Surname statistics for Mather

There are approximately 11,740 people named Mather in the UK. That makes it the 877th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 186 are named Mather.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11740877N/A186
United Kingdom (1881 census)74255770.025248
Change since 1881+4315-300-0.006-62
Other Countries
United States66024884N/A24
Australia14931100N/A91

Politics

People with the surname Mather are slightly 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Mather
David Mather
Peter Mather
James Mather
Paul Mather
Ian Mather
Richard Mather
Christopher Mather
Andrew Mather
Robert Mather
Stephen Mather
Michael Mather
Nicholas Mather
Charles Mather
William Mather
Jonathan Mather
Philip Mather
Thomas Mather
Simon Mather
Neil Mather

Top female forenames

Susan Mather
Anne Mather
Elizabeth Mather
Margaret Mather
Jane Mather
Catherine Mather
Christine Mather
Claire Mather
Patricia Mather
Janet Mather
Elaine Mather
Amanda Mather
Joyce Mather
Rachel Mather
Barbara Mather
Ann Mather
Helen Mather
Jill Mather
Linda Mather
Sarah Mather

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.