Surname statistics for Prentice

There are approximately 7,205 people named Prentice in the UK. That makes it the 1,493rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 114 are named Prentice.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)72051493N/A114
United Kingdom (1881 census)352512860.012118
Change since 1881+3680-207-0.001-4
Other Countries
United States77994212N/A29
Australia11181482N/A68

Politics

People with the surname Prentice 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 Prentice are:

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

Top male forenames

David Prentice
John Prentice
Robert Prentice
Michael Prentice
James Prentice
Christopher Prentice
Mark Prentice
William Prentice
Andrew Prentice
Ian Prentice
Simon Prentice
Martin Prentice
Richard Prentice
Stuart Prentice
Geoffrey Prentice
Colin Prentice
Albert Prentice
Graham Prentice
Alexander Prentice
Peter Prentice

Top female forenames

Susan Prentice
Linda Prentice
Julie Prentice
Christine Prentice
Barbara Prentice
Fiona Prentice
Jane Prentice
Janet Prentice
Mary Prentice
Caroline Prentice
Elizabeth Prentice
Helen Prentice
Sharon Prentice
Sarah Prentice
Katherine Prentice
Lesley Prentice
Moira Prentice
Jessica Prentice
Victoria Prentice
Joan Prentice

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.