1881 census place

Govan surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Govan, 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

4,268 surnames are listed for Govan, Lanarkshire, covering 173,010 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 2,841 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Govan

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
1	Campbell	2,841	1.22%	7.18x
2	Smith	2,718	1.16%	0.82x
3	Brown	2,601	1.11%	1.69x
4	Wilson	2,385	1.02%	2.22x
5	Stewart	2,147	0.920%	5.87x
6	Robertson	2,083	0.890%	5.32x
7	Thomson	2,028	0.870%	6.50x
8	Anderson	1,679	0.720%	3.64x
9	Miller	1,368	0.590%	3.27x
10	Reid	1,344	0.580%	5.48x
11	Young	1,261	0.540%	2.51x
12	Cameron	1,246	0.530%	6.86x
13	Paterson	1,199	0.510%	7.54x
14	Hamilton	1,193	0.510%	6.81x
15	Murray	1,145	0.490%	3.95x
16	Scott	1,124	0.480%	1.90x
17	Ferguson	1,122	0.480%	6.77x
18	Morrison	1,113	0.480%	6.06x
19	Watson	1,029	0.440%	1.90x
20	Walker	1,010	0.430%	1.29x
21	Taylor	1,008	0.430%	0.67x
22	Gray	929	0.400%	2.78x
23	Black	926	0.400%	6.12x
24	Clark	925	0.400%	1.32x
25	Henderson	912	0.390%	3.59x
26	Fraser	901	0.390%	4.33x
27	Johnston	878	0.380%	4.66x
28	Kerr	869	0.370%	6.82x
29	Ross	867	0.370%	3.40x
30	Mitchell	861	0.370%	1.82x
31	Martin	853	0.370%	1.48x
32	Hunter	845	0.360%	3.52x
33	Allan	826	0.350%	5.63x
34	Kelly	823	0.350%	3.22x
35	Graham	815	0.350%	3.04x
36	Russell	815	0.350%	2.86x
37	Wallace	808	0.350%	5.05x
38	Gibson	806	0.340%	2.84x
39	Crawford	776	0.330%	6.79x
40	Bell	760	0.330%	1.73x
41	Kennedy	728	0.310%	5.17x
42	White	697	0.300%	0.93x
43	Buchanan	675	0.290%	11.18x
44	Wright	669	0.290%	0.89x
45	Stevenson	658	0.280%	4.01x
46	Muir	648	0.280%	7.25x
47	Davidson	599	0.260%	3.05x
48	Marshall	569	0.240%	1.45x
49	Simpson	566	0.240%	1.38x
50	Boyd	553	0.240%	6.75x
51	Alexander	548	0.230%	4.43x
52	Munro	516	0.220%	4.95x
53	Burns	487	0.210%	3.10x
54	Millar	484	0.210%	5.67x
55	Currie	481	0.210%	7.31x
56	Johnstone	477	0.200%	4.52x
57	Blair	475	0.200%	7.84x
58	Fleming	473	0.200%	4.87x
59	Weir	468	0.200%	7.70x
60	Docherty	462	0.200%	13.29x
61	Gordon	454	0.190%	3.08x
62	Barr	450	0.190%	7.96x
63	Hill	449	0.190%	0.75x
64	Dunlop	447	0.190%	11.87x
65	Murphy	446	0.190%	2.39x
66	Grant	440	0.190%	1.90x
67	Aitken	436	0.190%	7.11x
68	King	436	0.190%	0.86x
69	Shaw	431	0.180%	1.00x
70	Hay	424	0.180%	4.95x
71	Gardner	421	0.180%	2.65x
72	Baird	415	0.180%	8.31x
73	Lindsay	410	0.180%	5.38x
74	Logan	408	0.170%	7.36x
75	Sutherland	406	0.170%	3.45x
76	Boyle	403	0.170%	6.65x
77	Gilmour	401	0.170%	12.13x
78	Morton	398	0.170%	3.19x
79	Dick	394	0.170%	7.56x
80	Pollock	392	0.170%	11.55x
81	Paton	382	0.160%	7.31x
82	Findlay	378	0.160%	7.81x
83	Houston	362	0.150%	12.16x
84	Jamieson	361	0.150%	5.55x
85	Douglas	353	0.150%	3.12x
86	Carmichael	349	0.150%	10.44x
87	Williamson	347	0.150%	1.66x
88	Murdoch	341	0.150%	8.59x
89	Jackson	339	0.150%	0.52x
90	Dickson	328	0.140%	3.79x
91	Ritchie	326	0.140%	4.04x
92	Cook	324	0.140%	0.70x
93	Caldwell	321	0.140%	8.78x
94	Wood	320	0.140%	0.43x
95	Moore	317	0.140%	0.68x
96	Orr	316	0.140%	8.03x
97	Ramsay	312	0.130%	5.18x
98	Watt	312	0.130%	3.48x
99	Drummond	311	0.130%	6.70x
100	Cochrane	308	0.130%	8.51x