Surname statistics for Alderton

There are approximately 2,661 people named Alderton in the UK. That makes it the 3,594th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 42 are named Alderton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)26613594N/A42
United Kingdom (1881 census)133930810.00445
Change since 1881+1322-5130-3
Other Countries
United States76629142less than 0.0013
Australia6322557N/A39

Top male forenames

John Alderton
Richard Alderton
Mark Alderton
David Alderton
Michael Alderton
Stephen Alderton
Ian Alderton
Nicholas Alderton
Peter Alderton
Christopher Alderton
Kevin Alderton
Nigel Alderton
Daniel Alderton
Keith Alderton
Anthony Alderton
Colin Alderton
Russell Alderton
Brian Alderton

Top female forenames

Sarah Alderton
Sharon Alderton
Janet Alderton
Lynne Alderton
Johanna Alderton
Gwendoline Alderton
Lucy Alderton
Kathleen Alderton
Katharine Alderton
Jacinta Alderton
Marilyn Alderton
Laura Alderton
Clare Alderton
Sandra Alderton
Charlotte Alderton
Diane Alderton
Yvonne Alderton
Susan Alderton

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.