Surname statistics for Murdoch

There are approximately 10,361 people named Murdoch in the UK. That makes it the 1,020th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 164 are named Murdoch.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)103611020N/A164
United Kingdom (1881 census)50878740.017170
Change since 1881+5274-146-0.001-6
Other Countries
United States36158402N/A13
Australia2261708N/A138

Politics

People with the surname Murdoch are slightly more 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 Murdoch are:

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

Top male forenames

John Murdoch
James Murdoch
Andrew Murdoch
William Murdoch
Robert Murdoch
David Murdoch
Ian Murdoch
Stuart Murdoch
Thomas Murdoch
Alexander Murdoch
Alan Murdoch
Keith Murdoch
Colin Murdoch
Graham Murdoch
Hugh Murdoch
Iain Murdoch
Michael Murdoch
Paul Murdoch
Kenneth Murdoch
Brian Murdoch

Top female forenames

Linda Murdoch
Elaine Murdoch
Helen Murdoch
Anne Murdoch
Susan Murdoch
Margaret Murdoch
Wendy Murdoch
Elizabeth Murdoch
Sharon Murdoch
Karen Murdoch
June Murdoch
Julie Murdoch
Joanne Murdoch
Christine Murdoch
Lorraine Murdoch
Amanda Murdoch
Catherine Murdoch
Alison Murdoch
Claire Murdoch
Judith Murdoch

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.