Surname statistics for Mayhew

There are approximately 6,215 people named Mayhew in the UK. That makes it the 1,690th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 98 are named Mayhew.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)62151690N/A98
United Kingdom (1881 census)247118110.00883
Change since 1881+3744+121+0.002+15
Other Countries
United States87543718N/A32
Australia3924038N/A24

Politics

People with the surname Mayhew are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Mayhew are:

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

Top male forenames

John Mayhew
Paul Mayhew
Christopher Mayhew
Michael Mayhew
Mark Mayhew
Peter Mayhew
David Mayhew
Richard Mayhew
Ian Mayhew
Philip Mayhew
Brian Mayhew
Robert Mayhew
Andrew Mayhew
Steven Mayhew
Nicholas Mayhew
Keith Mayhew
James Mayhew
Alan Mayhew
Anthony Mayhew
Stephen Mayhew

Top female forenames

Sarah Mayhew
Susan Mayhew
Jennifer Mayhew
Carol Mayhew
Nicola Mayhew
Diana Mayhew
Catherine Mayhew
Angela Mayhew
Sharon Mayhew
Julie Mayhew
Lisa Mayhew
Karen Mayhew
Deborah Mayhew
Janet Mayhew
Priscilla Mayhew
Kathryn Mayhew
Ann Mayhew
Alexandra Mayhew
Judith Mayhew
Patricia Mayhew

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.