Top surnames from the 1881 census in Vainor Upper, Cardiganshire / Ceredigion

Vainor Upper 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
JENKINS5214.9425126.80
JONES5114.655212.94
DAVIES329.195418.08
HUGHES267.471326.66
EDWARDS154.310315.47
THOMAS154.310310.45
EVANS144.02309.21
WILLIAMS133.73565.20
SAMUEL113.1609265.06
RICHARDS113.160920.93
CHARLES102.8736139.08
MORGAN102.873614.45
LEWIS102.873610.93
PIERCE92.5862176.13
REES51.436816.52
BARRETT51.436821.40
JAMES51.43687.31
CORBETT41.149458.65
HUMPHREYS41.149432.65
EMANUEL30.8621447.76
HERBERT30.862123.08
MATHEW30.8621229.01
BAILEY20.57473.82
HENDERSON20.57475.29
HUTCHISON20.574734.97
OWENS20.574711.57
GRIFFITHS20.57473.51
LLOYD20.57474.92
EDWARD20.574761.92
CONSTANCE10.2874277.78
MURPHY10.28743.60
THEOPHILUS10.2874714.29
MASON10.28742.14
RODERICK10.287481.97
HOWELL10.28746.82
ROBERTS10.28740.76
PRICE10.28741.64
OWEN10.28742.42
ROWLANDS10.287411.53

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
THEOPHILUS0.35348714.2857
EMANUEL0.35348447.7612
CONSTANCE0.35348277.7778
SAMUEL0.35348265.0602
MATHEW0.35348229.0076
PIERCE0.35348176.1252
CHARLES0.35348139.0821
JENKINS0.35348126.7983
RODERICK0.3534881.9672
EDWARD0.3534861.9195
CORBETT0.3534858.6510
HUTCHISON0.3534834.9650
HUMPHREYS0.3534832.6531
HUGHES0.3534826.6639
HERBERT0.3534823.0769
BARRETT0.3534821.3950
RICHARDS0.3534820.9285
DAVIES0.3534818.0781
REES0.3534816.5180
EDWARDS0.3534815.4655
MORGAN0.3534814.4488
JONES0.3534812.9402
OWENS0.3534811.5741
ROWLANDS0.3534811.5340
LEWIS0.3534810.9302
THOMAS0.3534810.4450
EVANS0.353489.2063
JAMES0.353487.3142
HOWELL0.353486.8166
HENDERSON0.353485.2868
WILLIAMS0.353485.2004
LLOYD0.353484.9225
BAILEY0.353483.8153
MURPHY0.353483.5971
GRIFFITHS0.353483.5119
OWEN0.353482.4213
MASON0.353482.1372
PRICE0.353481.6420
ROBERTS0.353480.7638

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 348 people called THEOPHILUS in Vainor Upper 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 714.2857 in Vainor Upper means that 714.2857% of the people in Vainor Upper on census day were called THEOPHILUS.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called THEOPHILUS 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 THEOPHILUS 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 THEOPHILUS 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 THEOPHILUS here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.35 in Vainor Upper means that you are 0.35 times as likely to find someone with the surname of THEOPHILUS in Vainor Upper than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Vainor Upper in 1881

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

BAILEY (2)  BARRETT (5)  BONSATT (4)  CARIDGE (1)  CHARCOUCHIT (1)  CHARLES (10)  CONSTANCE (1)  CORBETT (4)  DAVIES (32)  EDWARDS (15)  EDWARD (2)  EMANUEL (3)  EVANS (14)  GRIFFITHS (2)  HENDERSON (2)  HERBERT (3)  HOWELL (1)  HUGHES (26)  HUMPHREYS (4)  HUTCHISON (2)  JAMES (5)  JENKINS (52)  JONES (51)  LEWIS (10)  LLYWELYN (1)  LLOYD (2)  MASON (1)  MATHEW (3)  MORGAN (10)  MURPHY (1)  OWENS (2)  OWEN (1)  PIERCE (9)  PRYSE (6)  PRICE (1)  REES (5)  RICHARDS (11)  ROBERTS (1)  RODERICK (1)  ROWLANDS (1)  SAMUEL (11)  THEOPHILUS (1)  THOMAS (15)  WILLIAMS (13)