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 Gunn, with 59 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
301	Gunn	59	0.060%	2.38x
302	Ogilvy	59	0.060%	25.95x
303	Wighton	59	0.060%	57.34x
304	Falconer	58	0.060%	4.81x
305	Kay	58	0.060%	1.10x
306	Lyon	58	0.060%	2.74x
307	Nicol	58	0.060%	2.76x
308	Baillie	57	0.060%	5.44x
309	Bisset	57	0.060%	7.20x
310	Buchanan	57	0.060%	2.18x
311	Colville	57	0.060%	16.48x
312	Currie	57	0.060%	2.00x
313	Keir	57	0.060%	11.29x
314	Neilson	57	0.060%	4.00x
315	Peters	57	0.060%	1.61x
316	Preston	57	0.060%	1.13x
317	Bonar	56	0.060%	34.58x
318	Drummond	56	0.060%	2.79x
319	Kane	56	0.060%	6.88x
320	Livingstone	56	0.060%	5.95x
321	Peebles	56	0.060%	13.21x
322	Dorward	55	0.050%	29.80x
323	Forsyth	55	0.050%	2.55x
324	Hart	55	0.050%	0.64x
325	Allardice	54	0.050%	40.42x
326	Dryden	54	0.050%	8.87x
327	Gallacher	54	0.050%	6.20x
328	Lawrence	54	0.050%	0.82x
329	Leith	54	0.050%	10.32x
330	Malone	54	0.050%	6.68x
331	Birrell	53	0.050%	10.76x
332	David	53	0.050%	5.04x
333	Gillespie	53	0.050%	3.31x
334	Pringle	53	0.050%	3.33x
335	Winton	53	0.050%	13.99x
336	Bathie	52	0.050%	106.32x
337	Connor	52	0.050%	1.74x
338	Cuthill	52	0.050%	26.35x
339	Gardner	52	0.050%	0.76x
340	Kiddie	52	0.050%	50.70x
341	Rose	52	0.050%	0.69x
342	Beaton	51	0.050%	4.39x
343	Beveridge	51	0.050%	4.85x
344	Carrie	51	0.050%	29.76x
345	Farrell	51	0.050%	2.66x
346	Finlay	51	0.050%	4.92x
347	Gall	51	0.050%	7.82x
348	Neil	51	0.050%	3.82x
349	Nicholson	51	0.050%	0.71x
350	Sim	51	0.050%	4.49x
351	Cassidy	50	0.050%	4.05x
352	Cowie	50	0.050%	4.08x
353	Doyle	50	0.050%	2.03x
354	Lees	50	0.050%	1.12x
355	Brymer	49	0.050%	87.50x
356	Cathro	49	0.050%	77.67x
357	Couper	49	0.050%	10.82x
358	Warden	49	0.050%	6.79x
359	Donnelly	48	0.050%	3.77x
360	Peter	48	0.050%	13.58x
361	Whittet	48	0.050%	47.90x
362	Cairns	47	0.050%	2.15x
363	Dailly	47	0.050%	55.50x
364	Littlejohn	47	0.050%	9.64x
365	Neave	47	0.050%	9.90x
366	Patrick	47	0.050%	2.33x
367	Peddie	47	0.050%	17.44x
368	Quinn	47	0.050%	2.43x
369	Robbie	47	0.050%	20.19x
370	Cargill	46	0.050%	11.50x
371	Coleman	46	0.050%	0.91x
372	Easson	46	0.050%	23.55x
373	Page	46	0.050%	0.57x
374	Carrol	45	0.040%	9.83x
375	Cooney	45	0.040%	10.73x
376	Flinn	45	0.040%	7.38x
377	Foreman	45	0.040%	3.41x
378	Gilchrist	45	0.040%	3.04x
379	Irons	45	0.040%	8.18x
380	Keiller	45	0.040%	65.07x
381	Malloch	45	0.040%	31.39x
382	Mathewson	45	0.040%	18.42x
383	Mathieson	45	0.040%	4.23x
384	Neish	45	0.040%	21.90x
385	Rutherford	45	0.040%	1.83x
386	Wishart	45	0.040%	5.69x
387	Archer	44	0.040%	1.05x
388	Beat	44	0.040%	67.93x
389	Begg	44	0.040%	7.16x
390	Connell	44	0.040%	2.51x
391	Curran	44	0.040%	5.20x
392	Laburn	44	0.040%	217.39x
393	Masterton	44	0.040%	13.52x
394	Pennycook	44	0.040%	28.85x
395	Pullar	44	0.040%	33.79x
396	Reoch	44	0.040%	82.55x
397	Shearer	44	0.040%	3.39x
398	Devine	43	0.040%	4.27x
399	Dunbar	43	0.040%	3.70x
400	Foy	43	0.040%	5.15x