1881 census place

Inveresk surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Inveresk, 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

404 surnames are listed for Inveresk, Midlothian, covering 4,756 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Millar, with 123 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Inveresk

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	Millar	123	1.16%	31.80x
2	Gibson	103	0.970%	8.01x
3	Ritchie	102	0.960%	27.86x
4	Moffat	95	0.900%	49.49x
5	Archibald	89	0.840%	97.31x
6	Thomson	88	0.830%	6.22x
7	Henderson	85	0.800%	7.38x
8	Hamilton	82	0.770%	10.32x
9	Langlands	75	0.710%	303.64x
10	Williamson	75	0.710%	7.90x
11	Gray	71	0.670%	4.69x
12	Gordon	65	0.610%	9.73x
13	Ferguson	61	0.580%	8.12x
14	Paterson	61	0.580%	8.46x
15	Currie	59	0.560%	19.79x
16	Innes	56	0.530%	34.13x
17	Black	55	0.520%	8.02x
18	Dickson	55	0.520%	14.02x
19	Allan	51	0.480%	7.67x
20	Thorburn	51	0.480%	83.37x
21	Inglis	47	0.440%	26.56x
22	Kerr	47	0.440%	8.13x
23	Rutherford	46	0.430%	17.79x
24	Whitelaw	45	0.420%	71.25x
25	Banks	43	0.410%	7.91x
26	Muir	42	0.400%	10.36x
27	Cairns	38	0.360%	16.58x
28	Flynn	38	0.360%	18.74x
29	Smart	38	0.360%	7.88x
30	Tait	38	0.360%	12.18x
31	Logan	35	0.330%	13.93x
32	Bisset	33	0.310%	39.74x
33	Fairnie	31	0.290%	1390.13x
34	Johnstone	31	0.290%	6.47x
35	Hardie	30	0.280%	21.72x
36	Jamieson	30	0.280%	10.17x
37	Kinghorn	30	0.280%	98.04x
38	Telfer	30	0.280%	47.34x
39	Aitken	29	0.270%	10.43x
40	Penman	29	0.270%	41.84x
41	Purves	29	0.270%	41.86x
42	Hay	28	0.260%	7.21x
43	Cowan	27	0.250%	12.49x
44	Montgomery	27	0.250%	16.06x
45	Park	27	0.250%	8.22x
46	Caird	25	0.240%	116.01x
47	Ramsay	24	0.230%	8.79x
48	Falconer	23	0.220%	18.20x
49	Naysmith	23	0.220%	299.48x
50	Bain	22	0.210%	8.37x
51	Bourhill	22	0.210%	1073.17x
52	Dewar	22	0.210%	15.92x
53	Ogilvie	22	0.210%	21.46x
54	Selkirk	22	0.210%	111.06x
55	Finlayson	21	0.200%	17.20x
56	Herriot	21	0.200%	175.59x
57	Rodger	21	0.200%	14.10x
58	Baillie	20	0.190%	18.19x
59	Leslie	20	0.190%	11.40x
60	Sandilands	20	0.190%	85.65x
61	Fairgrieve	19	0.180%	116.71x
62	Greenhill	19	0.180%	41.50x
63	Howie	19	0.180%	18.28x
64	Pryde	19	0.180%	64.78x
65	Combe	18	0.170%	74.94x
66	Downie	18	0.170%	14.48x
67	Drummond	18	0.170%	8.55x
68	Dudgeon	18	0.170%	81.52x
69	Grieve	18	0.170%	14.66x
70	Murdoch	18	0.170%	10.00x
71	Ronald	18	0.170%	47.63x
72	Cullen	17	0.160%	9.16x
73	Dennison	17	0.160%	20.75x
74	Hastie	17	0.160%	25.34x
75	Mackinlay	17	0.160%	251.48x
76	Moir	17	0.160%	11.66x
77	Fernie	16	0.150%	50.58x
78	Hickman	16	0.150%	8.98x
79	Laing	16	0.150%	7.52x
80	Neilson	16	0.150%	10.71x
81	Peden	16	0.150%	74.77x
82	Porteous	16	0.150%	22.64x
83	Stocks	16	0.150%	13.88x
84	Dunbar	15	0.140%	12.32x
85	Galloway	15	0.140%	8.22x
86	Gilchrist	15	0.140%	9.66x
87	Leitch	15	0.140%	14.84x
88	Liddle	15	0.140%	12.02x
89	Menzies	15	0.140%	10.89x
90	Middlemass	15	0.140%	113.98x
91	Rooney	15	0.140%	15.87x
92	Begbie	14	0.130%	85.63x
93	Dobie	14	0.130%	39.53x
94	Gilroy	14	0.130%	32.60x
95	Leishman	14	0.130%	38.94x
96	Primrose	14	0.130%	101.23x
97	Sommerville	14	0.130%	33.50x
98	Swanson	14	0.130%	18.04x
99	Vass	14	0.130%	38.94x
100	Wilkie	14	0.130%	9.26x