1881 census place

Edinburgh St Cuthberts surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Edinburgh St Cuthberts, 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

3,537 surnames are listed for Edinburgh St Cuthberts, Midlothian, covering 126,778 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 2,109 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Edinburgh St Cuthberts

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	Smith	2,109	1.34%	0.95x
2	Robertson	2,078	1.32%	7.88x
3	Brown	2,031	1.29%	1.96x
4	Thomson	1,904	1.21%	9.05x
5	Wilson	1,830	1.16%	2.53x
6	Anderson	1,767	1.12%	5.68x
7	Scott	1,451	0.920%	3.64x
8	Henderson	1,201	0.760%	7.02x
9	Stewart	1,183	0.750%	4.80x
10	Campbell	1,169	0.740%	4.39x
11	Ross	1,087	0.690%	6.32x
12	Reid	986	0.630%	5.96x
13	Murray	940	0.600%	4.81x
14	Fraser	931	0.590%	6.64x
15	Sutherland	875	0.560%	11.03x
16	Young	870	0.550%	2.57x
17	Watson	850	0.540%	2.33x
18	Paterson	849	0.540%	7.92x
19	Gray	823	0.520%	3.66x
20	Taylor	790	0.500%	0.78x
21	Johnston	764	0.490%	6.01x
22	Dickson	730	0.460%	12.52x
23	Hunter	727	0.460%	4.50x
24	Mitchell	725	0.460%	2.27x
25	Walker	701	0.450%	1.33x
26	Simpson	679	0.430%	2.47x
27	Miller	672	0.430%	2.39x
28	Munro	649	0.410%	9.23x
29	Clark	643	0.410%	1.36x
30	Davidson	635	0.400%	4.80x
31	Bell	602	0.380%	2.03x
32	Grant	592	0.380%	3.79x
33	Cameron	591	0.380%	4.83x
34	Kerr	587	0.370%	6.84x
35	Ferguson	586	0.370%	5.25x
36	Allan	541	0.340%	5.47x
37	Gibson	527	0.330%	2.76x
38	Wood	522	0.330%	1.04x
39	Hay	511	0.320%	8.85x
40	White	511	0.320%	1.01x
41	Mackay	496	0.320%	8.71x
42	Millar	493	0.310%	8.58x
43	Black	482	0.310%	4.73x
44	Graham	482	0.310%	2.67x
45	Douglas	465	0.300%	6.10x
46	Tait	452	0.290%	9.75x
47	Johnstone	443	0.280%	6.22x
48	Muir	439	0.280%	7.29x
49	Martin	438	0.280%	1.13x
50	Alexander	429	0.270%	5.15x
51	Ritchie	426	0.270%	7.83x
52	Marshall	425	0.270%	1.61x
53	Morrison	413	0.260%	3.34x
54	Russell	413	0.260%	2.15x
55	Williamson	412	0.260%	2.92x
56	Gordon	411	0.260%	4.14x
57	Wallace	406	0.260%	3.76x
58	Lawson	389	0.250%	4.19x
59	Watt	386	0.250%	6.39x
60	Hamilton	383	0.240%	3.24x
61	Bain	365	0.230%	9.34x
62	Aitken	364	0.230%	8.81x
63	Forbes	356	0.230%	6.75x
64	Lindsay	354	0.220%	6.90x
65	Bruce	348	0.220%	4.72x
66	Mackenzie	345	0.220%	7.83x
67	Inglis	343	0.220%	13.04x
68	Donaldson	340	0.220%	7.57x
69	Stevenson	338	0.210%	3.06x
70	Macdonald	327	0.210%	5.23x
71	Wright	327	0.210%	0.65x
72	Richardson	314	0.200%	1.17x
73	Turnbull	314	0.200%	4.73x
74	Ramsay	299	0.190%	7.37x
75	Christie	297	0.190%	5.82x
76	Crawford	296	0.190%	3.84x
77	Lawrie	293	0.190%	19.43x
78	Laing	292	0.190%	9.23x
79	Dick	288	0.180%	8.20x
80	Weir	279	0.180%	6.81x
81	Pringle	278	0.180%	11.21x
82	Fleming	274	0.170%	4.19x
83	Forrest	274	0.170%	6.75x
84	Grieve	271	0.170%	14.85x
85	Greig	266	0.170%	10.67x
86	Kennedy	259	0.160%	2.73x
87	Mason	257	0.160%	1.21x
88	Currie	256	0.160%	5.78x
89	Shaw	250	0.160%	0.86x
90	Drummond	249	0.160%	7.96x
91	Chalmers	247	0.160%	6.59x
92	King	246	0.160%	0.72x
93	Nicol	240	0.150%	7.32x
94	Jamieson	238	0.150%	5.43x
95	Wilkie	236	0.150%	10.51x
96	Spence	234	0.150%	4.49x
97	Rutherford	233	0.150%	6.06x
98	Lamb	231	0.150%	2.78x
99	Burns	228	0.140%	2.16x
100	Jack	228	0.140%	6.81x