1881 census place

Aberdare surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Aberdare, Glamorgan 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

577 surnames are listed for Aberdare, Glamorgan, covering 27,727 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 3,321 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Aberdare

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	Jones	3,321	9.51%	8.40x
2	Davies	3,226	9.24%	18.16x
3	Williams	2,292	6.56%	9.14x
4	Thomas	2,069	5.93%	14.36x
5	Evans	2,046	5.86%	13.41x
6	Lewis	1,114	3.19%	12.13x
7	Rees	884	2.53%	29.10x
8	Griffiths	674	1.93%	11.79x
9	Phillips	637	1.82%	10.20x
10	Jenkins	539	1.54%	13.10x
11	Edwards	492	1.41%	5.06x
12	Price	439	1.26%	7.18x
13	Richards	412	1.18%	7.81x
14	Morris	396	1.13%	5.09x
15	Howells	388	1.11%	43.54x
16	Harris	342	0.980%	3.85x
17	Hughes	316	0.910%	3.23x
18	John	300	0.860%	23.76x
19	Roberts	266	0.760%	2.02x
20	Powell	248	0.710%	5.69x
21	Morgans	231	0.660%	30.65x
22	Lloyd	228	0.650%	5.59x
23	Bowen	199	0.570%	13.78x
24	Watkins	187	0.540%	8.84x
25	Owen	186	0.530%	4.49x
26	Rowlands	162	0.460%	18.62x
27	Davis	157	0.450%	2.05x
28	George	151	0.430%	7.37x
29	Walters	143	0.410%	8.59x
30	Hopkins	135	0.390%	6.42x
31	Harries	131	0.380%	19.94x
32	Parry	120	0.340%	4.52x
33	Llewellyn	110	0.320%	21.57x
34	Beynon	98	0.280%	39.29x
35	Daniel	98	0.280%	12.70x
36	Rosser	93	0.270%	36.57x
37	Bevan	89	0.250%	10.42x
38	Owens	84	0.240%	4.84x
39	Reynolds	84	0.240%	2.78x
40	Samuel	79	0.230%	18.95x
41	Pugh	78	0.220%	5.85x
42	Edmunds	71	0.200%	15.60x
43	Vaughan	68	0.190%	5.71x
44	Richard	67	0.190%	22.25x
45	Prosser	64	0.180%	11.70x
46	Meredith	61	0.170%	8.65x
47	Isaac	55	0.160%	12.57x
48	Eynon	53	0.150%	53.41x
49	Charles	52	0.150%	7.21x
50	Miles	52	0.150%	2.52x
51	Nicholas	51	0.150%	7.48x
52	Roderick	51	0.150%	41.78x
53	Bird	47	0.130%	1.76x
54	Lawrence	46	0.130%	2.03x
55	Mathews	42	0.120%	3.26x
56	Anthony	41	0.120%	10.10x
57	Pritchard	40	0.110%	2.13x
58	Humphreys	38	0.110%	3.09x
59	Morse	36	0.100%	11.23x
60	Moses	36	0.100%	10.08x
61	David	34	0.100%	9.35x
62	Treharne	34	0.100%	43.40x
63	Elias	33	0.090%	29.15x
64	Johns	33	0.090%	3.66x
65	Mathias	33	0.090%	15.56x
66	Perkins	33	0.090%	2.10x
67	Gibbon	32	0.090%	9.05x
68	Griffith	32	0.090%	2.81x
69	Llewelyn	32	0.090%	30.87x
70	Wigley	31	0.090%	14.01x
71	Vater	30	0.090%	216.29x
72	Gething	29	0.080%	51.39x
73	Giles	29	0.080%	2.18x
74	Arthur	27	0.080%	3.55x
75	Gough	27	0.080%	2.64x
76	Hodges	27	0.080%	2.64x
77	Kent	27	0.080%	1.84x
78	Dennis	26	0.070%	2.52x
79	Joseph	26	0.070%	9.18x
80	Roach	26	0.070%	5.06x
81	Benjamin	25	0.070%	13.65x
82	Doughton	24	0.070%	132.82x
83	Gould	24	0.070%	1.90x
84	Mainwaring	24	0.070%	17.76x
85	Rule	24	0.070%	10.02x
86	Crowley	23	0.070%	10.22x
87	Jeffreys	22	0.060%	10.59x
88	Wilcox	21	0.060%	3.19x
89	Abraham	20	0.060%	5.81x
90	Hopkin	20	0.060%	7.41x
91	Phelps	20	0.060%	5.77x
92	Jeremiah	19	0.050%	47.37x
93	Lake	19	0.050%	2.45x
94	Picton	19	0.050%	15.99x
95	Probert	19	0.050%	6.90x
96	Scourfield	19	0.050%	51.41x
97	William	19	0.050%	6.37x
98	Darby	18	0.050%	3.21x
99	Deer	18	0.050%	32.99x
100	Kick	18	0.050%	107.21x