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 Halbert, with 42 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
701	Halbert	42	0.020%	13.87x
702	Hendrie	42	0.020%	7.33x
703	Lennon	42	0.020%	5.10x
704	Lumsden	42	0.020%	2.15x
705	Murchie	42	0.020%	10.85x
706	Pattison	42	0.020%	1.13x
707	Quigley	42	0.020%	3.51x
708	Rogan	42	0.020%	6.83x
709	Rollo	42	0.020%	7.82x
710	Dunsmore	41	0.020%	6.82x
711	Garvie	41	0.020%	9.97x
712	Hutchinson	41	0.020%	0.31x
713	Kilgour	41	0.020%	4.77x
714	Macarthur	41	0.020%	14.64x
715	Macmillan	41	0.020%	6.32x
716	Scanlan	41	0.020%	7.80x
717	Winning	41	0.020%	7.82x
718	Alston	40	0.020%	2.63x
719	Austin	40	0.020%	0.35x
720	Goodfellow	40	0.020%	1.94x
721	Latta	40	0.020%	13.67x
722	Mather	40	0.020%	0.69x
723	Mulligan	40	0.020%	3.06x
724	Peddie	40	0.020%	6.42x
725	Primrose	40	0.020%	13.11x
726	Carrol	39	0.020%	3.68x
727	Dalglish	39	0.020%	9.14x
728	Doran	39	0.020%	2.01x
729	Gowans	39	0.020%	5.19x
730	Grierson	39	0.020%	3.00x
731	Haldane	39	0.020%	6.60x
732	Herbertson	39	0.020%	20.24x
733	Honeyman	39	0.020%	5.11x
734	Macaulay	39	0.020%	4.68x
735	Renwick	39	0.020%	2.45x
736	Younger	39	0.020%	3.08x
737	Aitchison	38	0.020%	2.32x
738	Burnet	38	0.020%	4.44x
739	Goodall	38	0.020%	0.76x
740	Griffin	38	0.020%	0.35x
741	Kinniburgh	38	0.020%	25.37x
742	Lockie	38	0.020%	7.15x
743	Lowrie	38	0.020%	4.75x
744	Neish	38	0.020%	8.00x
745	Oneill	38	0.020%	2.56x
746	Samuel	38	0.020%	1.36x
747	Sands	38	0.020%	1.45x
748	Shand	38	0.020%	2.37x
749	Sherry	38	0.020%	4.63x
750	Berrie	37	0.020%	20.35x
751	Copland	37	0.020%	2.83x
752	Fenwick	37	0.020%	1.21x
753	Freer	37	0.020%	2.87x
754	Millan	37	0.020%	11.05x
755	Nicolson	37	0.020%	1.37x
756	Pritchard	37	0.020%	0.29x
757	Shedden	37	0.020%	9.15x
758	Swanson	37	0.020%	2.16x
759	Wren	37	0.020%	1.46x
760	Brownlee	36	0.020%	4.46x
761	Byrne	36	0.020%	1.10x
762	Coats	36	0.020%	3.41x
763	Colville	36	0.020%	4.50x
764	Conner	36	0.020%	1.99x
765	Eaglesham	36	0.020%	18.83x
766	Flanagan	36	0.020%	1.97x
767	Gault	36	0.020%	11.54x
768	Gilfillan	36	0.020%	7.97x
769	Grady	36	0.020%	2.34x
770	Hannay	36	0.020%	6.25x
771	Healy	36	0.020%	2.33x
772	Kenyon	36	0.020%	0.74x
773	Lamberton	36	0.020%	23.30x
774	Linton	36	0.020%	1.88x
775	Masson	36	0.020%	2.51x
776	Mathewson	36	0.020%	6.37x
777	Nolan	36	0.020%	1.13x
778	Oliphant	36	0.020%	3.96x
779	Proctor	36	0.020%	0.63x
780	Thorburn	36	0.020%	2.67x
781	Whitten	36	0.020%	10.68x
782	Benson	35	0.020%	0.55x
783	Brackenridge	35	0.020%	11.10x
784	Breckenridge	35	0.020%	14.76x
785	Charles	35	0.020%	0.72x
786	Cranston	35	0.020%	3.70x
787	Harrower	35	0.020%	6.69x
788	Hawthorn	35	0.020%	2.59x
789	Lauchlan	35	0.020%	21.78x
790	Magee	35	0.020%	3.41x
791	Myles	35	0.020%	3.20x
792	Newall	35	0.020%	2.61x
793	Nichol	35	0.020%	1.39x
794	Raeburn	35	0.020%	6.75x
795	Rait	35	0.020%	19.42x
796	Ray	35	0.020%	0.76x
797	Snodgrass	35	0.020%	16.55x
798	Ballantine	34	0.010%	4.75x
799	Boag	34	0.010%	5.03x
800	Cain	34	0.010%	0.70x