Orkney Surnames in the 1891 Census

(Report date: 03/05/24)

Surname	Count
Abel	3
Adam	2
Adamson	17
Agnew	1
Aim	18
Aimslie	1
Aird	3
Aitchison	1
Aitken	35
Aitkin	9
Alexander	32
Allan	217
Allen	7
Allon	2
Alquist	1
Althridge	1
Anderson	245
Andrews	4
Angel	4
Angus	79
Annal	86
Archibald	3
Arcus	9
Armit	1
Armour	8
Armstrong	2
Arthur	14
Atkin	7
Baikie	137
Bailey	2
Baillie	20
Bain	49
Baldwin	3
Balfour	27
Ballantine	7
Ballantyne	22
Ballenden	8
Ballentyne	3
Ballintyne	2
Banks	66
Barlow	4
Barnet	2
Barnetson	1
Barnett	43
Barney	1
Barnie	4
Barron	10
Basketter	2
Bates	6
Bearston	1
Beaton	4
Beatton	9
Bebcombe	1
Begg	5
Behan	2
Bell	7
Benston	13
Berstan	10
Berston	22
Bertram	11
Betteries	2
Bews	242
Bias	16
Bichan	88
Biglan	1
Bigland	3
Bilton	2
Birss	9
Bisket	1
Black	7
Bolton	2
Bonellie	2
Borwick	75
Boyd	1
Brass	120
Brebner	1
Breck	13
Bremner	70
Brigden	1
Brock	6
Brodie	25
Brook	3
Brough	37
Brown	213
Brownlie	2
Bruce	105
Brunton	1
Buchan	11
Buchanan	10
Buchannan	1
Buckle	1
Budge	141
Burgar	1
Burger	3
Burges	2
Burgess	34
Burgher	29
Burghess	9
Burke	2
Burnett	12
Burr	1
Byas	6
Byers	8
Caithness	48
Calder	28
Calderwood	1
Cambel	1
Cameron	1
Campbell	70
Carmichael	1
Carter	1
Caskey	13
Cassells	4
Cassels	1
Cassie	10
Catto	1
Cavadge	1
Chalmers	181
Chapman	1
Charleson ?	1
Charters	1
Cheesman	4
Cheyne	6
Christie	11
Chrystal	1
Chrystall	9
Churchill	10
Claherton	1
Clark	29
Cleat	4
Clemments	2
Clouston	259
Clyne	11
Cochrane	7
Cock	13
Coghill	20
Cogle	12
Collie	1
Comloquoy	11
Controy ?	1
Cook	10
Cooper	152
Coper	1
Copland	70
Cormack	99
Corner	2
Corrigal	9
Corrigall	162
Corse	22
Corsie	78
Corston	7
Cory ?	1
Costie	30
Coull	3
Coupar	2
Couper	31
Courtnay	3
Coutts	1
Cowan	1
Cowper	33
Crabb	1
Cragie	9
Craigie	274
Cratt ?	1
Crawford	1
Crear	4
Creelman	14
Crichton	8
Cromarty	154
Crowe	1
Croy	75
Cruickshank	9
Cruikshank	10
Cruikshanks	2
Crukshank	1
Cumming	97
Curran	2
Currie	6
Curruthers	1
Cursiter	56
Cursitter	8
Cusator	27
Cusiter	1
Cusitor	6
Cuthbert	4
Cutt	104
Dall ?	2
Dallas	1
Dangerfield	1
Dass	24
Davidson	66
Davie	11
Davies	1
Davis	11
Davison	1
Dawson	4
Dearness	126
Deerness	6
Delday	53
Deldie	1
Deldy	1
Dennison	37
Devine	1
Devlin	2
Dewar	7
Dick	11
Dick/Scott	1
Dickey	7
Dickie	1
Dickson	39
Dinnison	7
Dishan	15
Dishon	6
Dixon	6
Donaldson	53
Doras	1
Douglas	9
Doul	1
Doull	12
Downie	4
Dreaver	9
Drever	462
Drummond	25
Dryden	5
Duell	3
Duff ?	1
Duffus	3
Duffy	2
Dunbar	1
Duncan	88
Dundas	7
Dunlop	7
Dunnet	56
Dunnett	28
Durness	1
Durno	4
Duthie	9
Duthie ?	1
Eales	1
Eddy	1
Edington	1
Elder	2
Ellis	10
Ellison	2
Elphinston	8
Elphinstone	7
Emerson	2
Emery	5
Esselmont	12
Esslemont	4
Esson	58
Eunson	154
Ewing	6
Fagan ?	1
Falconer	1
Fans	1
Farquhar	21
Farquherson	2
Fea	23
Fergus	15
Ferrier	11
Fiddler	54
Fidler	7
Findlater	10
Findlay	41
Finlayson	7
Firth	167
Fisher	6
Flaws	32
Flett	501
Flogarth ?	1
Flood	2
Florance	2
Florence	1
Flyn	3
Folsetter	9
Folster	49
Forbes	15
Fortescue	3
Fotheringham	24
Fotheringhame	41
Foubister	214
