Surname statistics for Sharkey

There are approximately 5,225 people named Sharkey in the UK. That makes it the 2,021th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 83 are named Sharkey.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)52252021N/A83
United Kingdom (1881 census)68453310.00223
Change since 1881+4541+3310+0.006+60
Other Countries
United States81064020N/A30
Australia6332552N/A39

Politics

People with the surname Sharkey 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Sharkey
Michael Sharkey
Kevin Sharkey
Paul Sharkey
James Sharkey
William Sharkey
Andrew Sharkey
Stephen Sharkey
Patrick Sharkey
Anthony Sharkey
Brian Sharkey
Richard Sharkey
Peter Sharkey
Christopher Sharkey
Scott Sharkey
Hugh Sharkey
Wayne Sharkey
Robert Sharkey
David Sharkey
Derek Sharkey

Top female forenames

Mary Sharkey
Susan Sharkey
Patricia Sharkey
Jane Sharkey
Deborah Sharkey
Eileen Sharkey
Anne Sharkey
Elizabeth Sharkey
Linda Sharkey
Grainne Sharkey
Lisa Sharkey
Sarah Sharkey
Susanna Sharkey
Clare Sharkey
Claire Sharkey
Amanda Sharkey
Pauline Sharkey
Colleen Sharkey
Brigid Sharkey
Beth Sharkey

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.