1881 census place

Festiniog surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Festiniog, Merionethshire 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

71 surnames are listed for Festiniog, Merionethshire, covering 10,570 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 2,917 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Festiniog

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	2,917	25.86%	22.84x
2	Williams	1,351	11.98%	16.67x
3	Roberts	1,320	11.70%	31.11x
4	Hughes	652	5.78%	20.63x
5	Davies	624	5.53%	10.88x
6	Evans	481	4.26%	9.76x
7	Owen	413	3.66%	30.85x
8	Thomas	389	3.45%	8.36x
9	Edwards	255	2.26%	8.11x
10	Lloyd	240	2.13%	18.22x
11	Parry	195	1.73%	22.72x
12	Owens	193	1.71%	34.46x
13	Morris	175	1.55%	6.97x
14	Lewis	162	1.44%	5.46x
15	Ellis	145	1.29%	8.85x
16	Griffiths	145	1.29%	7.86x
17	Griffith	121	1.07%	32.93x
18	Richards	113	1.00%	6.63x
19	Pritchard	112	0.990%	18.44x
20	Rowlands	106	0.940%	37.73x
21	Humphreys	103	0.910%	25.94x
22	Pugh	67	0.590%	15.55x
23	Pierce	38	0.340%	22.93x
24	Morgans	32	0.280%	13.15x
25	Ephraim	17	0.150%	1188.81x
26	Foulkes	17	0.150%	16.18x
27	Joseph	17	0.150%	18.59x
28	Wynne	16	0.140%	14.72x
29	Richard	11	0.100%	11.31x
30	Gabriel	10	0.090%	33.48x
31	Pughe	9	0.080%	37.52x
32	Byatt	8	0.070%	28.47x
33	Hooson	8	0.070%	36.31x
34	Chart	7	0.060%	44.25x
35	Cunnington	7	0.060%	15.06x
36	Dauncey	7	0.060%	76.50x
37	Filer	6	0.050%	25.74x
38	Theodore	6	0.050%	128.48x
39	Vaughn	6	0.050%	17.76x
40	Kerfoot	5	0.040%	22.46x
41	Swancott	5	0.040%	105.26x
42	Trevor	5	0.040%	14.29x
43	Elias	4	0.040%	10.94x
44	Ingrams	4	0.040%	103.09x
45	Macauley	4	0.040%	22.46x
46	Angrave	3	0.030%	41.04x
47	Kiffin	3	0.030%	265.49x
48	Killin	3	0.030%	40.05x
49	Wheldon	3	0.030%	15.90x
50	Anwyl	2	0.020%	30.17x
51	Brymer	2	0.020%	32.00x
52	Edmund	2	0.020%	17.24x
53	Folly	2	0.020%	27.36x
54	Jonathan	2	0.020%	30.72x
55	Kyffin	2	0.020%	40.82x
56	Moris	2	0.020%	28.69x
57	Turnor	2	0.020%	63.29x
58	Campell	1	0.010%	18.45x
59	Donally	1	0.010%	20.75x
60	Gilmartin	1	0.010%	13.68x
61	Keley	1	0.010%	40.32x
62	Kenrick	1	0.010%	8.57x
63	Ligertwood	1	0.010%	22.68x
64	Lions	1	0.010%	63.29x
65	Lodwick	1	0.010%	9.87x
66	Lory	1	0.010%	18.59x
67	Meese	1	0.010%	12.06x
68	Pirce	1	0.010%	166.67x
69	Prees	1	0.010%	42.19x
70	Waymouth	1	0.010%	12.06x
71	Wiliams	1	0.010%	14.93x