Surname statistics for Ward

There are approximately 146,645 people named Ward in the UK. That makes it the 39th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 2,321 are named Ward.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14664539N/A2321
United Kingdom (1881 census)65423360.2182185
Change since 1881+81222-3+0.014+136
Other Countries
United States25412171N/A942
Australia1710954N/A1047

Politics

People with the surname Ward are slightly less 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 Ward are:

  1. Conservative (22)
  2. Labour (8)
  3. Liberal Democrat (6)
  4. Independent (3)
  5. Liberal (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Ward
John Ward
Michael Ward
Andrew Ward
Peter Ward
Stephen Ward
Christopher Ward
Robert Ward
Richard Ward
Simon Ward
Mark Ward
Anthony Ward
James Ward
Paul Ward
Martin Ward
Alan Ward
Ian Ward
Jonathan Ward
Brian Ward
Kevin Ward

Top female forenames

Susan Ward
Margaret Ward
Sarah Ward
Helen Ward
Julie Ward
Patricia Ward
Karen Ward
Elizabeth Ward
Mary Ward
Christine Ward
Linda Ward
Joanne Ward
Nicola Ward
Caroline Ward
Gillian Ward
Deborah Ward
Janet Ward
Jane Ward
Jacqueline Ward
Angela Ward

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.