Surname statistics for MacPherson

There are approximately 11,440 people named MacPherson in the UK. That makes it the 911th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 181 are named MacPherson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11440911N/A181
United Kingdom (1881 census)193922610.00665
Change since 1881+9501+1350+0.012+116
Other Countries
United States54645796N/A20
Australia1967823N/A120

Politics

People with the surname MacPherson 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John MacPherson
Ian MacPherson
Andrew MacPherson
James MacPherson
Donald MacPherson
David MacPherson
Duncan MacPherson
Alexander MacPherson
Iain MacPherson
Stuart MacPherson
Robert MacPherson
Neil MacPherson
Angus MacPherson
William MacPherson
Alan MacPherson
Michael MacPherson
Hugh MacPherson
Colin MacPherson
Kenneth MacPherson
George MacPherson

Top female forenames

Fiona MacPherson
Margaret MacPherson
Jane MacPherson
Helen MacPherson
Susan MacPherson
Alison MacPherson
Catherine MacPherson
Sarah MacPherson
Karen MacPherson
Lisa MacPherson
Gillian MacPherson
Elizabeth MacPherson
Anne MacPherson
Angela MacPherson
Elaine MacPherson
Christine MacPherson
Kathleen MacPherson
Caroline MacPherson
Mary MacPherson
Ruth MacPherson

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.