1881 census place

Forfar surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Forfar, 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

420 surnames are listed for Forfar, Angus, covering 9,663 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Stewart, with 202 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Forfar

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	Stewart	202	1.38%	8.81x
2	Clark	182	1.24%	4.13x
3	Anderson	160	1.09%	5.53x
4	Petrie	160	1.09%	91.87x
5	Simpson	158	1.08%	6.16x
6	Whyte	142	0.970%	57.15x
7	Lowson	140	0.960%	418.29x
8	Bruce	129	0.880%	18.79x
9	Nicoll	127	0.870%	95.38x
10	Robertson	120	0.820%	4.89x
11	Ramsay	113	0.770%	29.94x
12	Mitchell	111	0.760%	3.73x
13	Thom	107	0.730%	81.65x
14	Boath	105	0.720%	640.63x
15	Adamson	103	0.700%	26.57x
16	Fyfe	102	0.700%	75.83x
17	Johnston	98	0.670%	8.29x
18	Lindsay	95	0.650%	19.89x
19	Findlay	88	0.600%	28.98x
20	Low	85	0.580%	27.38x
21	Doig	84	0.570%	97.43x
22	Reid	84	0.570%	5.46x
23	Christie	81	0.550%	17.05x
24	Craik	79	0.540%	176.06x
25	Stirling	79	0.540%	41.49x
26	Donald	78	0.530%	26.44x
27	Ross	78	0.530%	4.87x
28	Shepherd	77	0.530%	7.17x
29	Strachan	76	0.520%	30.08x
30	Forbes	74	0.500%	15.07x
31	Henderson	74	0.500%	4.65x
32	Sturrock	74	0.500%	140.02x
33	Gibson	71	0.480%	3.99x
34	Millar	70	0.480%	13.09x
35	Samson	69	0.470%	65.92x
36	Webster	69	0.470%	5.41x
37	Laird	68	0.460%	41.33x
38	Morrison	67	0.460%	5.82x
39	Neave	67	0.460%	97.31x
40	Davidson	66	0.450%	5.36x
41	Kerr	63	0.430%	7.88x
42	Wilkie	63	0.430%	30.14x
43	Grant	62	0.420%	4.26x
44	Fraser	60	0.410%	4.60x
45	Langlands	58	0.400%	169.79x
46	Alexander	57	0.390%	7.35x
47	Gordon	56	0.380%	6.06x
48	Stark	55	0.380%	27.41x
49	Soutar	54	0.370%	103.43x
50	Mann	53	0.360%	6.87x
51	Esplin	52	0.350%	282.61x
52	Kinnear	52	0.350%	73.14x
53	Allan	50	0.340%	5.43x
54	Patullo	50	0.340%	735.29x
55	Adam	49	0.330%	19.47x
56	Dick	49	0.330%	14.99x
57	Smart	49	0.330%	7.34x
58	Masterton	48	0.330%	101.65x
59	Ogilvie	48	0.330%	33.86x
60	Prophet	48	0.330%	286.05x
61	Black	47	0.320%	4.95x
62	Ritchie	47	0.320%	9.28x
63	Bowman	46	0.310%	12.02x
64	Kydd	46	0.310%	180.75x
65	Robb	46	0.310%	18.15x
66	Guild	45	0.310%	140.63x
67	Irons	45	0.310%	56.38x
68	Myles	45	0.310%	65.54x
69	Ormond	44	0.300%	141.16x
70	Rodger	43	0.290%	20.87x
71	Steele	43	0.290%	10.96x
72	Thornton	43	0.290%	5.84x
73	Malcolm	42	0.290%	21.79x
74	Cuthbert	41	0.280%	19.47x
75	Dalgety	41	0.280%	429.77x
76	Meldrum	41	0.280%	44.43x
77	Nicol	41	0.280%	13.44x
78	Fenton	40	0.270%	13.67x
79	Crabb	39	0.270%	25.65x
80	Watt	39	0.270%	6.94x
81	Hutchison	38	0.260%	15.77x
82	Easton	37	0.250%	16.65x
83	Forsyth	37	0.250%	11.83x
84	Cable	36	0.250%	48.91x
85	Keith	35	0.240%	22.28x
86	Tyrie	35	0.240%	225.66x
87	Duthie	34	0.230%	43.24x
88	Maxwell	34	0.230%	9.76x
89	Munro	34	0.230%	5.20x
90	Proctor	34	0.230%	9.44x
91	Tosh	33	0.230%	100.64x
92	Butchart	32	0.220%	96.88x
93	Calder	32	0.220%	15.61x
94	Fairweather	32	0.220%	28.19x
95	Wyllie	32	0.220%	31.18x
96	Byars	31	0.210%	401.03x
97	Beattie	30	0.200%	9.56x
98	Guthrie	30	0.200%	16.24x
99	Hay	30	0.200%	5.58x
100	Herald	30	0.200%	243.31x