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 Hutchison, with 164 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
101	Hutchison	164	0.160%	9.87x
102	Blair	163	0.160%	6.22x
103	Laing	162	0.160%	7.98x
104	Ireland	158	0.160%	6.74x
105	Smart	156	0.150%	3.39x
106	Jack	154	0.150%	7.17x
107	Coupar	152	0.150%	102.16x
108	Dunn	151	0.150%	1.80x
109	Douglas	149	0.150%	3.04x
110	Gow	149	0.150%	18.67x
111	Morris	148	0.150%	0.66x
112	Stevenson	148	0.150%	2.09x
113	Malcolm	146	0.140%	10.99x
114	Crichton	142	0.140%	16.47x
115	Boyd	141	0.140%	3.98x
116	Elder	141	0.140%	13.21x
117	Will	139	0.140%	33.72x
118	Whitton	138	0.140%	22.27x
119	Sharp	137	0.140%	1.63x
120	Matthew	136	0.130%	17.83x
121	Fisher	134	0.130%	1.13x
122	Johnstone	134	0.130%	2.93x
123	Kerr	133	0.130%	2.41x
124	Cooper	132	0.130%	0.54x
125	Sime	132	0.130%	32.60x
126	Thoms	130	0.130%	72.03x
127	Dickson	128	0.130%	3.42x
128	Galloway	128	0.130%	7.36x
129	Sutherland	127	0.130%	2.49x
130	Gardiner	122	0.120%	4.20x
131	Welsh	122	0.120%	3.05x
132	Dewar	121	0.120%	9.18x
133	Barrie	120	0.120%	16.46x
134	Moir	120	0.120%	8.64x
135	Mann	119	0.120%	2.24x
136	Fox	118	0.120%	1.26x
137	Langlands	118	0.120%	50.11x
138	Law	117	0.120%	2.56x
139	Menzies	114	0.110%	8.68x
140	Rodger	114	0.110%	8.03x
141	Batchelor	112	0.110%	6.54x
142	Hutton	112	0.110%	3.71x
143	King	112	0.110%	0.51x
144	Farquharson	111	0.110%	19.43x
145	Munro	111	0.110%	2.46x
146	Keith	110	0.110%	10.16x
147	Samson	109	0.110%	15.10x
148	Swan	109	0.110%	4.17x
149	Cuthbert	108	0.110%	7.44x
150	Boyle	107	0.110%	4.08x
151	Duffy	107	0.110%	4.85x
152	Hendry	107	0.110%	6.69x
153	Jamieson	107	0.110%	3.80x
154	Maxwell	107	0.110%	4.46x
155	Rae	107	0.110%	4.65x
156	Cook	105	0.100%	0.52x
157	Hood	105	0.100%	3.75x
158	Barclay	104	0.100%	5.00x
159	Dow	104	0.100%	8.54x
160	Russell	104	0.100%	0.84x
161	Aitken	103	0.100%	3.89x
162	Brady	103	0.100%	5.76x
163	Lowden	102	0.100%	30.79x
164	Henry	101	0.100%	3.95x
165	Cochrane	100	0.100%	6.39x
166	Davie	100	0.100%	10.74x
167	Crabb	99	0.100%	9.44x
168	Philip	99	0.100%	14.69x
169	Spence	99	0.100%	2.96x
170	Hutcheson	98	0.100%	18.90x
171	Saunders	97	0.100%	1.05x
172	Turnbull	97	0.100%	2.28x
173	Grieve	96	0.100%	8.20x
174	Valentine	96	0.100%	7.41x
175	Blyth	95	0.090%	5.96x
176	Beattie	94	0.090%	4.35x
177	Ford	94	0.090%	0.96x
178	Mackay	94	0.090%	2.57x
179	Mills	94	0.090%	0.72x
180	Lynch	93	0.090%	3.49x
181	Rollo	93	0.090%	40.07x
182	Baird	92	0.090%	4.26x
183	Collins	92	0.090%	0.63x
184	Hume	92	0.090%	6.42x
185	Laird	92	0.090%	8.11x
186	Moncur	92	0.090%	46.22x
187	Abbot	91	0.090%	19.08x
188	Lee	91	0.090%	0.55x
189	Leslie	91	0.090%	5.44x
190	Patterson	91	0.090%	2.58x
191	Todd	89	0.090%	1.73x
192	Yule	89	0.090%	17.59x
193	Carr	88	0.090%	1.21x
194	Keay	88	0.090%	20.41x
195	Angus	86	0.090%	5.95x
196	Cox	86	0.090%	0.56x
197	Proctor	86	0.090%	3.46x
198	Mathers	85	0.080%	14.13x
199	Muir	85	0.080%	2.20x
200	Myles	85	0.080%	17.96x