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 Skinner, with 33 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
201	Skinner	33	0.070%	1.48x
202	Swan	33	0.070%	2.89x
203	Wynn	33	0.070%	8.64x
204	Burnside	32	0.070%	20.72x
205	Carmichael	32	0.070%	5.08x
206	Fitzpatrick	32	0.070%	4.97x
207	Gibb	32	0.070%	4.12x
208	Macpherson	32	0.070%	11.22x
209	Trotter	32	0.070%	6.93x
210	Aird	31	0.070%	13.53x
211	Aitchison	31	0.070%	10.04x
212	Forbes	31	0.070%	2.10x
213	Hodge	31	0.070%	2.79x
214	Knox	31	0.070%	4.10x
215	Main	31	0.070%	4.30x
216	Moir	31	0.070%	5.12x
217	Stuart	31	0.070%	2.95x
218	Devlin	30	0.070%	8.32x
219	Dewar	30	0.070%	5.22x
220	Duffy	30	0.070%	3.12x
221	Melrose	30	0.070%	17.57x
222	Mowbray	30	0.070%	16.37x
223	Neilson	30	0.070%	4.83x
224	Stirling	30	0.070%	5.24x
225	Cormack	29	0.070%	8.71x
226	Dryburgh	29	0.070%	28.01x
227	Ireland	29	0.070%	2.84x
228	Low	29	0.070%	3.11x
229	Menzies	29	0.070%	5.07x
230	Rae	29	0.070%	2.89x
231	Sandilands	29	0.070%	29.88x
232	Bridges	28	0.060%	4.00x
233	Deans	28	0.060%	9.37x
234	Findlay	28	0.060%	3.07x
235	Raeburn	28	0.060%	28.63x
236	Syme	28	0.060%	16.91x
237	Thom	28	0.060%	7.11x
238	Bryce	27	0.060%	6.13x
239	Deas	27	0.060%	20.89x
240	Elliot	27	0.060%	2.40x
241	Fairbairn	27	0.060%	8.30x
242	Haldane	27	0.060%	24.25x
243	Hastie	27	0.060%	9.68x
244	Leitch	27	0.060%	6.43x
245	Malcolm	27	0.060%	4.66x
246	Nicolson	27	0.060%	5.31x
247	Nimmo	27	0.060%	13.76x
248	Ramage	27	0.060%	10.91x
249	Small	27	0.060%	2.42x
250	Stoddart	27	0.060%	7.34x
251	Barrie	26	0.060%	8.18x
252	Beaton	26	0.060%	5.14x
253	Brady	26	0.060%	3.33x
254	Craigie	26	0.060%	18.79x
255	Crombie	26	0.060%	10.52x
256	Leadbetter	26	0.060%	11.39x
257	Lyall	26	0.060%	8.66x
258	Masterton	26	0.060%	18.32x
259	Niven	26	0.060%	8.48x
260	Baillie	25	0.060%	5.47x
261	Ballantyne	25	0.060%	7.49x
262	Bathgate	25	0.060%	24.50x
263	Burnett	25	0.060%	2.05x
264	Condie	25	0.060%	42.82x
265	Ferrier	25	0.060%	9.76x
266	Glen	25	0.060%	5.74x
267	Gow	25	0.060%	7.19x
268	Haig	25	0.060%	14.44x
269	Hood	25	0.060%	2.05x
270	Kidd	25	0.060%	2.79x
271	Kinnear	25	0.060%	11.70x
272	Liddell	25	0.060%	6.19x
273	Renton	25	0.060%	9.25x
274	Aikman	24	0.050%	26.36x
275	Bertram	24	0.050%	11.40x
276	Borthwick	24	0.050%	9.71x
277	Boyle	24	0.050%	2.10x
278	Cuthbertson	24	0.050%	7.05x
279	Forsyth	24	0.050%	2.55x
280	Garland	24	0.050%	4.11x
281	Guthrie	24	0.050%	4.32x
282	Livingston	24	0.050%	6.07x
283	Napier	24	0.050%	6.78x
284	Neill	24	0.050%	8.23x
285	Oswald	24	0.050%	11.86x
286	Park	24	0.050%	1.76x
287	Peat	24	0.050%	6.83x
288	Balfour	23	0.050%	7.50x
289	Beattie	23	0.050%	2.44x
290	Bernard	23	0.050%	12.61x
291	Cannon	23	0.050%	2.88x
292	Carse	23	0.050%	43.57x
293	Couper	23	0.050%	11.65x
294	Donald	23	0.050%	2.59x
295	Dow	23	0.050%	4.33x
296	Fairley	23	0.050%	10.67x
297	Gilmour	23	0.050%	3.69x
298	Goodall	23	0.050%	2.44x
299	Horsburgh	23	0.050%	21.17x
300	Laird	23	0.050%	4.65x