Surname statistics for Lock

There are approximately 16,333 people named Lock in the UK. That makes it the 615th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 259 are named Lock.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16333615N/A259
United Kingdom (1881 census)85264970.028285
Change since 1881+7807-118-0.002-26
Other Countries
United States65434935N/A24
Australia1981818N/A121

Politics

People with the surname Lock are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

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

  1. Liberal Democrat (5)
  2. Conservative (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Lock
John Lock
Michael Lock
Peter Lock
Robert Lock
Richard Lock
Jason Lock
Andrew Lock
Paul Lock
Stephen Lock
Christopher Lock
Anthony Lock
Ian Lock
Steven Lock
Simon Lock
Graham Lock
Matthew Lock
Jonathan Lock
William Lock
Kevin Lock

Top female forenames

Susan Lock
Sarah Lock
Margaret Lock
Julie Lock
Karen Lock
Alison Lock
Kathleen Lock
Pauline Lock
Barbara Lock
Michelle Lock
Sharon Lock
Suzanne Lock
Helen Lock
Maureen Lock
Ann Lock
Janet Lock
Deborah Lock
Emma Lock
Patricia Lock
Carol Lock

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.