Surname statistics for Mellor

There are approximately 16,974 people named Mellor in the UK. That makes it the 591th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 269 are named Mellor.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16974591N/A269
United Kingdom (1881 census)105494060.035352
Change since 1881+6425-185-0.008-83
Other Countries
United States35608524N/A13
Australia9351763N/A57

Politics

People with the surname Mellor 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.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Mellor
John Mellor
Paul Mellor
Andrew Mellor
Stephen Mellor
Robert Mellor
James Mellor
Christopher Mellor
Peter Mellor
Ian Mellor
Michael Mellor
Simon Mellor
Anthony Mellor
Alan Mellor
Philip Mellor
Nicholas Mellor
Mark Mellor
Brian Mellor
Richard Mellor
Stuart Mellor

Top female forenames

Susan Mellor
Sarah Mellor
Julie Mellor
Patricia Mellor
Margaret Mellor
Karen Mellor
Anne Mellor
Gillian Mellor
Helen Mellor
Janet Mellor
Jennifer Mellor
Jacqueline Mellor
Linda Mellor
Mary Mellor
Nicola Mellor
Elizabeth Mellor
Alison Mellor
Amanda Mellor
Rachel Mellor
Claire Mellor

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.