Surname statistics for Seward

There are approximately 3,083 people named Seward in the UK. That makes it the 3,212nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 49 are named Seward.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)30833212N/A49
United Kingdom (1881 census)164526280.00555
Change since 1881+1438-5840-6
Other Countries
United States99873292N/A37
Australia2486198N/A15

Politics

People with the surname Seward 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 Liberal Democrat.

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

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

Top male forenames

Paul Seward
David Seward
Michael Seward
Mark Seward
Peter Seward
John Seward
Andrew Seward
Roger Seward
Robert Seward
Richard Seward
Gary Seward
Malcolm Seward
Barry Seward
James Seward
Brian Seward
Stephen Seward
Alan Seward
Ian Seward
Leslie Seward

Top female forenames

Ann Seward
Elizabeth Seward
Karen Seward
Patricia Seward
Linda Seward
Christine Seward
Caroline Seward
Claire Seward
Janet Seward
Lesley Seward
Sandra Seward
Rita Seward
Sally Seward
Nicole Seward
Joanne Seward
Joan Seward
Jane Seward
Emma Seward
Valerie Seward

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.