Surname statistics for Heywood

There are approximately 9,793 people named Heywood in the UK. That makes it the 1,078th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 155 are named Heywood.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)97931078N/A155
United Kingdom (1881 census)59587470.02199
Change since 1881+3835-331-0.005-44
Other Countries
United States293810104N/A11
Australia10041647N/A61

Politics

People with the surname Heywood 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

Paul Heywood
John Heywood
David Heywood
Peter Heywood
Stephen Heywood
Andrew Heywood
Alan Heywood
Richard Heywood
Robert Heywood
Mark Heywood
Michael Heywood
Christopher Heywood
Anthony Heywood
Martin Heywood
James Heywood
Colin Heywood
Philip Heywood
Geoffrey Heywood
Neil Heywood
Gary Heywood

Top female forenames

Susan Heywood
Helen Heywood
Deborah Heywood
Sandra Heywood
Jane Heywood
Elizabeth Heywood
Alison Heywood
Ann Heywood
Gillian Heywood
Emma Heywood
Denise Heywood
Rebecca Heywood
Karen Heywood
Joan Heywood
Carol Heywood
Jacqueline Heywood
Sarah Heywood
Mary Heywood
Victoria Heywood
Jennifer Heywood

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.