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 Donaldson, with 54 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
101	Donaldson	54	0.140%	5.05x
102	Douglas	53	0.140%	2.92x
103	Mack	53	0.140%	14.06x
104	Aitken	52	0.140%	5.29x
105	Caldwell	51	0.140%	8.69x
106	Christie	51	0.140%	4.20x
107	Glen	51	0.140%	13.74x
108	Naismith	51	0.140%	51.11x
109	Devlin	50	0.130%	16.29x
110	Gartshore	50	0.130%	156.01x
111	Harper	50	0.130%	2.08x
112	Lees	50	0.130%	3.01x
113	Welsh	50	0.130%	3.37x
114	Galloway	49	0.130%	7.59x
115	Gordon	49	0.130%	2.07x
116	Jamieson	49	0.130%	4.69x
117	Jarvie	49	0.130%	49.80x
118	Patrick	49	0.130%	6.56x
119	Downie	48	0.130%	10.91x
120	Dickson	46	0.120%	3.31x
121	Quin	46	0.120%	11.45x
122	Shanks	46	0.120%	16.14x
123	Wilkie	46	0.120%	8.60x
124	Gillespie	45	0.120%	7.57x
125	Hay	45	0.120%	3.27x
126	Birrell	44	0.120%	24.07x
127	Burt	44	0.120%	4.94x
128	Thom	44	0.120%	13.12x
129	Woods	44	0.120%	1.86x
130	Munro	43	0.110%	2.57x
131	Park	43	0.110%	3.70x
132	Quinn	43	0.110%	6.00x
133	Baxter	42	0.110%	1.88x
134	Rae	42	0.110%	4.92x
135	Duffy	41	0.110%	5.01x
136	Forrest	41	0.110%	4.24x
137	Doyle	40	0.110%	4.38x
138	Todd	40	0.110%	2.10x
139	Gillon	39	0.100%	40.67x
140	Lafferty	39	0.100%	45.54x
141	Stein	39	0.100%	43.94x
142	Beattie	38	0.100%	4.74x
143	Carson	38	0.100%	9.20x
144	Dolan	38	0.100%	11.65x
145	Hanlon	38	0.100%	21.95x
146	Kane	38	0.100%	12.58x
147	Barton	37	0.100%	1.83x
148	Frame	37	0.100%	15.55x
149	Baillie	36	0.100%	9.25x
150	Connelly	36	0.100%	10.34x
151	Donnelly	36	0.100%	7.63x
152	Lang	36	0.100%	4.31x
153	Logan	36	0.100%	4.05x
154	Sutherland	36	0.100%	1.91x
155	Arthur	35	0.090%	4.28x
156	Brannan	35	0.090%	13.81x
157	Conner	35	0.090%	12.07x
158	Hendry	35	0.090%	5.89x
159	Liddell	35	0.090%	10.18x
160	Maxwell	35	0.090%	3.93x
161	Paton	35	0.090%	4.17x
162	Ritchie	35	0.090%	2.70x
163	Tennant	35	0.090%	8.74x
164	Brand	34	0.090%	6.14x
165	Gallagher	34	0.090%	5.97x
166	Meikle	34	0.090%	12.60x
167	Rourke	34	0.090%	18.40x
168	Spence	34	0.090%	2.74x
169	Andrew	33	0.090%	2.78x
170	Brady	33	0.090%	4.97x
171	Devine	33	0.090%	8.84x
172	Dykes	33	0.090%	12.80x
173	Halliday	33	0.090%	4.26x
174	Houston	33	0.090%	6.91x
175	Sloan	33	0.090%	9.35x
176	Templeton	33	0.090%	11.92x
177	Blair	32	0.090%	3.29x
178	Diamond	32	0.090%	18.36x
179	Gallacher	32	0.090%	9.90x
180	Gibb	32	0.090%	4.83x
181	Hodge	32	0.090%	3.39x
182	Inglis	32	0.090%	5.11x
183	Mair	32	0.090%	9.23x
184	Bowie	31	0.080%	9.49x
185	Harvie	31	0.080%	25.27x
186	Main	31	0.080%	5.05x
187	Prentice	31	0.080%	7.02x
188	Dougan	30	0.080%	33.47x
189	Gardiner	30	0.080%	2.78x
190	Laurie	30	0.080%	9.31x
191	Malone	30	0.080%	10.00x
192	Torrance	30	0.080%	18.15x
193	Whitelaw	30	0.080%	13.42x
194	Brownlee	29	0.080%	22.38x
195	Clydesdale	29	0.080%	116.42x
196	Hutchison	29	0.080%	4.70x
197	Lavery	29	0.080%	28.15x
198	Leitch	29	0.080%	8.11x
199	Rodgers	29	0.080%	2.83x
200	Tennent	29	0.080%	47.47x