1881 census place
Alness surnames in the 1881 census
This page ranks surnames recorded in Alness, Ross-shire 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
15 surnames are listed for Alness, Ross-shire, covering 489 people in the local records.
The leading surname here is Munro, with 173 people recorded in 1881.
Most common surnames in Alness
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.