Top surnames from the 1881 census in Mordington, Berwickshire

Mordington is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Berwickshire

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
JOHNSTON236.267077.65
COCKBURN174.6322363.25
ANDERSON123.269816.55
WIGHTMAN123.2698497.93
SKELDON112.99732,972.97
DICKSON112.997380.94
ALLAN112.997347.74
EDGAR112.9973194.69
HUNTER102.724826.53
SHEARER92.4523191.08
STRUTHERS92.4523548.78
SHIELS82.1798930.23
MARTIN82.17988.85
SWINNY82.179826,666.67
RUTHERFORD82.179889.29
JEFFREY71.9074103.09
AITCHISON71.9074272.37
PURVIS71.9074197.18
CHISHOLM71.9074131.33
CRAIG61.634937.22
LOGAN61.634968.97
WALLACE61.634923.87
FOX61.634917.61
MORAN51.362474.40
ROBERTSON51.36248.13
DIXON51.362412.43
PORTEOUS41.0899163.27
WIGHT41.0899211.64
COLLIN41.0899209.42
YULE41.0899217.39
MUIR41.089928.47
HERRIOT41.0899975.61
HENDERSON30.81747.52
BURN30.817460.73
ELLIOT30.817432.05
RENTON30.8174133.33
BOLTON30.817418.99
KELLY30.81747.46
PATTERSON30.817423.44
SHARP30.81749.81
HAY30.817422.29
BOGUE30.81741,500.00
MILLER30.81744.57
KINGHORN30.8174283.02
SHAW20.54502.97
CLEGHORN20.5450198.02
IMRIE20.5450138.89
RICHIE20.5450571.43
BROWN20.54500.83
YOUNG10.27251.27

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
SWINNY0.3736726666.6667
SKELDON0.373672972.9730
SLIGH0.373672000.0000
BOGUE0.373671500.0000
HERRIOT0.37367975.6098
SHIELS0.37367930.2326
RICHIE0.37367571.4286
STRUTHERS0.37367548.7805
WIGHTMAN0.37367497.9253
COCKBURN0.37367363.2479
KINGHORN0.37367283.0189
AITCHISON0.37367272.3735
MEIN0.37367238.0952
YULE0.37367217.3913
WIGHT0.37367211.6402
COLLIN0.37367209.4241
CLEGHORN0.37367198.0198
PURVIS0.37367197.1831
EDGAR0.37367194.6903
SHEARER0.37367191.0828
PORTEOUS0.37367163.2653
IMRIE0.37367138.8889
RENTON0.37367133.3333
CHISHOLM0.37367131.3321
HOME0.37367108.6957
JEFFREY0.37367103.0928
RUTHERFORD0.3736789.2857
DICKSON0.3736780.9419
LOWRIE0.3736779.3651
JOHNSTON0.3736777.6502
MORAN0.3736774.4048
LOGAN0.3736768.9655
BURN0.3736760.7287
ALLAN0.3736747.7431
DEANS0.3736740.1606
RENWICK0.3736740.0000
CRAIG0.3736737.2208
ELLIOT0.3736732.0513
MUIR0.3736728.4698
HUNTER0.3736726.5322
WALLACE0.3736723.8663
PATTERSON0.3736723.4375
HAY0.3736722.2883
MOOR0.3736719.4553
BOLTON0.3736718.9873
FOX0.3736717.6056
ANDERSON0.3736716.5540
DIXON0.3736712.4347
AITKEN0.3736710.3842
SHARP0.373679.8103

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 367 people called SWINNY in Mordington at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 26666.6667 in Mordington means that 26666.6667% of the people in Mordington on census day were called SWINNY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called SWINNY in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called SWINNY as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called SWINNY here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called SWINNY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.37 in Mordington means that you are 0.37 times as likely to find someone with the surname of SWINNY in Mordington than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Mordington in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

ALLAN (11)  ANDERSON (12)  AITKEN (1)  AITCHISON (7)  BLACKHALL (3)  BOGUE (3)  BOLTON (3)  BROWN (2)  BRUCE (1)  BURN (3)  CHIRNSIDE (2)  CHISHOLM (7)  CHRISTIE (1)  CLEGHORN (2)  COCKBURN (17)  COLLIN (4)  COWE (2)  CRAIG (6)  DEANS (1)  DIXON (5)  DICKSON (11)  EDGAR (11)  ELLIOT (3)  IMRIE (2)  FIDDES (5)  FOX (6)  HAY (3)  HENDERSON (3)  HERRIOT (4)  HOGG (1)  HOME (1)  HUNTER (10)  JEFFREY (7)  JOHNSTON (23)  MC KAY (7)  KELLY (3)  KINGHORN (3)  LANDELS (1)  LOWRIE (1)  LINDORES (1)  LOGAN (6)  MARSHALL (1)  MARTIN (8)  MC LEAN (4)  MEIN (1)  MILLER (3)  MUIR (4)  MOOR (1)  MORAN (5)  PATTERSON (3)  PORTEOUS (4)  PURVIS (7)  REABURN (1)  RENTON (3)  RENWICK (1)  RICHIE (2)  ROBERTSON (5)  RUTHERFORD (8)  SHARP (3)  SHAW (2)  SHEARER (9)  SHIELS (8)  SKELDON (11)  SLIGH (1)  SMITH (1)  SPOUSE (15)  STRUTHERS (9)  SWINNY (8)  THOMAS (1)  THOMSON (1)  TURNER (1)  WALKER (1)  WALLACE (6)  WANSELL (1)  WIGHT (4)  WHITE (1)  WIGHTMAN (12)  WILSON (1)  YOUNG (1)  YULE (4)