Surname statistics for Dyke

There are approximately 5,817 people named Dyke in the UK. That makes it the 1,797th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 92 are named Dyke.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)58171797N/A92
United Kingdom (1881 census)297215040.0199
Change since 1881+2845-293-0.001-7
Other Countries
United States50056271N/A19
Australia4343649N/A27

Politics

People with the surname Dyke 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 Dyke are:

  1. Conservative (2)
  2. Liberal Democrat (2)
  3. Liberal & Independent - Independents (2)
  4. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Dyke
Andrew Dyke
Philip Dyke
David Dyke
Stephen Dyke
Richard Dyke
Christopher Dyke
Paul Dyke
Peter Dyke
Colin Dyke
Graham Dyke
Robert Dyke
Neil Dyke
Martin Dyke
Keith Dyke
William Dyke
Ian Dyke
Kevin Dyke
Edward Dyke
Matthew Dyke

Top female forenames

Susan Dyke
Julie Dyke
Karen Dyke
Margaret Dyke
Deborah Dyke
Caroline Dyke
Linda Dyke
Claire Dyke
Lisa Dyke
Wendy Dyke
Anne Dyke
Sharon Dyke
Nicola Dyke
Joan Dyke
Sally Dyke
Irene Dyke
Carol Dyke
Sarah Dyke
Helen Dyke
Jane Dyke

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.