1881 census place

Dysart surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dysart, 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

350 surnames are listed for Dysart, Fife, covering 6,764 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Orr, with 21 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dysart

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	Orr	21	0.180%	10.70x
102	Suttie	21	0.180%	62.57x
103	Arnot	20	0.170%	55.66x
104	Cowie	20	0.170%	14.15x
105	Michie	20	0.170%	35.08x
106	Nairn	20	0.170%	34.70x
107	Arthur	19	0.160%	7.49x
108	Dick	19	0.160%	7.31x
109	Doig	19	0.160%	27.73x
110	Drummond	19	0.160%	8.21x
111	Inglis	19	0.160%	9.77x
112	Moyes	19	0.160%	38.02x
113	Pringle	19	0.160%	10.36x
114	Bogie	18	0.150%	113.42x
115	Clunie	18	0.150%	105.20x
116	Colville	18	0.150%	45.16x
117	Craigie	18	0.150%	49.19x
118	Cuthill	18	0.150%	79.12x
119	Dougall	18	0.150%	49.67x
120	Drysdale	18	0.150%	18.28x
121	Leslie	18	0.150%	9.34x
122	Wishart	18	0.150%	19.73x
123	Eddie	17	0.150%	100.71x
124	Givens	17	0.150%	344.13x
125	Kellock	17	0.150%	119.47x
126	Oswald	17	0.150%	31.77x
127	Stark	17	0.150%	10.66x
128	Couper	16	0.140%	30.66x
129	Geddes	16	0.140%	11.46x
130	Leighton	16	0.140%	12.77x
131	Lowrie	16	0.140%	40.10x
132	Dall	15	0.130%	69.86x
133	Matthew	15	0.130%	17.06x
134	Meldrum	15	0.130%	20.45x
135	Pitkethly	15	0.130%	464.40x
136	Rodger	15	0.130%	9.16x
137	Terrace	15	0.130%	323.97x
138	Wyllie	15	0.130%	18.39x
139	Cathcart	14	0.120%	78.26x
140	Downie	14	0.120%	10.25x
141	Farquhar	14	0.120%	15.45x
142	Finlay	14	0.120%	11.71x
143	Haig	14	0.120%	30.59x
144	Hardie	14	0.120%	9.22x
145	Nicoll	14	0.120%	13.23x
146	Petrie	14	0.120%	10.12x
147	Arnott	13	0.110%	13.29x
148	Balfour	13	0.110%	16.03x
149	Dott	13	0.110%	169.71x
150	Forker	13	0.110%	955.88x
151	Mathewson	13	0.110%	46.18x
152	Moodie	13	0.110%	23.77x
153	Moy	13	0.110%	54.90x
154	Bayne	12	0.100%	28.16x
155	Coulter	12	0.100%	20.52x
156	Eadie	12	0.100%	21.79x
157	Watters	12	0.100%	32.31x
158	Begg	11	0.090%	15.53x
159	Dow	11	0.090%	7.84x
160	Keay	11	0.090%	22.13x
161	Malcolm	11	0.090%	7.18x
162	Manners	11	0.090%	19.11x
163	Roger	11	0.090%	27.49x
164	Adie	10	0.090%	39.81x
165	Blackwood	10	0.090%	14.73x
166	Darling	10	0.090%	8.97x
167	Goodson	10	0.090%	17.25x
168	Hepburn	10	0.090%	9.65x
169	Keir	10	0.090%	17.18x
170	Leitch	10	0.090%	9.00x
171	Veitch	10	0.090%	13.03x
172	Archibald	9	0.080%	8.95x
173	Bousie	9	0.080%	335.82x
174	Dorward	9	0.080%	42.31x
175	Gourlay	9	0.080%	13.94x
176	Langlands	9	0.080%	33.16x
177	Madden	9	0.080%	8.94x
178	Millie	9	0.080%	212.26x
179	Shand	9	0.080%	11.25x
180	Spalding	9	0.080%	10.80x
181	Stein	9	0.080%	32.64x
182	Tottenham	9	0.080%	222.77x
183	Angles	8	0.070%	133.56x
184	Bellfield	8	0.070%	69.26x
185	Grinton	8	0.070%	316.21x
186	Halley	8	0.070%	18.29x
187	Hutcheson	8	0.070%	13.38x
188	Hynd	8	0.070%	28.98x
189	Lennie	8	0.070%	31.95x
190	Macfarlane	8	0.070%	12.01x
191	Macgregor	8	0.070%	16.44x
192	Masterton	8	0.070%	21.32x
193	Mathie	8	0.070%	34.00x
194	Peebles	8	0.070%	16.37x
195	Rankine	8	0.070%	13.54x
196	Storrie	8	0.070%	42.69x
197	Venters	8	0.070%	101.39x
198	Wann	8	0.070%	97.09x
199	Bernard	7	0.060%	14.52x
200	Birrel	7	0.060%	114.75x