Orkney Surnames in the 1911 Census

(Report date: 03/05/24)

Surname	Count
Adair	1
Adam	1
Adamson	20
Agnew	4
Aibon	1
Aim	20
Aird	4
Aitchison	3
Aitken	31
Aitkin	5
Albrecht	3
Alexander	39
Allan	163
Allen	2
Anderson	220
Andresson	1
Angus	40
Annal	70
Arcus	2
Armour	4
Armstrong	2
Arthur	8
Ashworth	1
Baikie	124
Bailey	2
Bailie	1
Baillie	23
Bain	51
Baldwin	3
Balfour	17
Ballantine	2
Ballantyne	32
Ballenden	2
Banks	34
Barclay	7
Barker	1
Barkovsky	1
Barnet	1
Barnetson	1
Barnett	40
Barney	1
Barron	3
Basketter	1
Bassil	1
Batteries ?	2
Baum	1
Bearne	1
Beatton	6
Begg	11
Belcombe	1
Bell	10
Benston	7
Berstan	6
Berston	32
Bertram	16
Bews	226
Bias	16
Bichan	96
Bisset	9
Black	11
Bond	3
Booth	1
Borwick	76
Boyes	1
Brand	1
Brass	129
Breck	9
Bremner	50
Brewer	1
Brigden	1
Brock	7
Brodie	15
Brook	4
Brooks	1
Brough	33
Brown	190
Brownlie	5
Bruce	107
Bryan	1
Brydie	1
Buchan	8
Buchanan	3
Budge	141
Burgar	6
Burger	1
Burgess	33
Burghar	5
Burgher	28
Burghes	3
Burke	1
Burnett	12
Burns	4
Burr	10
Byas	2
Byers	9
Cadger	7
Caithness	38
Calder	15
Campbell	44
Carruthers	1
Carter	11
Casaye	1
Casells	1
Cassells	2
Cassie	2
Catto	2
Chadwick	2
Chalmers	137
Chambers	4
Chapman	2
Charleson	1
Cheyne	10
Childs	6
Chisholm	1
Christie	14
Chrystal	3
Chrystall	2
Clark	24
Clarke	6
Cleat	3
Cload	5
Clouston	215
Clyne	18
Coats	1
Cochrane	1
Cock	12
Coghill	16
Cogle	4
Collins	1
Colquhoun	2
Combe	2
Comloquoy	11
Comrie	1
Cook	11
Cooper	150
Copland	45
Cormack	56
Corner	3
Corrigal	6
Corrigall	123
Corse	28
Corsie	78
Corston	4
Costie	32
Couper	41
Coutts	3
Cowan	2
Cowie	4
Cowper	8
Craig	4
Craigie	219
Craven	1
Crear	5
Creelman	14
Crichton	3
Crisp	2
Cromarty	128
Crombie	5
Crow	1
Crowe	1
Crowther	1
Croy	62
Cruickshank	19
Cruikshanks	4
Cullum	6
Cumloquoy	1
Cumming	74
Curran	2
Cursiter	59
Cusator	16
Cusiter	13
Cuthbert	2
Cuthel	2
Cutt	84
Dallas ?	1
Dass	23
Davidson	60
Davie	7
Davis	2
Dearness	90
Deerness	3
Delday	60
Dennison	26
Denoon	5
Denwood	7
Dewar	3
Dick	34
Dickey	3
Dickson	35
Dinnison	1
Dishan	11
Dishon	2
Dodds	2
Donaldson	47
Doras	1
Douglas	8
Doull	13
Downie	1
Dreaver	7
Drever	374
Drummond	13
Duff	1
Duncan	76
Dundas	9
Dungavell	1
Dunlop	1
Dunnet	45
Dunnett	10
Durno	5
Durrock	1
Duthie	2
Dyke	4
Easmon	1
Eddington	2
Edmunds	1
Ellison	2
Elphinston	7
Elphinstone	12
Elrick	1
Emerson	2
Esselmont	5
Esslemont	9
Esson	45
Eunson	131
Ewen	1
Ewing	2
Eyers	6
Fairburn	1
Fairweather	2
Fareweather	1
Farquhar	15
Fawns	3
Fea	7
Fearnley	6
Fergus	26
Fiddler	39
Findlater	12
Findlay	32
Finlater	1
Finlay	9
Finlayson	12
Finnie	1
Firth	184
Flaws	38
Fletcher	3
Flett	460
Florence	2
Flynn	2
Folsetter	5
Folster	33
Forbes	16
Forsyth	3
Fotheringham	5
Fotheringhame	50
Foubister	172
Foulis	54
Fox	10
Fraser	27
Frisken	12
Fyffe	1
Gaddie	12
Galloway	1
Garden	12
Gardner	2
Garrick	2
Garrioch	142
Garriock	80
Garson	124
Gaudie	21
Gedder	1
Geddes	7
Gerrard	3
Gibson	90
Gilles	4
Gillespie	7
Gillies	4
