Surname statistics for Dave

There are approximately 4,811 people named Dave in the UK. That makes it the 2,176th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 76 are named Dave.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)48112176N/A76
United Kingdom (1881 census)3139064less than 0.0011
Change since 1881+4780+36888+75
Other Countries
United States40167630N/A15
Australia4726554less than 0.0013

Politics

People with the surname Dave are less 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Chetan Dave
Sanjay Dave
Shailesh Dave
Yash Dave
Raj Dave
Ketan Dave
Hitesh Dave
Deepak Dave
Nikhil Dave
Jitendra Dave
Manish Dave
Alkesh Dave

Top female forenames

Jayshree Dave
Parul Dave
Priti Dave
Nicola Dave
Sheila Dave
Rachna Dave
Rekha Dave
Varsha Dave
Urmila Dave
Veena Dave
Purnima Dave
Ansuya Dave

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.