Surname statistics for Dalton

There are approximately 17,590 people named Dalton in the UK. That makes it the 562nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 278 are named Dalton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)17590562N/A278
United Kingdom (1881 census)68746150.023230
Change since 1881+10716+53+0.005+48
Other Countries
United States50166615N/A186
Australia3744395N/A229

Politics

People with the surname Dalton 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 Dalton are:

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

Top male forenames

John Dalton
Michael Dalton
Peter Dalton
David Dalton
Mark Dalton
Richard Dalton
Andrew Dalton
Paul Dalton
Stephen Dalton
James Dalton
Robert Dalton
Christopher Dalton
Steven Dalton
Anthony Dalton
Thomas Dalton
Simon Dalton
Timothy Dalton
William Dalton
Colin Dalton
Jonathan Dalton

Top female forenames

Susan Dalton
Julie Dalton
Margaret Dalton
Mary Dalton
Linda Dalton
Karen Dalton
Christine Dalton
Emma Dalton
Jane Dalton
Jennifer Dalton
Ann Dalton
Sarah Dalton
Joanne Dalton
Carol Dalton
Nicola Dalton
Claire Dalton
Elizabeth Dalton
Alison Dalton
Louise Dalton
Lisa Dalton

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.