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 Menzies, with 84 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
301	Menzies	84	0.050%	3.85x
302	Sim	84	0.050%	4.46x
303	Cochran	83	0.050%	12.96x
304	Conway	82	0.050%	2.61x
305	Paul	82	0.050%	1.95x
306	Thom	82	0.050%	5.47x
307	Borland	81	0.050%	11.17x
308	Dewar	81	0.050%	3.70x
309	Rankine	81	0.050%	9.52x
310	Stuart	81	0.050%	2.02x
311	Foster	80	0.050%	0.36x
312	Lamont	80	0.050%	5.36x
313	Main	80	0.050%	2.91x
314	Oneill	80	0.050%	7.49x
315	Urquhart	80	0.050%	3.39x
316	Woods	80	0.050%	0.76x
317	Dougan	79	0.050%	19.70x
318	Easton	79	0.050%	3.10x
319	Greer	79	0.050%	14.02x
320	Jarvie	79	0.050%	17.94x
321	Savage	79	0.050%	1.23x
322	Semple	79	0.050%	9.88x
323	Arthur	78	0.050%	2.13x
324	Doyle	78	0.050%	1.91x
325	Hutcheson	78	0.050%	9.06x
326	Barbour	77	0.050%	8.35x
327	Dickie	77	0.050%	5.85x
328	Fox	77	0.050%	0.49x
329	Nicholson	77	0.050%	0.65x
330	Speirs	77	0.050%	11.74x
331	Carlin	76	0.050%	8.91x
332	Carroll	76	0.050%	2.26x
333	Jardine	76	0.050%	4.86x
334	Daly	75	0.040%	4.53x
335	Davie	75	0.040%	4.85x
336	Pettigrew	75	0.040%	9.21x
337	Warnock	75	0.040%	20.57x
338	Gardiner	74	0.040%	1.53x
339	Howie	74	0.040%	4.50x
340	Hutton	74	0.040%	1.48x
341	Smart	74	0.040%	0.97x
342	Beaton	73	0.040%	3.78x
343	Brooks	73	0.040%	0.45x
344	Chisholm	73	0.040%	3.00x
345	Farrell	73	0.040%	2.29x
346	Forrester	73	0.040%	3.24x
347	Tennant	73	0.040%	4.08x
348	Butler	72	0.040%	0.44x
349	Canning	72	0.040%	6.04x
350	Diamond	72	0.040%	9.23x
351	Lafferty	72	0.040%	18.79x
352	Quigley	72	0.040%	8.38x
353	Smyth	72	0.040%	4.59x
354	Steven	72	0.040%	5.66x
355	Glass	71	0.040%	4.09x
356	Leslie	71	0.040%	2.56x
357	Patrick	71	0.040%	2.12x
358	Doherty	69	0.040%	5.04x
359	Corrigan	68	0.040%	9.05x
360	Cowie	68	0.040%	3.34x
361	Cuthbertson	68	0.040%	5.25x
362	Doran	68	0.040%	4.88x
363	Faulds	68	0.040%	13.28x
364	Nixon	68	0.040%	1.33x
365	Ogilvie	68	0.040%	4.19x
366	Short	68	0.040%	1.04x
367	Angus	67	0.040%	2.79x
368	Harkins	67	0.040%	17.67x
369	Lyons	67	0.040%	1.79x
370	Maguire	67	0.040%	3.91x
371	Provan	67	0.040%	19.97x
372	Shannon	67	0.040%	5.16x
373	Struthers	67	0.040%	8.93x
374	Cummings	66	0.040%	2.55x
375	Ferrie	66	0.040%	21.74x
376	Cairney	65	0.040%	17.29x
377	Elder	65	0.040%	3.67x
378	Gourlay	65	0.040%	6.99x
379	Kyle	65	0.040%	6.97x
380	Mann	65	0.040%	0.74x
381	Roy	65	0.040%	4.26x
382	Spiers	65	0.040%	4.71x
383	Brannan	64	0.040%	5.64x
384	Gillan	64	0.040%	10.85x
385	Lockhart	64	0.040%	5.48x
386	Rafferty	64	0.040%	7.39x
387	Burgess	63	0.040%	0.54x
388	Connolly	63	0.040%	3.23x
389	Crichton	63	0.040%	4.40x
390	Sheridan	63	0.040%	6.24x
391	Adamson	62	0.040%	1.40x
392	Carrick	62	0.040%	5.14x
393	George	62	0.040%	0.63x
394	Halliday	62	0.040%	1.79x
395	Low	62	0.040%	1.74x
396	Oliver	62	0.040%	0.52x
397	Strang	62	0.040%	8.23x
398	Webster	62	0.040%	0.42x
399	Agnew	61	0.040%	6.46x
400	Burke	61	0.040%	1.24x