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Position:Home>Genealogy> Is there a website where I can get ahold of a Welsh surname list?Question: Is there a website where I can get ahold of a Welsh surname list?I have some ancestors that were likely Welsh, but I think the surnames got changed. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are many Welsh surnames...could you be a bit more specific as to what it could be?! Do you mean names that are of Welsh origin or their surname was literally Welsh? Some common Welsh names and name derivations can be found here:http://www.data-wales.co.uk/names.htm... http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sit... http://www.genealogymagazine.com/welsh.h... http://www.all-surnames.com/welsh/index.... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/genealo... http://www.s4c.co.uk/helachau/e_how_surn... The following names are listed 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 So, there are a few surnames for you to ponder. You would need to consider if the name was Anglicised. eg. Pugh becomes Pughe. However, if it is literally the name Welsh, the following links will be of better use... http://surname.sofeminine.co.uk/w/surnam... Fot the Irish origin of the name Welsh http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~walsh/ori... According to Ancestry.com Top Places of Origin for Welsh Place of Origin Welsh Immigrants Ireland 2926 England 872 Great Britain 510 Scotland 218 Germany 24 Wales 20 Name origin: Scottish and English: ethnic name for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace. Irish: variant of Walsh. Americanized spelling of German Welsch. Americanized form of Ukrainian Volosin (see Woloszyn). The above suggests some possible versions of the name before it was changed. |