Surname statistics for Rutherford

There are approximately 14,588 people named Rutherford in the UK. That makes it the 695th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 231 are named Rutherford.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14588695N/A231
United Kingdom (1881 census)73085840.024244
Change since 1881+7280-111-0.001-13
Other Countries
United States275391167N/A102
Australia2023800N/A124

Politics

People with the surname Rutherford are 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 Rutherford are:

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

Top male forenames

John Rutherford
David Rutherford
Paul Rutherford
James Rutherford
Andrew Rutherford
Ian Rutherford
Alan Rutherford
Mark Rutherford
Michael Rutherford
Peter Rutherford
Scott Rutherford
William Rutherford
Stephen Rutherford
Richard Rutherford
Anthony Rutherford
Neil Rutherford
Robert Rutherford
Steven Rutherford
Nicholas Rutherford
Stuart Rutherford

Top female forenames

Susan Rutherford
Sarah Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford
Patricia Rutherford
Anne Rutherford
Fiona Rutherford
Lisa Rutherford
Elizabeth Rutherford
Helen Rutherford
Alison Rutherford
Carol Rutherford
Emma Rutherford
Jacqueline Rutherford
Heather Rutherford
Gillian Rutherford
Christine Rutherford
Rosemary Rutherford
Louise Rutherford
Karen Rutherford
Sharon Rutherford

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.