Mike 1024 says, 'I looked some figures up on this a year or two for a school project. These figures are from a study totalling names from the 6 Wales telephone directories.'
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
These top 40 surnames only cover 38% of the welsh population, but this could easily be explained by varying numbers of people per telephone, studies taken from different eras, et cetera. Welsh-American Family Genealogy
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