Surname statistics for Trotter

There are approximately 5,817 people named Trotter in the UK. That makes it the 1,795th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 92 are named Trotter.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)58171795N/A92
United Kingdom (1881 census)314014390.01105
Change since 1881+2677-356-0.001-13
Other Countries
United States189461734N/A70
Australia12221352N/A75

Politics

People with the surname Trotter are 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 Trotter are:

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

Top male forenames

John Trotter
David Trotter
Andrew Trotter
Robert Trotter
Ian Trotter
James Trotter
Michael Trotter
Philip Trotter
Alan Trotter
Peter Trotter
Mark Trotter
Paul Trotter
Thomas Trotter
Graham Trotter
Christopher Trotter
William Trotter
Simon Trotter
Gary Trotter
Keith Trotter
Timothy Trotter

Top female forenames

Julia Trotter
Janet Trotter
Joan Trotter
Nicola Trotter
Julie Trotter
Janice Trotter
Lesley Trotter
Linda Trotter
Caroline Trotter
Louise Trotter
Sharon Trotter
Lisa Trotter
Joyce Trotter
Joanne Trotter
Pauline Trotter
Susan Trotter
Sylvia Trotter
Helen Trotter
Dawn Trotter
Anne Trotter

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.