Foulis	68
Fox	8
Franklin	1
Fraser	24
Frayer	4
Frazer	5
Frisken	19
Friskin	6
Fubister	3
Fuller	2
Gaddie	4
Galloway	2
Garden	12
Garrick	12
Garrioch	139
Garriock	75
Garson	131
Gaudie	33
Geddes	9
Georgeson	5
Gerrard	4
Gery	1
Gibson	125
Gifford	2
Gillespie	7
Gillies	9
Gilmour	11
Glen	3
Goar	27
Gold	5
Goodfellow	3
Goodsir	6
Gordon	8
Gorie	15
Gorman	7
Gorn	39
Gorrie	11
Goudie	5
Gould	4
Gow	12
Graham	11
Grant	32
Grassick	1
Gray	148
Greaves	2
Green	23
Greig	19
Grieve	72
Groat	150
Groundwater	105
Guild	1
Gullion	23
Gunn	136
Gutcher	18
Guthrie	93
Hackland	7
Halcro	55
Halcrow	28
Halkland	1
Hapburn	1
Harcus	358
Harlow	1
Harold	3
Harper	46
Harray	12
Harrison	5
Harrold	66
Harvey	210
Hatham	5
Hay	129
Hebden	6
Heddel	2
Heddle	150
Henderson	21
Henry	5
Hepburn	71
Hercus	37
Herdman	4
Herdsman	7
Hewison	38
Higgins	4
Hill	3
Himager	1
Hodnett	4
Hogg	1
Holland	7
Hood	3
Horn	2
Horne	35
Horrie	13
Horwood	5
Hossack	4
Hourahan	3
Hourie	61
Hourston	176
Howatt	8
Howland	1
Howman	2
Howrie	1
Hudson	2
Hughson	7
Hume	40
Humphrey	2
Hunter	52
Hurie	1
Hutcheon	9
Hutcheson	9
Hutchison	74
Hutton	1
Hyslop	1
Inkster	112
Innes	5
Insktor	5
Ireland	5
Ironside	6
Irvine	216
Isbister	192
Iverach?	1
James	2
Jamieson	4
Jarvie	4
Jarvis	1
Jeffray	1
Jeffrey	4
Jobson	1
Johnson	7
Johnston	473
Johnstone	33
Jolly	10
Jones	8
Keddie	1
Keetley	7
Keillor	1
Keith	2
Kelday	35
Keldie	8
Kellet	1
Kemp	44
Kennedy	34
Kent	51
Kerrigan	5
Kilpatrick	1
King	43
Kirk	1
Kirkness	230
Kirkpatrick	48
Klien	1
Knarston	7
Knight	33
Korner	2
Kudslie	1
Lafferty	8
Laidlaw	2
Laird	110
Lamb	3
Lamond	4
Lamont	6
Lang	2
Langskail	4
Langskill	10
Lanskail	6
Lanskaill	9
Laughton	185
Laurence	6
Lawrence	2
Lawson	10
Learmonth	104
Leask	152
Ledingham	10
Lees	10
Leitch	9
Leith	51
Lennie	128
Lennox	1
Leonard	56
Leslie	211
Lewis	7
Liddell	5
Liddle	58
Lilburn	5
Lillie	3
Linay	7
Lindries ?	1
Lindsay	2
Linklater	394
Linnie	2
Linskill	2
Lister ?	1
Little	4
Lobban	1
Logan	1
Logie	126
Loutit	5
Louttit	135
Low	27
Lyall	19
Lyell	2
Lynch	4
Lyon	25
Macadie	1
MacBeath	6
MacDonald	4
Macdougall	1
Macechern	1
MacFee	8
MacGregor	20
MacIntosh	4
Mackay	117
MacKenzie	22
Macpherson	2
Macrae	6
Mainland	136
Mair	12
Makinson	10
Malcolmson	17
Manson	160
Markham	1
Marshal	2
Marshall	8
Martin	1
Marwick	262
Mason	21
Matches	98
Matheson	18
Mathieson	35
Maxwell	51
McAdam	1
McAdie	12
McAllister	4
McAlpine	1
McAra	1
McArthur	10
McBeath	8
McBride	1
McCabe	1
McCadie	5
McCallister	1
McCallum	8
McClean	5
McCrie	2
McCulloch	5
McCullock	2
McDonald	50
McDougall	7
McEwan	2
McEwen	2
McFee	1
McGee	2
McGhie	6
McGillvary	3
McGilvary	9
McGregor	8
McGuffie	2
McGuinnes	4
McIntosh	6
McIver	10
McIvor	1
McKay	85
McKellar	1
McKenzie	46
McKinlay	22
McKinnon	5
McKintosh	2
McKnight	4
McLachlan	8
McLaughlan	1
McLellan	2
McLennan	5
McLeod	8
McMannon	1
McMichan	1
McMillan	1
McNeil	2
McNeill	11
Mcpherson	3
McVay	1
McVean	1
Meadows	16
Meason	34
Meikle	1
Meiklejohn	2
Meil	48
Meill	4
Meldrum	2
Melville	26
Menzies	2
Mercer	2
