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 Dale, with 45 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
501	Dale	45	0.030%	0.63x
502	Donaghy	45	0.030%	25.83x
503	Hume	45	0.030%	1.89x
504	Lyle	45	0.030%	5.73x
505	Blyth	44	0.030%	1.66x
506	Casey	44	0.030%	1.78x
507	Keir	44	0.030%	5.25x
508	Lauder	44	0.030%	4.99x
509	Lennon	44	0.030%	7.44x
510	Letham	44	0.030%	24.93x
511	Moran	44	0.030%	1.43x
512	Picken	44	0.030%	6.28x
513	Rutherford	44	0.030%	1.07x
514	Shepherd	44	0.030%	0.36x
515	Stirrat	44	0.030%	19.06x
516	Darroch	43	0.030%	9.83x
517	Farquhar	43	0.030%	3.29x
518	Gallocher	43	0.030%	9.27x
519	Kearney	43	0.030%	5.52x
520	Philips	43	0.030%	1.38x
521	Archer	42	0.030%	0.61x
522	Bulloch	42	0.030%	12.52x
523	Carey	42	0.030%	1.33x
524	Chambers	42	0.030%	0.44x
525	Foote	42	0.030%	6.52x
526	Gibbons	42	0.030%	0.78x
527	Manson	42	0.030%	2.14x
528	Philip	42	0.030%	3.75x
529	Tonner	42	0.030%	19.37x
530	Whiteside	42	0.030%	3.14x
531	Archibald	41	0.020%	2.83x
532	Bradshaw	41	0.020%	0.60x
533	Coulter	41	0.020%	4.87x
534	Coutts	41	0.020%	2.42x
535	Dillon	41	0.020%	2.47x
536	Dobbie	41	0.020%	5.60x
537	Fotheringham	41	0.020%	5.81x
538	Gaughan	41	0.020%	24.32x
539	Nairn	41	0.020%	4.94x
540	Nimmo	41	0.020%	5.49x
541	Sellars	41	0.020%	3.94x
542	Begg	40	0.020%	3.92x
543	Daily	40	0.020%	9.20x
544	Dunsmore	40	0.020%	9.27x
545	Gormley	40	0.020%	20.40x
546	Joyce	40	0.020%	0.97x
547	Linn	40	0.020%	10.45x
548	Mellon	40	0.020%	11.50x
549	Banks	39	0.020%	0.45x
550	Bannerman	39	0.020%	6.63x
551	Crossan	39	0.020%	17.02x
552	Fullerton	39	0.020%	5.49x
553	Hepburn	39	0.020%	2.61x
554	Small	39	0.020%	0.92x
555	Aitkenhead	38	0.020%	19.11x
556	Bogle	38	0.020%	18.19x
557	Brough	38	0.020%	1.85x
558	Calderwood	38	0.020%	6.31x
559	Conner	38	0.020%	2.93x
560	Fitzgerald	38	0.020%	1.30x
561	Hair	38	0.020%	5.81x
562	Horne	38	0.020%	1.04x
563	Mather	38	0.020%	0.91x
564	Osborne	38	0.020%	0.47x
565	Sime	38	0.020%	5.65x
566	Skinner	38	0.020%	0.45x
567	Symington	38	0.020%	8.19x
568	Vance	38	0.020%	11.90x
569	Wyllie	38	0.020%	3.23x
570	Ballantine	37	0.020%	7.19x
571	French	37	0.020%	0.45x
572	Healy	37	0.020%	3.33x
573	Kelley	37	0.020%	1.90x
574	Loudon	37	0.020%	7.76x
575	Malone	37	0.020%	2.76x
576	Meighan	37	0.020%	40.27x
577	Moodie	37	0.020%	4.70x
578	Service	37	0.020%	9.09x
579	Begley	36	0.020%	12.55x
580	Cassels	36	0.020%	11.86x
581	Copland	36	0.020%	3.83x
582	Erskine	36	0.020%	3.47x
583	Flannigan	36	0.020%	8.64x
584	Haig	36	0.020%	5.46x
585	Larkin	36	0.020%	2.39x
586	Leonard	36	0.020%	0.99x
587	Peden	36	0.020%	10.62x
588	Pinkerton	36	0.020%	8.72x
589	Raeburn	36	0.020%	9.66x
590	Renwick	36	0.020%	3.15x
591	Sanderson	36	0.020%	0.52x
592	Toland	36	0.020%	61.20x
593	Burnett	35	0.020%	0.75x
594	Connely	35	0.020%	11.32x
595	Cranston	35	0.020%	5.16x
596	Doig	35	0.020%	3.55x
597	Hodge	35	0.020%	0.83x
598	Mains	35	0.020%	12.73x
599	Millan	35	0.020%	14.56x
600	Mullholland	35	0.020%	17.45x