Top surnames from the 1881 census in Dolbemaen, Caernarfonshire / Sir Gaernarfon

Dolbemaen is an 1881 census registration district in the county of Caernarfonshire / Sir Gaernarfon

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
JONES12225.902322.87
WILLIAMS11323.991533.40
ROBERTS408.492622.57
OWEN388.067967.98
MORRIS326.794130.52
GRIFFITH306.3694195.57
HUGHES234.883217.43
EVANS183.82178.75
PIERCE153.1847216.76
OWENS102.123142.75
PARRY71.486219.53
THOMAS51.06162.57
PRITCHARD51.061619.72
BRYMER30.63691,153.85
WILLIAM20.424649.75
LEWIS10.21230.81
HUMPHREYS10.21236.03
PRICE10.21231.21
POWELL10.21231.70
DAVIES10.21230.42
LLOYD10.21231.82
HUMPHRY10.212368.49

Top surnames by population index

Surname Index Total Frequency
BRYMER0.474711153.8462
PIERCE0.47471216.7630
GRIFFITH0.47471195.5671
HUMPHRY0.4747168.4932
OWEN0.4747167.9785
WILLIAM0.4747149.7512
OWENS0.4747142.7533
WILLIAMS0.4747133.3984
MORRIS0.4747130.5227
JONES0.4747122.8709
ROBERTS0.4747122.5746
PRITCHARD0.4747119.7161
PARRY0.4747119.5258
HUGHES0.4747117.4269
EVANS0.474718.7455
HUMPHREYS0.474716.0314
THOMAS0.474712.5725
LLOYD0.474711.8182
POWELL0.474711.7018
PRICE0.474711.2132
LEWIS0.474710.8076
DAVIES0.474710.4174

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 471 people called BRYMER in Dolbemaen 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 1153.8462 in Dolbemaen means that 1153.8462% of the people in Dolbemaen on census day were called BRYMER.

The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called BRYMER 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 BRYMER 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 BRYMER 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 BRYMER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 0.47 in Dolbemaen means that you are 0.47 times as likely to find someone with the surname of BRYMER in Dolbemaen than you would be in the whole of the UK.

All the surnames recorded in Dolbemaen in 1881

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

BRYMER (3)  DAVIES (1)  EVANS (18)  GRIFFITH (30)  HUGHES (23)  HUMPHY (1)  HUMPHRY (1)  HUMPHREYS (1)  JONES (122)  LEWIS (1)  LLOYD (1)  MORRIS (32)  OWENS (10)  OWEN (38)  PIERCE (15)  PARRY (7)  POWELL (1)  PRICE (1)  PRITCHARD (5)  ROBERTS (40)  THOMAS (5)  WILLIAMS (113)  WILLIAM (2)