Surname statistics for Templeton

There are approximately 3,886 people named Templeton in the UK. That makes it the 2,642nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 62 are named Templeton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)38862642N/A62
United Kingdom (1881 census)221220170.00774
Change since 1881+1674-625-0.001-12
Other Countries
United States132992483N/A49
Australia10021651N/A61

Top male forenames

John Templeton
James Templeton
Robert Templeton
Ian Templeton
William Templeton
Andrew Templeton
David Templeton
Mark Templeton
Stephen Templeton
Brian Templeton
Paul Templeton
Peter Templeton
Michael Templeton
Christopher Templeton
Stuart Templeton
Graham Templeton
Thomas Templeton
Alan Templeton
Alexander Templeton
Gordon Templeton

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Templeton
Julie Templeton
Alison Templeton
Gillian Templeton
Claire Templeton
Helen Templeton
Anna Templeton
Sally Templeton
Janette Templeton
Janet Templeton
Patricia Templeton
Susan Templeton
Jacqueline Templeton
Irene Templeton
Linda Templeton
Catherine Templeton
Anne Templeton
Heather Templeton
Miriam Templeton
Nicola Templeton

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.