Surname statistics for Alden

There are approximately 2,239 people named Alden in the UK. That makes it the 4,108th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 35 are named Alden.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)22394108N/A35
United Kingdom (1881 census)77148420.00326
Change since 1881+1468+734+0.001+9
Other Countries
United States55245744N/A20
Australia1529743N/A9

Politics

People with the surname Alden 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 Alden are:

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

Top male forenames

Michael Alden
David Alden
Richard Alden
John Alden
Peter Alden
Mark Alden
Martin Alden
Gary Alden
Robert Alden
Stephen Alden
Timothy Alden
Andrew Alden
Anthony Alden
Cameron Alden
Tim Alden
Martyn Alden
Steven Alden
Luke Alden
Lisle Alden
Kevin Alden

Top female forenames

Lynne Alden
Sarah Alden
Deborah Alden
Angela Alden
Lorna Alden
Faye Alden
Melanie Alden
Suzanne Alden
Emily Alden
Luisa Alden
Eve Alden
Margaret Alden
Kelly Alden
Marian Alden
Nicola Alden
Alison Alden
Pauline Alden
Susan Alden
Maria Alden
Veronica Alden

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.