1881 census county

Brecknockshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Brecknockshire in 1881. The total column counts people with each surname in the county. Frequency shows the local share of the population. Index compares that share with the wider census.

County summary

2,038 surnames are listed for Brecknockshire, covering 53,003 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Chambers, with 38 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Brecknockshire

Total favours larger counties and larger families. Frequency and index are better clues for where a surname stood out locally. Values above 1.00x mean the surname was more concentrated here than in the wider 1881 census.

#	Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
101	Chambers	38	0.070%	1.14x
102	Cooper	37	0.060%	0.26x
103	Bush	36	0.060%	2.50x
104	Cox	36	0.060%	0.41x
105	Wall	36	0.060%	1.76x
106	Watts	36	0.060%	0.73x
107	Wood	36	0.060%	0.19x
108	Aubrey	35	0.060%	21.38x
109	Games	35	0.060%	140.17x
110	Cook	34	0.060%	0.29x
111	Ellis	33	0.060%	0.39x
112	Thompson	33	0.060%	0.19x
113	Burrows	32	0.050%	1.25x
114	Humphreys	32	0.050%	1.56x
115	Mills	32	0.050%	0.42x
116	Norman	32	0.050%	1.18x
117	Pierce	32	0.050%	3.73x
118	Stanton	32	0.050%	2.75x
119	Allen	31	0.050%	0.28x
120	Baker	31	0.050%	0.24x
121	Collins	31	0.050%	0.37x
122	Eckley	31	0.050%	127.15x
123	Farr	31	0.050%	3.57x
124	Llewelyn	31	0.050%	17.88x
125	Michael	31	0.050%	9.87x
126	Scott	31	0.050%	0.21x
127	Worthing	31	0.050%	68.80x
128	Ball	30	0.050%	0.62x
129	Bishop	30	0.050%	0.73x
130	Brace	30	0.050%	8.94x
131	Edmunds	30	0.050%	3.94x
132	Green	30	0.050%	0.18x
133	Harding	30	0.050%	0.71x
134	Perkins	30	0.050%	1.14x
135	Rhys	30	0.050%	125.05x
136	Bell	29	0.050%	0.26x
137	Dando	29	0.050%	13.43x
138	Gibbs	29	0.050%	1.01x
139	Loyd	29	0.050%	12.64x
140	Palmer	29	0.050%	0.42x
141	Benjamin	28	0.050%	9.14x
142	Wright	28	0.050%	0.15x
143	Chilton	27	0.050%	5.75x
144	Ford	27	0.050%	0.47x
145	Hunt	27	0.050%	0.35x
146	Lawrence	27	0.050%	0.71x
147	Philips	27	0.050%	2.50x
148	Wilding	27	0.050%	3.93x
149	William	27	0.050%	5.41x
150	Ingram	26	0.040%	1.46x
151	Jayne	26	0.040%	47.43x
152	John	26	0.040%	1.23x
153	Lee	26	0.040%	0.27x
154	Miller	26	0.040%	0.25x
155	Bird	25	0.040%	0.56x
156	Gould	25	0.040%	1.18x
157	Hicks	25	0.040%	1.02x
158	Johns	25	0.040%	1.66x
159	Maund	25	0.040%	21.15x
160	Nicholls	25	0.040%	0.82x
161	Ricketts	25	0.040%	4.41x
162	Anthony	24	0.040%	3.54x
163	Barrett	24	0.040%	0.61x
164	Carter	24	0.040%	0.24x
165	Greenow	24	0.040%	219.78x
166	Griffith	24	0.040%	1.26x
167	Hooper	24	0.040%	0.97x
168	Johnson	24	0.040%	0.12x
169	Payne	24	0.040%	0.46x
170	Winstone	24	0.040%	15.61x
171	Edmonds	23	0.040%	2.06x
172	Fox	23	0.040%	0.42x
173	Hope	23	0.040%	1.16x
174	Huish	23	0.040%	26.03x
175	Magness	23	0.040%	59.26x
176	Carpenter	22	0.040%	1.10x
177	Drew	22	0.040%	1.43x
178	Buckley	21	0.040%	0.66x
179	Butcher	21	0.040%	0.85x
180	Childs	21	0.040%	1.96x
181	Coleman	21	0.040%	0.72x
182	Hadley	21	0.040%	2.64x
183	Harper	21	0.040%	0.56x
184	Noble	21	0.040%	0.87x
185	Parsons	21	0.040%	0.47x
186	Trew	21	0.040%	15.95x
187	Warr	21	0.040%	6.31x
188	Winterson	21	0.040%	53.83x
189	Campion	20	0.030%	4.89x
190	Daniels	20	0.030%	1.09x
191	Dodd	20	0.030%	0.84x
192	Fury	20	0.030%	37.97x
193	Kelly	20	0.030%	0.31x
194	Leonard	20	0.030%	1.58x
195	Lilwall	20	0.030%	85.47x
196	Maddy	20	0.030%	53.97x
197	Potter	20	0.030%	0.53x
198	Rice	20	0.030%	1.10x
199	Salter	20	0.030%	1.50x
200	Thornton	20	0.030%	0.68x