Surname statistics for Masters

There are approximately 13,712 people named Masters in the UK. That makes it the 746th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 217 are named Masters.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13712746N/A217
United Kingdom (1881 census)55488040.019185
Change since 1881+8164+58+0.003+32
Other Countries
United States231061412N/A86
Australia2490641N/A152

Top male forenames

John Masters
David Masters
Richard Masters
Paul Masters
Peter Masters
Stephen Masters
Michael Masters
Ian Masters
Christopher Masters
Alan Masters
James Masters
Andrew Masters
Simon Masters
Robert Masters
Philip Masters
Daniel Masters
Kevin Masters
Graham Masters
Mark Masters
Colin Masters

Top female forenames

Margaret Masters
Susan Masters
Jane Masters
Elizabeth Masters
Joanne Masters
Patricia Masters
Sarah Masters
Helen Masters
Alison Masters
Valerie Masters
Tracey Masters
Jennifer Masters
Nicola Masters
Linda Masters
Deborah Masters
Julie Masters
Mary Masters
Caroline Masters
Wendy Masters
Janet Masters

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.