Surname statistics for Mathers

There are approximately 3,781 people named Mathers in the UK. That makes it the 2,700th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 60 are named Mathers.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)37812700N/A60
United Kingdom (1881 census)178324430.00660
Change since 1881+1998-25700
Other Countries
United States37248200N/A14
Australia7982033N/A49

Politics

People with the surname Mathers 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Mathers
David Mathers
Richard Mathers
Paul Mathers
William Mathers
Stephen Mathers
Ian Mathers
Andrew Mathers
James Mathers
George Mathers
Alan Mathers
Neil Mathers
Mark Mathers
Derek Mathers
Robert Mathers
Michael Mathers
Peter Mathers
Stuart Mathers
Colin Mathers
Brian Mathers

Top female forenames

Julie Mathers
Sandra Mathers
Margaret Mathers
Christine Mathers
Susan Mathers
Allison Mathers
Patricia Mathers
Moira Mathers
Gillian Mathers
Joanne Mathers
Carol Mathers
Janet Mathers
Michelle Mathers
Katherine Mathers
Kyra Mathers
Anna Mathers
Alison Mathers
Lisa Mathers
Wendy Mathers
Emma Mathers

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.