Surname statistics for Nolan

There are approximately 19,116 people named Nolan in the UK. That makes it the 532nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 303 are named Nolan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)19116532N/A303
United Kingdom (1881 census)408411120.014136
Change since 1881+15032+580+0.016+167
Other Countries
United States44421705N/A165
Australia4964284N/A304

Politics

People with the surname Nolan 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Nolan
Paul Nolan
Michael Nolan
David Nolan
James Nolan
Andrew Nolan
Mark Nolan
Stephen Nolan
Peter Nolan
Christopher Nolan
Anthony Nolan
Martin Nolan
Kevin Nolan
Patrick Nolan
Thomas Nolan
Richard Nolan
William Nolan
Robert Nolan
Brian Nolan
Ian Nolan

Top female forenames

Anne Nolan
Mary Nolan
Karen Nolan
Margaret Nolan
Sharon Nolan
Michelle Nolan
Elizabeth Nolan
Jennifer Nolan
Jacqueline Nolan
Susan Nolan
Ann Nolan
Sarah Nolan
Samantha Nolan
Caroline Nolan
Catherine Nolan
Carol Nolan
Julie Nolan
Jane Nolan
Joanne Nolan
Angela Nolan

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.