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 Curran, with 61 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
401	Curran	61	0.040%	4.34x
402	Frew	61	0.040%	7.24x
403	Gilbert	61	0.040%	0.64x
404	Hamill	61	0.040%	21.27x
405	Lawrie	61	0.040%	3.80x
406	Melville	61	0.040%	3.44x
407	Ryan	61	0.040%	1.17x
408	Arbuckle	60	0.040%	16.81x
409	Cockburn	60	0.040%	2.80x
410	Heron	60	0.040%	3.73x
411	Mair	60	0.040%	3.87x
412	Wotherspoon	60	0.040%	11.25x
413	Ford	59	0.040%	0.36x
414	Foy	59	0.040%	4.26x
415	Frame	59	0.040%	5.54x
416	Lavery	59	0.040%	12.80x
417	Meikle	59	0.040%	4.89x
418	Noble	59	0.040%	0.85x
419	Patterson	59	0.040%	1.01x
420	Hislop	58	0.030%	5.75x
421	Ingram	58	0.030%	1.13x
422	Purdie	58	0.030%	8.36x
423	Rice	58	0.030%	1.11x
424	Templeton	58	0.030%	4.68x
425	Hosie	57	0.030%	15.92x
426	Jeffrey	57	0.030%	1.84x
427	Masterton	57	0.030%	10.54x
428	Mercer	57	0.030%	1.29x
429	Renfrew	57	0.030%	21.29x
430	Rose	57	0.030%	0.46x
431	Cleland	56	0.030%	12.62x
432	Couper	56	0.030%	7.45x
433	Irving	56	0.030%	1.50x
434	Mullin	56	0.030%	7.44x
435	Peebles	56	0.030%	7.95x
436	Carswell	55	0.030%	8.97x
437	Cuthbert	55	0.030%	2.28x
438	Deans	55	0.030%	4.83x
439	Elliott	55	0.030%	0.39x
440	Walsh	55	0.030%	0.62x
441	Fergus	54	0.030%	17.82x
442	Goldie	54	0.030%	5.17x
443	Harley	54	0.030%	2.50x
444	Macfarlane	54	0.030%	5.63x
445	Aitchison	53	0.030%	4.51x
446	Bowman	53	0.030%	1.21x
447	Grier	53	0.030%	21.65x
448	Leckie	53	0.030%	10.08x
449	Mowat	53	0.030%	4.60x
450	Sommerville	53	0.030%	8.01x
451	Barrett	52	0.030%	0.46x
452	Carruthers	52	0.030%	2.34x
453	Finnigan	52	0.030%	7.93x
454	Griffin	52	0.030%	0.66x
455	Hastie	52	0.030%	4.90x
456	Neill	52	0.030%	4.68x
457	Prentice	52	0.030%	2.63x
458	Smillie	52	0.030%	15.63x
459	Summers	52	0.030%	1.11x
460	Brock	51	0.030%	2.62x
461	Carrigan	51	0.030%	15.59x
462	Clyde	51	0.030%	21.47x
463	Duncanson	51	0.030%	15.75x
464	Ferns	51	0.030%	14.11x
465	Kidd	51	0.030%	1.49x
466	Mackenzie	51	0.030%	1.09x
467	Mullan	51	0.030%	16.77x
468	Reynolds	51	0.030%	0.35x
469	Winning	51	0.030%	13.55x
470	Broadley	50	0.030%	4.40x
471	Flinn	50	0.030%	4.94x
472	Milliken	50	0.030%	35.56x
473	Monteith	50	0.030%	11.23x
474	Ronald	50	0.030%	8.36x
475	Bremner	49	0.030%	3.40x
476	Cherry	49	0.030%	2.85x
477	Clarkson	49	0.030%	1.10x
478	Howat	49	0.030%	9.52x
479	Kirkland	49	0.030%	3.28x
480	Lochhead	49	0.030%	16.20x
481	Maitland	49	0.030%	4.50x
482	Moir	49	0.030%	2.12x
483	Steele	49	0.030%	1.09x
484	Dyer	48	0.030%	0.74x
485	Potter	48	0.030%	0.44x
486	Sibbald	48	0.030%	10.75x
487	Fairlie	47	0.030%	11.51x
488	Greenlees	47	0.030%	14.39x
489	Hope	47	0.030%	0.82x
490	Innes	47	0.030%	1.81x
491	Shanks	47	0.030%	3.68x
492	Strachan	47	0.030%	1.62x
493	Dalglish	46	0.030%	15.01x
494	Dodds	46	0.030%	1.30x
495	Dougall	46	0.030%	8.81x
496	Goodwin	46	0.030%	0.52x
497	Kincaid	46	0.030%	22.38x
498	Strain	46	0.030%	14.18x
499	Auld	45	0.030%	4.45x
500	Benson	45	0.030%	0.99x