1881 census place

Penicuik surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Penicuik, 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

202 surnames are listed for Penicuik, Midlothian, covering 1,933 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thomson, with 188 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Penicuik

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	Thomson	188	3.54%	26.46x
2	Tait	79	1.49%	50.46x
3	Johnston	64	1.20%	14.91x
4	Cairns	53	1.00%	46.08x
5	Veitch	49	0.920%	139.80x
6	Laing	39	0.730%	36.50x
7	Cranston	32	0.600%	148.70x
8	Abernethy	29	0.550%	235.96x
9	Clapperton	29	0.550%	232.00x
10	Hislop	28	0.530%	87.50x
11	Porteous	27	0.510%	76.14x
12	Blair	26	0.490%	18.86x
13	Borrowman	26	0.490%	893.47x
14	Arthur	25	0.470%	21.57x
15	Wilkie	25	0.470%	32.96x
16	Bain	24	0.450%	18.19x
17	Moffat	24	0.450%	24.91x
18	Robb	21	0.390%	22.83x
19	Petrie	20	0.380%	31.65x
20	Purves	20	0.380%	57.52x
21	Ramage	20	0.380%	66.91x
22	Grieve	19	0.360%	30.83x
23	Linton	19	0.360%	43.50x
24	Lamont	18	0.340%	38.06x
25	Menzies	18	0.340%	26.04x
26	Napier	18	0.340%	42.12x
27	Brannan	17	0.320%	47.27x
28	Cleghorn	17	0.320%	116.44x
29	Baillie	16	0.300%	28.99x
30	Smail	16	0.300%	158.42x
31	Cockburn	15	0.280%	22.11x
32	Dickie	15	0.280%	35.95x
33	Ewart	15	0.280%	50.17x
34	France	15	0.280%	18.55x
35	Holgate	15	0.280%	34.01x
36	Ketchen	15	0.280%	753.77x
37	Calder	14	0.260%	18.82x
38	Kirkhope	14	0.260%	471.38x
39	Sneddon	14	0.260%	44.22x
40	Devine	13	0.240%	24.55x
41	Hume	13	0.240%	17.23x
42	Livingston	13	0.240%	27.21x
43	Myles	13	0.240%	52.19x
44	Peebles	13	0.240%	58.24x
45	Meikle	12	0.230%	31.36x
46	Tolmie	12	0.230%	138.41x
47	Ballantyne	11	0.210%	27.28x
48	Cossar	11	0.210%	176.57x
49	Coutts	11	0.210%	20.50x
50	Denholm	11	0.210%	49.39x
51	Kyle	11	0.210%	37.20x
52	Laidlaw	11	0.210%	23.34x
53	Lawrie	11	0.210%	21.60x
54	Nivison	11	0.210%	564.10x
55	Riddoch	11	0.210%	172.96x
56	Bertram	10	0.190%	39.32x
57	Breslin	10	0.190%	476.19x
58	Cowper	10	0.190%	42.92x
59	Crichton	10	0.190%	22.04x
60	Foulis	10	0.190%	251.26x
61	Haggarty	10	0.190%	97.56x
62	Howison	10	0.190%	312.50x
63	Montague	10	0.190%	37.40x
64	Naysmith	10	0.190%	259.74x
65	Pryde	10	0.190%	67.93x
66	Watters	10	0.190%	58.96x
67	Whitelaw	10	0.190%	31.55x
68	Alice	9	0.170%	1304.35x
69	Archibald	9	0.170%	19.61x
70	Dempster	9	0.170%	24.05x
71	Herriot	9	0.170%	150.00x
72	Laurie	9	0.170%	19.70x
73	Monteith	9	0.170%	63.74x
74	Morahan	9	0.170%	2647.06x
75	Stobbie	9	0.170%	486.49x
76	Crerar	8	0.150%	77.15x
77	Fife	8	0.150%	56.54x
78	Logie	8	0.150%	51.78x
79	Meechan	8	0.150%	150.66x
80	Somerville	8	0.150%	18.07x
81	Sommerville	8	0.150%	38.15x
82	Sword	8	0.150%	75.97x
83	Bee	7	0.130%	23.34x
84	Brass	7	0.130%	69.51x
85	Fortune	7	0.130%	25.19x
86	Glendinning	7	0.130%	34.47x
87	Grier	7	0.130%	90.21x
88	Haliday	7	0.130%	146.44x
89	Keary	7	0.130%	221.52x
90	Keegan	7	0.130%	39.62x
91	Patullo	7	0.130%	283.40x
92	Porterfield	7	0.130%	264.15x
93	Scrimgeour	7	0.130%	85.68x
94	Burges	6	0.110%	45.18x
95	Cowe	6	0.110%	41.87x
96	Greive	6	0.110%	83.68x
97	Inch	6	0.110%	39.66x
98	Jobling	6	0.110%	29.51x
99	Moodie	6	0.110%	24.03x
100	Pettigrew	6	0.110%	23.24x