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 Monaghan, with 85 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
401	Monaghan	85	0.040%	5.02x
402	Ryan	85	0.040%	1.17x
403	Sommerville	85	0.040%	9.22x
404	Steele	85	0.040%	1.36x
405	Maitland	84	0.040%	5.54x
406	Agnew	83	0.040%	6.31x
407	Farrell	83	0.040%	1.87x
408	Arnott	82	0.040%	4.18x
409	Calder	82	0.040%	2.51x
410	Coutts	82	0.040%	3.48x
411	Dobbie	82	0.040%	8.03x
412	Easton	82	0.040%	2.31x
413	Petrie	82	0.040%	2.95x
414	Rose	82	0.040%	0.47x
415	Sim	82	0.040%	3.12x
416	Adamson	81	0.030%	1.31x
417	Dougan	81	0.030%	14.50x
418	Lamb	81	0.030%	0.66x
419	Leggat	81	0.030%	14.98x
420	Manson	81	0.030%	2.96x
421	Reynolds	81	0.030%	0.40x
422	Summers	81	0.030%	1.24x
423	Bradley	80	0.030%	0.43x
424	Dalziel	80	0.030%	7.74x
425	Gillan	80	0.030%	9.74x
426	Mooney	80	0.030%	2.95x
427	Tennant	80	0.030%	3.21x
428	Yuill	80	0.030%	16.15x
429	Carlin	79	0.030%	6.65x
430	Carroll	79	0.030%	1.68x
431	Fox	79	0.030%	0.36x
432	Kemp	79	0.030%	0.61x
433	Monteith	79	0.030%	12.74x
434	Rafferty	79	0.030%	6.55x
435	Bennet	78	0.030%	2.42x
436	Couper	78	0.030%	7.45x
437	Boyce	77	0.030%	2.20x
438	Dixon	77	0.030%	0.30x
439	Neill	77	0.030%	4.98x
440	Balfour	76	0.030%	4.67x
441	Ford	76	0.030%	0.33x
442	Jordan	76	0.030%	0.74x
443	Mann	76	0.030%	0.62x
444	Bisset	75	0.030%	4.10x
445	Coyle	75	0.030%	4.73x
446	Skinner	75	0.030%	0.63x
447	Torrance	75	0.030%	7.28x
448	Woods	75	0.030%	0.51x
449	Carr	74	0.030%	0.44x
450	Downs	74	0.030%	1.78x
451	Macleod	74	0.030%	2.24x
452	Ogilvie	74	0.030%	3.27x
453	Porteous	74	0.030%	4.75x
454	Queen	74	0.030%	7.73x
455	Walls	74	0.030%	2.63x
456	Barton	73	0.030%	0.58x
457	Erskine	73	0.030%	5.05x
458	Keenan	73	0.030%	3.69x
459	Lees	73	0.030%	0.70x
460	Begg	72	0.030%	5.06x
461	Berry	72	0.030%	0.39x
462	Ferrie	72	0.030%	17.03x
463	Govan	72	0.030%	16.90x
464	Heron	72	0.030%	3.21x
465	Maguire	72	0.030%	3.01x
466	Meiklejohn	72	0.030%	13.67x
467	Ohara	72	0.030%	5.36x
468	Purdie	72	0.030%	7.45x
469	Short	72	0.030%	0.79x
470	Smillie	72	0.030%	15.54x
471	Blyth	71	0.030%	1.93x
472	Brand	71	0.030%	2.06x
473	Greer	71	0.030%	9.05x
474	Crombie	70	0.030%	5.34x
475	Duncanson	70	0.030%	15.52x
476	Granger	70	0.030%	2.93x
477	Naismith	70	0.030%	11.26x
478	Ronald	70	0.030%	8.40x
479	Beveridge	69	0.030%	2.84x
480	Faulds	69	0.030%	9.68x
481	Harley	69	0.030%	2.29x
482	Kirkland	69	0.030%	3.32x
483	Lyons	69	0.030%	1.33x
484	Matheson	69	0.030%	2.16x
485	Carswell	68	0.030%	7.96x
486	Galt	68	0.030%	12.84x
487	Harkins	68	0.030%	12.87x
488	Sanderson	68	0.030%	0.70x
489	Taggart	67	0.030%	7.59x
490	Brogan	66	0.030%	8.38x
491	Carrick	66	0.030%	3.93x
492	Cochran	66	0.030%	7.40x
493	Haddow	66	0.030%	9.26x
494	Hope	66	0.030%	0.83x
495	Irving	66	0.030%	1.27x
496	Kidd	66	0.030%	1.39x
497	Copeland	65	0.030%	2.94x
498	Imrie	65	0.030%	7.11x
499	Macintyre	65	0.030%	11.15x
500	Slater	65	0.030%	0.46x