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    Most Common Surnames in Wales

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    Here are the most common 40 surnames:

    Jones - 60.57 per thousand

    Williams - 37.81 per thousand

    Davies - 36.76 per thousand

    Evans - 24.66 per thousand

    Thomas - 22.97 per thousand

    Roberts - 17.14 per thousand

    Hughes - 13.38 per thousand

    Lewis - 12.96 per thousand

    Morgan - 11.7 per thousand

    Griffiths - 10.9 per thousand

    Edwards - 10.33 per thousand

    Owen - 8.85 per thousand

    James - 7.66 per thousand

    Morris - 7.5 per thousand

    Price - 7.5 per thousand

    Rees - 7.3 per thousand

    Phillips - 6.34 per thousand

    Jenkins - 6.23 per thousand

    Harris - 5.79 per thousand

    Lloyd - 5.64 per thousand

    Richards - 5.51 per thousand

    Powell - 4.72 per thousand

    Parry - 4.49 per thousand

    John - 3.65 per thousand

    Watkins - 3.39 per thousand

    Howells - 3.25 per thousand

    Pritchard - 3.14 per thousand

    Rogers - 2.71 per thousand

    Matthews - 2.37 per thousand

    Rowlands - 2.35 per thousand

    Humphreys - 2.22 per thousand

    Pugh - 2.19 per thousand

    Ellis - 2.17 per thousand

    Bowen - 2.17 per thousand

    Hopkins - 2.14 per thousand

    Martin - 1.91 per thousand

    Bennett - 1.86 per thousand

    Bevan - 1.69 per thousand

    Pearse - 1.65 per thousand

    Adams - 1.61 per thousand

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    My mom's surname is Adams. It's believed to be on mainly english origin so I am surprised to see it in the Welsh but not the English list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absinthe View Post
    My mom's surname is Adams. It's believed to be on mainly english origin so I am surprised to see it in the Welsh but not the English list.
    Distribution of Adams in the UK.

    http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk...y=GB&type=name

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absinthe View Post
    My mom's surname is Adams. It's believed to be on mainly english origin so I am surprised to see it in the Welsh but not the English list.

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    Mine didn't make the cut though there were a variant of it on the list. Aren't names like Jenkins & Watkins of Flemish origin? I know there were several areas of South Wales that had Flemish colonists during the Middle Ages.
    Last edited by Æmeric; 01-10-2009 at 12:26 AM.

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    That is a list of the names that are most common in Wales. Not all of them are Welsh, because there are a lot of people in Wales who aren't Welsh apparently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Æmeric View Post
    Mine didn't make the cut though there were a variant of it on the list. Aren't names like Jenkins & Watkins of Flemish origin? I know there were several areas of South Wales that had Flemish colonists during the Middle Ages.
    Yes they are, the large majority of Flemish immigrants settled in Pembrokeshire, west Wales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angharad View Post
    because there are a lot of people in Wales who aren't Welsh apparently.
    Very true. The ones who share backgrounds with anything other than the native stock are only Welsh born and not Welsh.

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