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 Hope, with 129 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
201	Hope	129	0.080%	2.41x
202	Murdoch	129	0.080%	4.82x
203	Nicholson	129	0.080%	1.15x
204	Dow	128	0.080%	6.75x
205	Finlayson	127	0.080%	7.00x
206	Hislop	127	0.080%	13.41x
207	Morton	127	0.080%	1.51x
208	Noble	127	0.080%	1.94x
209	Ramage	127	0.080%	14.35x
210	Gillespie	126	0.080%	5.05x
211	Macpherson	126	0.080%	12.36x
212	Paul	126	0.080%	3.20x
213	Smart	126	0.080%	1.76x
214	Muirhead	125	0.080%	10.29x
215	Burnett	124	0.080%	2.85x
216	Gillies	124	0.080%	5.51x
217	Sanderson	124	0.080%	1.91x
218	Napier	123	0.080%	9.72x
219	Kirkwood	121	0.080%	8.50x
220	Laurie	121	0.080%	8.94x
221	Pearson	119	0.080%	0.65x
222	Fairbairn	118	0.070%	10.15x
223	Welsh	118	0.070%	1.89x
224	Balfour	117	0.070%	10.67x
225	Blackie	117	0.070%	18.12x
226	Carmichael	117	0.070%	5.19x
227	Melville	117	0.070%	7.04x
228	Leslie	116	0.070%	4.45x
229	Philip	116	0.070%	11.04x
230	Whitelaw	116	0.070%	12.36x
231	Banks	115	0.070%	1.42x
232	Bryce	115	0.070%	7.30x
233	Cook	115	0.070%	0.37x
234	Dodds	115	0.070%	3.47x
235	Geddes	115	0.070%	6.09x
236	Horsburgh	115	0.070%	29.60x
237	Lauder	114	0.070%	13.78x
238	Rodger	114	0.070%	5.15x
239	Lees	112	0.070%	1.60x
240	Mathieson	112	0.070%	6.75x
241	Melrose	112	0.070%	18.35x
242	Bisset	111	0.070%	9.00x
243	Cormack	111	0.070%	9.33x
244	Drysdale	111	0.070%	8.34x
245	Darling	110	0.070%	7.30x
246	Bennet	109	0.070%	5.01x
247	Brunton	109	0.070%	8.81x
248	Macgregor	109	0.070%	16.57x
249	Marr	109	0.070%	6.07x
250	Meikle	109	0.070%	9.62x
251	Ogilvie	109	0.070%	7.16x
252	Cowie	108	0.070%	5.65x
253	Downie	108	0.070%	5.85x
254	Stark	108	0.070%	5.01x
255	Begbie	107	0.070%	44.05x
256	Waugh	106	0.070%	4.94x
257	Kemp	105	0.070%	1.20x
258	Mill	105	0.070%	11.06x
259	Adam	104	0.070%	3.85x
260	Guthrie	104	0.070%	5.24x
261	Stenhouse	103	0.070%	15.82x
262	Beveridge	102	0.060%	6.22x
263	Ferrier	102	0.060%	11.14x
264	Jardine	102	0.060%	6.95x
265	Borthwick	101	0.060%	11.43x
266	Nelson	101	0.060%	1.32x
267	Farquharson	100	0.060%	11.23x
268	Angus	99	0.060%	4.39x
269	Finlay	99	0.060%	6.13x
270	Gow	99	0.060%	7.96x
271	Renton	99	0.060%	10.25x
272	Tweedie	99	0.060%	16.30x
273	Glass	98	0.060%	6.01x
274	Leitch	98	0.060%	6.52x
275	Little	98	0.060%	1.32x
276	Lyall	98	0.060%	9.13x
277	Shiels	98	0.060%	26.44x
278	Skinner	98	0.060%	1.23x
279	Crombie	97	0.060%	10.98x
280	Dobson	97	0.060%	1.40x
281	Dunlop	97	0.060%	3.82x
282	Petrie	97	0.060%	5.18x
283	Kidd	96	0.060%	3.00x
284	Bremner	95	0.060%	7.02x
285	Sime	95	0.060%	15.06x
286	Bishop	93	0.060%	0.85x
287	Easton	93	0.060%	3.89x
288	Ford	93	0.060%	0.61x
289	Hood	93	0.060%	2.13x
290	Stephen	93	0.060%	3.37x
291	Liddle	92	0.060%	4.96x
292	Lyon	92	0.060%	2.79x
293	Ballantyne	91	0.060%	7.62x
294	Begg	91	0.060%	9.50x
295	Berry	91	0.060%	0.73x
296	Nimmo	91	0.060%	12.97x
297	Halliday	90	0.060%	2.77x
298	Mowat	90	0.060%	8.33x
299	Slater	90	0.060%	0.94x
300	Steedman	90	0.060%	22.15x