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 Kinnear, with 24 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
801	Kinnear	24	0.010%	2.95x
802	Leggat	24	0.010%	6.18x
803	Petrie	24	0.010%	1.20x
804	Rush	24	0.010%	1.33x
805	Shirra	24	0.010%	24.91x
806	Stobo	24	0.010%	13.22x
807	Temple	24	0.010%	1.09x
808	Train	24	0.010%	6.36x
809	Trainor	24	0.010%	11.58x
810	Balfour	23	0.010%	1.97x
811	Bow	23	0.010%	5.87x
812	Breen	23	0.010%	4.85x
813	Brisbane	23	0.010%	14.98x
814	Cannon	23	0.010%	0.76x
815	Carruth	23	0.010%	22.94x
816	Colvin	23	0.010%	3.96x
817	Conelly	23	0.010%	18.92x
818	Cousins	23	0.010%	0.76x
819	Frazer	23	0.010%	1.77x
820	Hutchieson	23	0.010%	19.37x
821	Irwin	23	0.010%	1.63x
822	Lambie	23	0.010%	4.20x
823	Matheson	23	0.010%	1.00x
824	Notman	23	0.010%	8.31x
825	Paxton	23	0.010%	1.72x
826	Ralph	23	0.010%	0.90x
827	Regan	23	0.010%	1.34x
828	Samuel	23	0.010%	1.15x
829	Seaton	23	0.010%	1.62x
830	Stoddart	23	0.010%	1.64x
831	Trotter	23	0.010%	1.31x
832	Wark	23	0.010%	11.37x
833	Brand	22	0.010%	0.89x
834	Brunton	22	0.010%	1.67x
835	Bunting	22	0.010%	1.18x
836	Carnegie	22	0.010%	4.00x
837	Courtney	22	0.010%	1.83x
838	Craigie	22	0.010%	4.17x
839	Crooks	22	0.010%	1.70x
840	Dorman	22	0.010%	4.08x
841	Drew	22	0.010%	0.50x
842	Gilroy	22	0.010%	3.24x
843	Gribbon	22	0.010%	23.10x
844	Grove	22	0.010%	1.12x
845	Hagerty	22	0.010%	15.46x
846	Haggart	22	0.010%	5.42x
847	Judge	22	0.010%	1.21x
848	Kinniburgh	22	0.010%	20.46x
849	Macaulay	22	0.010%	3.68x
850	Maltman	22	0.010%	10.15x
851	Murty	22	0.010%	33.28x
852	Noon	22	0.010%	1.82x
853	Oconnor	22	0.010%	2.29x
854	Shirlaw	22	0.010%	20.89x
855	Slowey	22	0.010%	54.55x
856	Toner	22	0.010%	10.53x
857	Woodrow	22	0.010%	2.12x
858	Wyper	22	0.010%	8.73x
859	Biggar	21	0.010%	9.05x
860	Blaney	21	0.010%	6.22x
861	Braidwood	21	0.010%	8.74x
862	Charles	21	0.010%	0.61x
863	Dalrymple	21	0.010%	2.87x
864	Dollan	21	0.010%	15.24x
865	Donelly	21	0.010%	5.44x
866	Elvin	21	0.010%	3.55x
867	Fern	21	0.010%	4.01x
868	Garland	21	0.010%	0.94x
869	Grainger	21	0.010%	0.81x
870	Haggarty	21	0.010%	6.50x
871	Hillhouse	21	0.010%	13.83x
872	Kenny	21	0.010%	1.05x
873	Lamond	21	0.010%	3.66x
874	Leith	21	0.010%	2.42x
875	Lochrie	21	0.010%	19.42x
876	Lough	21	0.010%	7.01x
877	Lowrie	21	0.010%	3.65x
878	Macmillan	21	0.010%	4.51x
879	Melrose	21	0.010%	3.23x
880	Milton	21	0.010%	0.91x
881	Mundell	21	0.010%	8.93x
882	Penman	21	0.010%	1.91x
883	Purvis	21	0.010%	1.29x
884	York	21	0.010%	0.95x
885	Abercrombie	20	0.010%	6.77x
886	Adair	20	0.010%	3.83x
887	Addison	20	0.010%	0.86x
888	Algie	20	0.010%	16.84x
889	Brodley	20	0.010%	30.78x
890	Byers	20	0.010%	2.30x
891	Cant	20	0.010%	1.92x
892	Conn	20	0.010%	4.34x
893	Daley	20	0.010%	1.01x
894	Downs	20	0.010%	0.67x
895	Gannon	20	0.010%	2.75x
896	Griffen	20	0.010%	3.65x
897	Grindley	20	0.010%	4.28x
898	Haughey	20	0.010%	26.25x
899	Heggie	20	0.010%	4.32x
900	Herd	20	0.010%	1.62x