Surname statistics for Grainger

There are approximately 11,667 people named Grainger in the UK. That makes it the 886th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 185 are named Grainger.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11667886N/A185
United Kingdom (1881 census)46039740.015154
Change since 1881+7064+88+0.003+31
Other Countries
United States39637730N/A15
Australia13291235N/A81

Politics

People with the surname Grainger 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 Grainger are:

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

Top male forenames

John Grainger
David Grainger
Paul Grainger
Andrew Grainger
Michael Grainger
Mark Grainger
Peter Grainger
Richard Grainger
Simon Grainger
Ian Grainger
James Grainger
Stephen Grainger
Robert Grainger
Steven Grainger
Keith Grainger
Alan Grainger
Christopher Grainger
Gary Grainger
Jonathan Grainger
Anthony Grainger

Top female forenames

Susan Grainger
Nicola Grainger
Helen Grainger
Linda Grainger
Margaret Grainger
Elizabeth Grainger
Lisa Grainger
Claire Grainger
Jane Grainger
Joan Grainger
Ann Grainger
Emma Grainger
Catherine Grainger
Karen Grainger
Sarah Grainger
Jacqueline Grainger
June Grainger
Angela Grainger
Alison Grainger
Christine Grainger

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.