Surname statistics for Stokes

There are approximately 28,544 people named Stokes in the UK. That makes it the 328th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 452 are named Stokes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)28544328N/A452
United Kingdom (1881 census)126463310.042422
Change since 1881+15898+3+0.003+30
Other Countries
United States58687510N/A218
Australia4342335N/A266

Politics

People with the surname Stokes 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (7)
  2. Labour (1)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
  4. Non-Aligned (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Stokes
Paul Stokes
John Stokes
Michael Stokes
Peter Stokes
Andrew Stokes
Richard Stokes
Mark Stokes
Robert Stokes
Christopher Stokes
Ian Stokes
Martin Stokes
James Stokes
Alan Stokes
Matthew Stokes
Philip Stokes
Brian Stokes
Simon Stokes
Anthony Stokes
Graham Stokes

Top female forenames

Susan Stokes
Jane Stokes
Elizabeth Stokes
Helen Stokes
Christine Stokes
Sarah Stokes
Julie Stokes
Janet Stokes
Patricia Stokes
Rebecca Stokes
Anne Stokes
Wendy Stokes
Emma Stokes
Lisa Stokes
Mary Stokes
Suzanne Stokes
Linda Stokes
Kathleen Stokes
Margaret Stokes
Karen Stokes

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.