1881 census place

Rutherglen surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Rutherglen, 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

518 surnames are listed for Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, covering 6,895 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Brown, with 318 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Rutherglen

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	318	2.29%	3.48x
2	Robertson	162	1.17%	6.97x
3	Hamilton	143	1.03%	13.75x
4	Miller	119	0.860%	4.80x
5	Paterson	108	0.780%	11.45x
6	Reid	106	0.760%	7.28x
7	Aitken	105	0.760%	28.87x
8	Thomson	93	0.670%	5.02x
9	Muir	89	0.640%	16.78x
10	Murray	85	0.610%	4.95x
11	Graham	74	0.530%	4.65x
12	Park	71	0.510%	16.53x
13	Ferguson	69	0.500%	7.02x
14	Kerr	68	0.490%	9.00x
15	Dick	65	0.470%	21.02x
16	Fleming	65	0.470%	11.29x
17	Gardner	65	0.470%	6.91x
18	Davidson	61	0.440%	5.23x
19	Gillespie	61	0.440%	27.75x
20	Murphy	59	0.430%	5.33x
21	Allan	58	0.420%	6.67x
22	Boyle	58	0.420%	16.13x
23	Duffy	53	0.380%	17.51x
24	Crawford	49	0.350%	7.22x
25	Winning	49	0.350%	157.56x
26	Johnston	48	0.350%	4.29x
27	Maxwell	45	0.320%	13.66x
28	Shearer	45	0.320%	25.30x
29	Stevenson	45	0.320%	4.63x
30	Forsyth	44	0.320%	14.88x
31	Sloan	44	0.320%	33.71x
32	Docherty	40	0.290%	19.40x
33	Welsh	39	0.280%	7.11x
34	Jamieson	38	0.270%	9.84x
35	Colquhoun	37	0.270%	45.06x
36	Dickson	37	0.270%	7.21x
37	Frame	37	0.270%	42.07x
38	Weir	37	0.270%	10.26x
39	Lang	36	0.260%	11.65x
40	Shields	36	0.260%	16.80x
41	Templeton	36	0.260%	35.16x
42	Carruthers	35	0.250%	19.09x
43	Drummond	35	0.250%	12.71x
44	Millar	35	0.250%	6.92x
45	Lindsay	34	0.250%	7.53x
46	Orr	34	0.250%	14.56x
47	Laird	33	0.240%	21.21x
48	Baird	32	0.230%	10.80x
49	Arbuckle	31	0.220%	105.16x
50	Dunsmore	31	0.220%	86.98x
51	Fulton	31	0.220%	17.72x
52	Rae	31	0.220%	9.82x
53	Gilchrist	30	0.220%	14.76x
54	Rennie	30	0.220%	12.39x
55	Samson	30	0.220%	30.30x
56	Sneddon	30	0.220%	36.35x
57	Tennant	30	0.220%	20.27x
58	Bain	28	0.200%	8.14x
59	Montgomery	28	0.200%	12.73x
60	Queen	28	0.200%	49.30x
61	Warnock	28	0.200%	92.93x
62	Monaghan	27	0.190%	26.87x
63	Adair	26	0.190%	60.21x
64	Barr	26	0.190%	7.76x
65	Caldwell	26	0.190%	11.99x
66	Gibbon	26	0.190%	18.52x
67	Pringle	26	0.190%	11.91x
68	Donnelly	25	0.180%	14.33x
69	Gallacher	25	0.180%	20.91x
70	Kilpatrick	25	0.180%	35.03x
71	Steven	25	0.180%	23.81x
72	Beveridge	24	0.170%	16.64x
73	Buchanan	24	0.170%	6.70x
74	Freebairn	23	0.170%	347.43x
75	Kirkwood	23	0.170%	18.36x
76	Bryce	22	0.160%	15.86x
77	Chalmers	22	0.160%	6.67x
78	Glen	22	0.160%	16.04x
79	Knox	22	0.160%	9.25x
80	Meikle	22	0.160%	22.06x
81	Moffat	22	0.160%	8.76x
82	Rooney	22	0.160%	17.79x
83	Whyte	22	0.160%	9.36x
84	Kirkland	21	0.150%	17.02x
85	Latta	21	0.150%	120.97x
86	Leitch	21	0.150%	15.88x
87	Mackie	21	0.150%	7.09x
88	Murdoch	21	0.150%	8.92x
89	Neilson	21	0.150%	10.75x
90	Rodger	21	0.150%	10.78x
91	Somerville	21	0.150%	18.20x
92	Barrowman	20	0.140%	104.88x
93	Dalglish	20	0.140%	78.99x
94	Finnie	20	0.140%	41.51x
95	Mullan	20	0.140%	79.59x
96	Nisbet	20	0.140%	13.67x
97	Patrick	20	0.140%	7.24x
98	Logan	19	0.140%	5.78x
99	Love	19	0.140%	5.78x
100	Mullholland	19	0.140%	114.67x