Surname statistics for Bayes

There are approximately 1,907 people named Bayes in the UK. That makes it the 4,675th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 30 are named Bayes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)19074675N/A30
United Kingdom (1881 census)89342990.00330
Change since 1881+1014-37600
Other Countries
United States209913319N/A8
Australia12911329N/A8

Politics

People with the surname Bayes 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 Bayes are:

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Labour Co-operative (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Bayes
Richard Bayes
Andrew Bayes
Michael Bayes
James Bayes
Terence Bayes
Paul Bayes
Elliott Bayes
Trevor Bayes
Simon Bayes
George Bayes
Barrie Bayes
Steven Bayes
Kevin Bayes
Brian Bayes

Top female forenames

Sarah Bayes
Julia Bayes
Hayley Bayes
Barbara Bayes
Diane Bayes
Maureen Bayes
Johanna Bayes
Carole Bayes
Carol Bayes
Esther Bayes
Elizabeth Bayes
Marilyn Bayes
Pamela Bayes
Mary Bayes
Joanne Bayes

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.