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 Farr, with 29 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
101	Farr	29	0.060%	3.99x
102	Griffin	29	0.060%	1.26x
103	Probert	29	0.060%	7.52x
104	Sheen	29	0.060%	8.88x
105	Clifford	28	0.060%	2.79x
106	Webber	27	0.060%	1.81x
107	Healy	26	0.050%	8.04x
108	Mantle	26	0.050%	10.18x
109	Mullins	26	0.050%	5.56x
110	Fly	25	0.050%	174.09x
111	Gibbon	25	0.050%	5.05x
112	Welch	25	0.050%	1.45x
113	Cronin	24	0.050%	13.62x
114	Leonard	24	0.050%	2.26x
115	Bryan	23	0.050%	1.90x
116	Cummings	23	0.050%	3.05x
117	Doyle	23	0.050%	1.93x
118	Mansell	23	0.050%	4.03x
119	Rowland	23	0.050%	1.66x
120	Shankland	23	0.050%	26.38x
121	Crook	22	0.050%	1.57x
122	Dawkins	22	0.050%	6.21x
123	Drew	22	0.050%	1.70x
124	Edmonds	22	0.050%	2.36x
125	Moses	22	0.050%	4.40x
126	Richard	22	0.050%	5.22x
127	Sweeney	22	0.050%	3.36x
128	Weaver	22	0.050%	1.73x
129	Whitney	22	0.050%	8.67x
130	Brace	21	0.040%	7.48x
131	Crowley	21	0.040%	6.66x
132	Fitzgerald	21	0.040%	2.46x
133	Haddock	21	0.040%	6.69x
134	Mack	21	0.040%	4.27x
135	Hamer	20	0.040%	2.18x
136	Hitchings	20	0.040%	13.24x
137	Humphries	20	0.040%	1.82x
138	Keefe	20	0.040%	9.48x
139	Osullivan	20	0.040%	40.30x
140	Brennan	19	0.040%	3.72x
141	Cahill	19	0.040%	8.45x
142	Casey	19	0.040%	2.64x
143	Dyke	19	0.040%	3.92x
144	Hennesy	19	0.040%	79.17x
145	Kinsey	19	0.040%	5.93x
146	William	19	0.040%	4.55x
147	Flynn	18	0.040%	1.92x
148	Freedman	18	0.040%	33.82x
149	Hier	18	0.040%	125.35x
150	Israel	18	0.040%	27.99x
151	Mainwaring	18	0.040%	9.51x
152	Passmore	18	0.040%	6.30x
153	Simons	18	0.040%	2.79x
154	Biddle	17	0.030%	4.83x
155	Brien	17	0.030%	10.18x
156	Hennessy	17	0.030%	17.65x
157	Leyshon	17	0.030%	14.92x
158	Mathias	17	0.030%	5.72x
159	Oneil	17	0.030%	3.46x
160	Prothero	17	0.030%	19.50x
161	Scannell	17	0.030%	56.29x
162	Woodman	17	0.030%	3.15x
163	Connelly	16	0.030%	3.52x
164	Dwyer	16	0.030%	5.84x
165	Harpur	16	0.030%	40.84x
166	Hickey	16	0.030%	5.26x
167	Jonathan	16	0.030%	56.66x
168	Mara	16	0.030%	33.68x
169	Oakley	16	0.030%	1.55x
170	Ohalloran	16	0.030%	146.25x
171	Shean	16	0.030%	24.32x
172	Sweet	16	0.030%	3.63x
173	Arscott	15	0.030%	14.89x
174	Benjamin	15	0.030%	5.85x
175	Bufton	15	0.030%	14.07x
176	Gabe	15	0.030%	122.55x
177	Pullman	15	0.030%	31.47x
178	Scull	15	0.030%	28.53x
179	Simon	15	0.030%	4.66x
180	Whitehouse	15	0.030%	1.18x
181	Anthony	14	0.030%	2.46x
182	Beddoe	14	0.030%	16.18x
183	Duggan	14	0.030%	3.74x
184	Haman	14	0.030%	95.30x
185	Maddocks	14	0.030%	4.69x
186	Quinn	14	0.030%	1.50x
187	Roach	14	0.030%	1.94x
188	Tasker	14	0.030%	2.69x
189	Timothy	14	0.030%	22.81x
190	Vale	14	0.030%	4.01x
191	Wiltshire	14	0.030%	2.15x
192	Adler	13	0.030%	44.98x
193	Aubrey	13	0.030%	9.49x
194	Burk	13	0.030%	7.39x
195	Conner	13	0.030%	3.44x
196	Emanuel	13	0.030%	13.85x
197	Gay	13	0.030%	2.00x
198	Greening	13	0.030%	4.78x
199	Jacob	13	0.030%	3.42x
200	Jeremy	13	0.030%	24.58x