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 Glass, with 32 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
501	Glass	32	0.030%	3.06x
502	Herd	32	0.030%	4.31x
503	Kean	32	0.030%	4.68x
504	Kilgour	32	0.030%	8.61x
505	Lamont	32	0.030%	3.56x
506	More	32	0.030%	4.07x
507	Salmond	32	0.030%	15.06x
508	Welch	32	0.030%	0.90x
509	Crammond	31	0.030%	50.49x
510	Dempster	31	0.030%	4.36x
511	Husband	31	0.030%	5.26x
512	Milligan	31	0.030%	2.61x
513	Rooney	31	0.030%	3.44x
514	Slaven	31	0.030%	21.08x
515	Souter	31	0.030%	5.65x
516	Stormont	31	0.030%	40.30x
517	Barr	30	0.030%	1.23x
518	Couttie	30	0.030%	108.46x
519	Craik	30	0.030%	9.70x
520	Curr	30	0.030%	25.41x
521	Dempsey	30	0.030%	4.73x
522	Don	30	0.030%	13.04x
523	Ewan	30	0.030%	13.04x
524	Flood	30	0.030%	3.38x
525	Hodge	30	0.030%	1.18x
526	Justice	30	0.030%	11.70x
527	Nairn	30	0.030%	6.00x
528	Neill	30	0.030%	4.48x
529	Orr	30	0.030%	1.76x
530	Tolmie	30	0.030%	18.22x
531	Waddell	30	0.030%	3.35x
532	Beath	29	0.030%	47.23x
533	Butter	29	0.030%	6.03x
534	Ewing	29	0.030%	3.11x
535	Foley	29	0.030%	2.28x
536	Millan	29	0.030%	20.04x
537	Moodie	29	0.030%	6.11x
538	Sivewright	29	0.030%	43.20x
539	Stirton	29	0.030%	25.58x
540	Younger	29	0.030%	5.30x
541	Charles	28	0.030%	1.34x
542	Dickie	28	0.030%	3.53x
543	Ewen	28	0.030%	6.51x
544	Gloag	28	0.030%	30.51x
545	Grogan	28	0.030%	7.59x
546	Houston	28	0.030%	2.18x
547	Logie	28	0.030%	9.54x
548	Pert	28	0.030%	13.05x
549	Queen	28	0.030%	6.76x
550	Rielly	28	0.030%	19.21x
551	Burness	27	0.030%	13.94x
552	Colligan	27	0.030%	30.66x
553	Cowley	27	0.030%	1.45x
554	Dyer	27	0.030%	0.69x
555	Hoy	27	0.030%	4.65x
556	Keenan	27	0.030%	3.15x
557	Maiden	27	0.030%	9.72x
558	Monaghan	27	0.030%	3.69x
559	Pyott	27	0.030%	59.29x
560	Simons	27	0.030%	2.03x
561	Sweeney	27	0.030%	2.00x
562	Dollan	26	0.030%	31.33x
563	Durward	26	0.030%	23.64x
564	Duthie	26	0.030%	4.80x
565	Fairley	26	0.030%	5.26x
566	Kenneth	26	0.030%	63.18x
567	Key	26	0.030%	1.87x
568	Livingston	26	0.030%	2.86x
569	Phinn	26	0.030%	69.44x
570	Rice	26	0.030%	0.83x
571	Rock	26	0.030%	4.53x
572	Smeaton	26	0.030%	9.15x
573	Tully	26	0.030%	4.80x
574	Annan	25	0.020%	17.64x
575	Clunie	25	0.020%	16.84x
576	Dougal	25	0.020%	13.57x
577	Horne	25	0.020%	1.14x
578	Lorimer	25	0.020%	6.19x
579	Moon	25	0.020%	1.17x
580	Penny	25	0.020%	1.39x
581	Prophet	25	0.020%	21.60x
582	Sellars	25	0.020%	3.99x
583	Shields	25	0.020%	1.60x
584	Speirs	25	0.020%	6.33x
585	Tarbet	25	0.020%	25.38x
586	Barty	24	0.020%	42.60x
587	Bowden	24	0.020%	0.82x
588	Buick	24	0.020%	23.17x
589	Craigie	24	0.020%	7.56x
590	Crockett	24	0.020%	5.05x
591	Daily	24	0.020%	9.17x
592	Dair	24	0.020%	127.12x
593	Dall	24	0.020%	12.89x
594	Doctor	24	0.020%	67.76x
595	Eadie	24	0.020%	5.02x
596	Gallagher	24	0.020%	1.56x
597	Handy	24	0.020%	6.89x
598	Knox	24	0.020%	1.38x
599	Lockhart	24	0.020%	3.41x
600	Manzie	24	0.020%	107.82x