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 Lawless, with 12 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
1301	Lawless	12	0.010%	1.99x
1302	Layden	12	0.010%	11.64x
1303	Macgregor	12	0.010%	1.71x
1304	Marron	12	0.010%	9.40x
1305	Maule	12	0.010%	3.00x
1306	Millikin	12	0.010%	24.08x
1307	Montgomerie	12	0.010%	3.75x
1308	Mutch	12	0.010%	1.60x
1309	Peattie	12	0.010%	5.67x
1310	Phillip	12	0.010%	1.41x
1311	Plews	12	0.010%	2.99x
1312	Plunkett	12	0.010%	2.70x
1313	Purves	12	0.010%	1.09x
1314	Rocks	12	0.010%	14.38x
1315	Salton	12	0.010%	7.36x
1316	Strathern	12	0.010%	9.78x
1317	Sturdy	12	0.010%	2.25x
1318	Sweet	12	0.010%	0.79x
1319	Willock	12	0.010%	5.34x
1320	Wingate	12	0.010%	2.01x
1321	Ashford	11	0.010%	0.66x
1322	Bagan	11	0.010%	78.63x
1323	Barret	11	0.010%	2.31x
1324	Bathgate	11	0.010%	2.83x
1325	Birnie	11	0.010%	1.54x
1326	Bogie	11	0.010%	4.81x
1327	Boner	11	0.010%	19.07x
1328	Breckenridge	11	0.010%	6.46x
1329	Brewster	11	0.010%	0.68x
1330	Brydon	11	0.010%	2.08x
1331	Burd	11	0.010%	6.77x
1332	Burk	11	0.010%	1.82x
1333	Burnet	11	0.010%	1.79x
1334	Cavanah	11	0.010%	11.22x
1335	Clow	11	0.010%	2.17x
1336	Cobain	11	0.010%	65.52x
1337	Cogan	11	0.010%	3.23x
1338	Connaghan	11	0.010%	43.65x
1339	Cousland	11	0.010%	19.64x
1340	Duffie	11	0.010%	9.58x
1341	Egan	11	0.010%	0.79x
1342	Eyre	11	0.010%	0.55x
1343	Fagan	11	0.010%	1.38x
1344	Fallen	11	0.010%	9.31x
1345	Fortune	11	0.010%	1.25x
1346	Gilliland	11	0.010%	7.86x
1347	Glancy	11	0.010%	5.59x
1348	Halligan	11	0.010%	5.50x
1349	Harbison	11	0.010%	29.76x
1350	Hinds	11	0.010%	0.95x
1351	Holburn	11	0.010%	9.82x
1352	Keane	11	0.010%	2.82x
1353	Kenney	11	0.010%	1.19x
1354	Kinney	11	0.010%	8.05x
1355	Latta	11	0.010%	5.24x
1356	Macauley	11	0.010%	4.15x
1357	Machan	11	0.010%	13.36x
1358	Markie	11	0.010%	17.23x
1359	Mateer	11	0.010%	93.54x
1360	Mathison	11	0.010%	2.42x
1361	Mechan	11	0.010%	6.01x
1362	Moreland	11	0.010%	2.97x
1363	Mountford	11	0.010%	0.74x
1364	Mushet	11	0.010%	12.12x
1365	Orme	11	0.010%	0.79x
1366	Paisley	11	0.010%	2.95x
1367	Pincock	11	0.010%	23.10x
1368	Polson	11	0.010%	2.83x
1369	Priestly	11	0.010%	2.79x
1370	Pyle	11	0.010%	1.61x
1371	Ring	11	0.010%	1.61x
1372	Risk	11	0.010%	5.53x
1373	Rodgerson	11	0.010%	5.31x
1374	Roxburgh	11	0.010%	2.12x
1375	Scroggie	11	0.010%	7.95x
1376	Smeal	11	0.010%	37.06x
1377	Sorley	11	0.010%	8.50x
1378	Steedman	11	0.010%	2.54x
1379	Sturgeon	11	0.010%	1.62x
1380	Sunter	11	0.010%	4.36x
1381	Tasker	11	0.010%	0.62x
1382	Terrace	11	0.010%	16.50x
1383	Timmins	11	0.010%	0.82x
1384	Trayner	11	0.010%	6.87x
1385	Westwater	11	0.010%	5.04x
1386	Yuile	11	0.010%	19.07x
1387	Yule	11	0.010%	1.31x
1388	Bannatyne	10	0.010%	4.94x
1389	Beatson	10	0.010%	3.19x
1390	Beith	10	0.010%	6.18x
1391	Bertram	10	0.010%	1.25x
1392	Bonner	10	0.010%	0.68x
1393	Braid	10	0.010%	1.62x
1394	Branagan	10	0.010%	9.02x
1395	Brannagan	10	0.010%	17.33x
1396	Burnes	10	0.010%	3.29x
1397	Callan	10	0.010%	1.85x
1398	Carty	10	0.010%	2.54x
1399	Christian	10	0.010%	0.60x
1400	Clinton	10	0.010%	1.55x