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 Hart, with 306 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
101	Hart	306	0.130%	1.54x
102	Hughes	305	0.130%	0.47x
103	Hendry	303	0.130%	8.19x
104	Gallacher	302	0.130%	14.98x
105	Nicol	299	0.130%	6.15x
106	Barclay	298	0.130%	6.20x
107	Irvine	297	0.130%	5.77x
108	Love	297	0.130%	5.36x
109	Adam	295	0.130%	7.35x
110	Rae	295	0.130%	5.54x
111	Park	292	0.130%	4.03x
112	Christie	291	0.120%	3.84x
113	Fulton	290	0.120%	9.84x
114	Whyte	286	0.120%	7.22x
115	Maxwell	284	0.120%	5.11x
116	Chalmers	283	0.120%	5.09x
117	Rankin	280	0.120%	8.07x
118	Dunn	276	0.120%	1.42x
119	Montgomery	276	0.120%	7.44x
120	Neilson	274	0.120%	8.32x
121	Sharp	270	0.120%	1.39x
122	Turner	270	0.120%	0.42x
123	Donaldson	267	0.110%	4.01x
124	Galbraith	265	0.110%	12.40x
125	Gilchrist	264	0.110%	7.71x
126	Jack	264	0.110%	5.32x
127	Forbes	263	0.110%	3.36x
128	Cairns	260	0.110%	5.14x
129	Turnbull	259	0.110%	2.63x
130	Hannah	258	0.110%	8.49x
131	Robb	255	0.110%	6.31x
132	Bain	254	0.110%	4.38x
133	Duff	254	0.110%	6.11x
134	Lawson	254	0.110%	1.84x
135	Donald	253	0.110%	5.38x
136	Lamont	253	0.110%	12.18x
137	Forsyth	252	0.110%	5.06x
138	Collins	250	0.110%	0.75x
139	Hutchison	245	0.100%	6.38x
140	Stirling	244	0.100%	8.04x
141	Hall	242	0.100%	0.35x
142	Mackay	241	0.100%	2.85x
143	Welsh	241	0.100%	2.61x
144	Inglis	238	0.100%	6.10x
145	Richardson	238	0.100%	0.60x
146	Wylie	236	0.100%	8.68x
147	Bruce	233	0.100%	2.13x
148	Nisbet	231	0.100%	9.36x
149	Baxter	230	0.100%	1.65x
150	Sloan	230	0.100%	10.45x
151	Lang	228	0.100%	4.38x
152	Gillies	227	0.100%	6.79x
153	Cowan	225	0.100%	4.72x
154	Spence	223	0.100%	2.89x
155	Thompson	223	0.100%	0.32x
156	Gillespie	220	0.090%	5.94x
157	Shearer	220	0.090%	7.34x
158	Connell	217	0.090%	5.34x
159	Fisher	217	0.090%	0.79x
160	Law	215	0.090%	2.03x
161	Mackie	214	0.090%	4.28x
162	Gibb	213	0.090%	5.16x
163	Hutcheson	213	0.090%	17.76x
164	Finlay	212	0.090%	8.84x
165	Todd	211	0.090%	1.77x
166	Bryce	210	0.090%	8.98x
167	Mathieson	210	0.090%	8.53x
168	Gemmell	209	0.090%	14.88x
169	Hardie	209	0.090%	6.86x
170	Harvey	208	0.090%	0.83x
171	Nelson	208	0.090%	1.84x
172	Adams	207	0.090%	0.60x
173	Ward	207	0.090%	0.41x
174	Cassidy	206	0.090%	7.21x
175	Downie	206	0.090%	7.52x
176	Neil	206	0.090%	6.67x
177	Donnelly	205	0.090%	6.97x
178	Howie	204	0.090%	8.90x
179	Moffat	204	0.090%	4.82x
180	Allison	203	0.090%	3.06x
181	Guthrie	202	0.090%	6.86x
182	Quin	202	0.090%	8.07x
183	Shields	201	0.090%	5.57x
184	Livingstone	198	0.080%	9.09x
185	Baillie	196	0.080%	8.08x
186	Oneil	196	0.080%	8.36x
187	Armstrong	195	0.080%	1.09x
188	Malcolm	195	0.080%	6.35x
189	Devlin	194	0.080%	10.14x
190	Armour	191	0.080%	13.04x
191	Dickie	190	0.080%	10.36x
192	Bowie	189	0.080%	9.28x
193	Kirkwood	189	0.080%	8.95x
194	Macdonald	188	0.080%	2.03x
195	Hood	185	0.080%	2.86x
196	Forrest	184	0.080%	3.05x
197	Galloway	184	0.080%	4.57x
198	Robinson	184	0.080%	0.25x
199	Stark	184	0.080%	5.75x
200	Colquhoun	183	0.080%	13.22x