Surname statistics for Dodds

There are approximately 12,641 people named Dodds in the UK. That makes it the 799th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 200 are named Dodds.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12641799N/A200
United Kingdom (1881 census)63036860.021210
Change since 1881+6338-113-0.001-10
Other Countries
United States85343817N/A32
Australia16091014N/A98

Politics

People with the surname Dodds 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (6)
  2. Conservative (3)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Dodds
Robert Dodds
Paul Dodds
Andrew Dodds
David Dodds
Michael Dodds
Peter Dodds
Ian Dodds
Christopher Dodds
James Dodds
Stephen Dodds
William Dodds
Mark Dodds
Alan Dodds
Simon Dodds
Richard Dodds
Stuart Dodds
Steven Dodds
Graham Dodds
Anthony Dodds

Top female forenames

Margaret Dodds
Susan Dodds
Helen Dodds
Caroline Dodds
Joanne Dodds
Sarah Dodds
Karen Dodds
Christine Dodds
Alison Dodds
Jennifer Dodds
Deborah Dodds
Julie Dodds
Lisa Dodds
Elizabeth Dodds
Valerie Dodds
Barbara Dodds
Jacqueline Dodds
Jane Dodds
Carol Dodds
Patricia Dodds

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.