1881 census place

Edinburgh Buccleuch surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Edinburgh Buccleuch, Midlothian 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

410 surnames are listed for Edinburgh Buccleuch, Midlothian, covering 3,162 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robertson, with 139 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Edinburgh Buccleuch

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	Robertson	139	1.50%	8.96x
2	Anderson	115	1.24%	6.29x
3	Johnston	74	0.800%	9.91x
4	Aitken	52	0.560%	21.41x
5	Sutherland	47	0.510%	10.08x
6	Munro	44	0.480%	10.65x
7	Hay	38	0.410%	11.19x
8	Dickson	36	0.390%	10.50x
9	Mackay	35	0.380%	10.45x
10	Mackenzie	35	0.380%	13.51x
11	Bruce	32	0.350%	7.38x
12	Muir	32	0.350%	9.03x
13	Veitch	32	0.350%	52.44x
14	Forrest	31	0.330%	12.99x
15	Wishart	30	0.320%	41.37x
16	Irvine	29	0.310%	14.22x
17	Glendinning	27	0.290%	76.36x
18	Ritchie	27	0.290%	8.44x
19	Archibald	26	0.280%	32.54x
20	Tait	25	0.270%	9.17x
21	Cairns	23	0.250%	11.49x
22	Buchanan	22	0.240%	9.19x
23	Finlayson	22	0.240%	20.63x
24	Laidlaw	22	0.240%	26.81x
25	Pringle	22	0.240%	15.09x
26	Macpherson	21	0.230%	35.04x
27	Paton	21	0.230%	10.14x
28	Fairbairn	20	0.220%	29.25x
29	Small	20	0.220%	8.52x
30	Wilkie	20	0.220%	15.15x
31	Falconer	19	0.210%	17.21x
32	Glen	19	0.210%	20.74x
33	Halliday	19	0.210%	9.93x
34	Gregor	18	0.190%	116.43x
35	Lawrie	18	0.190%	20.30x
36	Ramage	18	0.190%	34.60x
37	Dodds	17	0.180%	8.72x
38	Ferrier	17	0.180%	31.57x
39	Gibb	17	0.180%	10.40x
40	Glass	17	0.180%	17.75x
41	Grieve	17	0.180%	15.85x
42	Hardie	17	0.180%	14.09x
43	Moir	17	0.180%	13.35x
44	Whyte	17	0.180%	10.83x
45	Burnet	16	0.170%	47.23x
46	Darling	16	0.170%	18.05x
47	Galloway	16	0.170%	10.03x
48	Greig	16	0.170%	10.92x
49	Main	16	0.170%	10.56x
50	Cormack	15	0.160%	21.43x
51	Cumming	15	0.160%	8.49x
52	Inglis	15	0.160%	9.70x
53	Downie	14	0.150%	12.89x
54	Matheson	14	0.150%	11.06x
55	Winton	14	0.150%	40.32x
56	Chisholm	13	0.140%	9.67x
57	Hume	13	0.140%	9.90x
58	Melville	13	0.140%	13.30x
59	Nicolson	13	0.140%	12.15x
60	Coventry	12	0.130%	32.71x
61	Fairweather	12	0.130%	16.73x
62	Kinnaird	12	0.130%	73.80x
63	Kinnear	12	0.130%	26.71x
64	Nisbet	12	0.130%	12.28x
65	Porteous	12	0.130%	19.44x
66	Sangster	12	0.130%	27.11x
67	Smellie	12	0.130%	29.28x
68	Suttie	12	0.130%	44.98x
69	Affleck	11	0.120%	51.50x
70	Beveridge	11	0.120%	11.42x
71	Brash	11	0.120%	67.28x
72	Curle	11	0.120%	102.80x
73	Durie	11	0.120%	70.88x
74	Farquharson	11	0.120%	21.02x
75	Flett	11	0.120%	27.46x
76	Glasgow	11	0.120%	54.24x
77	Halley	11	0.120%	31.63x
78	Macgregor	11	0.120%	28.45x
79	Napier	11	0.120%	14.78x
80	Purves	11	0.120%	18.17x
81	Steen	11	0.120%	60.94x
82	Binnie	10	0.110%	25.92x
83	Coyle	10	0.110%	15.90x
84	Davie	10	0.110%	11.72x
85	Fitch	10	0.110%	13.81x
86	Grozier	10	0.110%	689.66x
87	Hastie	10	0.110%	17.06x
88	Jardine	10	0.110%	11.59x
89	Lingard	10	0.110%	17.02x
90	Macleod	10	0.110%	7.65x
91	Oliphant	10	0.110%	27.74x
92	Paxton	10	0.110%	13.55x
93	Somerville	10	0.110%	12.98x
94	Tod	10	0.110%	27.74x
95	Aikman	9	0.100%	47.02x
96	Air	9	0.100%	161.00x
97	Balfour	9	0.100%	13.96x
98	Benning	9	0.100%	72.99x
99	Birnie	9	0.100%	22.83x
100	Carstairs	9	0.100%	58.94x