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 Murdock, with 29 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
901	Murdock	29	0.010%	3.43x
902	Proudfoot	29	0.010%	2.85x
903	Sime	29	0.010%	3.10x
904	Telford	29	0.010%	1.41x
905	Toole	29	0.010%	2.30x
906	Veitch	29	0.010%	1.88x
907	Aikman	28	0.010%	5.80x
908	Bonner	28	0.010%	1.36x
909	Gemmel	28	0.010%	13.34x
910	Gorrie	28	0.010%	5.62x
911	Hanson	28	0.010%	0.37x
912	Heggie	28	0.010%	4.34x
913	Killin	28	0.010%	18.04x
914	Leiper	28	0.010%	5.22x
915	Mochrie	28	0.010%	24.41x
916	Mundy	28	0.010%	1.62x
917	Pollok	28	0.010%	29.66x
918	Rea	28	0.010%	2.13x
919	Richard	28	0.010%	1.39x
920	Sheriff	28	0.010%	4.30x
921	Souter	28	0.010%	2.21x
922	Sturgeon	28	0.010%	2.97x
923	Topping	28	0.010%	1.74x
924	Abercrombie	27	0.010%	6.57x
925	Arbuckle	27	0.010%	5.43x
926	Bingham	27	0.010%	0.79x
927	Bonar	27	0.010%	7.21x
928	Docharty	27	0.010%	17.05x
929	Dove	27	0.010%	1.01x
930	Dunsmuir	27	0.010%	16.02x
931	Easdale	27	0.010%	21.49x
932	Gentles	27	0.010%	10.33x
933	Good	27	0.010%	0.93x
934	Herd	27	0.010%	1.57x
935	Judge	27	0.010%	1.07x
936	Lafferty	27	0.010%	5.06x
937	Lochrie	27	0.010%	17.93x
938	Malloch	27	0.010%	8.14x
939	Massey	27	0.010%	0.45x
940	Stitt	27	0.010%	8.18x
941	Whiteford	27	0.010%	4.36x
942	Bulloch	26	0.010%	5.56x
943	Carnegie	26	0.010%	3.39x
944	Cassels	26	0.010%	6.15x
945	Cassiday	26	0.010%	17.18x
946	Crighton	26	0.010%	2.80x
947	Hoey	26	0.010%	6.51x
948	Hynds	26	0.010%	18.31x
949	Kearney	26	0.010%	2.40x
950	Kinnon	26	0.010%	18.51x
951	Loudon	26	0.010%	3.92x
952	Mains	26	0.010%	6.79x
953	Montague	26	0.010%	2.21x
954	Mortimer	26	0.010%	0.53x
955	Neville	26	0.010%	0.94x
956	Parlane	26	0.010%	21.92x
957	Sheddon	26	0.010%	20.07x
958	Shirra	26	0.010%	19.37x
959	Skelly	26	0.010%	5.89x
960	Wark	26	0.010%	9.23x
961	Addie	25	0.010%	9.62x
962	Cadzow	25	0.010%	22.57x
963	Cleary	25	0.010%	2.59x
964	Connal	25	0.010%	14.24x
965	Craigie	25	0.010%	3.41x
966	Donnely	25	0.010%	6.91x
967	Fay	25	0.010%	2.56x
968	Fleck	25	0.010%	9.45x
969	Flett	25	0.010%	2.47x
970	Flinn	25	0.010%	1.77x
971	Gay	25	0.010%	0.80x
972	Gould	25	0.010%	0.30x
973	Hanlon	25	0.010%	2.32x
974	Horne	25	0.010%	0.49x
975	Howieson	25	0.010%	8.66x
976	Killen	25	0.010%	7.70x
977	Lamond	25	0.010%	3.13x
978	Moyes	25	0.010%	2.49x
979	Smeaton	25	0.010%	3.81x
980	Stirrat	25	0.010%	7.78x
981	Strain	25	0.010%	5.53x
982	Strathern	25	0.010%	14.63x
983	Sturrock	25	0.010%	2.97x
984	Ashcroft	24	0.010%	0.77x
985	Bannatyne	24	0.010%	8.52x
986	Bonnar	24	0.010%	7.58x
987	Brechin	24	0.010%	11.35x
988	Donachy	24	0.010%	20.93x
989	Donegan	24	0.010%	10.29x
990	Drum	24	0.010%	22.13x
991	Fenton	24	0.010%	0.51x
992	Ferns	24	0.010%	4.77x
993	Fitzgerald	24	0.010%	0.59x
994	Gaw	24	0.010%	17.28x
995	Glennie	24	0.010%	4.21x
996	Golder	24	0.010%	3.78x
997	Haggerty	24	0.010%	5.55x
998	Hewit	24	0.010%	6.46x
999	Keating	24	0.010%	2.08x
1000	Lean	24	0.010%	3.53x