1881 census place

Dunse surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dunse, 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

141 surnames are listed for Dunse, Berwickshire, covering 1,257 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Pringle, with 46 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dunse

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	Pringle	46	1.37%	87.06x
2	Aitchison	45	1.34%	191.41x
3	Purves	39	1.16%	177.84x
4	Fortune	33	0.980%	188.25x
5	Lamb	32	0.950%	18.08x
6	Patterson	32	0.950%	27.36x
7	Cowe	31	0.920%	342.92x
8	Blackie	28	0.830%	203.49x
9	Cockburn	27	0.800%	63.07x
10	Paxton	27	0.800%	100.93x
11	Brunton	25	0.750%	94.84x
12	Redpath	23	0.690%	147.72x
13	Swan	23	0.690%	26.47x
14	Dods	20	0.600%	356.51x
15	Hastie	18	0.540%	84.75x
16	Newbigging	18	0.540%	636.04x
17	Lauder	17	0.510%	96.43x
18	Pilmer	17	0.510%	2048.19x
19	Blaikie	16	0.480%	396.04x
20	Duns	16	0.480%	1739.13x
21	Gillies	16	0.480%	33.35x
22	Hume	16	0.480%	33.62x
23	Cleghorn	15	0.450%	162.87x
24	Dunbar	15	0.450%	38.91x
25	Menzies	15	0.450%	34.40x
26	Colvin	14	0.420%	120.38x
27	Haggarty	14	0.420%	216.72x
28	Laidlaw	14	0.420%	47.09x
29	Dewar	13	0.390%	29.71x
30	Holywell	13	0.390%	1625.00x
31	Leitch	13	0.390%	40.61x
32	Mack	13	0.390%	38.54x
33	Lawrie	12	0.360%	37.35x
34	Trotter	12	0.360%	34.11x
35	Common	11	0.330%	147.85x
36	Hair	11	0.330%	84.10x
37	Lothian	11	0.330%	144.36x
38	Milliken	11	0.330%	391.46x
39	Stobie	11	0.330%	223.12x
40	Blackhall	10	0.300%	166.11x
41	Brash	10	0.300%	168.63x
42	Kirkaldy	10	0.300%	529.10x
43	Lander	10	0.300%	43.52x
44	Service	10	0.300%	122.85x
45	Swanston	10	0.300%	138.89x
46	Ternent	10	0.300%	446.43x
47	Utterson	10	0.300%	1538.46x
48	Walkinshaw	10	0.300%	262.47x
49	Aikman	9	0.270%	129.87x
50	Ainslie	9	0.270%	101.58x
51	Denholm	9	0.270%	64.06x
52	Gillie	9	0.270%	262.39x
53	Kinghorn	9	0.270%	92.88x
54	Lidgate	9	0.270%	725.81x
55	Lugton	9	0.270%	430.62x
56	Veitch	9	0.270%	40.71x
57	Yule	9	0.270%	53.57x
58	Crombie	8	0.240%	42.51x
59	Curle	8	0.240%	206.19x
60	Dickman	8	0.240%	157.17x
61	Fairbairn	8	0.240%	32.28x
62	More	8	0.240%	30.66x
63	Renton	8	0.240%	38.87x
64	Borthwick	7	0.210%	37.17x
65	Brogan	7	0.210%	61.89x
66	Feeney	7	0.210%	61.46x
67	Gladstone	7	0.210%	77.26x
68	Happer	7	0.210%	1707.32x
69	Landells	7	0.210%	391.06x
70	Rolson	7	0.210%	2333.33x
71	Scouller	7	0.210%	391.06x
72	Edington	6	0.180%	100.33x
73	Fair	6	0.180%	51.06x
74	Gillan	6	0.180%	50.85x
75	Gilson	6	0.180%	57.64x
76	Kellie	6	0.180%	235.29x
77	Whitelaw	6	0.180%	30.00x
78	Airley	5	0.150%	458.72x
79	Cargill	5	0.150%	37.62x
80	Chrystal	5	0.150%	107.99x
81	Dunse	5	0.150%	505.05x
82	Hermiston	5	0.150%	303.03x
83	Lillie	5	0.150%	61.05x
84	Lithgow	5	0.150%	84.32x
85	Shearlaw	5	0.150%	471.70x
86	Shiell	5	0.150%	189.39x
87	Skeldon	5	0.150%	146.63x
88	Coltart	4	0.120%	102.56x
89	Crocket	4	0.120%	92.17x
90	Fee	4	0.120%	70.18x
91	Halliburton	4	0.120%	204.08x
92	Heggie	4	0.120%	43.20x
93	Latta	4	0.120%	95.24x
94	Middlemass	4	0.120%	95.92x
95	Middlemiss	4	0.120%	50.38x
96	Redden	4	0.120%	147.60x
97	Slight	4	0.120%	46.35x
98	Virtue	4	0.120%	110.50x
99	Christison	3	0.090%	54.55x
100	Cossar	3	0.090%	76.34x