Surname statistics for Speed

There are approximately 4,389 people named Speed in the UK. That makes it the 2,383rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 69 are named Speed.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43892383N/A69
United Kingdom (1881 census)240618640.00880
Change since 1881+1983-519-0.001-11
Other Countries
United States70824589N/A26
Australia5522929N/A34

Top male forenames

David Speed
Andrew Speed
Paul Speed
Mark Speed
Michael Speed
John Speed
Alan Speed
Ian Speed
Christopher Speed
Peter Speed
Robert Speed
Richard Speed
Martin Speed
William Speed
Stephen Speed
Charles Speed
James Speed
Kenneth Speed
Steven Speed
Jonathan Speed

Top female forenames

Susan Speed
Carol Speed
Pauline Speed
Deborah Speed
Jennifer Speed
Anna Speed
Ann Speed
Angela Speed
Suzanne Speed
Rebecca Speed
Patricia Speed
Michelle Speed
Amanda Speed
Elizabeth Speed
Christine Speed
Gillian Speed
Melanie Speed
Donna Speed
Deirdre Speed
Sandra Speed

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.