1881 census place

Dundee surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Dundee, 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

2,342 surnames are listed for Dundee, Angus, covering 78,368 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robertson, with 1,786 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Dundee

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	Robertson	1,786	1.77%	10.55x
2	Smith	1,767	1.75%	1.24x
3	Stewart	1,313	1.30%	8.31x
4	Anderson	1,295	1.28%	6.49x
5	Brown	914	0.900%	1.37x
6	Mitchell	892	0.880%	4.35x
7	Scott	876	0.870%	3.43x
8	Thomson	694	0.690%	5.14x
9	Wilson	669	0.660%	1.44x
10	Watson	612	0.610%	2.61x
11	Taylor	589	0.580%	0.91x
12	Davidson	582	0.580%	6.85x
13	Clark	558	0.550%	1.84x
14	Reid	557	0.550%	5.25x
15	Nicoll	549	0.540%	59.80x
16	Henderson	537	0.530%	4.89x
17	Low	529	0.520%	24.71x
18	Martin	502	0.500%	2.02x
19	Young	500	0.490%	2.30x
20	Gray	494	0.490%	3.42x
21	Ross	474	0.470%	4.29x
22	Campbell	456	0.450%	2.67x
23	Millar	440	0.440%	11.93x
24	Ramsay	424	0.420%	16.29x
25	Miller	421	0.420%	2.33x
26	Walker	409	0.400%	1.21x
27	Fraser	398	0.390%	4.43x
28	Chalmers	377	0.370%	15.67x
29	Murray	361	0.360%	2.88x
30	Christie	360	0.360%	10.99x
31	Lindsay	354	0.350%	10.75x
32	Wilkie	344	0.340%	23.87x
33	Bell	337	0.330%	1.78x
34	Ferguson	336	0.330%	4.69x
35	Johnston	332	0.330%	4.07x
36	Grant	331	0.330%	3.30x
37	Simpson	329	0.330%	1.86x
38	Ogilvie	318	0.310%	32.54x
39	Forbes	302	0.300%	8.92x
40	Bruce	301	0.300%	6.36x
41	Alexander	299	0.300%	5.59x
42	Gibson	299	0.300%	2.44x
43	Black	294	0.290%	4.49x
44	Morrison	294	0.290%	3.70x
45	Allan	290	0.290%	4.57x
46	Baxter	283	0.280%	4.70x
47	White	283	0.280%	0.87x
48	Kennedy	282	0.280%	4.63x
49	Kelly	277	0.270%	2.50x
50	Webster	277	0.270%	3.15x
51	Strachan	272	0.270%	15.61x
52	Donaldson	269	0.270%	9.34x
53	Ritchie	260	0.260%	7.45x
54	Cameron	259	0.260%	3.30x
55	Kidd	257	0.250%	12.50x
56	Watt	257	0.250%	6.63x
57	Gordon	256	0.250%	4.02x
58	Small	255	0.250%	9.95x
59	Graham	252	0.250%	2.17x
60	Wallace	247	0.240%	3.57x
61	Petrie	240	0.240%	19.99x
62	Hill	237	0.230%	0.92x
63	Robb	236	0.230%	13.51x
64	Whyte	235	0.230%	13.72x
65	Reilly	233	0.230%	21.72x
66	Fleming	231	0.230%	5.50x
67	Adamson	224	0.220%	8.38x
68	Hunter	223	0.220%	2.15x
69	Wright	222	0.220%	0.68x
70	Paterson	215	0.210%	3.13x
71	Fyffe	207	0.200%	105.24x
72	Williamson	205	0.200%	2.26x
73	Doig	201	0.200%	33.81x
74	Donald	201	0.200%	9.88x
75	Adams	198	0.200%	1.33x
76	Findlay	195	0.190%	9.31x
77	Adam	194	0.190%	11.18x
78	Dick	194	0.190%	8.61x
79	Duff	187	0.190%	10.40x
80	Fairweather	186	0.180%	23.76x
81	Hay	186	0.180%	5.02x
82	Shepherd	186	0.180%	2.51x
83	Lamb	184	0.180%	3.45x
84	Sturrock	183	0.180%	50.23x
85	Mudie	181	0.180%	78.66x
86	Greig	179	0.180%	11.19x
87	Lawson	179	0.180%	3.01x
88	Thompson	179	0.180%	0.59x
89	Murphy	178	0.180%	2.21x
90	Mackie	174	0.170%	8.05x
91	Rattray	172	0.170%	34.82x
92	Marshall	171	0.170%	1.01x
93	Paton	169	0.170%	7.48x
94	Burns	167	0.170%	2.46x
95	Melville	167	0.170%	15.65x
96	Jackson	166	0.160%	0.59x
97	Soutar	166	0.160%	46.12x
98	Butchart	165	0.160%	72.45x
99	Gibb	165	0.160%	9.25x
100	Mill	165	0.160%	27.08x