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 Sharp, with 128 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
201	Sharp	128	0.080%	0.92x
202	Mooney	127	0.080%	6.52x
203	Obrien	127	0.080%	5.12x
204	Ballantyne	126	0.080%	9.90x
205	Brodie	126	0.080%	5.60x
206	Duff	123	0.070%	4.12x
207	Gow	123	0.070%	9.28x
208	Mathieson	123	0.070%	6.96x
209	Hannah	122	0.070%	5.59x
210	Gorman	121	0.070%	5.98x
211	Dawson	119	0.070%	0.64x
212	Milligan	119	0.070%	6.03x
213	Porter	119	0.070%	0.95x
214	Rodgers	119	0.070%	2.59x
215	Falconer	118	0.070%	5.90x
216	Nelson	118	0.070%	1.45x
217	Forbes	117	0.070%	2.08x
218	Gemmell	117	0.070%	11.60x
219	Kirkwood	117	0.070%	7.72x
220	Wilkie	117	0.070%	4.89x
221	Baxter	116	0.070%	1.16x
222	Livingston	116	0.070%	7.70x
223	Mills	116	0.070%	0.53x
224	Bowie	115	0.070%	7.87x
225	Burnside	115	0.070%	19.55x
226	Monaghan	115	0.070%	9.46x
227	Dougherty	114	0.070%	17.57x
228	Gallagher	114	0.070%	4.47x
229	Galloway	114	0.070%	3.95x
230	Richardson	114	0.070%	0.40x
231	Andrew	113	0.070%	2.13x
232	Grieve	113	0.070%	5.81x
233	Eadie	111	0.070%	13.99x
234	Horn	111	0.070%	2.91x
235	Armour	110	0.070%	10.46x
236	Guthrie	110	0.070%	5.20x
237	Knox	110	0.070%	3.82x
238	Macdonald	109	0.070%	1.64x
239	Dunbar	107	0.060%	5.55x
240	Lamb	107	0.060%	1.21x
241	Newlands	107	0.060%	15.79x
242	Parker	107	0.060%	0.34x
243	Cullen	106	0.060%	3.61x
244	Odonnell	105	0.060%	9.74x
245	Rodger	105	0.060%	4.45x
246	Connor	104	0.060%	2.10x
247	Calder	103	0.060%	4.39x
248	Gunn	103	0.060%	2.51x
249	Laing	103	0.060%	3.06x
250	Livingstone	103	0.060%	6.59x
251	Trainer	103	0.060%	15.01x
252	Sloan	101	0.060%	6.39x
253	Quinn	100	0.060%	3.12x
254	Stark	100	0.060%	4.35x
255	Queen	99	0.060%	14.40x
256	Somerville	99	0.060%	7.09x
257	Baillie	98	0.060%	5.63x
258	Bryce	98	0.060%	5.84x
259	Ure	98	0.060%	18.81x
260	Brady	97	0.060%	3.27x
261	Ewing	97	0.060%	6.27x
262	Muirhead	97	0.060%	7.50x
263	Swan	97	0.060%	2.23x
264	Todd	97	0.060%	1.14x
265	Geddes	96	0.060%	4.77x
266	Lyon	95	0.060%	2.70x
267	Nisbet	95	0.060%	5.36x
268	Rooney	95	0.060%	6.35x
269	Liddell	94	0.060%	6.11x
270	Dempster	93	0.060%	7.88x
271	Hood	93	0.060%	2.00x
272	Madden	93	0.060%	6.41x
273	Riley	93	0.060%	0.70x
274	Fletcher	92	0.050%	0.48x
275	Keenan	92	0.050%	6.47x
276	Owens	92	0.050%	1.10x
277	Whitelaw	92	0.050%	9.20x
278	Little	91	0.050%	1.15x
279	Mulholland	91	0.050%	14.60x
280	Richmond	91	0.050%	2.48x
281	Coyle	89	0.050%	7.81x
282	Carson	88	0.050%	4.76x
283	Edgar	88	0.050%	3.41x
284	Finlayson	88	0.050%	4.55x
285	Laurie	88	0.050%	6.11x
286	Niven	88	0.050%	7.54x
287	Smellie	88	0.050%	11.85x
288	Harper	87	0.050%	0.81x
289	Malcolm	87	0.050%	3.94x
290	Callaghan	86	0.050%	4.53x
291	Flynn	86	0.050%	2.68x
292	Greig	86	0.050%	3.24x
293	Ohara	86	0.050%	8.92x
294	Barrie	85	0.050%	7.02x
295	Carr	85	0.050%	0.70x
296	Drysdale	85	0.050%	5.99x
297	Napier	85	0.050%	6.30x
298	Brownlie	84	0.050%	11.44x
299	Connell	84	0.050%	2.88x
300	Dow	84	0.050%	4.16x