1881 census county

Lanarkshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Lanarkshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

9,763 surnames are listed for Lanarkshire, covering 745,133 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Borthwick, with 101 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Lanarkshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1001	Borthwick	101	0.010%	1.90x
1002	Bow	101	0.010%	4.57x
1003	Hoy	101	0.010%	1.86x
1004	Macrae	101	0.010%	1.37x
1005	Oswald	101	0.010%	2.33x
1006	Pairman	101	0.010%	18.30x
1007	Connel	100	0.010%	5.75x
1008	Craigie	100	0.010%	3.37x
1009	Dalgleish	100	0.010%	2.35x
1010	Cormack	99	0.010%	1.39x
1011	Fagan	99	0.010%	2.20x
1012	Kerrigan	99	0.010%	5.81x
1013	Macaulay	99	0.010%	2.94x
1014	Rollo	99	0.010%	4.56x
1015	Walkinshaw	99	0.010%	9.23x
1016	Winter	99	0.010%	0.30x
1017	Beggs	98	0.010%	7.75x
1018	Dollan	98	0.010%	12.63x
1019	Gibbon	98	0.010%	1.02x
1020	Gilligan	98	0.010%	4.07x
1021	Murdock	98	0.010%	2.87x
1022	Norris	98	0.010%	0.24x
1023	Sime	98	0.010%	2.59x
1024	Blackburn	97	0.010%	0.27x
1025	Buckley	97	0.010%	0.19x
1026	Donaghy	97	0.010%	9.89x
1027	Haggerty	97	0.010%	5.55x
1028	Heggie	97	0.010%	3.72x
1029	Kilgour	97	0.010%	2.79x
1030	Lochrie	97	0.010%	15.93x
1031	Ray	97	0.010%	0.52x
1032	Abernethy	96	0.010%	4.40x
1033	Bald	96	0.010%	6.38x
1034	Bradshaw	96	0.010%	0.25x
1035	Buchannan	96	0.010%	7.21x
1036	Crighton	96	0.010%	2.56x
1037	Fairbairn	96	0.010%	1.38x
1038	Howe	96	0.010%	0.26x
1039	Lundie	96	0.010%	5.86x
1040	Vance	96	0.010%	5.34x
1041	Dingwall	95	0.010%	2.54x
1042	Fenton	95	0.010%	0.50x
1043	Hagan	95	0.010%	2.01x
1044	Nicoll	95	0.010%	1.11x
1045	Begley	94	0.010%	5.82x
1046	Brough	94	0.010%	0.81x
1047	Costello	94	0.010%	1.63x
1048	Forest	94	0.010%	3.47x
1049	Foulds	94	0.010%	1.47x
1050	Hawkins	94	0.010%	0.14x
1051	Plenderleith	94	0.010%	9.37x
1052	Bonnar	93	0.010%	7.26x
1053	Brechin	93	0.010%	10.88x
1054	Delaney	93	0.010%	1.53x
1055	Kinnaird	93	0.010%	5.60x
1056	Leggate	93	0.010%	13.90x
1057	Newbigging	93	0.010%	11.65x
1058	Rilley	93	0.010%	8.47x
1059	Bannatyne	92	0.010%	8.08x
1060	Breckenridge	92	0.010%	9.59x
1061	Callander	92	0.010%	4.78x
1062	Courtney	92	0.010%	1.36x
1063	Guy	92	0.010%	0.44x
1064	Moffatt	92	0.010%	1.51x
1065	Moyes	92	0.010%	2.27x
1066	Pillans	92	0.010%	16.29x
1067	Beith	91	0.010%	9.98x
1068	Crooks	91	0.010%	1.25x
1069	Curr	91	0.010%	8.24x
1070	Farrel	91	0.010%	4.24x
1071	Grahame	91	0.010%	3.68x
1072	Keating	91	0.010%	1.95x
1073	Purves	91	0.010%	1.47x
1074	Ruthven	91	0.010%	7.59x
1075	Shand	91	0.010%	1.40x
1076	Beck	90	0.010%	0.41x
1077	Charles	90	0.010%	0.46x
1078	Close	90	0.010%	1.09x
1079	Farquharson	90	0.010%	1.69x
1080	Goodall	90	0.010%	0.44x
1081	Kinnear	90	0.010%	1.96x
1082	Macmillan	90	0.010%	3.43x
1083	Mechan	90	0.010%	8.72x
1084	Moreland	90	0.010%	4.32x
1085	Neish	90	0.010%	4.68x
1086	Nesbit	90	0.010%	3.10x
1087	Notman	90	0.010%	5.77x
1088	Philip	90	0.010%	1.43x
1089	Rielly	90	0.010%	6.60x
1090	Younger	90	0.010%	1.76x
1091	Bond	89	0.010%	0.18x
1092	Eglinton	89	0.010%	12.21x
1093	Flannagan	89	0.010%	4.64x
1094	Friel	89	0.010%	13.76x
1095	Gormley	89	0.010%	8.06x
1096	Gribbon	89	0.010%	16.60x
1097	Herbertson	89	0.010%	11.42x
1098	Hoggan	89	0.010%	6.55x
1099	Mark	89	0.010%	1.87x
1100	Ramsey	89	0.010%	0.87x