Surname statistics for Leyland

There are approximately 4,316 people named Leyland in the UK. That makes it the 2,423rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 68 are named Leyland.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43162423N/A68
United Kingdom (1881 census)183023880.00661
Change since 1881+2486-35+0.001+7
Other Countries
United States50141060less than 0.0012
Australia13610822N/A8

Politics

People with the surname Leyland are slightly more 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 Leyland are:

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

Top male forenames

David Leyland
Mark Leyland
Andrew Leyland
Peter Leyland
Michael Leyland
Simon Leyland
John Leyland
Anthony Leyland
Robert Leyland
Stephen Leyland
Paul Leyland
Jonathan Leyland
Christopher Leyland
Philip Leyland
Martin Leyland
William Leyland
Richard Leyland
Craig Leyland
Brian Leyland
Ronald Leyland

Top female forenames

Susan Leyland
Patricia Leyland
Helen Leyland
Christine Leyland
Deborah Leyland
Lesley Leyland
Jane Leyland
Karen Leyland
Sarah Leyland
Nicola Leyland
Claire Leyland
Alice Leyland
Mary Leyland
Jayne Leyland
Teresa Leyland
Sandra Leyland
Jacqueline Leyland
Tanya Leyland
Elizabeth Leyland
Frances Leyland

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.