Surname statistics for Loftus

There are approximately 5,266 people named Loftus in the UK. That makes it the 2,003rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 83 are named Loftus.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)52662003N/A83
United Kingdom (1881 census)163326430.00555
Change since 1881+3633+640+0.003+28
Other Countries
United States79164142N/A29
Australia4633442N/A28

Politics

People with the surname Loftus 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 Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Loftus
James Loftus
Andrew Loftus
John Loftus
Michael Loftus
Paul Loftus
Richard Loftus
Patrick Loftus
Thomas Loftus
Peter Loftus
Kevin Loftus
Anthony Loftus
Gary Loftus
Martin Loftus
Mark Loftus
Scott Loftus
Christopher Loftus
Stephen Loftus
Sean Loftus
Robert Loftus

Top female forenames

Nicola Loftus
Mary Loftus
Patricia Loftus
Anne Loftus
Suzanne Loftus
Sarah Loftus
Linda Loftus
Margaret Loftus
Amanda Loftus
Gail Loftus
Anna Loftus
Avril Loftus
Liliana Loftus
Lisa Loftus
Pauline Loftus
Kathleen Loftus
Sharon Loftus
Susan Loftus
Collette Loftus
Deborah Loftus

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.