Surname statistics for Maguire

There are approximately 19,951 people named Maguire in the UK. That makes it the 506th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 316 are named Maguire.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)19951506N/A316
United Kingdom (1881 census)306114720.01102
Change since 1881+16890+966+0.022+214
Other Countries
United States158532100N/A59
Australia2927529N/A179

Politics

People with the surname Maguire are slightly 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.

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

  1. Labour (4)
  2. SNP (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Maguire
Paul Maguire
Michael Maguire
James Maguire
Stephen Maguire
Kevin Maguire
Peter Maguire
David Maguire
Patrick Maguire
Andrew Maguire
Robert Maguire
Brian Maguire
Thomas Maguire
Christopher Maguire
Sean Maguire
Mark Maguire
Anthony Maguire
Martin Maguire
Ian Maguire
Terence Maguire

Top female forenames

Susan Maguire
Kathleen Maguire
Sarah Maguire
Angela Maguire
Ann Maguire
Margaret Maguire
Julie Maguire
Mary Maguire
Patricia Maguire
Karen Maguire
Helen Maguire
Elizabeth Maguire
Anne Maguire
Jennifer Maguire
Sharon Maguire
Catherine Maguire
Emma Maguire
Maureen Maguire
Laura Maguire
Claire Maguire

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.