Surname statistics for Laird

There are approximately 7,310 people named Laird in the UK. That makes it the 1,474th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 116 are named Laird.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)73101474N/A116
United Kingdom (1881 census)336213560.011112
Change since 1881+3948-118+0.001+4
Other Countries
United States180311828N/A67
Australia12371334N/A76

Politics

People with the surname Laird 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Laird
John Laird
James Laird
Andrew Laird
Robert Laird
Stuart Laird
William Laird
Ian Laird
Stephen Laird
Peter Laird
Thomas Laird
George Laird
Alexander Laird
Simon Laird
Richard Laird
Mark Laird
Michael Laird
Christopher Laird
Paul Laird
Gordon Laird

Top female forenames

Mary Laird
Elizabeth Laird
Barbara Laird
Julie Laird
Susan Laird
Fiona Laird
Helen Laird
Angela Laird
Karen Laird
Jacqueline Laird
Carol Laird
Sally Laird
Victoria Laird
Irene Laird
Denise Laird
Kathleen Laird
Natasha Laird
Alison Laird
Sandra Laird
Catherine Laird

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.