Surname statistics for Ryan

There are approximately 51,586 people named Ryan in the UK. That makes it the 155th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 816 are named Ryan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)51586155N/A816
United Kingdom (1881 census)92854590.031310
Change since 1881+42301+304+0.051+506
Other Countries
United States139335177N/A516
Australia2552617N/A1562

Politics

People with the surname Ryan 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (5)
  2. Conservative (4)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Ryan
Michael Ryan
Paul Ryan
David Ryan
James Ryan
Peter Ryan
Mark Ryan
Patrick Ryan
Robert Ryan
Thomas Ryan
Christopher Ryan
Stephen Ryan
Kevin Ryan
Andrew Ryan
Martin Ryan
Anthony Ryan
Timothy Ryan
Richard Ryan
Matthew Ryan
Daniel Ryan

Top female forenames

Mary Ryan
Margaret Ryan
Susan Ryan
Patricia Ryan
Helen Ryan
Elizabeth Ryan
Jacqueline Ryan
Sarah Ryan
Anne Ryan
Jane Ryan
Catherine Ryan
Christine Ryan
Karen Ryan
Michelle Ryan
Alison Ryan
Jennifer Ryan
Caroline Ryan
Emma Ryan
Linda Ryan
Frances Ryan

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.