1881 census place

Arbroath surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Arbroath, Angus 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

328 surnames are listed for Arbroath, Angus, covering 4,743 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Cargill, with 215 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Arbroath

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	Cargill	215	2.40%	605.29x
2	Anderson	176	1.96%	9.94x
3	Scott	133	1.48%	5.86x
4	Thomson	130	1.45%	10.85x
5	Christie	104	1.16%	35.76x
6	Petrie	101	1.13%	94.76x
7	Swankie	101	1.13%	1803.57x
8	Gordon	85	0.950%	15.04x
9	Wallace	65	0.720%	10.58x
10	Carrie	63	0.700%	414.20x
11	Nicoll	62	0.690%	76.08x
12	Beattie	60	0.670%	31.25x
13	Black	60	0.670%	10.33x
14	Watt	55	0.610%	15.99x
15	Ritchie	52	0.580%	16.78x
16	Adam	50	0.560%	32.45x
17	Patterson	50	0.560%	15.99x
18	Ramsay	49	0.550%	21.21x
19	Kydd	44	0.490%	282.59x
20	Mill	42	0.470%	77.65x
21	Low	40	0.450%	21.05x
22	Bremner	39	0.430%	50.61x
23	Alexander	38	0.420%	8.00x
24	Buick	38	0.420%	413.49x
25	Jamieson	38	0.420%	15.21x
26	Fleming	37	0.410%	9.93x
27	Sim	37	0.410%	36.72x
28	Forbes	36	0.400%	11.98x
29	Lindsay	36	0.400%	12.31x
30	Smart	36	0.400%	8.82x
31	Fairweather	35	0.390%	50.37x
32	Mann	32	0.360%	6.77x
33	Peter	32	0.360%	101.94x
34	Valentine	32	0.360%	27.83x
35	Dorward	31	0.350%	189.26x
36	Munro	31	0.350%	7.74x
37	Ruxton	31	0.350%	325.63x
38	Whyte	31	0.350%	20.38x
39	Leslie	30	0.330%	20.20x
40	Robb	30	0.330%	19.34x
41	Burnett	29	0.320%	11.69x
42	Doig	28	0.310%	53.06x
43	Ferrier	28	0.310%	53.67x
44	Ogilvie	28	0.310%	32.27x
45	Spink	28	0.310%	38.70x
46	Herald	27	0.300%	357.62x
47	Carnegie	26	0.290%	88.32x
48	Irvine	26	0.290%	13.16x
49	Baird	25	0.280%	13.04x
50	Hood	25	0.280%	10.07x
51	Maxwell	25	0.280%	11.73x
52	Whitton	25	0.280%	45.44x
53	Donaldson	24	0.270%	9.38x
54	Jack	24	0.270%	12.59x
55	Jamie	24	0.270%	497.93x
56	Nicol	24	0.270%	12.85x
57	Pert	24	0.270%	125.98x
58	Soutar	24	0.270%	75.12x
59	Mather	23	0.260%	10.34x
60	Tosh	23	0.260%	114.60x
61	Meek	22	0.250%	21.10x
62	Findlay	21	0.230%	11.30x
63	Strachan	21	0.230%	13.58x
64	Sturrock	21	0.230%	64.94x
65	Butchart	20	0.220%	98.91x
66	Esplin	20	0.220%	177.62x
67	Falconer	20	0.220%	18.70x
68	Guthrie	20	0.220%	17.69x
69	Swan	20	0.220%	8.61x
70	Rodger	19	0.210%	15.07x
71	Stirling	19	0.210%	16.30x
72	Wishart	19	0.210%	27.04x
73	Barrie	18	0.200%	27.81x
74	Lyall	18	0.200%	29.43x
75	Shanks	18	0.200%	26.40x
76	Skea	18	0.200%	245.23x
77	Boath	17	0.190%	169.49x
78	Coull	17	0.190%	55.37x
79	Cobb	16	0.180%	12.55x
80	Lumgair	16	0.180%	551.72x
81	Mathewson	16	0.180%	73.80x
82	Monro	16	0.180%	85.88x
83	Raitt	16	0.180%	198.51x
84	Baillie	15	0.170%	16.12x
85	Corsar	15	0.170%	943.40x
86	Hastings	15	0.170%	13.13x
87	Heron	15	0.170%	17.44x
88	Mitchel	15	0.170%	17.11x
89	Robbie	15	0.170%	72.60x
90	Sherriff	15	0.170%	54.51x
91	Angus	14	0.160%	10.91x
92	Dunbar	14	0.160%	13.59x
93	Duthie	14	0.160%	29.09x
94	Finlayson	14	0.160%	13.55x
95	Fyfe	14	0.160%	17.00x
96	Kiddie	14	0.160%	153.85x
97	Nairn	14	0.160%	31.55x
98	Napier	14	0.160%	19.42x
99	Suttie	14	0.160%	54.16x
100	Vannet	14	0.160%	1014.49x