William

William was the number 5 male firstname in Ireland in 1911

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1. Proportion of Population by District

The map here shows the proportion of the male population with name William by district which were also known as the Poor Law Unions. The districts with the highest proportion were Lisburn at 14.03%, Newtonards at 13.65%, and Belfast at 12.91%. The proportions shown use scientific notation where the colour map uses a log norm which is discussed in the methodology section which can be viewed using the link above.

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2. Proportion of Population by DED

The map here shows the proportion of the male population with name William by DED. The electoral divisions with the highest proportion were Killaloan in County Tipperary at 20.0%, Connor in County Antrim at 18.6%, and Maze in County Down at 18.35%. The proportions shown use scientific notation where the colour map uses a log norm which is discussed in the methodology section which can be viewed using the link above.

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3. Marital Status

The pie chart shows the marital status of the male population named William. This is either single, married, or widow or widower. The proportion of responses aged over 15 who were single were 49.62%, married were 44.25%, and either widowed or widow were 6.13%.

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4. Most Common Surname

The table shown here displays the top 10 surnames by the number of males who had the name William. These surnames are grouped regardless of common prefixes such as "O", "Mac" and "Mc". The most common surname was Murphy at 1487 people, followed by Kelly at 1248 people, Walsh at 1064 people, and Brien at 1018 people.

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5. Population Pyramid

The population pyramid displays a breakdown in groups of every 5 years the number of males with the name William.

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6. Religious Breakdown

The image shown is the religious breakdown for the male population named William. Each religion has been rounded to the nearest whole percentage and any religion less than 3% has been classified as other. The most common religion was Catholic at 51.0%.

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7. Occupations

The table shown were the top 5 occupations for males with the name William. The most common occupation was Farmer at 18941 people, followed by Farmers Son at 7572 people, and General Labourer at 5585 people.

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8. Birthplace by County

The map shown here was the proportion of the male population named William who were born in each of the counties in Ireland. Unlike the proportion of the population above, this is the reported birthplace on the census. The counties with the highest proportion from it were Antrim at 12.8%, followed by Down at 12.13%, Londonderry at 11.1%, and Armagh at 9.44%. The proportions shown use scientific notation where the colour map uses a log norm which is discussed in the methodology section which can be viewed using the link above.

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9. Literacy

For the literacy pie chart shown, there are three categories, one for those who could read and write, another for those who could read only and the final for those who could not read or write. The pie chart is based on the population of males named William. The proportion of responses aged over 9 who can read and write were 90.87%, read only were 2.63%, and not able to read or write were 6.5%.

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10. Irish Language

The bar shown here is the percentage (in green) who could speak Irish while the percentage in red were those who do not speak Irish or if the census entry was blank or unknown for the male population named William. The proportion who could speak Irish was 7.0%, while either not speaking Irish or unknown was 93.0%.

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