1881 census county

Inverness-shire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Inverness-shire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

1,501 surnames are listed for Inverness-shire, covering 55,511 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Macfarlane, with 24 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Inverness-shire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
201	Macfarlane	24	0.030%	4.81x
202	Buchannan	23	0.030%	18.71x
203	Dean	23	0.030%	0.38x
204	Gallie	23	0.030%	20.24x
205	Jenkins	23	0.030%	0.22x
206	Masson	23	0.030%	4.30x
207	Smart	23	0.030%	0.58x
208	Downie	22	0.030%	2.15x
209	Grieve	22	0.030%	2.18x
210	Leitch	22	0.030%	2.64x
211	Weir	22	0.030%	0.97x
212	Macdougal	21	0.020%	101.55x
213	Manson	21	0.020%	2.06x
214	Roy	21	0.020%	2.65x
215	Callum	20	0.020%	20.37x
216	Clarke	20	0.020%	0.11x
217	Coull	20	0.020%	6.70x
218	Dott	20	0.020%	34.85x
219	Drummond	20	0.020%	1.15x
220	Hepburn	20	0.020%	2.58x
221	King	20	0.020%	0.11x
222	Macdiarmid	20	0.020%	112.61x
223	Pringle	20	0.020%	1.46x
224	Wright	20	0.020%	0.07x
225	Asher	19	0.020%	5.15x
226	Carmichael	19	0.020%	1.52x
227	Clayton	19	0.020%	0.40x
228	Cooper	19	0.020%	0.09x
229	Lindsay	19	0.020%	0.67x
230	Macandrew	19	0.020%	49.04x
231	Macmaster	19	0.020%	85.86x
232	Macquarrie	19	0.020%	98.86x
233	Rennie	19	0.020%	1.25x
234	Whyte	19	0.020%	1.28x
235	Wishart	19	0.020%	2.78x
236	Burgess	18	0.020%	0.30x
237	Clunas	18	0.020%	52.82x
238	Duff	18	0.020%	1.16x
239	Elder	18	0.020%	1.95x
240	Fyfe	18	0.020%	2.25x
241	Ironside	18	0.020%	5.99x
242	Kelbie	18	0.020%	343.51x
243	Maciver	18	0.020%	9.92x
244	Moffat	18	0.020%	1.14x
245	Murphy	18	0.020%	0.26x
246	Nairn	18	0.020%	4.17x
247	Pratt	18	0.020%	0.36x
248	Shand	18	0.020%	3.00x
249	Angus	17	0.020%	1.36x
250	Elliot	17	0.020%	0.76x
251	Ellis	17	0.020%	0.13x
252	Gair	17	0.020%	7.36x
253	George	17	0.020%	0.33x
254	Jones	17	0.020%	0.02x
255	Lawrence	17	0.020%	0.30x
256	Mcisaac	17	0.020%	307.41x
257	Mitchel	17	0.020%	1.99x
258	Todd	17	0.020%	0.38x
259	Adams	16	0.020%	0.12x
260	Borthwick	16	0.020%	3.27x
261	Boyle	16	0.020%	0.71x
262	Douglass	16	0.020%	2.89x
263	Dunlop	16	0.020%	1.14x
264	Fullarton	16	0.020%	8.72x
265	Gill	16	0.020%	0.26x
266	Hume	16	0.020%	1.29x
267	Kemp	16	0.020%	0.33x
268	Rhind	16	0.020%	7.68x
269	Carr	15	0.020%	0.24x
270	Carruthers	15	0.020%	1.30x
271	Colquhoun	15	0.020%	2.90x
272	Coutts	15	0.020%	1.70x
273	Foster	15	0.020%	0.13x
274	Gillespie	15	0.020%	1.08x
275	Groat	15	0.020%	14.88x
276	Hamilton	15	0.020%	0.23x
277	Irvine	15	0.020%	0.78x
278	Livingstone	15	0.020%	1.84x
279	Macalister	15	0.020%	36.27x
280	Macdougald	15	0.020%	156.09x
281	Macinnis	15	0.020%	321.89x
282	Marshall	15	0.020%	0.10x
283	Mason	15	0.020%	0.13x
284	Mcpherson	15	0.020%	13.07x
285	Rankin	15	0.020%	1.16x
286	Roberts	15	0.020%	0.05x
287	Shearer	15	0.020%	1.34x
288	Stalker	15	0.020%	3.49x
289	Turnbull	15	0.020%	0.41x
290	Baxter	14	0.020%	0.27x
291	Cowan	14	0.020%	0.79x
292	Crawford	14	0.020%	0.33x
293	Finlay	14	0.020%	1.56x
294	Fisher	14	0.020%	0.14x
295	Fleming	14	0.020%	0.39x
296	Hall	14	0.020%	0.05x
297	Harrison	14	0.020%	0.07x
298	Henry	14	0.020%	0.63x
299	Macarthur	14	0.020%	13.39x
300	Macfadyen	14	0.020%	51.68x