1881 census place

South Leith surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in South 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

1,616 surnames are listed for South Leith, Midlothian, covering 31,047 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 642 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in South 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	Brown	642	1.46%	2.21x
2	Robertson	628	1.43%	8.51x
3	Scott	474	1.08%	4.25x
4	Thomson	471	1.07%	8.00x
5	Anderson	393	0.890%	4.52x
6	Wilson	370	0.840%	1.83x
7	Campbell	325	0.740%	4.36x
8	Stewart	323	0.730%	4.69x
9	Henderson	312	0.710%	6.52x
10	Ross	294	0.670%	6.11x
11	Young	270	0.610%	2.85x
12	Reid	264	0.600%	5.71x
13	Murray	258	0.590%	4.72x
14	Paterson	248	0.560%	8.27x
15	Fraser	244	0.550%	6.22x
16	Watson	242	0.550%	2.37x
17	Dickson	240	0.550%	14.72x
18	Sutherland	211	0.480%	9.51x
19	Mitchell	209	0.470%	2.34x
20	Walker	203	0.460%	1.38x
21	Morrison	189	0.430%	5.46x
22	Clark	187	0.420%	1.41x
23	Allan	178	0.400%	6.44x
24	Johnston	173	0.390%	4.87x
25	Miller	166	0.380%	2.11x
26	White	166	0.380%	1.17x
27	Cameron	165	0.370%	4.82x
28	Gray	164	0.370%	2.61x
29	Hunter	162	0.370%	3.58x
30	Watt	161	0.370%	9.53x
31	Tait	151	0.340%	11.65x
32	Wallace	151	0.340%	5.01x
33	Black	148	0.340%	5.19x
34	Davidson	146	0.330%	3.94x
35	Wright	146	0.330%	1.03x
36	Kerr	144	0.330%	6.00x
37	Graham	143	0.320%	2.83x
38	Bell	138	0.310%	1.67x
39	Muir	137	0.310%	8.13x
40	Gibson	136	0.310%	2.54x
41	Hamilton	135	0.310%	4.09x
42	Grant	134	0.300%	3.07x
43	Munro	131	0.300%	6.66x
44	Ferguson	130	0.300%	4.16x
45	Millar	130	0.300%	8.09x
46	Bruce	129	0.290%	6.25x
47	Simpson	129	0.290%	1.67x
48	Grieve	122	0.280%	23.91x
49	Gordon	121	0.270%	4.36x
50	Hay	117	0.270%	7.24x
51	Aitken	116	0.260%	10.04x
52	Alexander	114	0.260%	4.89x
53	Bain	109	0.250%	9.97x
54	Donaldson	109	0.250%	8.68x
55	Marshall	108	0.250%	1.46x
56	Williamson	107	0.240%	2.71x
57	Turnbull	106	0.240%	5.71x
58	Russell	102	0.230%	1.90x
59	Dick	101	0.230%	10.28x
60	Lindsay	101	0.230%	7.04x
61	Douglas	100	0.230%	4.69x
62	Lawson	100	0.230%	3.85x
63	Kelly	99	0.220%	2.05x
64	Mackay	98	0.220%	6.15x
65	Spence	98	0.220%	6.73x
66	Lawrie	94	0.210%	22.29x
67	Rutherford	92	0.210%	8.56x
68	Stevenson	92	0.210%	2.98x
69	Ritchie	90	0.200%	5.91x
70	Lamb	89	0.200%	3.83x
71	Drummond	88	0.200%	10.05x
72	Hutchison	86	0.200%	11.88x
73	Nicol	86	0.200%	9.38x
74	Moffat	85	0.190%	10.65x
75	Blackie	83	0.190%	45.96x
76	Burns	83	0.190%	2.81x
77	Law	83	0.190%	4.17x
78	Weir	81	0.180%	7.07x
79	Johnstone	80	0.180%	4.02x
80	Mason	80	0.180%	1.35x
81	Gunn	79	0.180%	7.33x
82	Dalgleish	78	0.180%	39.41x
83	Welsh	76	0.170%	4.36x
84	Logan	75	0.170%	7.18x
85	Buchan	74	0.170%	13.00x
86	Buchanan	74	0.170%	6.50x
87	Cowan	74	0.170%	8.24x
88	Crawford	73	0.170%	3.39x
89	Currie	73	0.170%	5.89x
90	Calder	72	0.160%	11.69x
91	Hume	72	0.160%	11.53x
92	Hardie	71	0.160%	12.37x
93	Laing	71	0.160%	8.02x
94	Jamieson	70	0.160%	5.71x
95	Barclay	69	0.160%	7.61x
96	Stark	69	0.160%	11.44x
97	Inglis	67	0.150%	9.11x
98	Morton	67	0.150%	2.85x
99	Nisbet	66	0.150%	14.19x
100	Webster	66	0.150%	1.72x