1881 census place

Port Glasgow surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire 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

426 surnames are listed for Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, covering 3,485 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Campbell, with 121 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Port Glasgow

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	Campbell	121	1.11%	6.53x
2	Stewart	118	1.08%	6.89x
3	Docherty	106	0.970%	65.12x
4	Murray	76	0.690%	5.60x
5	Gallacher	53	0.480%	56.14x
6	Gilmour	51	0.470%	32.93x
7	Crawford	46	0.420%	8.59x
8	Black	43	0.390%	6.07x
9	Coyle	39	0.360%	52.46x
10	Paton	38	0.350%	15.52x
11	Boyle	37	0.340%	13.03x
12	Lang	36	0.330%	14.75x
13	Montgomery	34	0.310%	19.58x
14	Quin	33	0.300%	28.14x
15	Jamieson	32	0.290%	10.50x
16	Scullion	32	0.290%	193.70x
17	Boyd	30	0.270%	7.81x
18	Fleming	29	0.270%	6.38x
19	Oneil	29	0.270%	26.40x
20	Rodger	28	0.260%	18.20x
21	Arthur	27	0.250%	11.32x
22	Barclay	26	0.240%	11.54x
23	Gemmell	26	0.240%	39.53x
24	Laird	26	0.240%	21.16x
25	Sheilds	26	0.240%	243.67x
26	Doyle	24	0.220%	9.01x
27	Templeton	22	0.200%	27.21x
28	Weir	22	0.200%	7.73x
29	Devlin	21	0.190%	23.43x
30	Dunlop	20	0.180%	11.34x
31	Greig	20	0.180%	11.55x
32	Wylie	20	0.180%	15.70x
33	Crighton	19	0.170%	43.73x
34	Cummings	19	0.170%	11.27x
35	Donald	19	0.170%	8.62x
36	Fulton	19	0.170%	13.76x
37	Lawrie	19	0.170%	18.13x
38	Pollock	19	0.170%	11.95x
39	Whiteside	19	0.170%	21.81x
40	Galbraith	18	0.160%	17.98x
41	Rankin	18	0.160%	11.07x
42	Carmichael	17	0.160%	10.85x
43	Cochrane	17	0.160%	10.03x
44	Connell	17	0.160%	8.94x
45	Fyfe	17	0.160%	16.92x
46	Gallocher	17	0.160%	56.18x
47	Gillies	17	0.160%	10.86x
48	Hendry	17	0.160%	9.81x
49	Howie	17	0.160%	15.83x
50	Sweeney	17	0.160%	11.60x
51	Bonnar	16	0.150%	107.82x
52	Connelly	16	0.150%	15.74x
53	Edgar	15	0.140%	8.90x
54	Swaine	15	0.140%	31.19x
55	Glass	14	0.130%	12.36x
56	Strachan	14	0.130%	7.42x
57	Deary	13	0.120%	147.56x
58	Forsythe	13	0.120%	122.30x
59	Gillan	13	0.120%	33.78x
60	Hanley	13	0.120%	14.42x
61	Kane	13	0.120%	14.75x
62	Mathie	13	0.120%	58.80x
63	Oneill	13	0.120%	18.66x
64	Speirs	13	0.120%	30.37x
65	Twaddle	13	0.120%	114.04x
66	Cummins	12	0.110%	12.85x
67	Drain	12	0.110%	62.31x
68	Gorman	12	0.110%	9.09x
69	Hemphill	12	0.110%	220.18x
70	Kincaid	12	0.110%	89.49x
71	Kinney	12	0.110%	134.53x
72	Lambie	12	0.110%	33.60x
73	Laurie	12	0.110%	12.76x
74	Mulhern	12	0.110%	169.25x
75	Purdon	12	0.110%	59.17x
76	Tarbet	12	0.110%	112.46x
77	Canney	11	0.100%	266.34x
78	Dickens	11	0.100%	9.61x
79	Gorry	11	0.100%	170.02x
80	Haggarty	11	0.100%	52.16x
81	Hartin	11	0.100%	353.70x
82	Henery	11	0.100%	115.79x
83	Hogarth	11	0.100%	15.23x
84	Neil	11	0.100%	7.60x
85	Okane	11	0.100%	327.38x
86	Renfrew	11	0.100%	62.97x
87	Tennyson	11	0.100%	284.24x
88	Whiteford	11	0.100%	37.90x
89	Cochran	10	0.090%	23.94x
90	Coulter	10	0.090%	18.19x
91	Cram	10	0.090%	46.86x
92	Curran	10	0.090%	10.91x
93	Devine	10	0.090%	9.18x
94	Ewing	10	0.090%	9.91x
95	Glancey	10	0.090%	135.50x
96	Gormly	10	0.090%	263.16x
97	Hanlon	10	0.090%	19.79x
98	Keenan	10	0.090%	10.79x
99	Morrow	10	0.090%	22.43x
100	Mulvey	10	0.090%	53.65x