1881 census place

Dunfermline surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dunfermline, Fife 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

685 surnames are listed for Dunfermline, Fife, covering 20,292 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 595 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dunfermline

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	Wilson	595	2.24%	4.87x
2	Anderson	430	1.62%	8.19x
3	Robertson	383	1.44%	8.60x
4	Thomson	362	1.36%	10.19x
5	Beveridge	348	1.31%	125.74x
6	Brown	334	1.26%	1.91x
7	Hunter	283	1.06%	10.36x
8	Campbell	278	1.05%	6.18x
9	Henderson	254	0.960%	8.79x
10	Allan	243	0.910%	14.56x
11	Simpson	236	0.890%	5.07x
12	Hynd	229	0.860%	363.26x
13	Adamson	228	0.860%	32.41x
14	Watson	215	0.810%	3.49x
15	Young	215	0.810%	3.76x
16	Morris	210	0.790%	3.55x
17	Paterson	208	0.780%	11.49x
18	Stewart	205	0.770%	4.93x
19	Russell	200	0.750%	6.16x
20	Philp	198	0.740%	109.25x
21	Reid	189	0.710%	6.77x
22	Black	187	0.700%	10.86x
23	Hutton	166	0.620%	20.90x
24	Mitchell	154	0.580%	2.85x
25	Johnston	152	0.570%	7.08x
26	Burt	146	0.550%	23.12x
27	Clark	144	0.540%	1.80x
28	Drysdale	142	0.530%	63.16x
29	Marshall	141	0.530%	3.16x
30	Ferguson	135	0.510%	7.16x
31	Penman	133	0.500%	76.46x
32	Cook	129	0.490%	2.44x
33	Spence	129	0.490%	14.67x
34	Muir	121	0.460%	11.89x
35	Spowart	119	0.450%	408.65x
36	Morrison	118	0.440%	5.65x
37	Whyte	118	0.440%	26.17x
38	Drummond	113	0.420%	21.38x
39	Dick	110	0.410%	18.55x
40	Nicol	109	0.410%	19.69x
41	Sharp	109	0.410%	4.92x
42	Bell	105	0.390%	2.10x
43	Walls	104	0.390%	32.52x
44	Stenhouse	103	0.390%	93.70x
45	Erskine	102	0.380%	61.99x
46	Keir	101	0.380%	75.98x
47	Hutchison	100	0.380%	22.87x
48	Donaldson	96	0.360%	12.66x
49	Blair	94	0.350%	13.64x
50	Addison	93	0.350%	25.27x
51	Malcolm	93	0.350%	26.60x
52	Ritchie	93	0.350%	10.12x
53	Gibson	91	0.340%	2.82x
54	Stevenson	91	0.340%	4.88x
55	Lawson	90	0.340%	5.74x
56	Rennie	90	0.340%	19.38x
57	Meldrum	89	0.330%	53.14x
58	Moyes	88	0.330%	77.13x
59	Inglis	87	0.330%	19.59x
60	Izatt	87	0.330%	340.24x
61	Graham	86	0.320%	2.82x
62	Gray	86	0.320%	2.27x
63	Williamson	86	0.320%	3.61x
64	Chalmers	85	0.320%	13.43x
65	Christie	84	0.320%	9.74x
66	Downie	84	0.320%	26.93x
67	Paton	84	0.320%	14.12x
68	Sneddon	82	0.310%	51.79x
69	Ross	79	0.300%	2.72x
70	Millar	75	0.280%	7.73x
71	Moodie	74	0.280%	59.28x
72	Donald	73	0.270%	13.64x
73	Lindsay	72	0.270%	8.31x
74	Aitken	71	0.270%	10.18x
75	Ramage	68	0.260%	45.50x
76	Fotheringham	66	0.250%	59.04x
77	Heggie	66	0.250%	89.88x
78	Barclay	65	0.240%	11.88x
79	Birrell	65	0.240%	50.14x
80	Bruce	65	0.240%	5.22x
81	Buchanan	65	0.240%	9.46x
82	Fraser	65	0.240%	2.75x
83	Ramsay	64	0.240%	9.34x
84	Hamilton	62	0.230%	3.11x
85	Hay	61	0.230%	6.25x
86	Greig	60	0.230%	14.26x
87	Hoggan	59	0.220%	154.17x
88	Strang	59	0.220%	49.44x
89	Manclark	58	0.220%	540.04x
90	Davidson	57	0.210%	2.55x
91	Harrower	56	0.210%	93.99x
92	Morton	56	0.210%	3.94x
93	Grieve	55	0.210%	17.85x
94	Masterton	55	0.210%	64.19x
95	Alexander	53	0.200%	3.77x
96	Harley	53	0.200%	15.46x
97	Stark	53	0.200%	14.55x
98	Wallace	53	0.200%	2.91x
99	Horn	51	0.190%	8.44x
100	Kilpatrick	51	0.190%	37.25x