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In 2016, an analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people (nearly 35% of the Welsh population) have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States, with an estimated 16.3 ...
This is a list of people born in Wales with Wikidata items; for a list of Welsh people with articles on Wikipedia, see List of Welsh people. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/List of Welsh people on The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Only 8000 pages are listed but there are more.
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As we work through this list, we shall find that the list of people born in Wales will automatically be updated and will grow, as it is dependent on having two identifiers: dob and place of birth. It's alive, and updated daily.
This list is for people of Welsh heritage and descent, and for those otherwise perceived as Welsh; through either birth or adoption. Only those meeting notability criteria are included. A few people appear in more than one section of the list.
- Jones. One of the most common surnames in Wales is Jones. It is a contraction of ‘John’s son.’ John was an extremely common personal name across Europe at this time because of its links to the Bible.
- Davies. The surname Davies is an old Welsh surname with patronymic roots and comes from the anglicisation of the Welsh ‘Dafydd’ – ‘David’ and comes from ‘David’s son.’
- Williams. Another testament to the old Welsh patronymic style of surnames is Williams which comes from ‘son of William’ or ‘William’s son.’ The surname also belongs to the famous Welsh landscape painter, Kyffin Williams.
- Evans. The name Evans also comes from ‘son of Evan’ which was an anglicised version of the Welsh Efan or Ifan. These in turn were the Welsh medieval forms of the Latin Ieuan.
This list is for people of Welsh heritage and descent, and for those otherwise perceived as Welsh; through either birth or adoption. Only those meeting notability criteria are included. A few people appear in more than one section of the list.
This work includes shortening and simplifying biographies for 100 prominent Welsh people, in Welsh and English, and the conditions of the grant require that at least half of them be women, and at least 10% of them from under-represented minorities, in order to ensure equality and diversity.
