1881 census place

St Andrews surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in St Andrews, Fife 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

318 surnames are listed for St Andrews, Fife, covering 3,473 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Thomson, with 133 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in St Andrews

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	133	1.69%	12.65x
2	Anderson	123	1.56%	7.91x
3	Robertson	120	1.53%	9.10x
4	Melville	63	0.800%	75.83x
5	Gourlay	53	0.670%	121.50x
6	Rodger	50	0.640%	45.20x
7	Peattie	49	0.620%	493.45x
8	Ritchie	49	0.620%	18.02x
9	Douglas	48	0.610%	12.59x
10	Aitken	45	0.570%	21.79x
11	Edie	45	0.570%	1025.06x
12	Herd	45	0.570%	77.88x
13	Hutchison	45	0.570%	34.78x
14	Wallace	44	0.560%	8.16x
15	Laing	43	0.550%	27.20x
16	Greig	36	0.460%	28.90x
17	Mackie	36	0.460%	21.40x
18	Braid	35	0.440%	121.19x
19	Waters	35	0.440%	11.07x
20	Ramsay	34	0.430%	16.78x
21	Auchterlonie	33	0.420%	609.98x
22	Smart	33	0.420%	9.21x
23	Alexander	31	0.390%	7.44x
24	Donaldson	31	0.390%	13.81x
25	Small	31	0.390%	15.53x
26	Nicol	30	0.380%	18.32x
27	Philp	30	0.380%	55.94x
28	Duff	29	0.370%	20.71x
29	Hodge	29	0.370%	14.62x
30	Christie	28	0.360%	10.97x
31	Fenton	28	0.360%	17.83x
32	Harley	28	0.360%	27.61x
33	Ireland	28	0.360%	15.33x
34	Carstairs	26	0.330%	200.31x
35	Honeyman	26	0.330%	101.09x
36	Chisholm	25	0.320%	21.88x
37	Doig	24	0.310%	51.84x
38	Lumsden	24	0.310%	36.56x
39	Blair	23	0.290%	11.28x
40	Malcolm	23	0.290%	22.23x
41	Ainslie	22	0.280%	105.87x
42	Berwick	22	0.280%	69.49x
43	Drummond	22	0.280%	14.07x
44	Mackenzie	21	0.270%	9.54x
45	Rutherford	21	0.270%	10.94x
46	Ness	20	0.250%	56.01x
47	Ednie	19	0.240%	420.35x
48	Fernie	19	0.240%	80.89x
49	Inglis	19	0.240%	14.46x
50	Pullar	19	0.240%	187.38x
51	Dewar	18	0.230%	17.54x
52	Dow	18	0.230%	18.99x
53	Pringle	18	0.230%	14.52x
54	Robb	18	0.230%	13.23x
55	Bisset	17	0.220%	27.57x
56	Carmichael	17	0.220%	15.10x
57	Croll	17	0.220%	115.10x
58	Elder	17	0.220%	20.45x
59	Lorimer	17	0.220%	54.05x
60	Milton	17	0.220%	15.67x
61	Myles	17	0.220%	46.12x
62	Baldie	16	0.200%	395.06x
63	Farquharson	16	0.200%	35.97x
64	Meldrum	16	0.200%	32.28x
65	Wishart	16	0.200%	25.96x
66	Grieve	15	0.190%	16.45x
67	Latto	15	0.190%	161.29x
68	Moir	15	0.190%	13.86x
69	Oliphant	15	0.190%	48.96x
70	Peebles	15	0.190%	45.41x
71	Stark	15	0.190%	13.92x
72	Wemyss	15	0.190%	137.61x
73	Balsillie	14	0.180%	301.08x
74	Bayne	14	0.180%	48.61x
75	Bethune	14	0.180%	115.32x
76	Deas	14	0.180%	60.61x
77	Foulis	14	0.180%	237.69x
78	Keddie	14	0.180%	59.47x
79	Litster	14	0.180%	198.02x
80	Louden	14	0.180%	102.87x
81	Wilkie	14	0.180%	12.48x
82	Dalrymple	13	0.170%	37.95x
83	Mitchel	13	0.170%	16.90x
84	Stobie	13	0.170%	112.46x
85	Balfour	12	0.150%	21.89x
86	Crichton	12	0.150%	17.88x
87	Forgan	12	0.150%	151.71x
88	Goodfellow	12	0.150%	17.25x
89	Horsburgh	12	0.150%	61.79x
90	Houston	12	0.150%	11.97x
91	Hutt	12	0.150%	35.60x
92	Pirie	12	0.150%	21.31x
93	Reekie	12	0.150%	63.26x
94	Trail	12	0.150%	83.62x
95	Archibald	11	0.140%	16.20x
96	Armit	11	0.140%	170.81x
97	Buist	11	0.140%	70.83x
98	Finlay	11	0.140%	13.62x
99	Govan	11	0.140%	76.66x
100	Niven	11	0.140%	20.09x