Surname statistics for Day

There are approximately 61,201 people named Day in the UK. That makes it the 126th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 969 are named Day.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)61201126N/A969
United Kingdom (1881 census)281931140.094941
Change since 1881+33008-12+0.003+28
Other Countries
United States101676271N/A377
Australia8606133N/A526

Politics

People with the surname Day are slightly 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.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Day are:

  1. Conservative (8)
  2. Liberal Democrat (4)
  3. Labour (3)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. SNP (1)
  6. Liberal Democrat and Staffordshire Independent All (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Day
Michael Day
Andrew Day
Paul Day
Peter Day
Stephen Day
Christopher Day
Robert Day
Richard Day
David Day
Mark Day
Alan Day
Simon Day
James Day
Anthony Day
Martin Day
Kevin Day
Nicholas Day
Matthew Day
Philip Day

Top female forenames

Susan Day
Patricia Day
Jacqueline Day
Elizabeth Day
Sarah Day
Julie Day
Janet Day
Jane Day
Karen Day
Linda Day
Alison Day
Nicola Day
Helen Day
Jennifer Day
Margaret Day
Barbara Day
Louise Day
Deborah Day
Christine Day
Gillian Day

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.