1881 census place

Cambuslang surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire 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

309 surnames are listed for Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, covering 3,626 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Robertson, with 138 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Cambuslang

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.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
1	Robertson	138	1.45%	8.65x
2	Anderson	125	1.31%	6.64x
3	Thomson	117	1.23%	9.19x
4	Paterson	115	1.21%	17.74x
5	Hamilton	104	1.09%	14.55x
6	Muir	82	0.860%	22.50x
7	Fyfe	76	0.800%	86.93x
8	Reid	74	0.780%	7.40x
9	Dunn	61	0.640%	7.70x
10	Eadie	61	0.640%	135.44x
11	Cameron	57	0.600%	7.70x
12	Millar	55	0.580%	15.82x
13	Fleming	48	0.500%	12.13x
14	Glen	48	0.500%	50.92x
15	Maxwell	48	0.500%	21.21x
16	Pettigrew	42	0.440%	90.83x
17	Kerr	41	0.430%	7.89x
18	Johnstone	38	0.400%	8.83x
19	Arbuckle	37	0.390%	182.63x
20	Park	37	0.390%	12.53x
21	Jarvie	34	0.360%	136.00x
22	Laird	34	0.360%	31.80x
23	Rankin	34	0.360%	24.03x
24	Gilmour	33	0.350%	24.48x
25	Jamieson	33	0.350%	12.44x
26	Semple	32	0.340%	70.50x
27	Aitchison	29	0.300%	43.44x
28	Buchanan	28	0.290%	11.37x
29	Weir	28	0.290%	11.30x
30	Lindsay	26	0.270%	8.37x
31	Curley	24	0.250%	72.42x
32	Drummond	24	0.250%	12.68x
33	Gemmell	23	0.240%	40.17x
34	Baird	22	0.230%	10.80x
35	Dick	22	0.230%	10.35x
36	Neilson	22	0.230%	16.39x
37	Flannagan	20	0.210%	103.41x
38	Keenan	20	0.210%	24.79x
39	Kyle	20	0.210%	37.76x
40	Liddell	20	0.210%	22.89x
41	Orr	20	0.210%	12.46x
42	Dewar	19	0.200%	15.29x
43	Muirhead	19	0.200%	25.86x
44	Whyte	19	0.200%	11.76x
45	Devlin	18	0.190%	23.08x
46	Donald	18	0.190%	9.39x
47	Harvie	18	0.190%	57.75x
48	Brownlie	17	0.180%	40.77x
49	Fulton	17	0.180%	14.14x
50	Goldie	17	0.180%	28.68x
51	Montgomery	17	0.180%	11.25x
52	Roy	17	0.180%	19.64x
53	Tennant	17	0.180%	16.72x
54	Abercrombie	15	0.160%	89.50x
55	Brisbane	15	0.160%	172.22x
56	Hastie	15	0.160%	24.88x
57	Speirs	15	0.160%	40.28x
58	Steven	15	0.160%	20.78x
59	Cherry	14	0.150%	14.36x
60	Coyle	14	0.150%	21.64x
61	Kirkwood	14	0.150%	16.26x
62	Pollock	14	0.150%	10.12x
63	Aird	13	0.140%	26.24x
64	Barrowman	13	0.140%	99.24x
65	Carruthers	13	0.140%	10.32x
66	Clelland	13	0.140%	49.43x
67	Hislop	13	0.140%	22.68x
68	Queen	13	0.140%	33.32x
69	Ballantyne	12	0.130%	16.61x
70	Bogle	12	0.130%	101.18x
71	Clemens	12	0.130%	62.27x
72	Dalrymple	12	0.130%	28.94x
73	Gallacher	12	0.130%	14.61x
74	Longmuir	12	0.130%	67.87x
75	Murdock	12	0.130%	34.80x
76	Odonnell	12	0.130%	19.60x
77	Tennent	12	0.130%	77.32x
78	Urquhart	12	0.130%	8.97x
79	Wylie	12	0.130%	10.83x
80	Dorman	11	0.120%	35.91x
81	Dornan	11	0.120%	208.33x
82	Greenshields	11	0.120%	64.63x
83	Kilpatrick	11	0.120%	22.43x
84	Lithgow	11	0.120%	65.40x
85	Riddell	11	0.120%	13.77x
86	Whitters	11	0.120%	1279.07x
87	Buchan	10	0.110%	8.12x
88	Coats	10	0.110%	23.24x
89	Dalziel	10	0.110%	23.75x
90	Diamond	10	0.110%	22.59x
91	Forest	10	0.110%	36.60x
92	Frame	10	0.110%	16.55x
93	Gold	10	0.110%	18.45x
94	Housley	10	0.110%	43.20x
95	Jardine	10	0.110%	11.27x
96	Porteous	10	0.110%	15.74x
97	Stirling	10	0.110%	8.08x
98	Tonner	10	0.110%	81.23x
99	Westwater	10	0.110%	80.65x
100	Couper	9	0.090%	21.09x