Surname statistics for Laurie

There are approximately 4,406 people named Laurie in the UK. That makes it the 2,375th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 70 are named Laurie.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)44062375N/A70
United Kingdom (1881 census)257317450.00986
Change since 1881+1833-630-0.002-16
Other Countries
United States34228815N/A13
Australia10161630N/A62

Top male forenames

David Laurie
John Laurie
Robert Laurie
William Laurie
James Laurie
Ian Laurie
Stephen Laurie
Alexander Laurie
Andrew Laurie
Peter Laurie
Adam Laurie
Michael Laurie
Thomas Laurie
Stuart Laurie
Simon Laurie
Gordon Laurie
Graham Laurie
Alan Laurie
Mark Laurie
Douglas Laurie

Top female forenames

Angela Laurie
Susan Laurie
Alison Laurie
Janice Laurie
Joanna Laurie
Judith Laurie
Karen Laurie
Kirsten Laurie
Norah Laurie
Patricia Laurie
Rosemary Laurie
Jane Laurie
Jacqueline Laurie
Caroline Laurie
Vivienne Laurie
Elaine Laurie
Elizabeth Laurie
Frances Laurie
Tracey Laurie
Barbara Laurie

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.