Surname statistics for Rae

There are approximately 13,753 people named Rae in the UK. That makes it the 740th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 218 are named Rae.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13753740N/A218
United Kingdom (1881 census)68236210.023228
Change since 1881+6930-119-0.001-10
Other Countries
United States48256490N/A18
Australia2445658N/A150

Politics

People with the surname Rae 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Rae
David Rae
William Rae
James Rae
Ian Rae
Robert Rae
Andrew Rae
Michael Rae
Alan Rae
Stuart Rae
Alexander Rae
Peter Rae
Colin Rae
George Rae
Thomas Rae
Christopher Rae
Douglas Rae
Mark Rae
Steven Rae
Iain Rae

Top female forenames

Susan Rae
Elizabeth Rae
Margaret Rae
Anne Rae
Caroline Rae
Helen Rae
Linda Rae
Patricia Rae
Lynn Rae
Jane Rae
Janet Rae
Karen Rae
Julie Rae
Nicola Rae
Gillian Rae
Elaine Rae
Sarah Rae
Joanne Rae
Christine Rae
Janice Rae

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.