Surname statistics for McLean

There are approximately 30,215 people named McLean in the UK. That makes it the 306th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 478 are named McLean.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)30215306N/A478
United Kingdom (1881 census)76448710.00326
Change since 1881+29451+4565+0.045+452
Other Countries
United States40871768N/A152
Australia8995128N/A550

Politics

People with the surname McLean 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 McLean are:

  1. Conservative (4)
  2. SNP (4)
  3. Labour (1)
  4. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John McLean
Andrew McLean
David McLean
Robert McLean
James McLean
Ian McLean
William McLean
Paul McLean
Michael McLean
Stuart McLean
Neil McLean
Alan McLean
Colin McLean
Peter McLean
Alexander McLean
Kevin McLean
Scott McLean
Stephen McLean
Christopher McLean
Thomas McLean

Top female forenames

Susan McLean
Fiona McLean
Elizabeth McLean
Anne McLean
Margaret McLean
Julie McLean
Linda McLean
Ann McLean
Helen McLean
Jennifer McLean
Sarah McLean
Catherine McLean
Karen McLean
Christine McLean
Jacqueline McLean
Mary McLean
Sharon McLean
Sandra McLean
Patricia McLean
Wendy McLean

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.