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 Clelland, with 34 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
801	Clelland	34	0.010%	5.27x
802	Colvin	34	0.010%	4.20x
803	Darling	34	0.010%	1.52x
804	Dinning	34	0.010%	6.52x
805	Doig	34	0.010%	2.47x
806	Macdougall	34	0.010%	9.60x
807	Mack	34	0.010%	1.45x
808	Malley	34	0.010%	5.01x
809	Mechan	34	0.010%	13.33x
810	Mellis	34	0.010%	9.10x
811	Reith	34	0.010%	8.28x
812	Savage	34	0.010%	0.38x
813	Scoular	34	0.010%	11.47x
814	Sillars	34	0.010%	16.83x
815	Warden	34	0.010%	2.04x
816	Arnot	33	0.010%	4.58x
817	Bryan	33	0.010%	0.57x
818	Buchannan	33	0.010%	10.02x
819	Cormack	33	0.010%	1.87x
820	Crerar	33	0.010%	7.24x
821	Cruickshank	33	0.010%	1.26x
822	Gartshore	33	0.010%	16.52x
823	Hanley	33	0.010%	1.71x
824	Hyslop	33	0.010%	2.46x
825	Laughlan	33	0.010%	21.04x
826	Leishman	33	0.010%	4.16x
827	Oswald	33	0.010%	3.07x
828	Redpath	33	0.010%	3.04x
829	Russel	33	0.010%	2.05x
830	Sweeny	33	0.010%	6.09x
831	Tod	33	0.010%	3.63x
832	Wyper	33	0.010%	9.40x
833	Broadley	32	0.010%	2.02x
834	Browning	32	0.010%	0.67x
835	Cassells	32	0.010%	8.42x
836	Clyde	32	0.010%	9.67x
837	Conley	32	0.010%	3.78x
838	Cree	32	0.010%	4.59x
839	Denny	32	0.010%	1.63x
840	Duke	32	0.010%	1.18x
841	Ferrier	32	0.010%	2.35x
842	Fullerton	32	0.010%	3.24x
843	Hamill	32	0.010%	8.01x
844	Hoy	32	0.010%	2.38x
845	Jarvie	32	0.010%	5.22x
846	Lithgow	32	0.010%	7.75x
847	Mackintosh	32	0.010%	2.05x
848	Meek	32	0.010%	1.18x
849	Meldrum	32	0.010%	2.17x
850	Philips	32	0.010%	0.74x
851	Singleton	32	0.010%	0.69x
852	Sproul	32	0.010%	10.88x
853	Storrie	32	0.010%	8.51x
854	Ballingall	31	0.010%	9.22x
855	Borthwick	31	0.010%	2.36x
856	Brisbane	31	0.010%	14.50x
857	Broadfoot	31	0.010%	5.56x
858	Bryden	31	0.010%	3.14x
859	Connel	31	0.010%	7.21x
860	Donaghy	31	0.010%	12.78x
861	Gilligan	31	0.010%	5.20x
862	Greenshields	31	0.010%	7.43x
863	Nesbit	31	0.010%	4.31x
864	Rule	31	0.010%	1.93x
865	Soutar	31	0.010%	3.72x
866	Tonner	31	0.010%	10.27x
867	Vaughan	31	0.010%	0.39x
868	Beck	30	0.010%	0.55x
869	Beith	30	0.010%	13.30x
870	Dalrymple	30	0.010%	2.95x
871	Drew	30	0.010%	0.49x
872	Farquharson	30	0.010%	2.27x
873	Hampton	30	0.010%	0.81x
874	Kinnaird	30	0.010%	7.31x
875	Littlejohn	30	0.010%	2.66x
876	Mathews	30	0.010%	0.35x
877	Merry	30	0.010%	1.72x
878	Mullin	30	0.010%	2.86x
879	Murie	30	0.010%	26.70x
880	Nixon	30	0.010%	0.42x
881	Picken	30	0.010%	3.08x
882	Watters	30	0.010%	4.03x
883	Willison	30	0.010%	6.10x
884	Aitkenhead	29	0.010%	10.47x
885	Bayne	29	0.010%	3.39x
886	Blackstock	29	0.010%	8.43x
887	Bow	29	0.010%	5.31x
888	Carberry	29	0.010%	18.68x
889	Croll	29	0.010%	6.61x
890	Crossan	29	0.010%	9.09x
891	Drennan	29	0.010%	9.18x
892	Fallon	29	0.010%	3.36x
893	Fernie	29	0.010%	4.16x
894	Flint	29	0.010%	0.69x
895	Grindlay	29	0.010%	11.37x
896	Hobson	29	0.010%	0.48x
897	Howe	29	0.010%	0.32x
898	Kincaid	29	0.010%	10.13x
899	Macrae	29	0.010%	1.59x
900	Motherwell	29	0.010%	17.21x