Surname statistics for MacKay

There are approximately 28,909 people named MacKay in the UK. That makes it the 319th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 458 are named MacKay.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)28909319N/A458
United Kingdom (1881 census)108313920.036362
Change since 1881+18078+73+0.01+96
Other Countries
United States92483528N/A34
Australia4574322N/A280

Politics

People with the surname MacKay 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 Independent.

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

  1. Independent (6)
  2. Conservative (3)
  3. Labour (2)
  4. SNP (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David MacKay
John MacKay
Andrew MacKay
Ian MacKay
Robert MacKay
Donald MacKay
William MacKay
James MacKay
Colin MacKay
Alan MacKay
Gordon MacKay
Iain MacKay
George MacKay
Alexander MacKay
Neil MacKay
Duncan MacKay
Angus MacKay
Kenneth MacKay
Stephen MacKay
Michael MacKay

Top female forenames

Susan MacKay
Elizabeth MacKay
Margaret MacKay
Catherine MacKay
Karen MacKay
Fiona MacKay
Mary MacKay
Julia MacKay
Anne MacKay
Julie MacKay
Barbara MacKay
Jane MacKay
Alison MacKay
Jennifer MacKay
Carol MacKay
Jacqueline MacKay
Sarah MacKay
Pamela MacKay
Helen MacKay
Ruth MacKay

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.