Surname statistics for Whitelaw

We don't have any stats on how common this name is. This is probably because it's very rare in the UK.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)0381900
United Kingdom (1881 census)178524410.00660
Change since 1881
Other Countries
United States11582112404
Australia72622260.00444

Top male forenames

David Whitelaw
John Whitelaw
Andrew Whitelaw
William Whitelaw
James Whitelaw
Ian Whitelaw
Alan Whitelaw
Robert Whitelaw
Christopher Whitelaw
Richard Whitelaw
Paul Whitelaw
Mark Whitelaw
Thomas Whitelaw
Colin Whitelaw
Alasdair Whitelaw
Alex Whitelaw
Allan Whitelaw
George Whitelaw
Peter Whitelaw
Philip Whitelaw

Top female forenames

Susan Whitelaw
Catherine Whitelaw
Julie Whitelaw
Elizabeth Whitelaw
Margaret Whitelaw
Victoria Whitelaw
Valerie Whitelaw
Linda Whitelaw
Helen Whitelaw
Henrietta Whitelaw
Michelle Whitelaw
Morag Whitelaw
Pauline Whitelaw
Rebecca Whitelaw
Sarah Whitelaw
Sirintra Whitelaw
Annette Whitelaw
Tracy Whitelaw
Amanda Whitelaw
Maureen Whitelaw

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.