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 Crosbie, with 51 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
601	Crosbie	51	0.020%	4.25x
602	Dillon	51	0.020%	2.21x
603	Hosie	51	0.020%	10.23x
604	Lavery	51	0.020%	7.94x
605	Scobie	51	0.020%	10.04x
606	Shankland	51	0.020%	12.24x
607	Burnett	50	0.020%	0.77x
608	Burt	50	0.020%	0.90x
609	Gilroy	50	0.020%	5.28x
610	Herbert	50	0.020%	0.57x
611	Laverty	50	0.020%	14.53x
612	Lorimer	50	0.020%	5.35x
613	Peters	50	0.020%	0.61x
614	Pinkerton	50	0.020%	8.70x
615	Tennent	50	0.020%	13.13x
616	Tierney	50	0.020%	5.19x
617	Trotter	50	0.020%	2.04x
618	Best	49	0.020%	0.78x
619	Blackley	49	0.020%	7.73x
620	Brash	49	0.020%	11.87x
621	Burnside	49	0.020%	5.98x
622	Carrigan	49	0.020%	10.75x
623	Casey	49	0.020%	1.42x
624	Cruickshanks	49	0.020%	12.87x
625	Daily	49	0.020%	8.09x
626	Peden	49	0.020%	10.38x
627	Rice	49	0.020%	0.68x
628	Blackie	48	0.020%	5.01x
629	Carey	48	0.020%	1.09x
630	Cummings	48	0.020%	1.33x
631	Dale	48	0.020%	0.49x
632	Deas	48	0.020%	7.00x
633	Diamond	48	0.020%	4.42x
634	Haig	48	0.020%	5.23x
635	Leonard	48	0.020%	0.95x
636	Lyle	48	0.020%	4.39x
637	Morrow	48	0.020%	5.04x
638	Pratt	48	0.020%	0.36x
639	Regan	48	0.020%	2.00x
640	Sellars	48	0.020%	3.31x
641	Sibbald	48	0.020%	7.72x
642	Bannerman	47	0.020%	5.74x
643	Bissett	47	0.020%	8.46x
644	Buchan	47	0.020%	1.56x
645	Coghill	47	0.020%	10.16x
646	Foy	47	0.020%	2.44x
647	Gibbons	47	0.020%	0.63x
648	Joyce	47	0.020%	0.82x
649	Leith	47	0.020%	3.88x
650	Linn	47	0.020%	8.82x
651	Sawers	47	0.020%	17.21x
652	Workman	47	0.020%	3.06x
653	Barnett	46	0.020%	0.44x
654	Brannan	46	0.020%	2.91x
655	Ewart	46	0.020%	3.50x
656	Farmer	46	0.020%	0.63x
657	Finnie	46	0.020%	5.66x
658	Glasgow	46	0.020%	8.99x
659	Hetherington	46	0.020%	1.56x
660	Hyde	46	0.020%	0.64x
661	Lynn	46	0.020%	2.26x
662	Samson	46	0.020%	2.76x
663	Telfer	46	0.020%	3.29x
664	Yuille	46	0.020%	23.49x
665	Adair	45	0.020%	6.18x
666	Archibald	45	0.020%	2.23x
667	Blue	45	0.020%	11.16x
668	Cuthill	45	0.020%	9.86x
669	Dyer	45	0.020%	0.50x
670	Egan	45	0.020%	2.32x
671	Fairlie	45	0.020%	7.91x
672	Irwin	45	0.020%	2.29x
673	Jardine	45	0.020%	2.07x
674	Mercer	45	0.020%	0.73x
675	Penman	45	0.020%	2.94x
676	Service	45	0.020%	7.93x
677	Bolton	44	0.020%	0.44x
678	Cavanagh	44	0.020%	2.50x
679	Conn	44	0.020%	6.86x
680	Conroy	44	0.020%	2.54x
681	Corrigan	44	0.020%	4.20x
682	Dowie	44	0.020%	7.81x
683	Hannan	44	0.020%	5.92x
684	Lightbody	44	0.020%	10.72x
685	Milroy	44	0.020%	6.58x
686	Stenhouse	44	0.020%	4.56x
687	Syme	44	0.020%	5.01x
688	Barron	43	0.020%	1.19x
689	Clarkson	43	0.020%	0.69x
690	Cosgrove	43	0.020%	3.78x
691	Denholm	43	0.020%	4.39x
692	Fagan	43	0.020%	3.86x
693	Fergusson	43	0.020%	3.64x
694	Flockhart	43	0.020%	9.72x
695	Haggarty	43	0.020%	9.55x
696	Malone	43	0.020%	2.30x
697	Morison	43	0.020%	3.61x
698	Purdon	43	0.020%	9.93x
699	Wardrop	43	0.020%	8.06x
700	Gracie	42	0.020%	8.61x