Surname statistics for Gillespie

There are approximately 15,497 people named Gillespie in the UK. That makes it the 644th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 245 are named Gillespie.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)15497644N/A245
United Kingdom (1881 census)47499340.016159
Change since 1881+10748+290+0.009+86
Other Countries
United States41393758N/A153
Australia2653596N/A162

Politics

People with the surname Gillespie 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.

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

  1. Conservative (2)
  2. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Gillespie
James Gillespie
David Gillespie
Robert Gillespie
Andrew Gillespie
Alan Gillespie
Paul Gillespie
Mark Gillespie
Ian Gillespie
Michael Gillespie
William Gillespie
Stephen Gillespie
Christopher Gillespie
Richard Gillespie
Peter Gillespie
Thomas Gillespie
Simon Gillespie
Jonathan Gillespie
Patrick Gillespie
Colin Gillespie

Top female forenames

Linda Gillespie
Catherine Gillespie
Susan Gillespie
Anne Gillespie
Nicola Gillespie
Elizabeth Gillespie
Margaret Gillespie
Marie Gillespie
Amanda Gillespie
Janet Gillespie
Michelle Gillespie
Sharon Gillespie
Jennifer Gillespie
Fiona Gillespie
Emma Gillespie
Patricia Gillespie
Helen Gillespie
Sarah Gillespie
Katherine Gillespie
Joanne Gillespie

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.