Top surnames from the 1881 census in Penmynydd, Anglesey / Sir Fon

Penmynydd is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Anglesey / Sir Fon

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
JONES9523.399020.66
WILLIAMS9423.152732.23
HUGHES4511.083739.56
ROBERTS276.650217.68
THOMAS215.172412.53
OWEN174.187235.28
EDWARDS153.694613.26
EVANS143.44837.89
GRIFFITHS143.448321.07
PARRY133.202042.07
OWENS122.955759.52
DAVIES71.72413.39
ROWLANDS71.724169.24
PRITCHARD61.477827.45
LLOYD40.98528.44
GRIFFITH40.985230.23
LEWIS20.49261.87
MORRIS20.49262.21
SIMPSON10.24631.41

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
ROWLANDS0.4140669.2384
OWENS0.4140659.5238
PARRY0.4140642.0712
HUGHES0.4140639.5570
OWEN0.4140635.2770
WILLIAMS0.4140632.2304
GRIFFITH0.4140630.2343
PRITCHARD0.4140627.4474
GRIFFITHS0.4140621.0716
JONES0.4140620.6607
ROBERTS0.4140617.6771
EDWARDS0.4140613.2567
THOMAS0.4140612.5343
LLOYD0.414068.4370
EVANS0.414067.8913
DAVIES0.414063.3897
MORRIS0.414062.2131
LEWIS0.414061.8737
SIMPSON0.414061.4083

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 406 people called ROWLANDS in Penmynydd 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 69.2384 in Penmynydd means that 69.2384% of the people in Penmynydd on census day were called ROWLANDS.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ROWLANDS 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 ROWLANDS 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 ROWLANDS 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 ROWLANDS here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.41 in Penmynydd means that you are 0.41 times as likely to find someone with the surname of ROWLANDS in Penmynydd than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Penmynydd in 1881

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

DAVIES (7)  EDWARDS (15)  EVANS (14)  GLYNNE (2)  GRIFFITHS (14)  GRIFFITH (4)  HUGHES (45)  JONES (95)  LEWIS (2)  LLOYD (4)  MORRIS (2)  OWEN (17)  OWENS (12)  PARRY (13)  PRITCHARD (6)  PRYTHERCH (3)  ROBERTS (27)  ROWLANDS (7)  ROWLANDS ? (1)  SIMPSON (1)  THOMAS (21)  WILLIAMS (94)