Surname statistics for Ives

There are approximately 7,254 people named Ives in the UK. That makes it the 1,484th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 115 are named Ives.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)72541484N/A115
United Kingdom (1881 census)350912950.012117
Change since 1881+3745-189-0.001-2
Other Countries
United States80534058N/A30
Australia7732097N/A47

Politics

People with the surname Ives are 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Ives
Michael Ives
Paul Ives
Christopher Ives
John Ives
Peter Ives
Andrew Ives
Stephen Ives
Steven Ives
Richard Ives
Graham Ives
Anthony Ives
Mark Ives
Daniel Ives
Gary Ives
Alan Ives
Robert Ives
Simon Ives
William Ives
James Ives

Top female forenames

Susan Ives
Janet Ives
Sarah Ives
Sharon Ives
Christine Ives
Margaret Ives
Helen Ives
Ann Ives
Shirley Ives
Jacqueline Ives
Kathryn Ives
Julia Ives
Elaine Ives
Karen Ives
Valerie Ives
Michelle Ives
Carol Ives
Lisa Ives
Caroline Ives
Joanne Ives

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.