Surname statistics for Greaves

There are approximately 16,024 people named Greaves in the UK. That makes it the 624th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 254 are named Greaves.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16024624N/A254
United Kingdom (1881 census)87794840.029293
Change since 1881+7245-140-0.004-39
Other Countries
United States47316608N/A18
Australia15811030N/A97

Politics

People with the surname Greaves are slightly 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (2)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
  3. Independent (1)
  4. The Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Greaves
Michael Greaves
John Greaves
Paul Greaves
Ian Greaves
Richard Greaves
Andrew Greaves
Mark Greaves
Simon Greaves
Christopher Greaves
James Greaves
Martin Greaves
Robert Greaves
Stephen Greaves
Peter Greaves
Alan Greaves
Jonathan Greaves
Philip Greaves
Colin Greaves
Daniel Greaves

Top female forenames

Susan Greaves
Margaret Greaves
Helen Greaves
Sarah Greaves
Barbara Greaves
Christine Greaves
Michelle Greaves
Deborah Greaves
Janet Greaves
Diane Greaves
Mary Greaves
Elizabeth Greaves
Julie Greaves
Linda Greaves
Nicola Greaves
Jennifer Greaves
Carol Greaves
Angela Greaves
Jacqueline Greaves
Lisa Greaves

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.