Top surnames from the 1881 census in Edeyrn, Caernarfonshire / Sir Gaernarfon

Edeyrn is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Caernarfonshire / Sir Gaernarfon

Registration districts were originally created for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, rather than specifically for the census. In many cases, registration districts were broadly equivalent to parishes, but not necessarily so.

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname Total Frequency Index
WILLIAMS13824.424834.00
JONES12722.477919.85
ROBERTS8515.044239.99
HUGHES498.672630.95
THOMAS447.787618.87
EVANS213.71688.51
OWEN213.716831.32
PARRY162.831937.21
GRIFFITH101.769954.32
HERBERT81.415937.90
MORRIS71.23895.57
PRICHARD71.2389134.87
GRIFFITHS61.06196.49
JENKINS40.70806.01
ROWLANDS40.708028.43
JAMES20.35401.80
ELLIS20.35402.44
PRING20.354077.52
DAVIES10.17700.35
LINTON10.177021.55
OWENS10.17703.56
MORGAN10.17700.89
LEWIS10.17700.67
RICHARD10.177020.53
PETERS10.17705.05
LUNT10.177027.47

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
PRICHARD0.57565134.8748
PRING0.5756577.5194
GRIFFITH0.5756554.3183
ROBERTS0.5756539.9887
HERBERT0.5756537.8967
PARRY0.5756537.2093
WILLIAMS0.5756534.0010
OWEN0.5756531.3152
HUGHES0.5756530.9500
ROWLANDS0.5756528.4293
LUNT0.5756527.4725
LINTON0.5756521.5517
RICHARD0.5756520.5339
JONES0.5756519.8475
THOMAS0.5756518.8720
EVANS0.575658.5055
GRIFFITHS0.575656.4893
JENKINS0.575656.0078
MORRIS0.575655.5657
PETERS0.575655.0480
OWENS0.575653.5638
ELLIS0.575652.4375
JAMES0.575651.8021
MORGAN0.575650.8900
LEWIS0.575650.6732
DAVIES0.575650.3480

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 565 people called PRICHARD in Edeyrn at the time of the 1881 census.

The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 134.8748 in Edeyrn means that 134.8748% of the people in Edeyrn on census day were called PRICHARD.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called PRICHARD in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called PRICHARD as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called PRICHARD here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called PRICHARD here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.57 in Edeyrn means that you are 0.57 times as likely to find someone with the surname of PRICHARD in Edeyrn than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Edeyrn in 1881

(including typos, unknowns and the ones we don't have any data for!)

BRACEGIRDLE (1)  MAC CARTER (1)  DAVIES (1)  DEVITTE (2)  ELLIS (2)  EVANS (21)  GRIFFITHS (6)  GRIFFITH (10)  HERBERT (8)  HUGHES (49)  JAMES (2)  JENKINS (4)  JONES (127)  LEWIS (1)  LINTON (1)  LUNT (1)  MORGAN (1)  MORRIS (7)  OWEN (21)  OWENS (1)  PARRY (16)  PETERS (1)  PRING (2)  PRICHARD (7)  RICHARD (1)  ROBERTS (85)  ROWLANDS (4)  THOMAS (44)  WILLIAMS (138)