1881 census place

Llanelly surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire 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

373 surnames are listed for Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, covering 22,433 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Davies, with 2,414 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Llanelly

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	Davies	2,414	8.70%	17.11x
2	Thomas	2,409	8.69%	21.05x
3	Jones	1,928	6.95%	6.14x
4	Williams	1,775	6.40%	8.91x
5	Evans	1,326	4.78%	10.94x
6	Rees	998	3.60%	41.37x
7	Lewis	827	2.98%	11.34x
8	Jenkins	716	2.58%	21.91x
9	Griffiths	711	2.56%	15.67x
10	Phillips	665	2.40%	13.40x
11	Richards	510	1.84%	12.18x
12	Hughes	485	1.75%	6.24x
13	Bowen	458	1.65%	39.94x
14	Morris	396	1.43%	6.41x
15	John	382	1.38%	38.09x
16	Roberts	343	1.24%	3.29x
17	Edwards	318	1.15%	4.11x
18	Samuel	275	0.990%	83.07x
19	Hopkins	266	0.960%	15.93x
20	Harries	242	0.870%	46.39x
21	Morgans	213	0.770%	35.59x
22	Howells	178	0.640%	25.15x
23	Lloyd	160	0.580%	4.94x
24	Walters	159	0.570%	12.02x
25	Charles	145	0.520%	25.30x
26	Price	138	0.500%	2.84x
27	Bassett	131	0.470%	30.27x
28	Owen	120	0.430%	3.65x
29	Rogers	114	0.410%	3.17x
30	Daniel	109	0.390%	17.79x
31	Howell	107	0.390%	9.15x
32	Owens	105	0.380%	7.62x
33	Treharne	97	0.350%	155.87x
34	Beynon	95	0.340%	47.96x
35	Harry	95	0.340%	47.28x
36	Powell	95	0.340%	2.75x
37	Bevan	89	0.320%	13.12x
38	Reynolds	76	0.270%	3.16x
39	Stephens	73	0.260%	4.74x
40	Anthony	68	0.250%	21.10x
41	Protheroe	62	0.220%	87.87x
42	Vaughan	62	0.220%	6.55x
43	Hugh	60	0.220%	81.81x
44	Perrott	56	0.200%	58.71x
45	Nicholas	54	0.190%	9.97x
46	Edmunds	49	0.180%	13.55x
47	Rowlands	49	0.180%	7.09x
48	Arthur	48	0.170%	7.94x
49	Llewellyn	44	0.160%	10.87x
50	Humphreys	39	0.140%	3.99x
51	Isaac	38	0.140%	10.93x
52	Mainwaring	38	0.140%	35.41x
53	Clement	35	0.130%	12.53x
54	Leyshon	34	0.120%	52.61x
55	David	33	0.120%	11.43x
56	Wilkins	33	0.120%	2.69x
57	Emanuel	32	0.120%	60.09x
58	Badger	28	0.100%	17.44x
59	Aubrey	27	0.100%	34.75x
60	Hopkin	26	0.090%	12.12x
61	Randell	25	0.090%	14.45x
62	Every	24	0.090%	57.86x
63	Rosser	24	0.090%	11.88x
64	Job	23	0.080%	27.45x
65	Joseph	22	0.080%	9.79x
66	Marker	22	0.080%	90.68x
67	Sims	22	0.080%	2.65x
68	Chappel	21	0.080%	17.21x
69	Lodwig	21	0.080%	216.05x
70	Marks	21	0.080%	3.70x
71	Mathias	21	0.080%	12.47x
72	Nurse	21	0.080%	15.56x
73	Simon	21	0.080%	11.51x
74	Gravell	20	0.070%	76.60x
75	Meyler	19	0.070%	241.42x
76	Henshaw	18	0.060%	7.62x
77	Peregrine	18	0.060%	133.14x
78	Prosser	18	0.060%	4.14x
79	Warlow	18	0.060%	38.27x
80	Blackmore	17	0.060%	4.26x
81	Gay	17	0.060%	4.60x
82	Henshall	17	0.060%	12.63x
83	Delany	16	0.060%	35.05x
84	Frances	16	0.060%	9.16x
85	Grey	16	0.060%	2.66x
86	Pryor	16	0.060%	8.64x
87	Roach	16	0.060%	3.92x
88	Mathew	15	0.050%	14.41x
89	Banfield	14	0.050%	11.04x
90	Brace	14	0.050%	8.79x
91	Britten	14	0.050%	12.67x
92	Christopher	14	0.050%	8.58x
93	Edmund	14	0.050%	49.09x
94	Vivian	14	0.050%	10.88x
95	Caul	13	0.050%	215.95x
96	Eynon	13	0.050%	16.50x
97	Hoskin	13	0.050%	10.46x
98	Hitchings	12	0.040%	14.01x
99	Margan	12	0.040%	219.78x
100	Michael	12	0.040%	8.05x