Surname statistics for Grace

There are approximately 9,785 people named Grace in the UK. That makes it the 1,079th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 155 are named Grace.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)97851079N/A155
United Kingdom (1881 census)401111340.013134
Change since 1881+5774+55+0.002+21
Other Countries
United States267271200N/A99
Australia2568616N/A157

Top male forenames

David Grace
John Grace
Andrew Grace
Paul Grace
Michael Grace
Richard Grace
Stephen Grace
Peter Grace
Anthony Grace
Christopher Grace
Robert Grace
William Grace
James Grace
Ian Grace
Mark Grace
Simon Grace
Trevor Grace
Martin Grace
Nigel Grace
Colin Grace

Top female forenames

Karen Grace
Susan Grace
Angela Grace
Christine Grace
Gillian Grace
Jacqueline Grace
Deborah Grace
Linda Grace
Louise Grace
Jane Grace
Joanne Grace
Julia Grace
Sarah Grace
Patricia Grace
Anne Grace
Carol Grace
Barbara Grace
Margaret Grace
Nicola Grace
Helen Grace

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.