1881 census place

Merthyr Tydfil surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Merthyr Tydfil, 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

940 surnames are listed for Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, covering 37,829 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 4,904 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Merthyr Tydfil

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	4,904	10.03%	8.86x
2	Davies	3,818	7.81%	15.35x
3	Williams	3,021	6.18%	8.60x
4	Evans	2,544	5.20%	11.91x
5	Thomas	2,477	5.07%	12.28x
6	Lewis	1,759	3.60%	13.68x
7	Rees	1,093	2.24%	25.70x
8	Price	797	1.63%	9.31x
9	Griffiths	763	1.56%	9.54x
10	Jenkins	731	1.50%	12.69x
11	Edwards	652	1.33%	4.78x
12	Richards	580	1.19%	7.86x
13	Harris	500	1.02%	4.02x
14	Powell	488	1.00%	8.00x
15	Hughes	460	0.940%	3.36x
16	Phillips	443	0.910%	5.06x
17	Morris	374	0.770%	3.44x
18	Lloyd	321	0.660%	5.62x
19	Morgans	305	0.620%	28.91x
20	Watkins	302	0.620%	10.19x
21	Davis	285	0.580%	2.65x
22	John	282	0.580%	15.95x
23	Roberts	256	0.520%	1.39x
24	Howells	208	0.430%	16.67x
25	Owens	195	0.400%	8.03x
26	Walters	182	0.370%	7.81x
27	Bowen	179	0.370%	8.85x
28	Parry	171	0.350%	4.60x
29	Bevan	155	0.320%	12.96x
30	Collins	138	0.280%	1.97x
31	Donovan	130	0.270%	16.73x
32	Murphy	130	0.270%	3.33x
33	Owen	124	0.250%	2.14x
34	Rowlands	122	0.250%	10.02x
35	Llewellyn	111	0.230%	15.55x
36	Vaughan	108	0.220%	6.47x
37	Beynon	106	0.220%	30.35x
38	Samuel	106	0.220%	18.16x
39	Shea	105	0.210%	31.98x
40	George	100	0.200%	3.49x
41	Hopkins	94	0.190%	3.19x
42	Rogers	94	0.190%	1.48x
43	Pugh	90	0.180%	4.82x
44	Mahoney	89	0.180%	17.03x
45	Daniel	87	0.180%	8.05x
46	Prosser	82	0.170%	10.71x
47	Nicholas	80	0.160%	8.38x
48	Watts	79	0.160%	1.93x
49	Stephens	77	0.160%	2.84x
50	Humphreys	72	0.150%	4.18x
51	Protheroe	63	0.130%	50.64x
52	Roderick	63	0.130%	36.86x
53	Edmunds	62	0.130%	9.73x
54	Reynolds	60	0.120%	1.42x
55	Havard	58	0.120%	45.90x
56	Pritchard	58	0.120%	2.20x
57	Lynch	55	0.110%	4.26x
58	Charles	54	0.110%	5.34x
59	Mathews	54	0.110%	2.99x
60	Meyrick	54	0.110%	42.13x
61	Herbert	53	0.110%	2.90x
62	Elias	49	0.100%	30.91x
63	Harries	48	0.100%	5.22x
64	Power	48	0.100%	7.33x
65	Leary	47	0.100%	10.64x
66	Bryant	46	0.090%	2.20x
67	Harrington	46	0.090%	4.96x
68	Llewelyn	46	0.090%	31.69x
69	Connell	45	0.090%	5.30x
70	Miles	45	0.090%	1.56x
71	Rosser	45	0.090%	12.64x
72	Abraham	44	0.090%	9.12x
73	Meredith	44	0.090%	4.45x
74	Sulivan	44	0.090%	49.10x
75	Driscoll	43	0.090%	7.90x
76	Welsh	43	0.090%	2.22x
77	Harding	41	0.080%	1.16x
78	Coleman	40	0.080%	1.64x
79	Arthur	39	0.080%	3.66x
80	Cotter	39	0.080%	21.05x
81	Joseph	39	0.080%	9.84x
82	Peters	39	0.080%	2.27x
83	Callaghan	38	0.080%	6.86x
84	Hurley	38	0.080%	6.66x
85	Treharne	38	0.080%	34.64x
86	Connors	36	0.070%	45.28x
87	Foley	36	0.070%	5.85x
88	Lyons	36	0.070%	3.31x
89	Regan	35	0.070%	6.98x
90	Barry	33	0.070%	3.73x
91	Waters	33	0.070%	1.68x
92	Gwynne	32	0.070%	26.10x
93	Isaac	32	0.070%	5.22x
94	Ryan	32	0.070%	2.11x
95	Millward	31	0.060%	5.65x
96	Eynon	30	0.060%	21.59x
97	Goodman	30	0.060%	2.10x
98	Griffith	30	0.060%	1.88x
99	Reardon	30	0.060%	14.01x
100	Daley	29	0.060%	5.04x