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 Keys, with 20 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
901	Keys	20	0.010%	2.40x
902	Leck	20	0.010%	10.50x
903	Loan	20	0.010%	20.52x
904	Lorimer	20	0.010%	2.98x
905	Moncrieff	20	0.010%	4.74x
906	Moncur	20	0.010%	6.05x
907	Motherwell	20	0.010%	16.53x
908	Mulheron	20	0.010%	30.01x
909	Obrian	20	0.010%	3.63x
910	Oconnell	20	0.010%	5.04x
911	Russel	20	0.010%	1.73x
912	Salmond	20	0.010%	5.67x
913	Scotland	20	0.010%	4.18x
914	Stephen	20	0.010%	0.68x
915	Still	20	0.010%	1.89x
916	Thyne	20	0.010%	29.03x
917	Towers	20	0.010%	1.03x
918	Wales	20	0.010%	1.47x
919	Wardrop	20	0.010%	5.22x
920	Waterson	20	0.010%	2.85x
921	Wray	20	0.010%	0.89x
922	Barry	19	0.010%	0.63x
923	Blackley	19	0.010%	4.18x
924	Brash	19	0.010%	6.41x
925	Brennan	19	0.010%	1.08x
926	Britton	19	0.010%	0.64x
927	Cassie	19	0.010%	6.74x
928	Cathcart	19	0.010%	7.37x
929	Coghill	19	0.010%	5.72x
930	Conlin	19	0.010%	6.09x
931	Cormack	19	0.010%	1.50x
932	Croall	19	0.010%	17.57x
933	Crum	19	0.010%	19.84x
934	Dolan	19	0.010%	1.30x
935	Fay	19	0.010%	2.71x
936	Fegan	19	0.010%	9.66x
937	Finney	19	0.010%	1.31x
938	Fitzsimons	19	0.010%	7.33x
939	Grierson	19	0.010%	2.04x
940	Horsburgh	19	0.010%	4.59x
941	Leven	19	0.010%	25.89x
942	Major	19	0.010%	0.84x
943	Moan	19	0.010%	22.92x
944	Munroe	19	0.010%	4.19x
945	Ohare	19	0.010%	4.61x
946	Oliphant	19	0.010%	2.91x
947	Salmon	19	0.010%	0.50x
948	Ainslie	18	0.010%	4.06x
949	Arlow	18	0.010%	51.83x
950	Bilsland	18	0.010%	18.68x
951	Binnie	18	0.010%	2.57x
952	Blackie	18	0.010%	2.62x
953	Bone	18	0.010%	0.58x
954	Boyes	18	0.010%	1.03x
955	Brannigan	18	0.010%	10.75x
956	Brawley	18	0.010%	25.50x
957	Broadfoot	18	0.010%	4.49x
958	Burrell	18	0.010%	0.82x
959	Carlyle	18	0.010%	3.89x
960	Corbet	18	0.010%	3.90x
961	Coyne	18	0.010%	2.03x
962	Crockett	18	0.010%	2.28x
963	Cruickshank	18	0.010%	0.96x
964	Dally	18	0.010%	5.43x
965	Denny	18	0.010%	1.28x
966	Duthie	18	0.010%	2.00x
967	Flood	18	0.010%	1.22x
968	Fullarton	18	0.010%	5.10x
969	Gilmore	18	0.010%	1.83x
970	Golden	18	0.010%	2.55x
971	Grady	18	0.010%	1.63x
972	Irvin	18	0.010%	3.66x
973	Kilgour	18	0.010%	2.92x
974	Liddle	18	0.010%	0.91x
975	Macleod	18	0.010%	0.76x
976	Money	18	0.010%	1.80x
977	Monteath	18	0.010%	11.64x
978	Morison	18	0.010%	2.10x
979	Nolan	18	0.010%	0.79x
980	Ormiston	18	0.010%	3.73x
981	Pirie	18	0.010%	1.50x
982	Smeaton	18	0.010%	3.82x
983	Stafford	18	0.010%	0.50x
984	Tarbet	18	0.010%	11.00x
985	Tough	18	0.010%	2.79x
986	Traill	18	0.010%	7.78x
987	Traynor	18	0.010%	4.54x
988	Tulloch	18	0.010%	1.62x
989	Waddel	18	0.010%	15.02x
990	Wardlaw	18	0.010%	5.91x
991	Annan	17	0.010%	7.23x
992	Bonnar	17	0.010%	7.48x
993	Broadly	17	0.010%	11.58x
994	Brownlee	17	0.010%	2.93x
995	Buchannan	17	0.010%	7.19x
996	Byrne	17	0.010%	0.73x
997	Cain	17	0.010%	0.49x
998	Callachan	17	0.010%	31.94x
999	Clerk	17	0.010%	3.92x
1000	Colgan	17	0.010%	12.09x