Surname statistics for Maher

There are approximately 12,122 people named Maher in the UK. That makes it the 840th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 192 are named Maher.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12122840N/A192
United Kingdom (1881 census)110136310.00437
Change since 1881+11021+2791+0.015+155
Other Countries
United States225031456N/A83
Australia5763234N/A353

Politics

People with the surname Maher 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 Labour.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Maher are:

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

Top male forenames

John Maher
Michael Maher
Paul Maher
David Maher
Patrick Maher
Peter Maher
James Maher
Stephen Maher
Anthony Maher
Thomas Maher
Richard Maher
Daniel Maher
Christopher Maher
Sean Maher
Andrew Maher
Kevin Maher
Nicholas Maher
Edward Maher
Mark Maher
Joseph Maher

Top female forenames

Patricia Maher
Mary Maher
Anne Maher
Susan Maher
Elizabeth Maher
Maureen Maher
Karen Maher
Sarah Maher
Linda Maher
Margaret Maher
Sharon Maher
Angela Maher
Catherine Maher
Victoria Maher
Joanne Maher
Wendy Maher
Carol Maher
Amanda Maher
Jane Maher
Jill Maher

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.