1881 census place

Liff Benvie surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Liff Benvie, 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

1,397 surnames are listed for Liff Benvie, Angus, covering 28,689 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robertson, with 740 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Liff Benvie

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	Robertson	740	1.80%	10.75x
2	Smith	685	1.67%	1.18x
3	Stewart	550	1.34%	8.56x
4	Anderson	396	0.960%	4.88x
5	Clark	359	0.870%	2.91x
6	Thomson	347	0.840%	6.32x
7	Brown	315	0.770%	1.16x
8	Scott	310	0.750%	2.98x
9	Young	270	0.660%	3.06x
10	Mitchell	261	0.640%	3.13x
11	Davidson	251	0.610%	7.27x
12	Henderson	251	0.610%	5.62x
13	Reid	251	0.610%	5.82x
14	Wilson	230	0.560%	1.22x
15	Watson	215	0.520%	2.26x
16	Nicoll	196	0.480%	52.51x
17	Murray	191	0.460%	3.75x
18	Ramsay	184	0.450%	17.39x
19	Simpson	182	0.440%	2.53x
20	Low	176	0.430%	20.22x
21	Martin	169	0.410%	1.67x
22	Chalmers	168	0.410%	17.18x
23	Grant	166	0.400%	4.07x
24	Small	164	0.400%	15.73x
25	Fraser	158	0.380%	4.32x
26	Campbell	157	0.380%	2.26x
27	Baxter	154	0.370%	6.29x
28	Ross	149	0.360%	3.32x
29	Hunter	147	0.360%	3.48x
30	Allan	140	0.340%	5.43x
31	Bruce	138	0.340%	7.17x
32	Christie	135	0.330%	10.13x
33	Gray	135	0.330%	2.30x
34	Lawson	134	0.330%	5.53x
35	Ferguson	131	0.320%	4.50x
36	Millar	131	0.320%	8.74x
37	Gibson	130	0.320%	2.61x
38	Ogilvie	130	0.320%	32.71x
39	Miller	128	0.310%	1.74x
40	Kennedy	125	0.300%	5.05x
41	Black	123	0.300%	4.62x
42	Bell	122	0.300%	1.58x
43	Donaldson	121	0.290%	10.33x
44	Kelly	118	0.290%	2.62x
45	Johnston	117	0.280%	3.53x
46	Reilly	116	0.280%	26.60x
47	Webster	116	0.280%	3.25x
48	Lindsay	115	0.280%	8.59x
49	Wilkie	108	0.260%	18.43x
50	Kidd	107	0.260%	12.79x
51	Cameron	103	0.250%	3.23x
52	Lynch	102	0.250%	9.41x
53	Petrie	102	0.250%	20.89x
54	Dewar	101	0.250%	18.85x
55	Mudie	100	0.240%	106.88x
56	Morrison	99	0.240%	3.07x
57	Burns	97	0.240%	3.52x
58	Wallace	96	0.230%	3.41x
59	Paterson	94	0.230%	3.36x
60	Strachan	92	0.220%	12.99x
61	Munro	91	0.220%	4.96x
62	Fleming	90	0.220%	5.27x
63	Elder	89	0.220%	20.51x
64	Marshall	88	0.210%	1.28x
65	Fairweather	87	0.210%	27.33x
66	Doig	84	0.200%	34.75x
67	Ritchie	82	0.200%	5.78x
68	Dickson	80	0.190%	5.26x
69	Graham	80	0.190%	1.70x
70	Greig	80	0.190%	12.30x
71	Hay	80	0.190%	5.31x
72	Hutton	80	0.190%	6.52x
73	Kerr	80	0.190%	3.57x
74	Forbes	79	0.190%	5.74x
75	Donald	78	0.190%	9.43x
76	Whyte	76	0.190%	10.91x
77	Cuthbert	75	0.180%	12.70x
78	Laing	74	0.180%	8.96x
79	Matthew	74	0.180%	23.86x
80	Myles	74	0.180%	38.45x
81	Gordon	73	0.180%	2.82x
82	Yule	72	0.180%	34.99x
83	Cochrane	71	0.170%	11.16x
84	Sharp	71	0.170%	2.07x
85	Whitton	69	0.170%	27.38x
86	Jack	68	0.170%	7.79x
87	Johnstone	68	0.170%	3.66x
88	Buchan	66	0.160%	12.43x
89	Falconer	66	0.160%	13.47x
90	Sturrock	66	0.160%	44.55x
91	Valentine	66	0.160%	12.53x
92	Adam	65	0.160%	9.21x
93	Geekie	65	0.160%	152.37x
94	Mann	65	0.160%	3.00x
95	Watt	65	0.160%	4.13x
96	Findlay	64	0.160%	7.52x
97	Cairns	63	0.150%	7.09x
98	Dick	63	0.150%	6.87x
99	Dow	63	0.150%	12.73x
100	Drummond	63	0.150%	7.72x