Surname statistics for Strachan

There are approximately 11,367 people named Strachan in the UK. That makes it the 921th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 180 are named Strachan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11367921N/A180
United Kingdom (1881 census)51648620.017172
Change since 1881+6203-59+0.001+8
Other Countries
United States39487760N/A15
Australia14421135N/A88

Politics

People with the surname Strachan 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 Strachan are:

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

Top male forenames

John Strachan
James Strachan
David Strachan
Andrew Strachan
Ian Strachan
William Strachan
Mark Strachan
Peter Strachan
Alexander Strachan
Robert Strachan
Paul Strachan
Michael Strachan
George Strachan
Alan Strachan
Gary Strachan
Neil Strachan
Craig Strachan
Bruce Strachan
Colin Strachan
Iain Strachan

Top female forenames

Gillian Strachan
Fiona Strachan
Mary Strachan
Elizabeth Strachan
Emma Strachan
Anne Strachan
Lorna Strachan
Deborah Strachan
Susan Strachan
Nicola Strachan
Jane Strachan
Julie Strachan
Sarah Strachan
Sandra Strachan
Barbara Strachan
Jacqueline Strachan
Angela Strachan
Janice Strachan
Jennifer Strachan
Andrea Strachan

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.