Surname statistics for Pritchard

There are approximately 32,576 people named Pritchard in the UK. That makes it the 286th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 516 are named Pritchard.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)32576286N/A516
United Kingdom (1881 census)161252450.054538
Change since 1881+16451-41-0.002-22
Other Countries
United States236061378N/A88
Australia3393441N/A208

Politics

People with the surname Pritchard are 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 Pritchard are:

  1. Conservative (8)
  2. Labour (5)
  3. Independent (3)
  4. Wrexham Independents (2)
  5. Plaid Cymru (1)
  6. Democratic Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Pritchard
John Pritchard
Mark Pritchard
Andrew Pritchard
Robert Pritchard
Michael Pritchard
Stephen Pritchard
Ian Pritchard
Paul Pritchard
Anthony Pritchard
Alan Pritchard
Steven Pritchard
James Pritchard
Simon Pritchard
Christopher Pritchard
Gary Pritchard
Martin Pritchard
Peter Pritchard
Gareth Pritchard
Philip Pritchard

Top female forenames

Susan Pritchard
Sarah Pritchard
Elizabeth Pritchard
Julie Pritchard
Emma Pritchard
Christine Pritchard
Karen Pritchard
Jane Pritchard
Margaret Pritchard
Patricia Pritchard
Sandra Pritchard
Helen Pritchard
Janet Pritchard
Joanne Pritchard
Anne Pritchard
Linda Pritchard
Nicola Pritchard
Elaine Pritchard
Carol Pritchard
Alison Pritchard

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.