1881 census place

New Monkland surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in New Monkland, 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

864 surnames are listed for New Monkland, Lanarkshire, covering 17,993 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 366 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in New Monkland

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
1	Brown	366	1.31%	1.99x
2	Wilson	294	1.05%	2.29x
3	Thomson	292	1.05%	7.83x
4	Paterson	264	0.950%	13.89x
5	Campbell	236	0.850%	4.99x
6	Russell	232	0.830%	6.81x
7	Walker	214	0.770%	2.29x
8	Anderson	212	0.760%	3.84x
9	Hunter	207	0.740%	7.22x
10	Black	205	0.730%	11.34x
11	Reid	181	0.650%	6.17x
12	Robertson	178	0.640%	3.80x
13	Aitken	168	0.600%	22.93x
14	Shanks	168	0.600%	79.12x
15	Ferguson	157	0.560%	7.93x
16	Sneddon	150	0.540%	90.21x
17	Waddell	143	0.510%	57.69x
18	Gibson	140	0.500%	4.13x
19	Allan	139	0.500%	7.93x
20	Jack	138	0.490%	23.25x
21	Stewart	135	0.480%	3.09x
22	Bell	134	0.480%	2.55x
23	Young	134	0.480%	2.23x
24	Muir	133	0.480%	12.44x
25	Miller	132	0.470%	2.64x
26	Mitchell	132	0.470%	2.33x
27	Hamilton	129	0.460%	6.16x
28	Murray	129	0.460%	3.73x
29	Neilson	126	0.450%	32.01x
30	Gardner	123	0.440%	6.49x
31	Simpson	122	0.440%	2.50x
32	Graham	117	0.420%	3.65x
33	Gray	117	0.420%	2.93x
34	Henderson	116	0.420%	3.82x
35	Marshall	110	0.390%	2.35x
36	Burns	103	0.370%	5.49x
37	Johnston	103	0.370%	4.57x
38	Davidson	96	0.340%	4.09x
39	Stevenson	94	0.340%	4.80x
40	Maxwell	92	0.330%	13.86x
41	Forsyth	87	0.310%	14.60x
42	Swan	85	0.300%	11.75x
43	Laird	84	0.300%	26.79x
44	Main	84	0.300%	18.38x
45	Grant	82	0.290%	2.96x
46	Millar	80	0.290%	7.85x
47	Currie	78	0.280%	9.92x
48	Donaldson	75	0.270%	9.42x
49	Spence	72	0.260%	7.79x
50	Boyd	71	0.250%	7.25x
51	Cowan	71	0.250%	12.46x
52	Weir	71	0.250%	9.78x
53	Crawford	69	0.250%	5.05x
54	Forrest	69	0.250%	9.58x
55	Gilmour	69	0.250%	17.46x
56	Bryce	66	0.240%	23.61x
57	Rankin	66	0.240%	15.91x
58	Kennedy	65	0.230%	3.86x
59	Kerr	65	0.230%	4.27x
60	Ross	65	0.230%	2.13x
61	Sharp	65	0.230%	2.79x
62	Morrison	64	0.230%	2.92x
63	Orr	63	0.230%	13.39x
64	Cullen	62	0.220%	12.67x
65	Cowie	59	0.210%	17.41x
66	Thom	59	0.210%	23.62x
67	Docherty	58	0.210%	13.96x
68	Stirling	58	0.210%	15.98x
69	Baird	57	0.200%	9.54x
70	Forbes	56	0.200%	5.98x
71	Lindsay	56	0.200%	6.15x
72	Watt	56	0.200%	5.23x
73	Andrew	55	0.200%	6.21x
74	Johnstone	55	0.200%	4.36x
75	Devlin	54	0.190%	23.62x
76	More	54	0.190%	24.86x
77	Rae	54	0.190%	8.49x
78	Shields	54	0.190%	12.51x
79	Gillespie	53	0.190%	11.97x
80	Quin	52	0.190%	17.38x
81	Blair	51	0.180%	7.04x
82	Milligan	51	0.180%	15.51x
83	Sloan	51	0.180%	19.39x
84	Sutherland	51	0.180%	3.62x
85	Dickson	50	0.180%	4.84x
86	Harvie	50	0.180%	54.71x
87	Logan	50	0.180%	7.55x
88	Penman	50	0.180%	27.37x
89	Love	48	0.170%	7.25x
90	Ramsay	48	0.170%	6.67x
91	Wallace	48	0.170%	2.51x
92	Pollock	47	0.170%	11.59x
93	Buchanan	46	0.160%	6.37x
94	Paton	44	0.160%	7.04x
95	Fleming	43	0.150%	3.71x
96	Murdoch	43	0.150%	9.06x
97	Nicol	43	0.150%	7.40x
98	Pate	43	0.150%	37.18x
99	Wotherspoon	43	0.150%	48.43x
100	Frame	42	0.150%	23.70x