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 Ewart, with 29 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
701	Ewart	29	0.020%	3.07x
702	Fairley	29	0.020%	3.53x
703	Gillon	29	0.020%	6.76x
704	Mathers	29	0.020%	2.90x
705	Mathie	29	0.020%	8.56x
706	Naismith	29	0.020%	6.50x
707	Proudfoot	29	0.020%	3.96x
708	Scouller	29	0.020%	32.36x
709	Sharkey	29	0.020%	7.57x
710	Birrell	28	0.020%	3.42x
711	Blackstock	28	0.020%	11.33x
712	Boyce	28	0.020%	1.11x
713	Burley	28	0.020%	1.76x
714	Flanagan	28	0.020%	2.13x
715	Gilligan	28	0.020%	6.54x
716	Masterson	28	0.020%	7.96x
717	Meechan	28	0.020%	16.72x
718	Rollo	28	0.020%	7.27x
719	Swanson	28	0.020%	2.28x
720	Winter	28	0.020%	0.47x
721	Abercromby	27	0.020%	25.78x
722	Beveridge	27	0.020%	1.55x
723	Bowes	27	0.020%	1.75x
724	Cavanagh	27	0.020%	2.13x
725	Crombie	27	0.020%	2.87x
726	Crosbie	27	0.020%	3.14x
727	Dingwall	27	0.020%	4.06x
728	Foley	27	0.020%	1.28x
729	Gavin	27	0.020%	3.25x
730	Gemmill	27	0.020%	11.03x
731	Herriot	27	0.020%	14.26x
732	Kerrigan	27	0.020%	8.93x
733	Kinloch	27	0.020%	7.27x
734	Laidlaw	27	0.020%	1.82x
735	More	27	0.020%	2.07x
736	Pattison	27	0.020%	1.01x
737	Purdon	27	0.020%	8.68x
738	Ralston	27	0.020%	4.78x
739	Rielly	27	0.020%	11.16x
740	Scrimgeour	27	0.020%	10.48x
741	Veitch	27	0.020%	2.44x
742	Walls	27	0.020%	1.34x
743	Waters	27	0.020%	0.40x
744	Yuille	27	0.020%	19.20x
745	Aird	26	0.020%	2.98x
746	Best	26	0.020%	0.58x
747	Boag	26	0.020%	5.35x
748	Cassiday	26	0.020%	23.93x
749	Fergusson	26	0.020%	3.06x
750	Glendinning	26	0.020%	4.06x
751	Hendrie	26	0.020%	6.32x
752	Hillis	26	0.020%	35.17x
753	Hinshelwood	26	0.020%	41.07x
754	Macintosh	26	0.020%	3.59x
755	Maloney	26	0.020%	1.88x
756	Mochan	26	0.020%	44.20x
757	Munn	26	0.020%	2.15x
758	Philp	26	0.020%	2.27x
759	Primrose	26	0.020%	11.87x
760	Sheilds	26	0.020%	15.90x
761	Spittal	26	0.020%	14.83x
762	Alston	25	0.010%	2.29x
763	Arnot	25	0.010%	4.83x
764	Arnott	25	0.010%	1.77x
765	Bald	25	0.010%	9.36x
766	Birrel	25	0.010%	28.43x
767	Dailly	25	0.010%	17.78x
768	Dempsey	25	0.010%	2.38x
769	Flockhart	25	0.010%	7.87x
770	Gentles	25	0.010%	13.32x
771	Godfrey	25	0.010%	0.50x
772	Goudie	25	0.010%	4.71x
773	Halley	25	0.010%	3.97x
774	Hanley	25	0.010%	1.81x
775	Holms	25	0.010%	5.29x
776	Howieson	25	0.010%	12.06x
777	Hynd	25	0.010%	6.29x
778	Keating	25	0.010%	3.01x
779	Loney	25	0.010%	10.48x
780	Maclean	25	0.010%	1.35x
781	Macrae	25	0.010%	1.91x
782	Marr	25	0.010%	1.31x
783	Monoghan	25	0.010%	50.16x
784	Mortimer	25	0.010%	0.71x
785	Murdock	25	0.010%	4.12x
786	Ness	25	0.010%	3.28x
787	Nicolson	25	0.010%	1.29x
788	Sadler	25	0.010%	0.63x
789	Steed	25	0.010%	3.10x
790	Storrie	25	0.010%	9.26x
791	Tennent	25	0.010%	9.15x
792	Travers	25	0.010%	2.97x
793	Bennet	24	0.010%	1.04x
794	Bisset	24	0.010%	1.83x
795	Donachie	24	0.010%	11.19x
796	Eaglesham	24	0.010%	17.49x
797	Ferris	24	0.010%	1.45x
798	Gibbon	24	0.010%	1.41x
799	Gracie	24	0.010%	6.86x
800	Hetherington	24	0.010%	1.13x