Gilmour	7
Glass	1
Goar	16
Goff	6
Goldwater	1
Goodfellow	2
Goodlad	6
Goodsir	13
Gordon	6
Gorn	43
Gorrie	9
Goudie	3
Gould	2
Govesburn	1
Gow	13
Gowan	1
Gowans	3
Graeme	4
Graham	11
Grant	42
Gray	140
Green	9
Greig	10
Grey	2
Grieve	68
Groat	145
Groundwater	104
Gullion	25
Gunn	98
Gutcher	13
Guthrie	93
Hackland	2
Haffie	2
Hagan	1
Haggerty	8
Haisthorne	1
Halcro	33
Halcrow	11
Hall	1
Hamilton	11
Harcues	1
Harcus	287
Hardy	1
Harold	3
Harper	26
Harray	9
Harrison	4
Harrold	67
Harvey	188
Haughton	5
Hay	97
Haydon	4
Heddle	115
Henderson	19
Hendrie	2
Henry	2
Hepburn	59
Hepworth	3
Hercus	21
Herdman	16
Herdsman	1
Herriot	2
Hewison	27
Higgins	3
Hill	8
Hinds	1
Holland	7
Horn	2
Horne	42
Horrie	11
Horwood	2
Hossack	5
Hourie	46
Hourston	173
Hoy	2
Hudson	1
Hughson	7
Hume	31
Humphrey	1
Hunter	36
Hutcheon	6
Hutchison	66
Inkster	104
Iredale	1
Ireland	4
Ironside	10
Irvine	148
Isbister	163
Iverach	1
James	5
Jamieson	4
Jarvey	3
Jarvie	7
Jeffery	2
Jeffrey	5
Jenkins	3
Jewson	3
Johnson	4
Johnston	441
Johnstone	32
Jolly	9
Jones	6
Keast	4
Keddie	2
Keetley	3
Keiller	1
Keith	3
Kelday	29
Keldie	20
Keldy	2
Kellet	1
Kemp	58
Kennedy	35
Kent	62
Kerr	4
King	38
Kippen	1
Kirkness	191
Kirkpatrick	74
Knarston	4
Knight	35
Laidlaw	1
Laird	148
Lamb	2
Lamont	7
Langskail	10
Langskaill	4
Langskill	10
Lanskail	1
Lanskaill	3
Laughton	131
Laurance	6
Laurence	2
Laurie	4
Laverty	7
Lawrence	2
Leadbetter	1
Learmonth	109
Leask	118
Leavach	1
Lees	1
Leitch	5
Leith	30
Lenie	1
Lennie	101
Leonard	36
Leslie	164
Liddell	4
Liddle	23
Lilburn	2
Lindores	1
Linklater	319
Linskill	1
Lislie	1
Little	1
Lochan	2
Logie	101
Loughman	1
Loutit	8
Loutitt	9
Louttit	93
Love	1
Lovell	1
Low	30
Luke	1
Lyall	2
Lyell	1
Lynch	2
Lyon	20
Macadie	1
Macallum	1
Macaullie ?	1
Macbeath	4
MacCullie	2
MacDonald	12
Macgregor	17
MacIntosh	1
MacIntyre	2
Mackay	129
MacKechnie	4
Mackenzie	21
Mackie	1
Mackinson	6
Mackintosh	6
MacLaren	5
Maclean	1
MacLennan	7
MacLeod	7
Macmaster	2
Macpherson	1
MacQueen	1
Mainland	124
Mair	1
Maitland	1
MaKay	3
Makinson	6
Malcolmson	20
Mallett	2
Manson	136
Markham	1
Marsh	1
Martins	10
Marwick	174
Mason	14
Masson	2
Masterton	1
Matches	99
Matheson	19
Mathieson	35
Mawdesley	1
Maxwell	44
McAdie	13
McBain	3
McBeath	13
McCadie	1
McCallum	5
McCaskill	1
McCullie	1
McCulloch	1
McDearmid	4
McDonald	39
McEwan	2
McEwen	3
McFarlen	1
McGavin	3
McGhee	4
McGillivray	15
McGilvary	2
McGlashan	1
McGloughlin	1
McGowan	4
McGregor	9
McHardy	3
McHollan	4
McIlvean	1
McIntosh	1
McIver	2
McIvor	7
McKay	54
McKeddie	1
McKenzie	25
McKernie	1
McKerra	1
McKerrow	1
McKinlay	7
McKinnon	4
McLachlan	6
Mclain	1
McLardy	2
McLaren	5
Mclaskey	5
McLean	3
McLelland	1
McLennan	12
McLeod	12
McMannan	1
McMillan	14
McNeil	3
McPhee	12
McPherson	6
McQueen	1
McQuistan ?	5
Meadows	12
Meason	29
Meikle	1
Meil	40
Meill	1
Meldrum	9
Mellis ?	1
Melon	1
Melville	8
Merrilees	1
Merriman	62
Michael	4
Middlemore	1
Middleton	1
