Surname statistics for Carter

There are approximately 104,122 people named Carter in the UK. That makes it the 65th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,648 are named Carter.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10412265N/A1648
United Kingdom (1881 census)50270560.1681679
Change since 1881+53852-9-0.003-31
Other Countries
United States36254846N/A1344
Australia1414872N/A865

Politics

People with the surname Carter are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Carter are:

  1. Conservative (23)
  2. Labour (8)
  3. Liberal Democrat (3)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Carter
Paul Carter
John Carter
Michael Carter
Andrew Carter
Richard Carter
Stephen Carter
Robert Carter
Mark Carter
Simon Carter
Ian Carter
James Carter
Christopher Carter
Alan Carter
Peter Carter
Anthony Carter
Nicholas Carter
Matthew Carter
William Carter
Graham Carter

Top female forenames

Susan Carter
Sarah Carter
Margaret Carter
Elizabeth Carter
Helen Carter
Alison Carter
Janet Carter
Patricia Carter
Jane Carter
Christine Carter
Julie Carter
Jennifer Carter
Angela Carter
Claire Carter
Nicola Carter
Lisa Carter
Emma Carter
Linda Carter
Karen Carter
Sandra Carter

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.