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 Rooney, with 115 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
301	Rooney	115	0.050%	5.52x
302	Somerville	114	0.050%	5.86x
303	Whitelaw	114	0.050%	8.19x
304	Elder	113	0.050%	4.58x
305	Gardiner	113	0.050%	1.68x
306	Low	113	0.050%	2.28x
307	Odonnell	113	0.050%	7.52x
308	Patrick	113	0.050%	2.43x
309	Maclean	112	0.050%	4.33x
310	Aird	111	0.050%	9.13x
311	Frame	111	0.050%	7.49x
312	Gallagher	111	0.050%	3.13x
313	Rodgers	111	0.050%	1.74x
314	Leslie	110	0.050%	2.84x
315	Semple	109	0.050%	9.79x
316	Wishart	109	0.050%	5.95x
317	Obrien	108	0.050%	3.13x
318	Frew	107	0.050%	9.11x
319	Lennox	107	0.050%	7.72x
320	Andrew	106	0.050%	1.43x
321	Goudie	106	0.050%	14.33x
322	Lockhart	106	0.050%	6.51x
323	Mair	106	0.050%	4.91x
324	Marr	106	0.050%	3.98x
325	Shanks	106	0.050%	5.97x
326	French	105	0.040%	0.92x
327	Gourlay	105	0.040%	8.11x
328	Lambie	105	0.040%	13.77x
329	Ballantyne	104	0.040%	5.87x
330	Darroch	104	0.040%	17.07x
331	Rutherford	104	0.040%	1.82x
332	Roy	103	0.040%	4.85x
333	Smart	103	0.040%	0.97x
334	Waters	103	0.040%	1.10x
335	Bennett	102	0.040%	0.27x
336	Glass	102	0.040%	4.22x
337	Lee	102	0.040%	0.27x
338	Cairney	101	0.040%	19.29x
339	Cuthbert	101	0.040%	3.01x
340	Davie	100	0.040%	4.65x
341	Noble	100	0.040%	1.03x
342	Small	100	0.040%	1.69x
343	Deans	99	0.040%	6.25x
344	Hastie	99	0.040%	6.69x
345	Lyon	99	0.040%	2.02x
346	Prentice	99	0.040%	3.60x
347	Quinn	99	0.040%	2.22x
348	Auld	98	0.040%	6.96x
349	Pettigrew	98	0.040%	8.64x
350	Shannon	98	0.040%	5.42x
351	Macgregor	97	0.040%	9.94x
352	Preston	97	0.040%	0.83x
353	Farquhar	96	0.040%	5.28x
354	Main	96	0.040%	2.51x
355	Gorman	95	0.040%	3.37x
356	Gow	95	0.040%	5.15x
357	Callaghan	94	0.040%	3.55x
358	Chisholm	94	0.040%	2.77x
359	Dolan	94	0.040%	4.62x
360	Horn	94	0.040%	1.77x
361	Laidlaw	94	0.040%	4.54x
362	Nimmo	94	0.040%	9.03x
363	Pringle	94	0.040%	2.55x
364	Stuart	94	0.040%	1.69x
365	Cuthbertson	93	0.040%	5.15x
366	Halliday	93	0.040%	1.93x
367	Macpherson	93	0.040%	6.15x
368	Burke	92	0.040%	1.34x
369	Dempster	92	0.040%	5.60x
370	Meikle	92	0.040%	5.47x
371	Peebles	92	0.040%	9.38x
372	Hepburn	91	0.040%	4.38x
373	Jenkins	91	0.040%	0.33x
374	Kilpatrick	91	0.040%	7.56x
375	Mulholland	91	0.040%	10.48x
376	Osborne	91	0.040%	0.82x
377	Rowan	91	0.040%	6.05x
378	Smellie	91	0.040%	8.80x
379	Coulter	90	0.040%	7.67x
380	Crichton	90	0.040%	4.51x
381	Drysdale	90	0.040%	4.56x
382	Keith	90	0.040%	3.59x
383	Lochhead	90	0.040%	21.36x
384	Blackwood	89	0.040%	6.53x
385	Nicholson	89	0.040%	0.54x
386	Curran	88	0.040%	4.50x
387	Gall	88	0.040%	5.84x
388	Ingram	88	0.040%	1.23x
389	Melville	88	0.040%	3.57x
390	Munn	88	0.040%	5.23x
391	Provan	88	0.040%	18.83x
392	Thom	88	0.040%	4.21x
393	Harkness	87	0.040%	6.64x
394	Brock	86	0.040%	3.17x
395	Calderwood	86	0.040%	10.25x
396	Foley	86	0.040%	2.92x
397	Foster	86	0.040%	0.28x
398	Harvie	86	0.040%	11.25x
399	Napier	86	0.040%	4.58x
400	Finlayson	85	0.040%	3.16x