Surname statistics for Derbyshire

There are approximately 6,012 people named Derbyshire in the UK. That makes it the 1,737th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 95 are named Derbyshire.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)60121737N/A95
United Kingdom (1881 census)312214450.01104
Change since 1881+2890-2920-9
Other Countries
United States86226587less than 0.0013
Australia2306647N/A14

Politics

People with the surname Derbyshire are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Derbyshire are:

  1. Liberal Democrat (3)
  2. Labour (2)
  3. Conservative (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Derbyshire
Paul Derbyshire
David Derbyshire
Anthony Derbyshire
Stephen Derbyshire
Ian Derbyshire
Michael Derbyshire
Peter Derbyshire
Andrew Derbyshire
Mark Derbyshire
Brian Derbyshire
Philip Derbyshire
James Derbyshire
Richard Derbyshire
Robert Derbyshire
George Derbyshire
Steven Derbyshire
Jonathan Derbyshire
Martin Derbyshire
Thomas Derbyshire

Top female forenames

Susan Derbyshire
Julie Derbyshire
Jane Derbyshire
Michelle Derbyshire
Lisa Derbyshire
Joanne Derbyshire
Helen Derbyshire
Anne Derbyshire
Angela Derbyshire
Patricia Derbyshire
Gillian Derbyshire
Sarah Derbyshire
Christine Derbyshire
Janet Derbyshire
Nicola Derbyshire
Diana Derbyshire
Penelope Derbyshire
Jacqueline Derbyshire
Katherine Derbyshire
Carol Derbyshire

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.