Analysis of surname variations - Scotland

My father and step-mother spent many days identifying the variations in the family surnames as they appear in the official Scottish registers.  They had a target list of forty one known or possible names.

The actual occurrences are as shown in the following tables.  Although a surname appears in one of the tables it does not mean that it occurs in one of the Scottish trees.  In addition, a few members of the English branches who were living in Scotland may be included in the later figures.  

There was a greater variation in the surnames for births than for marriages and deaths.

I have also found analyses that they undertook of variants of the surname in the Scottish censuses from 1841 to 1891.  This is included at the end of the page.  I have created the data for 1901 from the copies that were made of the index entries; there was no analysis for that year.   The data for 1911 and 1921 are from a new search of the census indecies on scotlandspeople.gov.uk in 2026, but only against the names that had occured in previous censuses.

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