Surname statistics for Healey

There are approximately 11,432 people named Healey in the UK. That makes it the 913rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 181 are named Healey.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11432913N/A181
United Kingdom (1881 census)48929120.016163
Change since 1881+6540-1+0.002+18
Other Countries
United States103273186N/A38
Australia2356686N/A144

Politics

People with the surname Healey are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Healey are:

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Healey
Michael Healey
Paul Healey
Mark Healey
David Healey
Andrew Healey
Peter Healey
Christopher Healey
James Healey
Anthony Healey
Richard Healey
William Healey
Robert Healey
Stephen Healey
Brian Healey
Jonathan Healey
Alan Healey
Timothy Healey
Philip Healey
Matthew Healey

Top female forenames

Sarah Healey
Christine Healey
Susan Healey
Julie Healey
Margaret Healey
Amanda Healey
Linda Healey
Patricia Healey
Marion Healey
Lisa Healey
Jacqueline Healey
Joan Healey
Jennifer Healey
Diane Healey
Charlotte Healey
Tracey Healey
Valerie Healey
Elizabeth Healey
Louise Healey
Sharon Healey

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.