Top surnames from the 1881 census in Silian, Cardiganshire / Ceredigion

Silian is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Cardiganshire / Ceredigion

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
JONES9833.910029.94
DAVIES7525.951651.02
EVANS206.920415.84
JAMES124.152221.14
WILLIAMS124.15225.78
MARSDEN93.114275.19
MORRIS82.768212.44
LEWIS72.42219.21
JENKINS62.076117.62
THOMAS62.07615.03
HUGHES62.07617.41
STEWART62.076113.27
DULEY51.73012,500.00
RICHARDS41.38419.17
PARRY31.038113.64
ABEL20.6920107.53
LLOYD20.69205.93
GRIFFITHS20.69204.23
GOWER20.692066.01
WALTERS10.34607.26
RICHARDSON10.34602.03

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
DULEY0.292892500.0000
ABEL0.29289107.5269
MARSDEN0.2928975.1880
GOWER0.2928966.0066
DAVIES0.2928951.0204
JONES0.2928929.9419
JAMES0.2928921.1379
JENKINS0.2928917.6160
EVANS0.2928915.8366
PARRY0.2928913.6426
STEWART0.2928913.2685
MORRIS0.2928912.4359
LEWIS0.292899.2130
RICHARDS0.292899.1659
HUGHES0.292897.4092
WALTERS0.292897.2569
LLOYD0.292895.9277
WILLIAMS0.292895.7803
THOMAS0.292895.0310
GRIFFITHS0.292894.2292
RICHARDSON0.292892.0325

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 289 people called DULEY in Silian 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 2500.0000 in Silian means that 2500.0000% of the people in Silian on census day were called DULEY.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called DULEY 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 DULEY 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 DULEY 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 DULEY here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.29 in Silian means that you are 0.29 times as likely to find someone with the surname of DULEY in Silian than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Silian in 1881

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

ABEL (2)  BENYTH (1)  DAVIES (75)  DULEY (5)  EVANS (20)  GOWER (2)  GRIFFITHS (2)  HUGHES (6)  JAMES (12)  JENKINS (6)  JONES (98)  LEWIS (7)  LLOYD (2)  MARSDEN (9)  MC KUTCHEN (1)  MORRIS (8)  PARRY (3)  RICHARDS (4)  RICHARDSON (1)  STEWART (6)  THOMAS (6)  WALTERS (1)  WILLIAMS (12)