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 Watt, with 51 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
101	Watt	51	0.190%	5.00x
102	Gillespie	50	0.190%	11.86x
103	Bewick	49	0.180%	65.23x
104	Todd	49	0.180%	3.62x
105	Welsh	49	0.180%	4.65x
106	Dewar	48	0.180%	13.84x
107	Roxburgh	48	0.180%	58.32x
108	Westwood	48	0.180%	10.76x
109	Baxter	47	0.180%	2.97x
110	Finlayson	47	0.180%	15.34x
111	Inches	47	0.180%	326.84x
112	Kay	47	0.180%	3.40x
113	Boag	46	0.170%	59.76x
114	Strachan	46	0.170%	10.03x
115	Arnott	45	0.170%	20.14x
116	Blyth	45	0.170%	10.73x
117	Bower	45	0.170%	9.24x
118	Couper	45	0.170%	37.76x
119	Crombie	45	0.170%	30.17x
120	Johnstone	45	0.170%	3.74x
121	May	45	0.170%	2.66x
122	Wilkie	45	0.170%	11.87x
123	Leitch	44	0.170%	17.34x
124	Nisbet	44	0.170%	15.67x
125	Dobbie	43	0.160%	37.02x
126	Wardlaw	43	0.160%	89.03x
127	Crawford	42	0.160%	3.23x
128	Irvine	41	0.150%	7.00x
129	Low	41	0.150%	7.28x
130	Balfour	40	0.150%	21.60x
131	Davie	40	0.150%	16.33x
132	Gardiner	40	0.150%	5.23x
133	Methven	40	0.150%	65.87x
134	Coventry	39	0.150%	37.00x
135	Neilson	39	0.150%	10.41x
136	Scotland	39	0.150%	51.43x
137	Syme	39	0.150%	39.01x
138	Bowman	38	0.140%	5.47x
139	Cumming	38	0.140%	7.49x
140	Douglas	38	0.140%	2.95x
141	Moir	38	0.140%	10.39x
142	Proudfoot	38	0.140%	32.77x
143	Weir	38	0.140%	5.50x
144	Hodge	37	0.140%	5.52x
145	Lawrie	37	0.140%	14.53x
146	Swan	37	0.140%	5.37x
147	Wishart	37	0.140%	17.76x
148	Arthur	36	0.140%	6.21x
149	Bennet	36	0.140%	9.80x
150	Carmichael	36	0.140%	9.46x
151	Fenton	36	0.140%	6.78x
152	Oswald	36	0.140%	29.46x
153	Rankine	36	0.140%	26.69x
154	Houston	35	0.130%	10.33x
155	Lessells	35	0.130%	656.66x
156	Niven	35	0.130%	18.91x
157	Smart	35	0.130%	2.89x
158	Flockhart	34	0.130%	67.53x
159	Allister	33	0.120%	304.71x
160	Drylie	33	0.120%	509.26x
161	Gilmour	33	0.120%	8.77x
162	Hardie	33	0.120%	9.52x
163	Bowie	32	0.120%	13.81x
164	Bain	31	0.120%	4.70x
165	Dickson	31	0.120%	3.15x
166	Foote	31	0.120%	30.36x
167	Cant	30	0.110%	18.18x
168	Ditchburn	30	0.110%	59.80x
169	Haxton	30	0.110%	76.61x
170	Rolland	30	0.110%	98.78x
171	Rutherford	30	0.110%	4.62x
172	Younger	30	0.110%	20.84x
173	Mercer	29	0.110%	4.16x
174	Pryde	29	0.110%	39.40x
175	Baird	28	0.110%	4.92x
176	Dow	28	0.110%	8.74x
177	Elder	28	0.110%	9.97x
178	Forrester	28	0.110%	7.84x
179	Forsyth	28	0.110%	4.94x
180	Innes	28	0.110%	6.80x
181	Lamond	28	0.110%	30.82x
182	Short	28	0.110%	2.70x
183	Traill	28	0.110%	76.36x
184	Bald	27	0.100%	63.75x
185	Bett	27	0.100%	42.35x
186	Boswell	27	0.100%	10.81x
187	Boyd	27	0.100%	2.89x
188	Eason	27	0.100%	23.70x
189	Gifford	27	0.100%	11.68x
190	Gourlay	27	0.100%	18.32x
191	Meiklejohn	27	0.100%	45.05x
192	Moultrie	27	0.100%	323.74x
193	Arnot	26	0.100%	31.69x
194	Bonnar	26	0.100%	72.12x
195	Currie	26	0.100%	3.47x
196	Melville	26	0.100%	9.26x
197	Adam	25	0.090%	5.47x
198	Cousin	25	0.090%	47.97x
199	Galloway	25	0.090%	5.46x
200	Gibb	25	0.090%	5.32x