1881 census place

Coldingham surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Coldingham, 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

124 surnames are listed for Coldingham, Berwickshire, covering 1,312 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Purves, with 75 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Coldingham

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	Purves	75	2.36%	360.75x
2	Rae	58	1.82%	80.06x
3	Thorburn	54	1.70%	294.12x
4	Cowe	48	1.51%	560.09x
5	Nisbet	42	1.32%	125.07x
6	Cockburn	39	1.23%	96.13x
7	Colven	36	1.13%	2903.23x
8	Aitchison	34	1.07%	152.53x
9	Gillies	33	1.04%	72.56x
10	Patterson	31	0.970%	27.96x
11	Dickson	29	0.910%	24.63x
12	Logan	29	0.910%	38.46x
13	Renton	28	0.880%	143.52x
14	Virtue	28	0.880%	816.33x
15	Buglass	26	0.820%	577.78x
16	Chisholm	24	0.750%	51.97x
17	Wightman	23	0.720%	110.00x
18	Brack	22	0.690%	738.26x
19	Hardie	22	0.690%	53.08x
20	Laing	22	0.690%	34.43x
21	Cormack	20	0.630%	83.19x
22	Bertram	17	0.530%	111.77x
23	Fair	17	0.530%	152.60x
24	Lyall	17	0.530%	78.41x
25	Jeffrey	16	0.500%	27.22x
26	Paxton	16	0.500%	63.09x
27	Home	15	0.470%	188.92x
28	Fairbairn	14	0.440%	59.60x
29	Laidlaw	13	0.410%	46.13x
30	Liddle	13	0.410%	34.70x
31	Luke	13	0.410%	42.00x
32	Shearlaw	13	0.410%	1287.13x
33	Cleghorn	12	0.380%	137.46x
34	Gillie	12	0.380%	369.23x
35	Laurie	12	0.380%	43.92x
36	Shiel	12	0.380%	210.53x
37	Fortune	11	0.350%	66.19x
38	Galbraith	11	0.350%	37.83x
39	Greenfield	11	0.350%	31.11x
40	Kinghorn	10	0.310%	108.93x
41	Lawrie	10	0.310%	32.84x
42	Lewins	10	0.310%	362.32x
43	Mack	10	0.310%	31.28x
44	Rea	10	0.310%	55.96x
45	Tunnah	10	0.310%	403.23x
46	Edington	9	0.280%	158.73x
47	Emans	9	0.280%	1058.82x
48	Cossar	8	0.250%	214.48x
49	Crombie	8	0.250%	44.84x
50	Fender	8	0.250%	164.95x
51	Lindores	8	0.250%	476.19x
52	Bolten	7	0.220%	569.11x
53	Carnie	7	0.220%	128.21x
54	Craik	7	0.220%	71.87x
55	Farnie	7	0.220%	1147.54x
56	Weatherly	7	0.220%	175.88x
57	Blackhall	6	0.190%	105.26x
58	Chirnside	6	0.190%	289.86x
59	Darrie	6	0.190%	833.33x
60	Gladstone	6	0.190%	69.85x
61	Kinlock	6	0.190%	600.00x
62	Loraine	6	0.190%	344.83x
63	Skey	6	0.190%	402.68x
64	Aikman	5	0.160%	76.10x
65	Brockie	5	0.160%	130.89x
66	Dalgliesh	5	0.160%	113.64x
67	Dickman	5	0.160%	103.73x
68	Farlie	5	0.160%	657.89x
69	Hewit	5	0.160%	99.01x
70	Lisle	5	0.160%	62.89x
71	Lothian	5	0.160%	69.25x
72	Scoular	5	0.160%	124.07x
73	Tweddle	5	0.160%	45.66x
74	Voy	5	0.160%	714.29x
75	Waterston	5	0.160%	108.46x
76	Yorston	5	0.160%	170.65x
77	Combe	4	0.130%	55.48x
78	Mathewson	4	0.130%	52.02x
79	Ponton	4	0.130%	98.77x
80	Rhind	4	0.130%	52.70x
81	Skeldon	4	0.130%	123.84x
82	Strother	4	0.130%	152.09x
83	Weatherburn	4	0.130%	110.50x
84	Duffie	3	0.090%	137.61x
85	Gradon	3	0.090%	280.37x
86	Hughson	3	0.090%	51.55x
87	Mickle	3	0.090%	146.34x
88	Sandison	3	0.090%	37.50x
89	Baptist	2	0.060%	107.53x
90	Cassels	2	0.060%	34.72x
91	Dippie	2	0.060%	141.84x
92	Hutchieson	2	0.060%	88.89x
93	Kilday	2	0.060%	89.69x
94	Landles	2	0.060%	134.23x
95	Milliken	2	0.060%	74.91x
96	Mossman	2	0.060%	35.09x
97	Rintoul	2	0.060%	27.55x
98	Romanes	2	0.060%	235.29x
99	Sives	2	0.060%	312.50x
100	Stobie	2	0.060%	42.83x