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 Bernard, with 24 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
201	Bernard	24	0.090%	21.80x
202	Brand	24	0.090%	6.11x
203	Cowan	24	0.090%	4.43x
204	Jack	24	0.090%	4.25x
205	Logan	24	0.090%	3.81x
206	Reddie	24	0.090%	129.94x
207	Stobie	24	0.090%	61.43x
208	Terris	24	0.090%	193.08x
209	Wyse	24	0.090%	77.67x
210	Blackwood	23	0.090%	14.84x
211	Dowie	23	0.090%	35.88x
212	Dudgeon	23	0.090%	41.51x
213	Hempseed	23	0.090%	239.83x
214	Livingston	23	0.090%	9.63x
215	Love	23	0.090%	3.65x
216	Murdoch	23	0.090%	5.09x
217	Ogilvie	23	0.090%	8.94x
218	Petrie	23	0.090%	7.28x
219	Carnegie	22	0.080%	25.21x
220	Danks	22	0.080%	19.00x
221	Duncanson	22	0.080%	42.87x
222	Finlay	22	0.080%	8.06x
223	Halden	22	0.080%	92.13x
224	Litster	22	0.080%	92.13x
225	Veitch	22	0.080%	12.55x
226	Watters	22	0.080%	25.94x
227	Kilgour	21	0.080%	21.46x
228	Nicolson	21	0.080%	6.84x
229	Philip	21	0.080%	11.84x
230	Steedman	21	0.080%	30.59x
231	Stronach	21	0.080%	46.93x
232	Cairns	20	0.080%	3.48x
233	Dalrymple	20	0.080%	17.27x
234	Dryburgh	20	0.080%	31.99x
235	Duff	20	0.080%	4.23x
236	Gibbons	20	0.080%	2.34x
237	Mackie	20	0.080%	3.52x
238	Pitcairn	20	0.080%	90.46x
239	Robb	20	0.080%	4.35x
240	Roy	20	0.080%	8.27x
241	Templeman	20	0.080%	19.47x
242	Archibald	19	0.070%	8.28x
243	Bisset	19	0.070%	9.12x
244	Bryce	19	0.070%	7.14x
245	Honeyman	19	0.070%	21.86x
246	Imrie	19	0.070%	18.27x
247	Lumsden	19	0.070%	8.57x
248	Stuart	19	0.070%	2.99x
249	Urquhart	19	0.070%	5.09x
250	Birnie	18	0.070%	15.90x
251	Dodds	18	0.070%	3.22x
252	Glancy	18	0.070%	57.75x
253	Goodall	18	0.070%	3.16x
254	Somerville	18	0.070%	8.13x
255	Struthers	18	0.070%	15.14x
256	Whitelaw	18	0.070%	11.36x
257	Armour	17	0.060%	10.20x
258	Chisholm	17	0.060%	4.40x
259	Conway	17	0.060%	3.41x
260	Fergus	17	0.060%	35.39x
261	Hain	17	0.060%	46.02x
262	Kinghorn	17	0.060%	22.13x
263	Laing	17	0.060%	3.18x
264	Laurie	17	0.060%	7.44x
265	Nellies	17	0.060%	1005.92x
266	Ness	17	0.060%	14.09x
267	Wellwood	17	0.060%	166.50x
268	Balmain	16	0.060%	99.01x
269	Bardner	16	0.060%	418.85x
270	Condie	16	0.060%	45.39x
271	Dalgleish	16	0.060%	13.39x
272	Herd	16	0.060%	8.19x
273	Rattray	16	0.060%	12.31x
274	Colville	15	0.060%	16.48x
275	Dall	15	0.060%	30.61x
276	Fulton	15	0.060%	4.47x
277	Gorman	15	0.060%	4.68x
278	Kellock	15	0.060%	46.15x
279	Michie	15	0.060%	11.52x
280	Purvis	15	0.060%	5.83x
281	Adie	14	0.050%	24.41x
282	Buist	14	0.050%	26.68x
283	Calder	14	0.050%	3.76x
284	Cunning	14	0.050%	194.71x
285	Haldane	14	0.050%	20.83x
286	Howieson	14	0.050%	42.62x
287	Lamont	14	0.050%	5.92x
288	Main	14	0.050%	3.22x
289	Mathieson	14	0.050%	5.00x
290	Mowbray	14	0.050%	12.65x
291	Nimmo	14	0.050%	11.82x
292	Addie	13	0.050%	43.96x
293	Carstairs	13	0.050%	29.64x
294	Coulter	13	0.050%	9.73x
295	Glen	13	0.050%	4.94x
296	Halley	13	0.050%	13.01x
297	Herdman	13	0.050%	19.42x
298	Hetherington	13	0.050%	3.88x
299	Lennox	13	0.050%	8.24x
300	Louden	13	0.050%	28.27x