1881 census place

Montrose surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Montrose, 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

567 surnames are listed for Montrose, Angus, covering 10,299 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Mitchell, with 213 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Montrose

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	Mitchell	213	1.30%	6.40x
2	Clark	210	1.28%	4.26x
3	Scott	208	1.27%	5.01x
4	Thomson	199	1.21%	9.08x
5	Strachan	173	1.05%	61.17x
6	Davidson	162	0.990%	11.75x
7	Robertson	151	0.920%	5.49x
8	Anderson	147	0.900%	4.54x
9	Ross	145	0.880%	8.09x
10	Stewart	136	0.830%	5.30x
11	Reid	127	0.770%	7.37x
12	Murray	123	0.750%	6.05x
13	Young	116	0.710%	3.29x
14	Beattie	107	0.650%	30.48x
15	Moir	104	0.630%	46.10x
16	Henderson	103	0.630%	5.78x
17	Stephen	102	0.620%	35.47x
18	Pert	99	0.600%	284.24x
19	Low	97	0.590%	27.91x
20	Allan	96	0.590%	9.32x
21	Burnett	96	0.590%	21.16x
22	Watt	95	0.580%	15.10x
23	Findlay	93	0.570%	27.37x
24	Johnston	93	0.570%	7.03x
25	Alexander	90	0.550%	10.37x
26	Christie	90	0.550%	16.92x
27	Gordon	89	0.540%	8.61x
28	Valentine	84	0.510%	39.94x
29	Hampton	78	0.480%	30.12x
30	Lindsay	78	0.480%	14.59x
31	Baird	77	0.470%	21.95x
32	Gray	74	0.450%	3.16x
33	Fairweather	73	0.450%	57.45x
34	Donaldson	72	0.440%	15.39x
35	Webster	69	0.420%	4.84x
36	Petrie	66	0.400%	33.86x
37	Burgess	62	0.380%	5.44x
38	Carnegie	61	0.370%	113.30x
39	Nicoll	61	0.370%	40.93x
40	Tavendale	60	0.370%	702.58x
41	Fraser	59	0.360%	4.04x
42	Smart	58	0.350%	7.77x
43	Burness	57	0.350%	181.30x
44	Forbes	57	0.350%	10.37x
45	Grant	57	0.350%	3.50x
46	Bruce	56	0.340%	7.29x
47	Barclay	54	0.330%	16.00x
48	Bowman	54	0.330%	12.61x
49	Cobb	54	0.330%	23.16x
50	Millar	54	0.330%	9.02x
51	Nicol	54	0.330%	15.82x
52	Duthie	52	0.320%	59.08x
53	Black	50	0.300%	4.71x
54	Douglas	49	0.300%	6.17x
55	Wishart	49	0.300%	38.14x
56	Arbuthnott	48	0.290%	789.47x
57	Ritchie	48	0.290%	8.47x
58	Hutcheon	47	0.290%	104.54x
59	Lawson	47	0.290%	4.86x
60	Stott	46	0.280%	8.98x
61	Henry	44	0.270%	10.61x
62	Whyte	44	0.270%	15.82x
63	Adamson	43	0.260%	9.91x
64	Birse	43	0.260%	232.94x
65	Beedie	42	0.260%	391.43x
66	Dorward	41	0.250%	136.85x
67	Donald	40	0.240%	12.11x
68	Edward	40	0.240%	26.28x
69	Falconer	40	0.240%	20.45x
70	Greig	40	0.240%	15.41x
71	Neilson	40	0.240%	17.30x
72	Cuthbert	39	0.240%	16.55x
73	Dakers	39	0.240%	175.83x
74	Jolly	39	0.240%	16.77x
75	Wilkie	39	0.240%	16.67x
76	Law	38	0.230%	5.12x
77	Lyall	38	0.230%	33.98x
78	Sheret	38	0.230%	568.86x
79	Dickie	37	0.230%	28.75x
80	Mackie	37	0.230%	10.55x
81	Dunbar	36	0.220%	19.10x
82	Napier	36	0.220%	27.31x
83	Gove	35	0.210%	178.03x
84	Wyllie	35	0.210%	30.47x
85	Brand	34	0.210%	14.04x
86	Mollison	34	0.210%	92.95x
87	Inglis	32	0.200%	11.68x
88	Jack	32	0.200%	9.18x
89	Leighton	32	0.200%	18.14x
90	Maxwell	32	0.200%	8.21x
91	Coull	31	0.190%	55.22x
92	Grieve	31	0.190%	16.31x
93	Laing	31	0.190%	9.41x
94	Shand	31	0.190%	27.52x
95	Dickson	30	0.180%	4.94x
96	Guthrie	30	0.180%	14.51x
97	Crow	29	0.180%	11.71x
98	Ferrier	29	0.180%	30.40x
99	Finlay	29	0.180%	17.23x
100	Hird	29	0.180%	22.91x