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 Cockburn, with 65 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
101	Cockburn	65	0.150%	11.57x
102	Ramsay	65	0.150%	5.73x
103	Cairns	64	0.150%	6.72x
104	Gillespie	64	0.150%	9.16x
105	Nelson	64	0.150%	3.00x
106	Purves	64	0.150%	22.23x
107	Duff	62	0.140%	7.91x
108	Christie	61	0.140%	4.27x
109	Dodds	61	0.140%	6.58x
110	Falconer	61	0.140%	11.61x
111	Baxter	59	0.130%	2.25x
112	Sanderson	59	0.130%	3.24x
113	Smart	59	0.130%	2.94x
114	Liddle	58	0.130%	11.18x
115	Blair	57	0.130%	4.99x
116	Laidlaw	57	0.130%	14.60x
117	Mackie	57	0.130%	6.05x
118	Manson	57	0.130%	11.07x
119	Archibald	56	0.130%	14.73x
120	Lees	56	0.130%	2.87x
121	Pringle	56	0.130%	8.07x
122	Macdonald	55	0.120%	3.15x
123	Porteous	55	0.120%	18.73x
124	Chalmers	54	0.120%	5.15x
125	Greig	54	0.120%	7.75x
126	Hislop	54	0.120%	20.38x
127	Petrie	54	0.120%	10.32x
128	Innes	53	0.120%	7.77x
129	Nicholson	53	0.120%	1.69x
130	Finlay	52	0.120%	11.50x
131	Swanson	52	0.120%	16.12x
132	Arnott	51	0.120%	13.78x
133	Geddes	51	0.120%	9.66x
134	Lumsden	51	0.120%	13.88x
135	Noble	51	0.120%	2.79x
136	Elder	50	0.110%	10.75x
137	Kay	50	0.110%	2.19x
138	Leslie	50	0.110%	6.86x
139	Thorburn	50	0.110%	19.66x
140	Tulloch	50	0.110%	17.11x
141	Jack	49	0.110%	5.24x
142	Wilkie	49	0.110%	7.80x
143	Adamson	48	0.110%	4.12x
144	Bowman	48	0.110%	4.17x
145	Harper	48	0.110%	1.70x
146	Strachan	48	0.110%	6.32x
147	Jeffrey	47	0.110%	5.77x
148	Mathieson	47	0.110%	10.13x
149	Urquhart	47	0.110%	7.60x
150	Cumming	46	0.100%	5.47x
151	Drysdale	46	0.100%	12.35x
152	Forrest	46	0.100%	4.05x
153	Lynch	46	0.100%	3.96x
154	Rennie	46	0.100%	5.98x
155	Banks	45	0.100%	1.99x
156	Beveridge	45	0.100%	9.82x
157	Brunton	45	0.100%	13.01x
158	Cochrane	45	0.100%	6.60x
159	Crichton	45	0.100%	11.98x
160	Wight	45	0.100%	19.86x
161	Bennet	41	0.090%	6.74x
162	Blyth	41	0.090%	5.91x
163	Marr	41	0.090%	8.16x
164	Bishop	40	0.090%	1.30x
165	Lyon	40	0.090%	4.33x
166	Robb	40	0.090%	5.25x
167	Wishart	40	0.090%	11.59x
168	Brodie	39	0.090%	6.60x
169	Somerville	39	0.090%	10.64x
170	Tod	39	0.090%	22.74x
171	Baird	38	0.090%	4.04x
172	Chisholm	38	0.090%	5.94x
173	Murdoch	38	0.090%	5.08x
174	Paton	38	0.090%	3.86x
175	Bowie	37	0.080%	9.64x
176	Heriot	37	0.080%	109.89x
177	Philip	37	0.080%	12.59x
178	Rodger	37	0.080%	5.98x
179	Flynn	36	0.080%	4.27x
180	Henry	36	0.080%	3.23x
181	Hope	36	0.080%	2.40x
182	Laurie	36	0.080%	9.51x
183	Orr	36	0.080%	4.85x
184	Peddie	36	0.080%	30.64x
185	Adam	35	0.080%	4.63x
186	Finlayson	35	0.080%	6.90x
187	Irvine	35	0.080%	3.61x
188	Mackenzie	35	0.080%	2.84x
189	Brand	34	0.080%	5.23x
190	Coutts	34	0.080%	7.65x
191	Lauder	34	0.080%	14.69x
192	Muirhead	34	0.080%	10.01x
193	Veitch	34	0.080%	11.71x
194	Whyte	34	0.080%	4.55x
195	Begg	33	0.070%	12.32x
196	Galloway	33	0.070%	4.35x
197	Gillies	33	0.070%	5.24x
198	Meikle	33	0.070%	10.41x
199	Meldrum	33	0.070%	11.90x
200	Moodie	33	0.070%	15.96x