Surname statistics for Lack

There are approximately 2,142 people named Lack in the UK. That makes it the 4,250th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 34 are named Lack.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)21424250N/A34
United Kingdom (1881 census)102038710.00334
Change since 1881+1122-37900
Other Countries
United States273910707N/A10
Australia4703400N/A29

Top male forenames

David Lack
Christopher Lack
John Lack
Andrew Lack
Nigel Lack
Richard Lack
Thomas Lack
Terence Lack
Paul Lack
Stephen Lack
Edward Lack
Kelvin Lack
Simon Lack
James Lack
Alan Lack
Russell Lack
Ronald Lack

Top female forenames

Yvonne Lack
Pamela Lack
Joanna Lack
Deborah Lack
Charlotte Lack
Barbara Lack
Sally Lack
Stephanie Lack
Margaret Lack
Shirley Lack
Louise Lack
Joan Lack
Jessica Lack
Hilary Lack
Helen Lack
Angela Lack
Andrea Lack

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.