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 Donaldson, with 218 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
101	Donaldson	218	0.130%	4.56x
102	Armstrong	216	0.130%	1.68x
103	Welsh	212	0.130%	3.19x
104	Dunlop	211	0.130%	7.80x
105	Ward	211	0.130%	0.58x
106	Harvey	210	0.130%	1.17x
107	Pollock	210	0.130%	8.62x
108	Lynch	209	0.120%	4.72x
109	Thompson	209	0.120%	0.42x
110	Cowan	207	0.120%	6.05x
111	Murdoch	207	0.120%	7.26x
112	Ritchie	207	0.120%	3.57x
113	Cairns	205	0.120%	5.65x
114	Higgins	205	0.120%	2.42x
115	Quin	204	0.120%	11.35x
116	Rennie	202	0.120%	6.89x
117	Shields	202	0.120%	7.79x
118	Wylie	200	0.120%	10.24x
119	Turner	199	0.120%	0.43x
120	Forsyth	198	0.120%	5.53x
121	Gilchrist	198	0.120%	8.05x
122	Sutherland	197	0.120%	2.33x
123	Drummond	196	0.120%	5.88x
124	Waddell	195	0.120%	13.10x
125	Gillespie	191	0.110%	7.18x
126	Sweeney	191	0.110%	8.50x
127	Barclay	190	0.110%	5.50x
128	Caldwell	190	0.110%	7.24x
129	Dick	187	0.110%	5.00x
130	Hall	187	0.110%	0.38x
131	Inglis	186	0.110%	6.64x
132	Park	186	0.110%	3.58x
133	Gilmour	185	0.110%	7.79x
134	Mackay	185	0.110%	3.05x
135	Moffat	185	0.110%	6.09x
136	Laird	182	0.110%	9.66x
137	Fisher	179	0.110%	0.91x
138	Orr	179	0.110%	6.33x
139	Mackie	174	0.100%	4.85x
140	Houston	173	0.100%	8.10x
141	Neil	173	0.100%	7.80x
142	Findlay	172	0.100%	4.95x
143	Ramsay	172	0.100%	3.98x
144	Tait	172	0.100%	3.48x
145	Kane	169	0.100%	12.51x
146	Bruce	167	0.100%	2.13x
147	Lawson	167	0.100%	1.69x
148	Galbraith	166	0.100%	10.82x
149	Fulton	165	0.100%	7.79x
150	Gibb	165	0.100%	5.57x
151	Cochrane	164	0.100%	6.31x
152	Cook	164	0.100%	0.49x
153	Shearer	163	0.100%	7.57x
154	Montgomery	162	0.100%	6.09x
155	Lang	161	0.100%	4.31x
156	Phillips	160	0.100%	0.53x
157	Rae	160	0.100%	4.19x
158	Adam	159	0.090%	5.52x
159	Watt	159	0.090%	2.47x
160	Hart	158	0.090%	1.10x
161	Fitzpatrick	157	0.090%	6.40x
162	Green	156	0.090%	0.33x
163	Donald	155	0.090%	4.59x
164	Downie	155	0.090%	7.88x
165	Fyfe	155	0.090%	10.07x
166	Maxwell	154	0.090%	3.86x
167	Morton	154	0.090%	1.72x
168	Cumming	151	0.090%	4.72x
169	Hardie	150	0.090%	6.86x
170	Carmichael	148	0.090%	6.16x
171	Colquhoun	148	0.090%	14.89x
172	Henry	148	0.090%	3.49x
173	Lennox	148	0.090%	14.87x
174	Love	146	0.090%	3.67x
175	Adams	145	0.090%	0.59x
176	Bryson	144	0.090%	11.20x
177	Forrest	143	0.090%	3.31x
178	Hendry	143	0.090%	5.38x
179	Mason	143	0.090%	0.63x
180	Nicol	143	0.090%	4.09x
181	Spence	142	0.080%	2.56x
182	Law	141	0.080%	1.86x
183	Oneil	141	0.080%	8.37x
184	Bradley	140	0.080%	1.04x
185	Kean	140	0.080%	12.32x
186	Glen	139	0.080%	8.37x
187	Allison	138	0.080%	2.89x
188	Turnbull	138	0.080%	1.95x
189	Mullen	136	0.080%	8.48x
190	Connelly	135	0.080%	8.67x
191	Finlay	135	0.080%	7.84x
192	Kay	133	0.080%	1.53x
193	Robb	133	0.080%	4.58x
194	Hutchison	132	0.080%	4.79x
195	Whyte	132	0.080%	4.64x
196	Gillies	131	0.080%	5.46x
197	Riddell	130	0.080%	9.24x
198	Beattie	129	0.080%	3.59x
199	Elliot	128	0.080%	2.99x
200	Leitch	128	0.080%	8.00x