1881 census place

Shotts surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Shotts, 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

399 surnames are listed for Shotts, Lanarkshire, covering 5,165 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Russell, with 139 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Shotts

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	Russell	139	1.23%	10.07x
2	Thomson	118	1.04%	7.81x
3	Black	116	1.03%	15.84x
4	Marshall	109	0.960%	5.75x
5	Sneddon	107	0.950%	158.97x
6	Johnston	104	0.920%	11.40x
7	Ferguson	85	0.750%	10.61x
8	Weir	73	0.650%	24.83x
9	Orr	69	0.610%	36.22x
10	Hamilton	67	0.590%	7.90x
11	Reid	64	0.570%	5.39x
12	Gibb	61	0.540%	30.56x
13	Paterson	58	0.510%	7.54x
14	Boyd	56	0.500%	14.12x
15	Muir	52	0.460%	12.02x
16	Jack	51	0.450%	21.23x
17	Loudon	50	0.440%	155.62x
18	Barclay	48	0.420%	20.63x
19	Cairns	46	0.410%	18.81x
20	Sommerville	44	0.390%	98.68x
21	Fleming	43	0.380%	9.15x
22	Rae	43	0.380%	16.69x
23	Gilchrist	41	0.360%	24.74x
24	Forrest	37	0.330%	12.70x
25	Gillespie	34	0.300%	18.96x
26	Smellie	34	0.300%	67.92x
27	Waddell	32	0.280%	31.89x
28	Beattie	30	0.270%	12.40x
29	Adam	29	0.260%	14.93x
30	Buchanan	29	0.260%	9.92x
31	Laird	29	0.260%	22.85x
32	Lindsay	29	0.260%	7.87x
33	Donnelly	28	0.250%	19.68x
34	Lithgow	28	0.250%	140.21x
35	Brownlie	27	0.240%	54.56x
36	Haddow	27	0.240%	78.33x
37	Neilson	27	0.240%	16.94x
38	Frame	26	0.230%	36.25x
39	Brannan	25	0.220%	32.70x
40	Logan	25	0.220%	9.32x
41	Oneill	25	0.220%	34.74x
42	Forsyth	24	0.210%	9.95x
43	Greenshields	24	0.210%	118.81x
44	Nisbet	24	0.210%	20.11x
45	Rodger	24	0.210%	15.10x
46	Caldwell	23	0.200%	13.00x
47	Dewar	23	0.200%	15.60x
48	Goldie	23	0.200%	32.68x
49	Mooney	23	0.200%	17.52x
50	Syme	23	0.200%	54.10x
51	Agnew	22	0.190%	34.59x
52	Gardiner	22	0.190%	6.77x
53	Glen	22	0.190%	19.66x
54	Nesbit	22	0.190%	63.27x
55	Steele	22	0.190%	7.27x
56	Hardie	21	0.190%	14.25x
57	Lochhead	21	0.190%	102.99x
58	Murdoch	21	0.190%	10.93x
59	Neil	21	0.190%	14.04x
60	Prentice	21	0.190%	15.78x
61	Baillie	20	0.180%	17.05x
62	Baird	20	0.180%	8.27x
63	Barr	20	0.180%	7.32x
64	Chalmers	20	0.180%	7.43x
65	Gilmour	20	0.180%	12.50x
66	Hailstones	20	0.180%	588.24x
67	Marley	20	0.180%	30.48x
68	Paton	20	0.180%	7.91x
69	Rankin	20	0.180%	11.91x
70	Cain	19	0.170%	8.09x
71	Doyle	19	0.170%	6.90x
72	Finlay	19	0.170%	16.37x
73	Henry	19	0.170%	6.65x
74	Houston	19	0.170%	13.20x
75	Kane	19	0.170%	20.87x
76	Mathers	19	0.170%	28.23x
77	Shields	19	0.170%	10.87x
78	Bryce	18	0.160%	15.91x
79	Cambell	18	0.160%	57.78x
80	Conway	18	0.160%	8.50x
81	Cowan	18	0.160%	7.81x
82	Hannigan	18	0.160%	196.29x
83	Milligan	18	0.160%	13.53x
84	Roy	18	0.160%	17.52x
85	Connell	17	0.150%	8.65x
86	Lessels	17	0.150%	371.99x
87	Nugent	17	0.150%	28.38x
88	Radcliff	17	0.150%	161.44x
89	Rennie	17	0.150%	8.61x
90	Shannon	17	0.150%	19.43x
91	Brunton	16	0.140%	18.01x
92	Docherty	16	0.140%	9.52x
93	Forrester	16	0.140%	10.54x
94	Lavery	16	0.140%	51.50x
95	Lawrie	16	0.140%	14.78x
96	Mack	16	0.140%	14.08x
97	Rennox	16	0.140%	1509.43x
98	Shanks	16	0.140%	18.61x
99	Strang	16	0.140%	31.53x
100	Tennant	16	0.140%	13.26x