1881 census place

Swansea Town surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Swansea Town, 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

1,463 surnames are listed for Swansea Town, Glamorgan, covering 27,433 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Davies, with 1,860 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Swansea Town

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	1,860	4.46%	8.77x
2	Jones	1,816	4.35%	3.84x
3	Thomas	1,573	3.77%	9.14x
4	Williams	1,540	3.69%	5.14x
5	Evans	941	2.26%	5.16x
6	Rees	641	1.54%	17.67x
7	Lewis	620	1.49%	5.65x
8	Jenkins	485	1.16%	9.87x
9	Harris	480	1.15%	4.53x
10	Griffiths	478	1.15%	7.00x
11	Richards	423	1.01%	6.72x
12	Morris	380	0.910%	4.09x
13	Phillips	334	0.800%	4.48x
14	Edwards	320	0.770%	2.75x
15	Davis	299	0.720%	3.26x
16	Bevan	261	0.630%	25.58x
17	Hopkins	240	0.580%	9.56x
18	Hughes	216	0.520%	1.85x
19	Bowen	192	0.460%	11.13x
20	Price	192	0.460%	2.63x
21	Owens	172	0.410%	8.30x
22	Lloyd	164	0.390%	3.37x
23	Beynon	157	0.380%	52.71x
24	Tucker	157	0.380%	6.80x
25	Johns	150	0.360%	13.93x
26	Owen	148	0.350%	2.99x
27	John	136	0.330%	9.02x
28	Walters	126	0.300%	6.34x
29	Murphy	123	0.290%	3.69x
30	Collins	120	0.290%	2.01x
31	Watkins	109	0.260%	4.31x
32	Rosser	107	0.260%	35.23x
33	Powell	106	0.250%	2.04x
34	George	103	0.250%	4.21x
35	Morgans	102	0.240%	11.33x
36	Rogers	92	0.220%	1.70x
37	Howell	87	0.210%	4.95x
38	Stephens	85	0.200%	3.67x
39	Clement	84	0.200%	20.00x
40	Charles	81	0.190%	9.40x
41	Saunders	81	0.190%	2.12x
42	Cole	80	0.190%	2.11x
43	Austin	79	0.190%	3.88x
44	Eaton	79	0.190%	6.77x
45	Reed	79	0.190%	2.60x
46	Howells	78	0.190%	7.33x
47	Vaughan	76	0.180%	5.34x
48	Nicholls	68	0.160%	3.12x
49	Burgess	61	0.150%	2.11x
50	Daniel	61	0.150%	6.62x
51	Harvey	60	0.140%	1.35x
52	Matthews	59	0.140%	1.62x
53	Watts	58	0.140%	1.66x
54	Welsh	56	0.130%	3.39x
55	Norman	55	0.130%	2.85x
56	Ace	53	0.130%	149.84x
57	Isaac	53	0.130%	10.14x
58	Ball	52	0.120%	1.51x
59	Harries	51	0.120%	6.50x
60	Rowlands	51	0.120%	4.91x
61	Michael	50	0.120%	22.30x
62	Beer	49	0.120%	7.34x
63	Barry	47	0.110%	6.23x
64	Mathews	47	0.110%	3.05x
65	Hoskins	46	0.110%	11.31x
66	Perkins	46	0.110%	2.45x
67	Rice	46	0.110%	3.55x
68	Crocker	45	0.110%	8.03x
69	Llewellyn	45	0.110%	7.39x
70	Samuel	45	0.110%	9.04x
71	Miles	44	0.110%	1.79x
72	Fender	43	0.100%	67.57x
73	Parkin	43	0.100%	3.83x
74	Couch	42	0.100%	16.96x
75	Roderick	41	0.100%	28.12x
76	Driscoll	40	0.100%	8.62x
77	Fitzgerald	40	0.100%	5.49x
78	Peters	40	0.100%	2.74x
79	Donovan	39	0.090%	5.88x
80	Gibbs	39	0.090%	1.90x
81	Ryan	39	0.090%	3.02x
82	Mainwaring	38	0.090%	23.55x
83	Power	38	0.090%	6.80x
84	Gammon	37	0.090%	16.47x
85	Pike	37	0.090%	3.05x
86	Trick	37	0.090%	76.57x
87	Anthony	36	0.090%	7.43x
88	Casey	36	0.090%	5.86x
89	Hooper	36	0.090%	2.04x
90	Webber	36	0.090%	2.83x
91	Nicholas	35	0.080%	4.30x
92	Jewell	34	0.080%	7.76x
93	Barnett	33	0.080%	1.75x
94	Freedman	33	0.080%	72.70x
95	Grey	33	0.080%	3.65x
96	Hicks	33	0.080%	1.89x
97	Leonard	33	0.080%	3.65x
98	Pickard	33	0.080%	5.67x
99	Huxtable	32	0.080%	17.60x
100	Ley	32	0.080%	17.57x