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1881 census place

Northmavine surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Northmavine, 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

49 surnames are listed for Northmavine, Shetland, covering 1,611 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Anderson, with 181 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Northmavine

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.

#SurnameTotalIndex
1Anderson18140.33x
2Tulloch1521008.63x
3Williamson14772.17x
4Inkster1082755.10x
5Mouat1052651.52x
6Robertson10427.32x
7Hawick677362.64x
8Sandison661155.87x
9Manson65244.64x
10Ratter574956.52x
11Thomason45339.37x
12Peterson43372.29x
13Irvine3467.92x
14Jameson34135.24x
15Jamieson3149.00x
16Nicolson30114.29x
17Halcrow27725.81x
18Cheyne26343.92x
19Gilbertson26390.98x
20Coopland222857.14x
21Arthur2040.40x
22Winchester18207.85x
23Blance16975.61x
24Charleson16987.65x
25Porteous16105.61x
26Coupland1497.29x
27Dalziel13129.48x
28Cogle121875.00x
29Wishart1267.42x
30Hughson11264.42x
31Leask11117.77x
32Dowel102173.91x
33Copeland941.86x
34Moncrieff9157.34x
35Scollay9762.71x
36Abernethy7133.33x
37Bigland7391.06x
38Coutt51666.67x
39Fergus5121.95x
40Georgeson5110.13x
41Malcolmson3143.54x
42Robison359.06x
43Stove3306.12x
44Simonson2526.32x
45Danielson1322.58x
46Garrick129.07x
47Garriock175.19x
48Isbister132.89x
49Vennard1270.27x