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 Andrews, with 64 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
501	Andrews	64	0.030%	0.29x
502	Atkinson	64	0.030%	0.28x
503	Carruthers	64	0.030%	2.07x
504	Cleland	64	0.030%	10.36x
505	Clements	64	0.030%	0.83x
506	Connolly	64	0.030%	2.36x
507	Corbett	64	0.030%	1.40x
508	Doyle	64	0.030%	1.12x
509	Smyth	64	0.030%	2.93x
510	Dougall	63	0.030%	8.66x
511	Leckie	63	0.030%	8.60x
512	Mowat	63	0.030%	3.93x
513	Owens	63	0.030%	0.54x
514	Roxburgh	63	0.030%	8.71x
515	Scotland	63	0.030%	9.45x
516	Trainer	63	0.030%	6.59x
517	Wingate	63	0.030%	7.58x
518	Dallas	62	0.030%	7.03x
519	Flannigan	62	0.030%	10.68x
520	Flynn	62	0.030%	1.39x
521	Tweedie	62	0.030%	6.88x
522	Waugh	62	0.030%	1.95x
523	Algie	61	0.030%	36.88x
524	Bennie	61	0.030%	9.44x
525	Cockburn	61	0.030%	2.05x
526	Oliver	61	0.030%	0.37x
527	Palmer	61	0.030%	0.22x
528	Philp	61	0.030%	3.83x
529	Barry	60	0.030%	1.42x
530	Brunton	60	0.030%	3.27x
531	Frazer	60	0.030%	3.31x
532	Fullarton	60	0.030%	12.21x
533	Hume	60	0.030%	1.81x
534	Kelso	60	0.030%	10.94x
535	Kinloch	60	0.030%	11.60x
536	More	60	0.030%	3.30x
537	Nairn	60	0.030%	5.19x
538	Ure	60	0.030%	8.27x
539	Keir	59	0.030%	5.05x
540	Madden	59	0.030%	2.92x
541	Renfrew	59	0.030%	15.82x
542	Elliott	58	0.020%	0.29x
543	Montgomerie	58	0.020%	13.02x
544	Tulloch	58	0.020%	3.74x
545	Warnock	58	0.020%	11.42x
546	Fotheringham	57	0.020%	5.80x
547	Lyall	57	0.020%	3.58x
548	Mathie	57	0.020%	12.08x
549	Mullan	57	0.020%	13.45x
550	Rattray	57	0.020%	4.99x
551	Saunders	57	0.020%	0.27x
552	Stoddart	57	0.020%	2.92x
553	Urie	57	0.020%	25.02x
554	Wotherspoon	57	0.020%	7.67x
555	Canning	56	0.020%	3.37x
556	Dougherty	56	0.020%	6.20x
557	Fairley	56	0.020%	4.90x
558	Gallocher	56	0.020%	8.67x
559	May	56	0.020%	0.38x
560	Moodie	56	0.020%	5.10x
561	Stephen	56	0.020%	1.37x
562	Foulds	55	0.020%	3.48x
563	Gemmill	55	0.020%	16.13x
564	Gillon	55	0.020%	9.20x
565	Grieve	55	0.020%	2.03x
566	Hair	55	0.020%	6.04x
567	Milliken	55	0.020%	28.08x
568	Oconnor	55	0.020%	4.12x
569	Thornton	55	0.020%	0.47x
570	Conway	54	0.020%	1.23x
571	Dodds	54	0.020%	1.10x
572	Kirkpatrick	54	0.020%	2.68x
573	Lauder	54	0.020%	4.40x
574	Matthews	54	0.020%	0.26x
575	Scullion	54	0.020%	15.31x
576	Seaton	54	0.020%	2.73x
577	Spiers	54	0.020%	2.81x
578	Binnie	53	0.020%	5.44x
579	Bone	53	0.020%	1.22x
580	Burgess	53	0.020%	0.33x
581	Gavin	53	0.020%	4.59x
582	Goodwin	53	0.020%	0.43x
583	Greenlees	53	0.020%	11.65x
584	Ireland	53	0.020%	0.98x
585	Kerrigan	53	0.020%	12.58x
586	Moran	53	0.020%	1.24x
587	Newlands	53	0.020%	5.61x
588	Nugent	53	0.020%	4.28x
589	Symington	53	0.020%	8.20x
590	Banks	52	0.020%	0.43x
591	Blackburn	52	0.020%	0.59x
592	Cowie	52	0.020%	1.83x
593	Daly	52	0.020%	2.25x
594	Dykes	52	0.020%	3.24x
595	Fergus	52	0.020%	12.32x
596	Melvin	52	0.020%	4.62x
597	Patterson	52	0.020%	0.64x
598	Ramage	52	0.020%	3.96x
599	Sneddon	52	0.020%	3.74x
600	Stobo	52	0.020%	20.57x