1881 census place

Aberdeen Old Machar surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Aberdeen Old Machar, Aberdeenshire 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

1,203 surnames are listed for Aberdeen Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, covering 44,204 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 1,176 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Aberdeen Old Machar

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	Smith	1,176	2.08%	1.47x
2	Anderson	754	1.33%	6.76x
3	Davidson	728	1.29%	15.33x
4	Reid	704	1.25%	11.87x
5	Thomson	628	1.11%	8.32x
6	Robertson	596	1.06%	6.30x
7	Fraser	585	1.04%	11.63x
8	Mitchell	576	1.02%	5.03x
9	Gordon	526	0.930%	14.77x
10	Ross	525	0.930%	8.50x
11	Wilson	517	0.920%	1.99x
12	Stewart	505	0.890%	5.71x
13	Taylor	494	0.870%	1.37x
14	Clark	467	0.830%	2.75x
15	Walker	465	0.820%	2.46x
16	Murray	449	0.790%	6.41x
17	Henderson	400	0.710%	6.51x
18	Grant	397	0.700%	7.08x
19	Gray	378	0.670%	4.69x
20	Brown	374	0.660%	1.00x
21	Scott	351	0.620%	2.46x
22	Morrison	338	0.600%	7.61x
23	Watt	330	0.580%	15.23x
24	Simpson	327	0.580%	3.31x
25	Forbes	326	0.580%	17.22x
26	Rae	313	0.550%	24.32x
27	Stephen	301	0.530%	30.39x
28	Watson	296	0.520%	2.26x
29	Allan	295	0.520%	8.32x
30	Donald	291	0.520%	25.59x
31	Sutherland	285	0.500%	10.01x
32	Moir	279	0.490%	35.91x
33	Hay	270	0.480%	13.03x
34	Cruickshank	264	0.470%	41.62x
35	Webster	251	0.440%	5.11x
36	Strachan	249	0.440%	25.56x
37	Paterson	243	0.430%	6.32x
38	Johnston	239	0.420%	5.24x
39	Laing	237	0.420%	20.88x
40	Coutts	220	0.390%	38.61x
41	Leslie	219	0.390%	23.42x
42	Greig	213	0.380%	23.82x
43	Robb	207	0.370%	21.19x
44	Christie	197	0.350%	10.76x
45	Adams	196	0.350%	2.35x
46	Black	195	0.350%	5.33x
47	Low	195	0.350%	16.29x
48	Rennie	192	0.340%	19.46x
49	Hunter	191	0.340%	3.29x
50	Bisset	189	0.330%	42.69x
51	Cooper	186	0.330%	1.35x
52	Pirie	185	0.330%	45.77x
53	Ritchie	185	0.330%	9.48x
54	Munro	181	0.320%	7.18x
55	Wood	180	0.320%	1.00x
56	Nicol	179	0.320%	15.22x
57	Sim	176	0.310%	27.74x
58	Shepherd	174	0.310%	4.20x
59	Cameron	172	0.300%	3.92x
60	Adam	171	0.300%	17.62x
61	Cumming	166	0.290%	15.40x
62	Mackie	164	0.290%	13.58x
63	Beattie	163	0.290%	13.48x
64	Williamson	163	0.290%	3.22x
65	Bruce	160	0.280%	6.05x
66	Burnett	160	0.280%	10.24x
67	Martin	157	0.280%	1.13x
68	Thom	155	0.270%	30.69x
69	Jamieson	153	0.270%	9.73x
70	Leith	153	0.270%	52.30x
71	Findlay	152	0.270%	12.99x
72	Campbell	150	0.270%	1.57x
73	Alexander	145	0.260%	4.85x
74	Angus	144	0.250%	17.82x
75	Barron	141	0.250%	16.12x
76	Chalmers	140	0.250%	10.41x
77	Duthie	138	0.240%	45.53x
78	Gibb	138	0.240%	13.84x
79	Fyfe	137	0.240%	26.42x
80	Innes	133	0.240%	15.21x
81	Catto	129	0.230%	121.05x
82	Marr	127	0.220%	19.71x
83	Sangster	127	0.220%	47.02x
84	Duguid	126	0.220%	66.27x
85	Farquhar	125	0.220%	28.44x
86	Cowie	124	0.220%	18.09x
87	Shand	124	0.220%	31.96x
88	Ironside	121	0.210%	62.16x
89	Collie	119	0.210%	58.80x
90	Kemp	116	0.210%	3.70x
91	Smart	112	0.200%	4.35x
92	Keith	110	0.190%	18.17x
93	Garden	109	0.190%	46.19x
94	Mathieson	109	0.190%	18.32x
95	Mutch	109	0.190%	43.22x
96	Tough	109	0.190%	50.16x
97	Skinner	108	0.190%	3.77x
98	Stuart	106	0.190%	7.86x
99	Law	105	0.190%	4.11x
100	Lyon	105	0.190%	8.87x