Surname statistics for Kelleher

There are approximately 3,813 people named Kelleher in the UK. That makes it the 2,685th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 60 are named Kelleher.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)38132685N/A60
United Kingdom (1881 census)9121333less than 0.0013
Change since 1881+3722+18648+57
Other Countries
United States95353433N/A35
Australia8391947N/A51

Top male forenames

John Kelleher
Michael Kelleher
Mark Kelleher
Paul Kelleher
David Kelleher
Sean Kelleher
James Kelleher
Kevin Kelleher
Christopher Kelleher
Peter Kelleher
William Kelleher
Daniel Kelleher
Liam Kelleher
Anthony Kelleher
Simon Kelleher
Brian Kelleher
Gerard Kelleher
Thomas Kelleher
Cornelius Kelleher
Patrick Kelleher

Top female forenames

Julie Kelleher
Louise Kelleher
Susan Kelleher
Mary Kelleher
Annette Kelleher
Ann Kelleher
Sheila Kelleher
Marion Kelleher
Nicola Kelleher
Jenny Kelleher
Anne Kelleher
Amanda Kelleher
Alison Kelleher
Sandra Kelleher
Catherine Kelleher
Sarah Kelleher
Margaret Kelleher
Alexandra Kelleher
Teresa Kelleher
Karen Kelleher

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.