1881 census place

Galashiels surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Galashiels, Selkirkshire 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

357 surnames are listed for Galashiels, Selkirkshire, covering 5,151 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Scott, with 290 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Galashiels

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	Scott	290	2.97%	11.73x
2	Thomson	123	1.26%	9.42x
3	Murray	122	1.25%	10.07x
4	Tait	103	1.05%	35.80x
5	Sanderson	96	0.980%	23.78x
6	Douglas	94	0.960%	19.86x
7	Ballantyne	79	0.810%	106.61x
8	Melrose	79	0.810%	208.55x
9	Henderson	74	0.760%	6.97x
10	Pringle	73	0.750%	47.43x
11	Lees	67	0.690%	15.47x
12	Johnston	64	0.660%	8.12x
13	Hogarth	57	0.580%	88.41x
14	Paterson	56	0.570%	8.42x
15	Currie	53	0.540%	19.27x
16	Davidson	53	0.540%	6.45x
17	Welsh	51	0.520%	13.18x
18	Turnbull	49	0.500%	11.90x
19	Brownlee	47	0.480%	139.18x
20	Clapperton	47	0.480%	204.61x
21	Hume	47	0.480%	33.91x
22	Leitch	47	0.480%	50.42x
23	Hay	45	0.460%	12.56x
24	Johnstone	45	0.460%	10.19x
25	Rae	44	0.450%	19.77x
26	Dalgleish	43	0.440%	97.91x
27	Dickson	43	0.440%	11.89x
28	Hardie	43	0.440%	33.76x
29	Dobson	42	0.430%	9.74x
30	Laidlaw	42	0.430%	48.50x
31	Little	42	0.430%	9.09x
32	Kerr	41	0.420%	7.69x
33	Heard	40	0.410%	38.51x
34	Cochrane	39	0.400%	25.77x
35	Mercer	39	0.400%	15.21x
36	Allan	38	0.390%	6.19x
37	Donaldson	38	0.390%	13.64x
38	Grieve	38	0.390%	33.57x
39	Millar	37	0.380%	10.37x
40	Thorburn	37	0.380%	65.59x
41	Boyd	35	0.360%	10.21x
42	Redpath	35	0.360%	77.18x
43	Cockburn	34	0.350%	27.27x
44	Cairns	33	0.340%	15.62x
45	Hope	33	0.340%	9.92x
46	Laurie	33	0.340%	39.31x
47	Brydon	30	0.310%	97.62x
48	Crosbie	30	0.310%	59.82x
49	Hislop	30	0.310%	51.03x
50	Dodds	29	0.300%	14.10x
51	Inglis	29	0.300%	17.77x
52	Renwick	28	0.290%	42.00x
53	Darling	27	0.280%	28.86x
54	Haldane	27	0.280%	109.31x
55	Mack	27	0.280%	27.48x
56	Rankin	27	0.280%	18.60x
57	Irvine	26	0.270%	12.08x
58	Fairgrieve	25	0.260%	166.56x
59	Shiels	24	0.250%	104.35x
60	Temple	24	0.250%	18.71x
61	Chisholm	23	0.240%	16.21x
62	Keddie	23	0.240%	78.69x
63	Fairbairn	22	0.230%	30.48x
64	Forsyth	22	0.230%	10.55x
65	Liddle	22	0.230%	19.11x
66	Nisbet	22	0.230%	21.32x
67	Smail	22	0.230%	118.53x
68	Brunton	21	0.210%	27.35x
69	Litster	21	0.210%	239.18x
70	Curran	20	0.200%	24.44x
71	Messer	19	0.190%	66.32x
72	Riddle	19	0.190%	23.43x
73	Small	19	0.190%	7.66x
74	Aitchison	18	0.180%	26.29x
75	Gladstone	18	0.180%	68.21x
76	Lauder	18	0.180%	35.05x
77	Stenhouse	18	0.180%	44.57x
78	Lillie	17	0.170%	71.28x
79	Mabon	17	0.170%	144.80x
80	Newlands	17	0.170%	43.06x
81	Bertram	16	0.160%	34.25x
82	Broad	16	0.160%	12.88x
83	Burrell	16	0.160%	12.57x
84	Deans	16	0.160%	24.15x
85	Lunn	16	0.160%	12.66x
86	Whyte	16	0.160%	9.66x
87	Aikman	15	0.150%	74.26x
88	Maclachlan	15	0.150%	165.93x
89	Middlemass	15	0.150%	123.56x
90	Stalker	15	0.150%	31.19x
91	Swanston	15	0.150%	71.50x
92	Tweedie	15	0.150%	39.81x
93	Waldie	15	0.150%	71.60x
94	Younger	15	0.150%	28.36x
95	Yule	15	0.150%	30.65x
96	Blyth	14	0.140%	9.09x
97	Mathieson	14	0.140%	13.60x
98	Moir	14	0.140%	10.42x
99	Moodie	14	0.140%	30.52x
100	Ormiston	14	0.140%	49.84x