Surname statistics for Donnelly

There are approximately 27,375 people named Donnelly in the UK. That makes it the 349th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 433 are named Donnelly.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)27375349N/A433
United Kingdom (1881 census)376912170.013126
Change since 1881+23606+868+0.03+307
Other Countries
United States309191036N/A115
Australia3813388N/A233

Politics

People with the surname Donnelly are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Donnelly
Paul Donnelly
Michael Donnelly
James Donnelly
Peter Donnelly
Stephen Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly
David Donnelly
Brian Donnelly
Kevin Donnelly
Mark Donnelly
Thomas Donnelly
Anthony Donnelly
Andrew Donnelly
Christopher Donnelly
Robert Donnelly
Alan Donnelly
Martin Donnelly
William Donnelly
Steven Donnelly

Top female forenames

Margaret Donnelly
Susan Donnelly
Anne Donnelly
Elizabeth Donnelly
Mary Donnelly
Christine Donnelly
Claire Donnelly
Ann Donnelly
Nicola Donnelly
Angela Donnelly
Sarah Donnelly
Catherine Donnelly
Helen Donnelly
Carol Donnelly
Joanne Donnelly
Karen Donnelly
Marie Donnelly
Jacqueline Donnelly
Janet Donnelly
Patricia Donnelly

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.