Most Common Surnames in Wales.

[Treffie]

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

[Absinthe]

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. :p

[Treffie]

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. :p

Distribution of Adams in the UK.

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map.aspx?name=ADAMS&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name

[Arrow Cross]

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. :p
http://incompletudes.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/morticia-addams-19530.jpg

[Æmeric]

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.

[Angharad]

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.

[Treffie]

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.

[Beorn]

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.