1881 census county

Ross-shire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ross-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

980 surnames are listed for Ross-shire, covering 49,002 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Jackson, with 15 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ross-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	Jackson	15	0.020%	0.07x
202	Macnair	15	0.020%	40.57x
203	Park	15	0.020%	0.60x
204	Singer	15	0.020%	4.65x
205	Tait	15	0.020%	0.64x
206	Burnett	14	0.020%	0.63x
207	Burns	14	0.020%	0.26x
208	Carr	14	0.020%	0.24x
209	Cattanach	14	0.020%	13.79x
210	Glass	14	0.020%	1.69x
211	Greenfield	14	0.020%	1.57x
212	Harvey	14	0.020%	0.16x
213	Hood	14	0.020%	0.63x
214	Knox	14	0.020%	1.02x
215	Lawson	14	0.020%	0.30x
216	Lumsden	14	0.020%	2.09x
217	Strachan	14	0.020%	1.01x
218	White	14	0.020%	0.05x
219	Arthur	13	0.020%	0.74x
220	Buchannan	13	0.020%	11.50x
221	Chapman	13	0.020%	0.11x
222	Fridge	13	0.020%	101.17x
223	Lamont	13	0.020%	1.82x
224	Leslie	13	0.020%	0.98x
225	Perrie	13	0.020%	14.15x
226	Allison	12	0.020%	0.53x
227	Chalmers	12	0.020%	0.63x
228	Crombie	12	0.020%	2.67x
229	Dean	12	0.020%	0.22x
230	Frew	12	0.020%	2.98x
231	Gauld	12	0.020%	5.69x
232	Gill	12	0.020%	0.21x
233	Macneil	12	0.020%	22.07x
234	Munroe	12	0.020%	5.53x
235	Ogilvie	12	0.020%	1.55x
236	Owens	12	0.020%	0.30x
237	Riddle	12	0.020%	1.80x
238	Saunders	12	0.020%	0.16x
239	Stevens	12	0.020%	0.14x
240	Wemyss	12	0.020%	10.79x
241	Austin	11	0.010%	0.28x
242	Boyd	11	0.010%	0.39x
243	Camron	11	0.010%	60.41x
244	Donald	11	0.010%	0.68x
245	Dunn	11	0.010%	0.16x
246	Gibb	11	0.010%	0.78x
247	Gilchrist	11	0.010%	0.94x
248	Hornsby	11	0.010%	2.11x
249	Jones	11	0.010%	0.01x
250	Laverton	11	0.010%	33.94x
251	Maccoll	11	0.010%	49.48x
252	Maitland	11	0.010%	2.11x
253	Moffat	11	0.010%	0.76x
254	Mowat	11	0.010%	2.00x
255	Paul	11	0.010%	0.55x
256	Peterkin	11	0.010%	8.87x
257	Pirie	11	0.010%	1.92x
258	Sellar	11	0.010%	5.78x
259	Short	11	0.010%	0.35x
260	Temple	11	0.010%	1.04x
261	Tomson	11	0.010%	12.44x
262	West	11	0.010%	0.14x
263	Fleming	10	0.010%	0.30x
264	Grieve	10	0.010%	1.08x
265	Hodge	10	0.010%	0.49x
266	Macauly	10	0.010%	34.26x
267	Macdonell	10	0.010%	30.35x
268	Macniven	10	0.010%	65.49x
269	Meikle	10	0.010%	1.73x
270	Naughton	10	0.010%	6.23x
271	Slater	10	0.010%	0.21x
272	Webster	10	0.010%	0.14x
273	Aitkin	9	0.010%	6.52x
274	Cairns	9	0.010%	0.52x
275	Deas	9	0.010%	3.82x
276	Downie	9	0.010%	0.96x
277	Fiddes	9	0.010%	6.02x
278	Hepburn	9	0.010%	1.26x
279	Lagan	9	0.010%	39.53x
280	Murdie	9	0.010%	24.70x
281	Newlands	9	0.010%	2.78x
282	Shanks	9	0.010%	1.48x
283	Shearer	9	0.010%	0.87x
284	Shepherd	9	0.010%	0.15x
285	Trotter	9	0.010%	1.07x
286	Weir	9	0.010%	0.43x
287	Adams	8	0.010%	0.07x
288	Barnet	8	0.010%	2.08x
289	Beattie	8	0.010%	0.47x
290	Bonny	8	0.010%	5.77x
291	Broadfoot	8	0.010%	4.18x
292	Bryden	8	0.010%	2.36x
293	Cannon	8	0.010%	0.55x
294	Cooper	8	0.010%	0.04x
295	Cruikshank	8	0.010%	6.68x
296	Deegan	8	0.010%	14.78x
297	Dickie	8	0.010%	1.27x
298	Dowling	8	0.010%	0.90x
299	Farquhar	8	0.010%	1.28x
300	Grierson	8	0.010%	1.79x