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1881 census place

Tongue surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Tongue, Sutherland 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

16 surnames are listed for Tongue, Sutherland, covering 1,438 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Mackay, with 897 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Tongue

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
1Mackay8971277.78x
2Munro112129.26x
3Sutherland111113.50x
4Gunn84176.73x
5Macleod69251.73x
6Mackenzie4073.62x
7Gow37241.36x
8Matheson2594.20x
9Manson2088.11x
10Nicol2049.51x
11Macpherson15119.33x
12Meiklejohn491.53x
13Brims178.13x
14Doull138.76x
15Hemus186.21x
16Macbeath185.47x