1	0.090%	54.05x
33	Comb	1	0.090%	131.58x
34	Cranford	1	0.090%	125.00x
35	Cromwell	1	0.090%	88.50x
36	Edmund	1	0.090%	86.21x
37	Feeny	1	0.090%	175.44x
38	Greenlaw	1	0.090%	131.58x
39	Learmouth	1	0.090%	94.34x
40	Mangan	1	0.090%	89.29x
41	Newbigging	1	0.090%	104.17x
42	Ronaldson	1	0.090%	59.88x
43	Scambler	1	0.090%	163.93x
44	Skeldon	1	0.090%	86.96x
45	Weatherly	1	0.090%	70.42x