Top surnames from the 1881 census in St Donats, Glamorgan / Morgannwg

St Donats is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Glamorgan / Morgannwg

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
ELWARD1510.869675,000.00
THOMAS1410.144924.58
WILLIAMS139.420313.11
RICHARDS117.971052.78
KEMP107.2464130.72
WHITE85.797118.03
WILDE85.7971398.01
REES75.072558.33
DAVIES64.34788.55
JENKINS42.898624.60
RIDLER42.89861,176.47
JOHN32.173960.12
CARNE32.1739769.23
MORGAN21.44937.29
HARN21.44933,333.33
RAWLE21.4493740.74
KELLY21.449313.24
DAVID10.724669.44
BOWEN10.724617.51
ROBERT10.7246149.25
POWNALL10.7246166.67
CROWLEY10.7246112.36
GRIFFITHS10.72464.43
POWELL10.72465.81
ROBERTS10.72461.93
HUGHES10.72462.59
EVANS10.72461.66
PREECE10.724644.44

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ELWARD0.1413875000.0000
HARN0.141383333.3333
RIDLER0.141381176.4706
CARNE0.14138769.2308
RAWLE0.14138740.7407
WILDE0.14138398.0100
POWNALL0.14138166.6667
ROBERT0.14138149.2537
KEMP0.14138130.7190
CROWLEY0.14138112.3596
DAVID0.1413869.4444
JOHN0.1413860.1202
REES0.1413858.3333
RICHARDS0.1413852.7831
PREECE0.1413844.4444
JENKINS0.1413824.6002
THOMAS0.1413824.5830
WHITE0.1413818.0343
BOWEN0.1413817.5131
KELLY0.1413813.2363
WILLIAMS0.1413813.1141
DAVIES0.141388.5482
MORGAN0.141387.2886
POWELL0.141385.8072
GRIFFITHS0.141384.4287
HUGHES0.141382.5860
ROBERTS0.141381.9260
EVANS0.141381.6584

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 138 people called ELWARD in St Donats 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 75000.0000 in St Donats means that 75000.0000% of the people in St Donats on census day were called ELWARD.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ELWARD 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 ELWARD 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 ELWARD 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 ELWARD here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.14 in St Donats means that you are 0.14 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ELWARD in St Donats than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in St Donats in 1881

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

BAMON (7)  BOWEN (1)  BRUNSDON (5)  CARNE (3)  CROWLEY (1)  DAVIES (6)  DAVID (1)  ELWARD (15)  EVANS (1)  GRIFFITHS (1)  HARN (2)  HUGHES (1)  JENKINS (4)  JOHN (3)  KELLY (2)  KEMP (10)  KINNENLEY (1)  MORGAN (2)  POWELL (1)  POWNALL (1)  PREECE (1)  REES (7)  RICHARDS (11)  RIDLER (4)  ROBERT (1)  ROBERTS (1)  RAWLE (2)  THOMAS (14)  WHITE (8)  WILDE (8)  WILLIAMS (13)