1881 census place

Sprouston surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Sprouston, Roxburghshire 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

39 surnames are listed for Sprouston, Roxburghshire, covering 296 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Cairns, with 21 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Sprouston

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	Cairns	21	2.04%	94.55x
2	Fairbairn	16	1.56%	210.80x
3	Waugh	16	1.56%	114.29x
4	Easton	14	1.36%	89.86x
5	Hume	13	1.27%	89.22x
6	Sherriff	13	1.27%	412.70x
7	Trotter	13	1.27%	120.71x
8	Cuff	11	1.07%	274.31x
9	Deans	11	1.07%	158.05x
10	Wait	11	1.07%	211.95x
11	Ormiston	10	0.970%	338.98x
12	Queenan	10	0.970%	2083.33x
13	Huggan	9	0.880%	918.37x
14	Riddel	9	0.880%	576.92x
15	Brydon	8	0.780%	247.68x
16	Ogilvie	8	0.780%	80.56x
17	Tod	8	0.780%	200.00x
18	Tully	8	0.780%	145.45x
19	Veitch	8	0.780%	118.17x
20	Aitchison	7	0.680%	97.22x
21	Lockie	7	0.680%	299.15x
22	Ternent	7	0.680%	1014.49x
23	Gillan	6	0.580%	166.21x
24	Quarry	6	0.580%	779.22x
25	Heatly	5	0.490%	1000.00x
26	Ker	5	0.490%	233.64x
27	Kerss	5	0.490%	2000.00x
28	Leishman	5	0.490%	143.68x
29	Piercy	5	0.490%	135.50x
30	Murdie	4	0.390%	851.06x
31	Eckford	3	0.290%	288.46x
32	Alcorn	2	0.190%	250.00x
33	Brotherston	2	0.190%	186.92x
34	Herkes	2	0.190%	434.78x
35	Lough	2	0.190%	109.29x
36	Mabon	2	0.190%	162.60x
37	Tinlin	2	0.190%	454.55x
38	Learmont	1	0.100%	250.00x
39	Middlemass	1	0.100%	78.13x