Surname statistics for Harvey

There are approximately 72,373 people named Harvey in the UK. That makes it the 98th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,145 are named Harvey.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)7237398N/A1145
United Kingdom (1881 census)319741010.1071068
Change since 1881+40399+3+0.008+77
Other Countries
United States112136247N/A416
Australia1172188N/A717

Politics

People with the surname Harvey are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Harvey are:

  1. Conservative (9)
  2. Labour (9)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. Canvey Island Independents (1)
  6. East Lindsey Independent (1)
  7. It's OUR County! Party (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Harvey
John Harvey
Paul Harvey
Michael Harvey
Peter Harvey
Mark Harvey
Richard Harvey
Robert Harvey
Andrew Harvey
James Harvey
Neil Harvey
Ian Harvey
Stephen Harvey
Christopher Harvey
Martin Harvey
Philip Harvey
Alan Harvey
Anthony Harvey
William Harvey
Simon Harvey

Top female forenames

Susan Harvey
Sarah Harvey
Patricia Harvey
Julie Harvey
Elizabeth Harvey
Karen Harvey
Margaret Harvey
Jane Harvey
Linda Harvey
Nicola Harvey
Christine Harvey
Emma Harvey
Carol Harvey
Deborah Harvey
Helen Harvey
Janet Harvey
Jennifer Harvey
Jacqueline Harvey
Mary Harvey
Barbara Harvey

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.