1881 census county

Carmarthenshire surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Carmarthenshire 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

1,915 surnames are listed for Carmarthenshire, covering 114,937 people in the county records.

The leading surname here is Hall, with 59 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Carmarthenshire

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	Hall	59	0.050%	0.16x
102	Hopkin	59	0.050%	6.20x
103	Prosser	59	0.050%	3.06x
104	Dunn	58	0.050%	0.57x
105	Scourfield	58	0.050%	44.50x
106	Eynon	56	0.050%	16.01x
107	Collins	55	0.040%	0.31x
108	Lodwig	55	0.040%	127.40x
109	Peregrine	55	0.040%	91.64x
110	Randell	55	0.040%	7.16x
111	Roblin	55	0.040%	84.14x
112	Johnson	54	0.040%	0.13x
113	Picton	54	0.040%	12.89x
114	Hicks	53	0.040%	1.03x
115	Robert	53	0.040%	8.81x
116	Marks	52	0.040%	2.06x
117	Morries	52	0.040%	71.46x
118	Rosser	52	0.040%	5.80x
119	Enoch	51	0.040%	34.75x
120	Jackson	51	0.040%	0.15x
121	Lake	51	0.040%	1.87x
122	Joseph	50	0.040%	5.01x
123	Green	49	0.040%	0.14x
124	Gwynne	49	0.040%	15.87x
125	Miles	49	0.040%	0.67x
126	Morse	49	0.040%	4.34x
127	Andrews	48	0.040%	0.41x
128	Leyshon	48	0.040%	16.73x
129	Cole	47	0.040%	0.42x
130	Jeffreys	47	0.040%	6.42x
131	Badger	46	0.040%	6.45x
132	Brace	46	0.040%	6.50x
133	Christopher	46	0.040%	6.35x
134	Loyd	46	0.040%	9.51x
135	Meredith	46	0.040%	1.85x
136	Phillip	46	0.040%	7.36x
137	Martin	45	0.040%	0.15x
138	Tucker	45	0.040%	0.66x
139	Cooper	43	0.030%	0.14x
140	Gibby	43	0.030%	33.31x
141	Rowland	42	0.030%	1.20x
142	Tobias	42	0.030%	42.92x
143	Mitchell	41	0.030%	0.16x
144	Murphy	41	0.030%	0.42x
145	Stone	41	0.030%	0.46x
146	Ambrose	40	0.030%	3.69x
147	Matthews	40	0.030%	0.37x
148	Scott	40	0.030%	0.13x
149	Havard	39	0.030%	12.26x
150	Reeves	39	0.030%	0.77x
151	Taylor	39	0.030%	0.05x
152	Brazel	37	0.030%	87.39x
153	Leonard	37	0.030%	1.39x
154	Mason	37	0.030%	0.22x
155	Young	37	0.030%	0.14x
156	Scurlock	36	0.030%	72.99x
157	Theophilus	36	0.030%	73.59x
158	Waters	36	0.030%	0.73x
159	Wilkin	36	0.030%	5.34x
160	Clark	34	0.030%	0.09x
161	Erasmus	34	0.030%	83.56x
162	Grant	34	0.030%	0.28x
163	Webb	34	0.030%	0.20x
164	Walter	33	0.030%	1.75x
165	Joshua	32	0.030%	35.06x
166	Pearce	32	0.030%	0.28x
167	Prytherch	32	0.030%	31.51x
168	Thompson	32	0.030%	0.09x
169	Wheeler	32	0.030%	0.43x
170	Arnold	31	0.030%	0.47x
171	Hewitt	31	0.030%	0.52x
172	Hodges	31	0.030%	0.86x
173	Leigh	31	0.030%	1.09x
174	Marker	31	0.030%	28.78x
175	Gealy	30	0.020%	173.81x
176	Raymond	30	0.020%	4.22x
177	Bishop	29	0.020%	0.34x
178	Blackmore	29	0.020%	1.64x
179	Hitchings	29	0.020%	7.63x
180	Norton	29	0.020%	0.71x
181	Wright	29	0.020%	0.07x
182	Mills	28	0.020%	0.18x
183	Barnett	27	0.020%	0.49x
184	Bartlett	27	0.020%	0.50x
185	Evanes	27	0.020%	104.29x
186	Palmer	27	0.020%	0.19x
187	Aaron	26	0.020%	13.54x
188	Abel	26	0.020%	3.28x
189	Edmonds	26	0.020%	1.11x
190	Hill	26	0.020%	0.08x
191	Hinds	26	0.020%	3.06x
192	Warlow	26	0.020%	12.45x
193	Driscoll	25	0.020%	1.82x
194	Hughs	25	0.020%	5.59x
195	Every	24	0.020%	13.03x
196	Hunt	24	0.020%	0.15x
197	Robinson	24	0.020%	0.06x
198	Sims	24	0.020%	0.65x
199	Ellis	23	0.020%	0.13x
200	Gray	23	0.020%	0.13x