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1881 census place

Hownam surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Hownam, Roxburghshire 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

11 surnames are listed for Hownam, Roxburghshire, covering 72 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Fortune, with 11 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Hownam

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.

#SurnameTotalIndex
1Fortune11802.92x
2Meikle11582.01x
3Sinton92571.43x
4Telfer9573.25x
5Huggan72800.00x
6Lauder7507.25x
7Maben75833.33x
8Redshaw5641.03x
9Shiell41904.76x
10Learmonth1232.56x
11Wemyss1277.78x