1881 census place

Ystradyfodwg surnames in the 1881 census

This page ranks surnames recorded in Ystradyfodwg, 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

770 surnames are listed for Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan, covering 35,497 people in the local records.

The leading surname here is Jones, with 4,117 people recorded in 1881.

Most common surnames in Ystradyfodwg

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	4,117	9.23%	8.15x
2	Davies	3,793	8.50%	16.71x
3	Thomas	2,702	6.06%	14.67x
4	Evans	2,628	5.89%	13.48x
5	Williams	2,593	5.81%	8.09x
6	Lewis	1,393	3.12%	11.87x
7	Rees	1,173	2.63%	30.22x
8	Jenkins	937	2.10%	17.82x
9	Griffiths	761	1.71%	10.42x
10	Edwards	643	1.44%	5.17x
11	Phillips	630	1.41%	7.89x
12	Richards	603	1.35%	8.95x
13	Hughes	492	1.10%	3.94x
14	John	471	1.06%	29.19x
15	Morris	458	1.03%	4.61x
16	Price	445	1.00%	5.70x
17	Roberts	407	0.910%	2.42x
18	Powell	393	0.880%	7.06x
19	Lloyd	357	0.800%	6.85x
20	Howells	334	0.750%	29.33x
21	Morgans	294	0.660%	30.53x
22	Harris	271	0.610%	2.39x
23	Watkins	250	0.560%	9.25x
24	Bowen	242	0.540%	13.12x
25	Llewellyn	212	0.480%	32.54x
26	Owen	166	0.370%	3.13x
27	Walters	165	0.370%	7.76x
28	George	148	0.330%	5.65x
29	Parry	146	0.330%	4.30x
30	Harries	138	0.310%	16.44x
31	Bevan	123	0.280%	11.27x
32	Hopkins	123	0.280%	4.58x
33	Samuel	121	0.270%	22.72x
34	Meredith	114	0.260%	12.65x
35	Rogers	104	0.230%	1.80x
36	Miles	100	0.220%	3.80x
37	Rowlands	98	0.220%	8.82x
38	Owens	96	0.220%	4.33x
39	Daniel	91	0.200%	9.23x
40	Rosser	88	0.200%	27.08x
41	Collins	83	0.190%	1.30x
42	Mathews	78	0.170%	4.73x
43	Stephens	78	0.170%	3.15x
44	Vaughan	78	0.170%	5.12x
45	Cox	75	0.170%	1.11x
46	Howell	73	0.160%	3.88x
47	Charles	72	0.160%	7.81x
48	Pearce	71	0.160%	1.73x
49	Beynon	69	0.150%	21.65x
50	Edmunds	67	0.150%	11.52x
51	Pugh	67	0.150%	3.93x
52	Bryant	65	0.150%	3.41x
53	Isaac	65	0.150%	11.62x
54	Nicholas	65	0.150%	7.46x
55	Herbert	63	0.140%	3.78x
56	Pritchard	63	0.140%	2.62x
57	Llewelyn	60	0.130%	45.30x
58	Cole	58	0.130%	1.43x
59	Griffith	55	0.120%	3.78x
60	Reynolds	54	0.120%	1.40x
61	Roderick	54	0.120%	34.62x
62	Kinsey	52	0.120%	17.80x
63	David	50	0.110%	10.76x
64	Anthony	49	0.110%	9.45x
65	Saunders	48	0.110%	1.17x
66	Treharne	48	0.110%	47.94x
67	Abraham	45	0.100%	10.22x
68	Eynon	45	0.100%	35.49x
69	Watts	45	0.100%	1.20x
70	Prosser	44	0.100%	6.30x
71	Arthur	43	0.100%	4.42x
72	Tucker	43	0.100%	1.74x
73	Wilkins	43	0.100%	2.18x
74	Humphreys	42	0.090%	2.67x
75	Mainwaring	42	0.090%	24.32x
76	Lawrence	41	0.090%	1.41x
77	Gibbon	40	0.090%	8.85x
78	Perkins	39	0.090%	1.94x
79	Hopkin	38	0.090%	11.01x
80	Joseph	37	0.080%	10.23x
81	William	37	0.080%	9.71x
82	Sheppard	36	0.080%	2.33x
83	Collier	33	0.070%	2.21x
84	Garrett	32	0.070%	3.16x
85	Giles	32	0.070%	1.88x
86	Jenkin	31	0.070%	8.80x
87	Norman	31	0.070%	1.50x
88	Wall	31	0.070%	1.99x
89	Weeks	31	0.070%	3.25x
90	Wigley	31	0.070%	10.96x
91	Bebb	30	0.070%	34.60x
92	Mathias	30	0.070%	11.07x
93	Peters	30	0.070%	1.92x
94	Phelps	30	0.070%	6.77x
95	Leyshon	29	0.070%	27.88x
96	Johns	28	0.060%	2.43x
97	Merryman	28	0.060%	64.80x
98	Prothero	28	0.060%	35.19x
99	Chamberlain	27	0.060%	2.22x
100	England	27	0.060%	2.94x