1881 census place

Glasgow surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Glasgow, 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

3,607 surnames are listed for Glasgow, Lanarkshire, covering 120,522 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Smith, with 2,017 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Glasgow

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	Smith	2,017	1.20%	0.85x
2	Campbell	1,907	1.14%	6.72x
3	Brown	1,806	1.08%	1.63x
4	Wilson	1,639	0.980%	2.13x
5	Thomson	1,349	0.800%	6.02x
6	Stewart	1,276	0.760%	4.86x
7	Anderson	1,261	0.750%	3.81x
8	Robertson	1,240	0.740%	4.41x
9	Murray	1,018	0.610%	4.89x
10	Miller	996	0.590%	3.32x
11	Reid	870	0.520%	4.94x
12	Scott	867	0.520%	2.04x
13	Hamilton	837	0.500%	6.65x
14	Walker	814	0.490%	1.45x
15	Cameron	802	0.480%	6.15x
16	Graham	796	0.470%	4.13x
17	Ferguson	786	0.470%	6.61x
18	Clark	778	0.460%	1.54x
19	Kelly	760	0.450%	4.14x
20	Watson	760	0.450%	1.95x
21	Young	758	0.450%	2.10x
22	Henderson	726	0.430%	3.98x
23	Paterson	722	0.430%	6.32x
24	Martin	655	0.390%	1.58x
25	Gray	622	0.370%	2.60x
26	Johnston	619	0.370%	4.57x
27	Ross	618	0.370%	3.37x
28	Morrison	591	0.350%	4.48x
29	Kerr	590	0.350%	6.45x
30	Taylor	569	0.340%	0.53x
31	Boyle	547	0.330%	12.57x
32	Burns	538	0.320%	4.78x
33	Hunter	534	0.320%	3.10x
34	Fraser	512	0.310%	3.43x
35	Murphy	511	0.300%	3.81x
36	Stevenson	505	0.300%	4.29x
37	Crawford	495	0.300%	6.03x
38	Wright	488	0.290%	0.91x
39	Mitchell	485	0.290%	1.43x
40	Allan	481	0.290%	4.57x
41	Bell	474	0.280%	1.50x
42	Black	470	0.280%	4.33x
43	White	469	0.280%	0.87x
44	Buchanan	453	0.270%	10.45x
45	Russell	438	0.260%	2.14x
46	Davidson	436	0.260%	3.09x
47	Muir	434	0.260%	6.76x
48	Kennedy	426	0.250%	4.21x
49	Marshall	426	0.250%	1.51x
50	Hughes	419	0.250%	0.89x
51	Gibson	417	0.250%	2.05x
52	Wallace	416	0.250%	3.62x
53	Johnstone	401	0.240%	5.29x
54	Docherty	397	0.240%	15.91x
55	Simpson	396	0.240%	1.35x
56	Grant	375	0.220%	2.25x
57	Dunn	372	0.220%	2.67x
58	Boyd	371	0.220%	6.30x
59	Alexander	351	0.210%	3.95x
60	Gordon	341	0.200%	3.23x
61	Munro	336	0.200%	4.49x
62	Fleming	327	0.190%	4.69x
63	Dickson	325	0.190%	5.23x
64	Currie	324	0.190%	6.86x
65	Millar	321	0.190%	5.24x
66	Lindsay	315	0.190%	5.76x
67	Jamieson	305	0.180%	6.53x
68	Aitken	300	0.180%	6.82x
69	Moore	288	0.170%	0.86x
70	Barr	285	0.170%	7.03x
71	Gallacher	273	0.160%	18.87x
72	Shaw	272	0.160%	0.88x
73	Weir	269	0.160%	6.17x
74	Baird	264	0.160%	7.36x
75	Paton	260	0.160%	6.93x
76	Hill	259	0.150%	0.61x
77	Blair	258	0.150%	5.93x
78	Cassidy	252	0.150%	12.29x
79	Gardner	252	0.150%	2.21x
80	Neilson	248	0.150%	10.49x
81	Devlin	247	0.150%	17.98x
82	Logan	247	0.150%	6.21x
83	Duffy	244	0.150%	6.66x
84	Bain	242	0.140%	5.81x
85	Rankin	241	0.140%	9.67x
86	Wood	240	0.140%	0.45x
87	Irvine	238	0.140%	6.44x
88	Hay	237	0.140%	3.85x
89	King	236	0.140%	0.65x
90	Devine	235	0.140%	14.07x
91	Collins	234	0.140%	0.97x
92	Jackson	233	0.140%	0.50x
93	Douglas	230	0.140%	2.83x
94	Jack	229	0.140%	6.42x
95	Reilly	228	0.140%	12.80x
96	Donnelly	225	0.130%	10.66x
97	Williamson	224	0.130%	1.49x
98	Chalmers	221	0.130%	5.53x
99	Stirling	221	0.130%	10.14x
100	Christie	218	0.130%	4.01x