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

Brongwyn 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
JONES9936.803032.50
DAVIES4918.215635.81
EVANS3211.895927.22
THOMAS217.806718.92
LEWIS165.948022.62
MORRIS124.461020.04
JAMES72.602213.25
REES62.230525.64
GEORGE51.858731.69
LLOYD51.858715.92
GRIFFITHS41.48709.09
RICHARDS41.48709.85
LODWICK20.7435833.33
WILLIAMS20.74351.04
REYNOLDS20.74358.58
OWENS10.37177.49

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
LODWICK0.27269833.3333
DAVIES0.2726935.8109
JONES0.2726932.4963
GEORGE0.2726931.6857
EVANS0.2726927.2225
REES0.2726925.6410
LEWIS0.2726922.6244
MORRIS0.2726920.0401
THOMAS0.2726918.9172
LLOYD0.2726915.9185
JAMES0.2726913.2475
RICHARDS0.272699.8474
GRIFFITHS0.272699.0868
REYNOLDS0.272698.5837
OWENS0.272697.4850
WILLIAMS0.272691.0350

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 269 people called LODWICK in Brongwyn 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 833.3333 in Brongwyn means that 833.3333% of the people in Brongwyn on census day were called LODWICK.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LODWICK 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 LODWICK 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 LODWICK 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 LODWICK here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.27 in Brongwyn means that you are 0.27 times as likely to find someone with the surname of LODWICK in Brongwyn than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Brongwyn in 1881

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

DAVIES (49)  EVANS (32)  GEORGE (5)  GRIFFITHS (4)  JAMES (7)  JONES (99)  LEWIS (16)  LLOYD (5)  LODWICK (2)  MORRIS (12)  OWENS (1)  PARY (1)  REES (6)  REYNOLDS (2)  RICHARDS (4)  ROWLANDS (?) (1)  THOMAS (21)  WILLIAMS (2)