Surname statistics for Cartwright

There are approximately 23,335 people named Cartwright in the UK. That makes it the 431th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 369 are named Cartwright.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)23335431N/A369
United Kingdom (1881 census)114153740.038381
Change since 1881+11920-57-0.001-12
Other Countries
United States216541522N/A80
Australia2267706N/A139

Politics

People with the surname Cartwright 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 Cartwright are:

  1. Conservative (10)
  2. Labour (7)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
  4. Deepdale Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Cartwright
Paul Cartwright
John Cartwright
Peter Cartwright
Andrew Cartwright
Alan Cartwright
Michael Cartwright
Stephen Cartwright
Ian Cartwright
Richard Cartwright
James Cartwright
Robert Cartwright
Neil Cartwright
Mark Cartwright
Simon Cartwright
Anthony Cartwright
Christopher Cartwright
Philip Cartwright
Lee Cartwright
Steven Cartwright

Top female forenames

Susan Cartwright
Sarah Cartwright
Elizabeth Cartwright
Karen Cartwright
Deborah Cartwright
Linda Cartwright
Margaret Cartwright
Anne Cartwright
Ann Cartwright
Helen Cartwright
Barbara Cartwright
Sandra Cartwright
Patricia Cartwright
Jane Cartwright
Christine Cartwright
Jacqueline Cartwright
Sharon Cartwright
Nicola Cartwright
Jennifer Cartwright
Caroline Cartwright

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.