Davies family name history and map
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Davies in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 471 people named Davies in Ireland; roughly one in every 9,300 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 231 men and 236 women. (A small number, 4, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Davies in Ireland
Dublin was Davies country: 29.7% of them (140 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (71), Antrim (66), Cork (55) and Fermanagh (13).
Davies average age in 1911
The average Davies in 1911 was 27.8 years old, 25.7 for men and 29.8 for women; a touch younger than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Davies literacy in 1911
Of the Davieses whose literacy was recorded, 86.9% could both read and write, 1.6% could read but not write, and 11.5% could do neither. The figures were much the same for men and women. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Davies common first names
The most common male names were John (18), William, Thomas, Henry and James. For women it was Mary (13), followed by Annie, Elizabeth, Sarah and Jane.
Davies occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Davies's census form was "Scholar"; 17.6% (83) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were domestic servant (3.2%), general labourer (3%), clerk / office worker (2.5%) and metal worker / engineer (2.5%). Grouped by sector, domestic service accounted for 5.1% of all Davieses, followed by retail & commerce, transport and agriculture.
What religion is Davies?
The largest religious group among Davieses was Anglican, at 49.7%. The remainder were mostly Roman Catholic (22.5%), Presbyterian (8.7%), Methodist (7.9%) and Baptist (3.6%).
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Davies statistics (1911)
Number: 471
Rank: 1,405
Average Age: 28
Davies in the USA (2020)
Number: 33,945
Rank: 1,010
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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