1881 census place

Inverness surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Inverness, Inverness-shire 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

398 surnames are listed for Inverness, Inverness-shire, covering 13,337 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Fraser, with 2,247 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Inverness

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	Fraser	2,247	10.24%	115.03x
2	Macdonald	713	3.25%	81.88x
3	Mackenzie	571	2.60%	92.97x
4	Cameron	511	2.33%	29.96x
5	Ross	493	2.25%	20.56x
6	Munro	446	2.03%	45.53x
7	Grant	418	1.90%	19.20x
8	Mackintosh	362	1.65%	246.53x
9	Chisholm	342	1.56%	107.32x
10	Campbell	339	1.54%	9.13x
11	Stewart	248	1.13%	7.22x
12	Forbes	203	0.930%	27.61x
13	Urquhart	194	0.880%	62.93x
14	Mackay	192	0.880%	24.19x
15	Robertson	166	0.760%	4.51x
16	Maclean	162	0.740%	66.73x
17	Davidson	151	0.690%	8.18x
18	Shaw	148	0.670%	3.67x
19	Gordon	143	0.650%	10.34x
20	Paterson	143	0.650%	9.58x
21	Macrae	136	0.620%	79.49x
22	Matheson	130	0.590%	43.32x
23	Anderson	125	0.570%	2.88x
24	Macpherson	123	0.560%	86.57x
25	Reid	118	0.540%	5.12x
26	Maclennan	117	0.530%	142.82x
27	Macleod	116	0.530%	37.43x
28	Murray	114	0.520%	4.19x
29	Young	109	0.500%	2.31x
30	Beaton	103	0.470%	40.83x
31	Sutherland	101	0.460%	9.14x
32	Noble	99	0.450%	10.87x
33	Morrison	92	0.420%	5.33x
34	Bain	81	0.370%	14.88x
35	Kennedy	81	0.370%	6.12x
36	Ferguson	80	0.360%	5.14x
37	Williamson	78	0.360%	3.97x
38	Macgregor	68	0.310%	74.19x
39	Rose	67	0.310%	4.12x
40	Cumming	65	0.300%	15.52x
41	Finlayson	64	0.290%	25.32x
42	Johnstone	64	0.290%	6.45x
43	Gunn	59	0.270%	10.98x
44	Forsyth	57	0.260%	12.18x
45	Falconer	49	0.220%	18.72x
46	Dallas	46	0.210%	55.51x
47	Macbean	44	0.200%	269.28x
48	Calder	42	0.190%	13.69x
49	Junor	41	0.190%	190.34x
50	Mann	40	0.180%	3.46x
51	Barron	39	0.180%	11.48x
52	Jamieson	37	0.170%	6.05x
53	Douglas	36	0.160%	3.39x
54	Tulloch	36	0.160%	24.73x
55	Brodie	35	0.160%	11.88x
56	Dickson	35	0.160%	4.31x
57	Millar	35	0.160%	4.37x
58	Hood	34	0.150%	5.60x
59	Dingwall	33	0.150%	37.94x
60	Alexander	32	0.150%	2.75x
61	Innes	32	0.150%	9.42x
62	Macintosh	32	0.150%	33.78x
63	Macgillivray	31	0.140%	240.50x
64	Barclay	29	0.130%	6.42x
65	Christie	29	0.130%	4.08x
66	Watt	29	0.130%	3.45x
67	Jack	28	0.130%	6.00x
68	Dunbar	27	0.120%	10.71x
69	Findlay	27	0.120%	5.94x
70	Hossack	27	0.120%	55.91x
71	Macdonell	27	0.120%	299.67x
72	Mactavish	26	0.120%	432.61x
73	Sim	26	0.120%	10.55x
74	Ramsay	24	0.110%	4.25x
75	Gallie	23	0.100%	80.48x
76	Macbain	23	0.100%	304.64x
77	Allison	22	0.100%	3.53x
78	Stephen	22	0.100%	5.72x
79	Baillie	21	0.100%	9.22x
80	Bethune	21	0.100%	62.04x
81	Gillies	21	0.100%	6.69x
82	Macmillan	21	0.100%	34.49x
83	Robb	21	0.100%	5.53x
84	Roy	21	0.100%	10.53x
85	Asher	19	0.090%	20.47x
86	Hutchison	19	0.090%	5.27x
87	Gillanders	18	0.080%	62.35x
88	Macandrew	18	0.080%	184.62x
89	Inglis	17	0.080%	4.64x
90	Macdougall	17	0.080%	51.11x
91	Nicolson	17	0.080%	6.71x
92	Corbett	16	0.070%	3.72x
93	Cowie	16	0.070%	6.01x
94	Macphail	16	0.070%	73.77x
95	Masson	16	0.070%	11.88x
96	Rennie	16	0.070%	4.17x
97	Carruthers	15	0.070%	5.17x
98	Dewar	15	0.070%	5.24x
99	Stalker	15	0.070%	13.89x
100	Borthwick	14	0.060%	11.37x