1881 census place
Edrom surnames in the 1881 census
This page ranks surnames recorded in Edrom, 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
70 surnames are listed for Edrom, Berwickshire, covering 519 people in the local records.
The leading surname here is Patterson, with 50 people recorded in 1881.
Most common surnames in Edrom
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 | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patterson | 50 | 94.66x |
| 2 | Renton | 48 | 516.68x |
| 3 | Purves | 28 | 282.54x |
| 4 | Ainslie | 18 | 450.00x |
| 5 | Darling | 17 | 117.16x |
| 6 | Lunn | 17 | 86.73x |
| 7 | Shearlaw | 13 | 2708.33x |
| 8 | Aitchison | 12 | 112.99x |
| 9 | Fairbairn | 11 | 98.30x |
| 10 | Jeffray | 11 | 1358.02x |
| 11 | Glendining | 10 | 1408.45x |
| 12 | Mabon | 10 | 549.45x |
| 13 | Mack | 10 | 65.66x |
| 14 | Skeen | 10 | 719.42x |
| 15 | Brogan | 9 | 176.13x |
| 16 | Carnegie | 9 | 181.09x |
| 17 | Crosbie | 9 | 115.68x |
| 18 | Gillie | 9 | 580.65x |
| 19 | Dignan | 8 | 909.09x |
| 20 | Fairley | 8 | 107.82x |
| 21 | Govan | 8 | 289.86x |
| 22 | Blackhall | 7 | 257.35x |
| 23 | Burnside | 7 | 131.83x |
| 24 | Common | 7 | 208.33x |
| 25 | Cowe | 7 | 171.57x |
| 26 | Fortune | 7 | 88.38x |
| 27 | Kinghorn | 7 | 159.82x |
| 28 | Voy | 7 | 2121.21x |
| 29 | Whitecross | 7 | 376.34x |
| 30 | Brydon | 6 | 125.79x |
| 31 | Buglass | 6 | 280.37x |
| 32 | Carss | 6 | 833.33x |
| 33 | Dunse | 6 | 1333.33x |
| 34 | Grosset | 6 | 967.74x |
| 35 | Lyal | 6 | 2068.97x |
| 36 | Monro | 6 | 190.48x |
| 37 | Turnball | 6 | 1276.60x |
| 38 | Ballantine | 5 | 107.76x |
| 39 | Bowmaker | 5 | 568.18x |
| 40 | Haig | 5 | 84.03x |
| 41 | Home | 5 | 132.28x |
| 42 | Hush | 5 | 431.03x |
| 43 | Redden | 5 | 409.84x |
| 44 | Straiton | 5 | 537.63x |
| 45 | Wilkson | 5 | 1063.83x |
| 46 | Colvin | 4 | 76.19x |
| 47 | Heatlie | 4 | 800.00x |
| 48 | Middlemass | 4 | 212.77x |
| 49 | Swinton | 4 | 128.21x |
| 50 | Yorston | 4 | 285.71x |
| 51 | Braidwood | 3 | 138.25x |
| 52 | Hilson | 3 | 193.55x |
| 53 | Jamison | 3 | 99.34x |
| 54 | Bogue | 2 | 238.10x |
| 55 | Bookless | 2 | 240.96x |
| 56 | Cossar | 2 | 112.36x |
| 57 | Dods | 2 | 79.05x |
| 58 | Blaikie | 1 | 54.64x |
| 59 | Cabb | 1 | 1428.57x |
| 60 | Colins | 1 | 131.58x |
| 61 | Cuningham | 1 | 92.59x |
| 62 | Herriot | 1 | 58.48x |
| 63 | Hillin | 1 | 384.62x |
| 64 | Middlemas | 1 | 41.84x |
| 65 | Proven | 1 | 135.14x |
| 66 | Robeson | 1 | 93.46x |
| 67 | Sligh | 1 | 454.55x |
| 68 | Slorach | 1 | 181.82x |
| 69 | Straton | 1 | 192.31x |
| 70 | Whitlaw | 1 | 135.14x |