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 Cowan, with 28 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
201	Cowan	28	0.070%	3.66x
202	Dalziel	28	0.070%	16.89x
203	Murdoch	28	0.070%	4.40x
204	Paul	28	0.070%	2.98x
205	Rice	28	0.070%	2.41x
206	Shearer	28	0.070%	5.82x
207	Stark	28	0.070%	5.45x
208	Bain	27	0.070%	2.90x
209	Drummond	27	0.070%	3.62x
210	Howat	27	0.070%	23.47x
211	Kinney	27	0.070%	88.38x
212	Lockhart	27	0.070%	10.34x
213	Mackay	27	0.070%	1.99x
214	Meek	27	0.070%	6.19x
215	Nesbit	27	0.070%	23.42x
216	Obrien	27	0.070%	4.87x
217	Arnott	26	0.070%	8.25x
218	Clarkson	26	0.070%	2.62x
219	Colquhoun	26	0.070%	11.71x
220	Findlay	26	0.070%	3.35x
221	Innes	26	0.070%	4.48x
222	Nicol	26	0.070%	3.33x
223	Orr	26	0.070%	4.12x
224	Semple	26	0.070%	14.55x
225	Barr	25	0.070%	2.76x
226	Callaghan	25	0.070%	5.89x
227	Easton	25	0.070%	4.40x
228	Hendrie	25	0.070%	27.21x
229	Peat	25	0.070%	8.36x
230	Adamson	24	0.060%	2.42x
231	Cochrane	24	0.060%	4.13x
232	Fairley	24	0.060%	13.08x
233	Lynch	24	0.060%	2.43x
234	Pender	24	0.060%	19.70x
235	Sommerville	24	0.060%	16.23x
236	Sweeney	24	0.060%	4.78x
237	Witherspoon	24	0.060%	107.72x
238	Croal	23	0.060%	97.75x
239	Edgar	23	0.060%	3.98x
240	Fotheringham	23	0.060%	14.59x
241	Fulton	23	0.060%	4.86x
242	Garrity	23	0.060%	34.41x
243	Nisbet	23	0.060%	5.81x
244	Rennie	23	0.060%	3.51x
245	Reside	23	0.060%	103.79x
246	Adam	22	0.060%	3.42x
247	Carrol	22	0.060%	12.95x
248	Downs	22	0.060%	3.30x
249	Jardine	22	0.060%	6.30x
250	Keenan	22	0.060%	6.93x
251	Liddle	22	0.060%	4.98x
252	Mark	22	0.060%	11.67x
253	Penman	22	0.060%	8.97x
254	Carmichael	21	0.060%	3.91x
255	Cassidy	21	0.060%	4.58x
256	English	21	0.060%	2.98x
257	Farrell	21	0.060%	2.95x
258	Finnigan	21	0.060%	14.34x
259	Hislop	21	0.060%	9.31x
260	Longmuir	21	0.060%	30.17x
261	Milligan	21	0.060%	4.76x
262	Mooney	21	0.060%	4.82x
263	Odonnell	21	0.060%	8.71x
264	Toner	21	0.060%	44.97x
265	Connell	20	0.050%	3.07x
266	Cowie	20	0.050%	4.40x
267	Dobbie	20	0.050%	12.21x
268	Dollan	20	0.050%	64.94x
269	Flannigan	20	0.050%	21.47x
270	Gemmell	20	0.050%	8.88x
271	Hanna	20	0.050%	33.70x
272	Henry	20	0.050%	2.11x
273	Porteous	20	0.050%	8.00x
274	Wilkieson	20	0.050%	326.26x
275	Wylie	20	0.050%	4.58x
276	Coyle	19	0.050%	7.46x
277	Donelly	19	0.050%	22.03x
278	Galbraith	19	0.050%	5.54x
279	Greer	19	0.050%	15.09x
280	Greig	19	0.050%	3.20x
281	Harkins	19	0.050%	22.42x
282	Kyle	19	0.050%	9.11x
283	Lundy	19	0.050%	29.19x
284	Menzies	19	0.050%	3.90x
285	Walls	19	0.050%	4.21x
286	Buchan	18	0.050%	3.71x
287	Cairney	18	0.050%	21.43x
288	Cummings	18	0.050%	3.12x
289	Dunsmore	18	0.050%	18.67x
290	Gaffney	18	0.050%	14.15x
291	Hagan	18	0.050%	9.60x
292	Livingston	18	0.050%	5.34x
293	Mackie	18	0.050%	2.25x
294	Rabone	18	0.050%	51.17x
295	Barrowman	17	0.050%	32.96x
296	Boag	17	0.050%	15.66x
297	Cutler	17	0.050%	3.64x
298	Dow	17	0.050%	3.76x
299	Ewing	17	0.050%	4.92x
300	Letham	17	0.050%	43.10x