Millan	11
Millar	16
Miller	299
Mills	5
Milne	38
Mitchell	42
Moar	183
Moir	2
Moncrieff	1
Moncur	2
Montgomery	5
Moodie	124
Mooney	15
Moore	2
Morgan	6
Morris	4
Morrison	35
Moss	8
Mowat	282
Mowatt	26
Muce	4
Muir	391
Muirden	12
Muirhead	2
Mummery	1
Munro	18
Munroe	1
Murdoch	10
Murell	4
Murison	8
Murray	18
Murry	2
Neish	1
Newland	43
Newlands	26
Nichol	1
Nicholson	21
Nicoll	1
Nicolson	108
Norn	11
Norquay	110
Norquoy	107
Oag	7
Oddie	21
Offard	2
Oman	3
Omand	96
Omond	10
Organ	2
Osborne	17
Osbourne	1
Osburne	2
Oswald	2
Paplay	3
Papley	13
Park	70
Parker	1
Parratt	5
Paterson	79
Patrick	11
Patterson	1
Patton	3
Paul	4
Pavie	1
Payne	1
Peace	153
Pearson	14
Peel	1
Peggie	7
Petrie	104
Philips	1
Phillips	29
Pirie	29
Plank	1
Poke	9
Pole	2
Porss ?	2
Porteus	5
Poton ?	1
Pottinger	97
Pratt	47
Price	2
Price?	1
Prickett	1
Pringle	8
Prosser	1
Puckey	4
R	1
Rae	8
Ramsay	6
Rankin	2
Redland	4
Redmond	2
Reed	5
Reekie	2
Reid	214
Rendall	505
Renton	1
Rich	2
Richardson	3
Ridlan	1
Rigg	6
Riley	1
Risker	1
Ritch	163
Ritchie	32
Robb	29
Robertson	365
Robin	4
Robinson	3
Robson	34
Rorie	25
Rose	7
Rosie	169
Ross	47
Rossie	8
Rousay	42
Rowan	1
Rowland	9
Rowney	3
Runceman	2
Runciman	4
Russell	66
Russland	3
Rutherford	2
Ryden	1
Ryrie	6
Sabiston	140
Salter	3
Sandison	52
Sangster	5
Scarth	52
Schollay	6
Schollie	10
Sclater	45
Scolay	1
Scolie	1
Scollay	15
Scollie	8
Scott	343
Scrimgerer	1
Seater	27
Seator	9
Seatter	148
Shand	2
Sharp	11
Shaw	5
Shearer	303
Shenlan ?	1
Shewan	2
Shipton	1
Shurie	10
Shurrie	1
Sim	1
Simison	18
Simmons	1
Simpson	76
Sinclair	837
Skae	2
Skea	116
Skene	3
Skethaway	9
Skinner	29
Slater	92
Smart	1
Smith	268
Sommerville	11
Soutar	4
Souter	2
Spark	2
Spence	401
Spilsbury	1
Stanger	73
Stephen	20
Steven	11
Stevenson	178
Stewart	41
Sticklar	1
Stickler	9
Still	3
Stockan	32
Stocks	5
Stopani ?	1
Stott	1
Stout	148
Stove	21
Strachan	11
Stronach	7
Struthers	1
Stuart	9
Sutherland	430
Swan	3
Swaney	9
Swanney	161
Swannie	15
Swanson	28
Swanston	1
Tait	171
Taylor	272
Taynton	1
Terras	2
Thomison	10
Thompson	30
Thoms	3
Thomson	393
Thorpe	4
Tinch	16
Toal ?	1
Tomison	48
Tori	5
Torrible	3
Towers	53
Townend	1
Towrie	9
Trail	7
Traill	2
Traurance	1
Trinder	1
Troup	7
Trumbland	4
Tulloch	369
Tullock	47
Turfeus	10
Turfus	37
Turner	3
Twatt	46
Tyrie	6
Uttley	1
Valentine	3
Vallance	1
Van Wyck	2
Vass	1
Velzian	15
Voy	23
Wagrall	1
Waldie	4
Walker	13
Wallace	76
Walls	119
Walter	12
Ward	15
Wards	87
Warren	5
Waterer	2
Waters	11
Waterston	1
Watson	22
Watt	49
Watters	9
Watts	2
Way	1
Webster	10
Welsh	4
Westness	1
White	19
Whiteford	1
Whitelaw	4
Whitlaw	5
Whyte	4
Wick	27
Will	3
Willetts	5
Williams	1
Williamson	87
Wilson	222
Windwick	20
Winton	6
Wintrip	4
Wishart	77
Witherage	1
Wood	107
Wooldrage	31
Wooldridge	2
Woolridge	1
Work	192
Wright	18
Wyile	1
Wylie	162
Wyllie	1
Yair	2
Yeatman	1
Yorston	62
Young	22
Yule	17
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