1881 census place

North Leith surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in North Leith, 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

783 surnames are listed for North Leith, Midlothian, covering 10,830 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Wilson, with 320 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in North Leith

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	Wilson	320	1.77%	3.85x
2	Thomson	261	1.44%	10.79x
3	Anderson	257	1.42%	7.18x
4	Robertson	256	1.41%	8.44x
5	Scott	167	0.920%	3.64x
6	Carnie	160	0.880%	514.80x
7	Johnston	158	0.870%	10.81x
8	Liston	153	0.840%	544.10x
9	Sutherland	146	0.810%	16.00x
10	Henderson	131	0.720%	6.65x
11	Young	125	0.690%	3.21x
12	Flucker	120	0.660%	1240.95x
13	Paterson	120	0.660%	9.74x
14	Campbell	119	0.660%	3.88x
15	Ramsay	117	0.650%	25.08x
16	Murray	110	0.610%	4.90x
17	Stewart	97	0.540%	3.42x
18	Reid	96	0.530%	5.05x
19	Noble	95	0.520%	12.63x
20	Ross	94	0.520%	4.75x
21	Rutherford	94	0.520%	21.27x
22	Davidson	77	0.430%	5.06x
23	Williamson	75	0.410%	4.62x
24	Morrison	74	0.410%	5.20x
25	Bruce	70	0.390%	8.25x
26	Gordon	70	0.390%	6.13x
27	Stevenson	67	0.370%	5.27x
28	Allan	66	0.360%	5.80x
29	Linton	66	0.360%	44.36x
30	Hume	62	0.340%	24.13x
31	Alexander	61	0.340%	6.36x
32	Fraser	61	0.340%	3.78x
33	Logan	61	0.340%	14.20x
34	Ritchie	60	0.330%	9.59x
35	Donaldson	58	0.320%	11.23x
36	Lyle	58	0.320%	68.45x
37	Munro	56	0.310%	6.93x
38	Brodie	55	0.300%	22.62x
39	Bain	54	0.300%	12.02x
40	Combe	54	0.300%	131.51x
41	Dalgleish	54	0.300%	66.34x
42	Main	53	0.290%	17.88x
43	Wallace	52	0.290%	4.19x
44	Dryburgh	50	0.280%	117.45x
45	Hutchison	50	0.280%	16.79x
46	Irvine	50	0.280%	12.53x
47	Tulloch	48	0.270%	39.95x
48	Inglis	47	0.260%	15.54x
49	Lawson	47	0.260%	4.40x
50	Mackay	46	0.250%	7.02x
51	Tait	46	0.250%	8.63x
52	Millar	45	0.250%	6.81x
53	Watt	45	0.250%	6.48x
54	Gunn	44	0.240%	9.92x
55	Dick	40	0.220%	9.90x
56	Currie	39	0.220%	7.65x
57	Nisbet	38	0.210%	19.87x
58	Lindsay	36	0.200%	6.10x
59	Jamieson	35	0.190%	6.94x
60	Cowan	34	0.190%	9.20x
61	Douglas	34	0.190%	3.88x
62	Hay	33	0.180%	4.97x
63	Leask	33	0.180%	44.33x
64	Christie	32	0.180%	5.45x
65	Johnstone	32	0.180%	3.91x
66	Patterson	32	0.180%	5.07x
67	Rae	32	0.180%	7.76x
68	Ramsey	32	0.180%	16.26x
69	Guthrie	31	0.170%	13.58x
70	Cormack	30	0.170%	21.91x
71	Muir	30	0.170%	4.33x
72	Orr	30	0.170%	9.83x
73	Dickson	29	0.160%	4.32x
74	Forbes	29	0.160%	4.78x
75	Laurie	29	0.160%	18.64x
76	Liddle	29	0.160%	13.59x
77	Lyall	29	0.160%	23.48x
78	Spence	29	0.160%	4.84x
79	Lawrie	28	0.150%	16.14x
80	Leslie	28	0.150%	9.34x
81	Macdonald	28	0.150%	3.90x
82	Falconer	27	0.150%	12.50x
83	Forsyth	27	0.150%	6.99x
84	Kinghorn	27	0.150%	51.62x
85	Laing	27	0.150%	7.42x
86	Seaton	27	0.150%	17.63x
87	Cairns	26	0.140%	6.64x
88	Galloway	26	0.140%	8.34x
89	Jeffrey	26	0.140%	7.76x
90	Manclark	26	0.140%	355.19x
91	Robb	26	0.140%	8.30x
92	Stenhouse	26	0.140%	34.73x
93	Thom	26	0.140%	16.05x
94	Stark	25	0.140%	10.08x
95	Baird	24	0.130%	6.20x
96	Elder	24	0.130%	12.55x
97	Jarvie	24	0.130%	50.49x
98	Barclay	23	0.130%	6.17x
99	Grieve	23	0.130%	10.96x
100	Petrie	23	0.130%	10.69x