Surname statistics for Gorton

There are approximately 4,016 people named Gorton in the UK. That makes it the 2,578th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 64 are named Gorton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)40162578N/A64
United Kingdom (1881 census)185923540.00662
Change since 1881+2157-2240+2
Other Countries
United States40397592N/A15
Australia6502495N/A40

Top male forenames

David Gorton
Andrew Gorton
John Gorton
Mark Gorton
Stephen Gorton
Michael Gorton
Paul Gorton
Alan Gorton
Nicholas Gorton
Robert Gorton
Martin Gorton
Peter Gorton
Simon Gorton
Christopher Gorton
Philip Gorton
Craig Gorton
Lee Gorton
Jason Gorton
Richard Gorton
Graham Gorton

Top female forenames

Susan Gorton
Margaret Gorton
Janet Gorton
Patricia Gorton
Christine Gorton
Fiona Gorton
Anne Gorton
Catherine Gorton
Claire Gorton
Wendy Gorton
Sarah Gorton
Sara Gorton
Emma Gorton
Caroline Gorton
Victoria Gorton
Rebecca Gorton
Carol Gorton
Alison Gorton
Lynda Gorton
Karen Gorton

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.