1881 census place

Nesting Lunnas Whalsay surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Nesting Lunnas Whalsay, Shetland 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

40 surnames are listed for Nesting Lunnas Whalsay, Shetland, covering 1,922 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Anderson, with 226 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Nesting Lunnas Whalsay

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	Anderson	226	8.60%	43.52x
2	Irvine	181	6.88%	312.50x
3	Robertson	169	6.43%	38.36x
4	Hughson	146	5.55%	3035.34x
5	Sutherland	122	4.64%	92.10x
6	Williamson	101	3.84%	42.85x
7	Leask	99	3.77%	915.82x
8	Jameson	83	3.16%	285.32x
9	Arthur	75	2.85%	130.91x
10	Hunter	70	2.66%	25.93x
11	Bruce	69	2.62%	56.03x
12	Gear	69	2.62%	703.36x
13	Georgeson	54	2.05%	1028.57x
14	Sandison	52	1.98%	786.69x
15	Laurenson	47	1.79%	728.68x
16	Hutcheson	35	1.33%	259.45x
17	Goudie	30	1.14%	360.58x
18	Shearer	30	1.14%	88.92x
19	Pottinger	27	1.03%	392.44x
20	Nicolson	24	0.910%	79.03x
21	Peterson	23	0.870%	172.03x
22	Humphray	22	0.840%	4680.85x
23	Manson	20	0.760%	65.06x
24	Rendall	19	0.720%	136.20x
25	Hardie	15	0.570%	43.77x
26	Pole	15	0.570%	183.82x
27	Thomason	15	0.570%	97.78x
28	Leisk	14	0.530%	903.23x
29	Tulloch	12	0.460%	68.81x
30	Gilbertson	11	0.420%	143.04x
31	Linklater	11	0.420%	178.57x
32	Levie	10	0.380%	1315.79x
33	Patten	9	0.340%	54.58x
34	Scollay	5	0.190%	367.65x
35	Halcrow	3	0.110%	69.77x
36	Jacobson	2	0.080%	51.28x
37	Louttit	2	0.080%	101.01x
38	Ratter	2	0.080%	150.38x
39	Stobie	2	0.080%	51.81x
40	Garriock	1	0.040%	64.94x