Surname statistics for Reader

There are approximately 5,323 people named Reader in the UK. That makes it the 1,980th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 84 are named Reader.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)53231980N/A84
United Kingdom (1881 census)258517310.00986
Change since 1881+2738-249-0.001-2
Other Countries
United States31569455N/A12
Australia3434607N/A21

Politics

People with the surname Reader 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 Reader are:

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

Top male forenames

John Reader
Michael Reader
Simon Reader
Martin Reader
David Reader
Mark Reader
Paul Reader
Philip Reader
Richard Reader
Stephen Reader
Kevin Reader
James Reader
Stuart Reader
Jonathan Reader
Christopher Reader
Thomas Reader
Timothy Reader
Robert Reader
Peter Reader
Tony Reader

Top female forenames

Susan Reader
Jane Reader
Janet Reader
Christine Reader
Emma Reader
Nicola Reader
Ann Reader
Elizabeth Reader
Sally Reader
Louise Reader
Deborah Reader
Helen Reader
Beverley Reader
Dawn Reader
Anne Reader
Maureen Reader
Patricia Reader
Julie Reader
Gillian Reader
Jacqueline Reader

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.