Surname statistics for Mathew

There are approximately 3,765 people named Mathew in the UK. That makes it the 2,708th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 60 are named Mathew.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)37652708N/A60
United Kingdom (1881 census)112435680.00438
Change since 1881+2641+860+0.002+22
Other Countries
United States93113509N/A34
Australia3454584N/A21

Politics

People with the surname Mathew 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 Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

George Mathew
Jose Mathew
Thomas Mathew
Biju Mathew
Francis Mathew
Paul Mathew
David Mathew
Joseph Mathew
Roy Mathew
Charles Mathew
Arun Mathew
Saji Mathew

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Mathew
Susan Mathew
Patricia Mathew
Dorothy Mathew
Mary Mathew
Isabel Mathew
Marilyn Mathew
Leela Mathew
Christine Mathew
Janet Mathew
Denise Mathew
Nuela Mathew

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.