Surname statistics for Greig

There are approximately 8,462 people named Greig in the UK. That makes it the 1,264th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 134 are named Greig.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)84621264N/A134
United Kingdom (1881 census)47409360.016158
Change since 1881+3722-328-0.003-24
Other Countries
United States249711547N/A9
Australia1705957N/A104

Politics

People with the surname Greig 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 Liberal Democrat.

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

  1. Liberal Democrat (1)
  2. Canvey Island Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Greig
Robert Greig
John Greig
James Greig
Ian Greig
Peter Greig
Andrew Greig
Mark Greig
Alan Greig
Michael Greig
Kenneth Greig
Stuart Greig
William Greig
Martin Greig
Gordon Greig
Alexander Greig
George Greig
Brian Greig
Paul Greig
Colin Greig

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Greig
Anne Greig
Susan Greig
Fiona Greig
Margaret Greig
Sarah Greig
Carol Greig
Sally Greig
Morven Greig
Judith Greig
Cheryl Greig
Heather Greig
Jayne Greig
Wendy Greig
Patricia Greig
Nicola Greig
Catherine Greig
vALERIE Greig
Jill Greig
Helen Greig

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.