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 Poole, with 35 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
601	Poole	35	0.020%	0.43x
602	Potts	35	0.020%	0.63x
603	Pringle	35	0.020%	1.32x
604	Sands	35	0.020%	1.86x
605	Sharpe	35	0.020%	0.71x
606	Taggart	35	0.020%	5.52x
607	Tracey	35	0.020%	3.29x
608	Bolton	34	0.020%	0.47x
609	Bryden	34	0.020%	4.80x
610	Cruickshanks	34	0.020%	12.44x
611	Dalziel	34	0.020%	4.58x
612	Good	34	0.020%	1.63x
613	Haddow	34	0.020%	6.65x
614	Hagan	34	0.020%	4.05x
615	Hanlon	34	0.020%	4.39x
616	Harkness	34	0.020%	3.62x
617	Harrigan	34	0.020%	14.63x
618	Kemp	34	0.020%	0.37x
619	Mahon	34	0.020%	4.57x
620	Nugent	34	0.020%	3.82x
621	Percy	34	0.020%	2.17x
622	Porteous	34	0.020%	3.04x
623	Rattray	34	0.020%	4.15x
624	Wishart	34	0.020%	2.59x
625	Blackwood	33	0.020%	3.37x
626	Bonar	33	0.020%	12.27x
627	Carrol	33	0.020%	4.34x
628	Dallas	33	0.020%	5.21x
629	Gaffney	33	0.020%	5.80x
630	Gilfillan	33	0.020%	10.17x
631	Girvan	33	0.020%	12.51x
632	Goold	33	0.020%	11.26x
633	Hawthorn	33	0.020%	3.40x
634	Kent	33	0.020%	0.47x
635	Lees	33	0.020%	0.44x
636	Lumsden	33	0.020%	2.36x
637	Slaven	33	0.020%	13.51x
638	Torrance	33	0.020%	4.46x
639	Vallance	33	0.020%	4.36x
640	Welch	33	0.020%	0.56x
641	Yuill	33	0.020%	9.28x
642	Barnett	32	0.020%	0.42x
643	Bayne	32	0.020%	5.21x
644	Buchan	32	0.020%	1.48x
645	Clydesdale	32	0.020%	28.71x
646	Edmiston	32	0.020%	20.40x
647	Granger	32	0.020%	1.86x
648	Harvie	32	0.020%	5.83x
649	Littlejohn	32	0.020%	3.95x
650	Meldrum	32	0.020%	3.03x
651	Muldoon	32	0.020%	9.68x
652	Ramage	32	0.020%	3.39x
653	Sweeny	32	0.020%	8.23x
654	Tannahill	32	0.020%	19.23x
655	Carney	31	0.020%	2.04x
656	Coats	31	0.020%	4.09x
657	Costello	31	0.020%	3.03x
658	Donachy	31	0.020%	37.65x
659	Dowd	31	0.020%	5.88x
660	Farmer	31	0.020%	0.59x
661	Garrity	31	0.020%	10.36x
662	Gowans	31	0.020%	5.74x
663	Haggerty	31	0.020%	9.99x
664	Haldane	31	0.020%	7.31x
665	Kilpatrick	31	0.020%	3.59x
666	Kirkpatrick	31	0.020%	2.15x
667	Leishman	31	0.020%	5.45x
668	Lillie	31	0.020%	7.57x
669	Meiklejohn	31	0.020%	8.20x
670	Bennie	30	0.020%	6.47x
671	Blue	30	0.020%	10.36x
672	Bryan	30	0.020%	0.72x
673	Corbett	30	0.020%	0.91x
674	Coventry	30	0.020%	4.51x
675	Dykes	30	0.020%	2.60x
676	Fenton	30	0.020%	0.90x
677	Hastings	30	0.020%	1.40x
678	Keith	30	0.020%	1.67x
679	Logue	30	0.020%	23.70x
680	Lyall	30	0.020%	2.62x
681	Macpherson	30	0.020%	2.76x
682	Magee	30	0.020%	4.07x
683	Mearns	30	0.020%	5.54x
684	Molloy	30	0.020%	3.28x
685	Mulligan	30	0.020%	3.20x
686	Neeson	30	0.020%	34.55x
687	Oswald	30	0.020%	3.89x
688	Revie	30	0.020%	23.28x
689	Scanlan	30	0.020%	7.95x
690	Telfer	30	0.020%	2.99x
691	Thorburn	30	0.020%	3.10x
692	Tierney	30	0.020%	4.34x
693	Twaddle	30	0.020%	17.16x
694	Waugh	30	0.020%	1.31x
695	Bingham	29	0.020%	1.18x
696	Bradly	29	0.020%	7.70x
697	Brogan	29	0.020%	5.13x
698	Browning	29	0.020%	0.85x
699	Denholm	29	0.020%	4.13x
700	Erwin	29	0.020%	27.25x