1881 census place

Old Monkland surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Old 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

1,164 surnames are listed for Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, covering 23,803 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 386 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Old 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	386	1.03%	1.56x
2	Robertson	369	0.980%	5.87x
3	Reid	327	0.870%	8.30x
4	Wilson	324	0.860%	1.88x
5	Thomson	309	0.820%	6.17x
6	Miller	289	0.770%	4.31x
7	Martin	277	0.740%	3.00x
8	Campbell	273	0.730%	4.30x
9	Hamilton	272	0.730%	9.67x
10	Russell	264	0.700%	5.77x
11	Gray	254	0.680%	4.75x
12	Young	237	0.630%	2.94x
13	Anderson	233	0.620%	3.15x
14	Stewart	229	0.610%	3.90x
15	Johnston	212	0.570%	7.01x
16	Murray	198	0.530%	4.26x
17	Allan	193	0.510%	8.20x
18	Bell	193	0.510%	2.74x
19	Paterson	186	0.500%	7.29x
20	Burns	169	0.450%	6.71x
21	Scott	169	0.450%	1.78x
22	Rankin	161	0.430%	28.91x
23	Lindsay	160	0.430%	13.09x
24	Ferguson	157	0.420%	5.91x
25	Clark	154	0.410%	1.37x
26	Kelly	154	0.410%	3.75x
27	Kerr	153	0.410%	7.48x
28	Docherty	150	0.400%	26.90x
29	Murphy	150	0.400%	5.01x
30	Hunter	143	0.380%	3.71x
31	Mitchell	136	0.360%	1.79x
32	Black	134	0.360%	5.52x
33	Henderson	133	0.350%	3.26x
34	Baird	132	0.350%	16.46x
35	Waddell	130	0.350%	39.07x
36	Marshall	127	0.340%	2.02x
37	Stevenson	122	0.330%	4.64x
38	Watson	121	0.320%	1.39x
39	Weir	112	0.300%	11.49x
40	Johnstone	105	0.280%	6.20x
41	Boyle	104	0.280%	10.69x
42	King	104	0.280%	1.27x
43	Smellie	104	0.280%	62.65x
44	Kennedy	102	0.270%	4.51x
45	Wallace	102	0.270%	3.97x
46	Cameron	101	0.270%	3.47x
47	Ross	97	0.260%	2.37x
48	Neilson	96	0.260%	18.17x
49	Wotherspoon	95	0.250%	79.71x
50	Grant	94	0.250%	2.53x
51	Love	94	0.250%	10.58x
52	Brownlie	92	0.250%	56.05x
53	Buchanan	92	0.250%	9.49x
54	Davidson	90	0.240%	2.86x
55	Morrison	88	0.230%	2.99x
56	Fleming	87	0.230%	5.58x
57	Muir	85	0.230%	5.92x
58	Stirling	85	0.230%	17.45x
59	Crichton	84	0.220%	26.26x
60	Gardner	83	0.220%	3.26x
61	Moffat	82	0.220%	12.07x
62	Currie	81	0.220%	7.68x
63	Pettigrew	80	0.210%	43.95x
64	Cairns	78	0.210%	9.62x
65	Crawford	78	0.210%	4.25x
66	Dick	78	0.210%	9.33x
67	Hutton	77	0.210%	6.88x
68	Neil	76	0.200%	15.33x
69	Gilchrist	75	0.200%	13.65x
70	Boyd	74	0.200%	5.63x
71	Bryce	73	0.190%	19.46x
72	Sneddon	73	0.190%	32.70x
73	Cullen	72	0.190%	10.96x
74	Forsyth	72	0.190%	9.00x
75	Laird	72	0.190%	17.11x
76	Graham	71	0.190%	1.65x
77	Rodger	71	0.190%	13.47x
78	Watt	70	0.190%	4.87x
79	Donald	69	0.180%	9.14x
80	Millar	69	0.180%	5.04x
81	Jack	68	0.180%	8.53x
82	Gilmour	67	0.180%	12.63x
83	Irvine	67	0.180%	8.11x
84	Hart	66	0.180%	2.06x
85	Allison	65	0.170%	6.10x
86	Chalmers	64	0.170%	7.17x
87	Mullen	64	0.170%	17.86x
88	Ramsay	64	0.170%	6.63x
89	Clelland	62	0.170%	59.89x
90	Frew	62	0.170%	32.91x
91	Kirkwood	62	0.170%	18.29x
92	Rooney	62	0.170%	18.53x
93	Pollock	61	0.160%	11.20x
94	Queen	58	0.150%	37.76x
95	Wyper	57	0.150%	101.17x
96	Beveridge	56	0.150%	14.35x
97	Barclay	55	0.150%	7.13x
98	Dunlop	55	0.150%	9.10x
99	Forrester	55	0.150%	10.93x
100	Reilly	55	0.150%	13.82x