Merrilees	4
Merriman	71
Middleton	5
Mill	1
Millan	4
Millar	43
Miller	345
Milligan	1
Mills	1
Milne	48
Mitchell	56
Moar	236
Moat	1
Moir	3
Moloney	1
Moncrieff	1
Montgomery	8
Moodie	141
Moody	5
Mooney	12
Morgan	8
Morris	10
Morrison	37
Moss	13
Mowat	363
Mowat ?	2
Mowatt	14
Muir	504
Muirden	10
Munro	22
Murison	4
Murray	24
Murrell	1
Mutch	9
Neate	4
Neil	1
Newland	23
Newlands	9
Newman	4
Newsam	1
Nicholson	22
Nicolson	109
Norn	8
Norne	1
Norquay	129
Norquoy	74
Norton	1
Oag	18
Oddie	47
Offord	2
Ogg	1
Oliver	2
Oman	11
Omand	108
Omond	10
Osborne	11
Owens	1
Paplay	13
Papley	12
Paply	1
Park	62
Paterson	49
Patrick	1
Patterson	21
Paul	4
Pavie	4
Peace	209
Pearson	31
Peebles	3
Peel	2
Peterson	2
Petrie	99
Petterson	15
Phillips	29
Piggott	1
Pirie	36
Plank	2
Poke	8
Pollexson	1
Porteous	12
Pottinger	107
Potts	5
Pratt	44
Price	3
Pringle	7
Rae	7
Rankin	1
Rannie	5
Redland	8
Reid	277
Rendal	6
Rendall	505
Renson	1
Renton	2
Rice	3
Richardson	1
Richmond	2
Rigby	1
Riley	2
Ririe	2
Ritch	206
Ritchie	30
Robb	27
Robertson	476
Robinson	5
Robson	44
Rorie	15
Rorrie	3
Rosamond	1
Rosie	139
Ross	96
Rossie	18
Rossy	2
Rough	6
Rousay	55
Rowland	14
Rowley	1
Roxburgh	1
Roy	4
Rugg	1
Runciman	9
Rusland	1
Russel	1
Russell	72
Russland	2
Rust	3
Rutherford	2
Ryrie	6
Sabbiston	2
Sabiston	126
Sandison	68
Sangster	15
Saunders	11
Savage	1
Scarth	31
Schollay	9
Scholley	1
Schollie	8
Scholly	1
Sclater	63
Scollay	19
Scolley	1
Scollie	15
Scotland	1
Scott	472
Sculley	1
Seater	71
Seator	27
Seatter	140
Selbie	5
Setter	1
Shair	1
Sharp	1
Shaw	5
Shearer	383
Shennan	1
Shepard	5
Shepherd	2
Shoard	3
Short	4
Shurie	16
Shurrie	6
Sim	1
Simeson	2
Simieson	1
Simison	27
Simmons	2
Simpson	111
Sinclair	1070
Skae	6
Skea	128
Skethaway	6
Skinner	17
Skinner ?	1
Skitheway	9
Slater	141
Smith	370
Snoddy	1
Soanes	4
Sommerville	10
Souter	5
Spark	9
Spedding	2
Spence	540
Stanger	98
Steedman	1
Stephen	18
Stephenson	1
Steven	5
Stevenson	179
Stewart	67
Stickler	8
Still	7
Stobbie	1
Stockan	41
Stockand	6
Stott	11
Stout	155
Stove	33
Strathdee	1
Struthers	5
Stuart	6
Summers	7
Surewright ?	3
Sutherland	444
Swan	2
Swaney	23
Swann	1
Swanney	178
Swannie	40
Swanny	1
Swanson	56
Swanston	1
Sword	2
Tait	177
Taylor	334
Thom	4
Thomas	1
Thomison	18
Thompson	36
Thomson	448
Tiltman	11
Tinch	13
Tollis	1
Tolmie	3
Tomison	35
Tomson	2
Towers	51
Towrie	15
Traill	12
Trumbland	10
Trumland	1
Tulloch	409
Tullock	44
Turface	2
Turfus	53
Turner	4
Twatt	57
Tweeddale	1
Tyrie	7
Velzean	6
Velzian	25
Velzien	1
Voy	35
Wald	3
Walker	7
Wallace	118
Walls	116
Wallse	1
Walter	17
Walters	1
Ward	12
Wards	121
Wares	15
Warren	2
Waterer	2
Waterman	1
Waters	4
Watmough ?	1
Watson	12
Watt	39
Watters	14
Watts	2
Webster	11
Weir	1
Wenyon	2
Westness	5
White	13
Whitelaw	9
Whitlaw	6
Wick	25
Wilkie	1
Will	5
Williamson	58
Willitts	7
Wilson	261
Windwick	19
Wingate	5
Winsby	8
Wishart	92
Wood	117
Wooldrage	27
Wooldrige	8
Woolridge	2
Woolrige	2
Work	214
Wotherspoon	1
Wright	19
Wylie	132
Yair	4
Yorston	88
Young	19
Yule	8
Yulls	1