Surname statistics for Miles

There are approximately 37,501 people named Miles in the UK. That makes it the 238th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 594 are named Miles.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)37501238N/A594
United Kingdom (1881 census)176702160.059590
Change since 1881+19831-220+4
Other Countries
United States81933342N/A304
Australia4976282N/A304

Politics

People with the surname Miles 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 Miles are:

  1. Labour (4)
  2. Conservative (2)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. Plaid Cymru (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Miles
John Miles
Andrew Miles
Peter Miles
Paul Miles
Robert Miles
Richard Miles
Michael Miles
Christopher Miles
Stephen Miles
Ian Miles
Simon Miles
Anthony Miles
Alan Miles
Nicholas Miles
Graham Miles
Philip Miles
Roger Miles
James Miles
Jonathan Miles

Top female forenames

Sarah Miles
Susan Miles
Linda Miles
Elizabeth Miles
Helen Miles
Karen Miles
Jacqueline Miles
Julie Miles
Christine Miles
Janet Miles
Amanda Miles
Jennifer Miles
Carol Miles
Alison Miles
Jane Miles
Barbara Miles
Patricia Miles
Sandra Miles
Anne Miles
Joanne Miles

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.