Surname statistics for McLeod

There are approximately 17,980 people named McLeod in the UK. That makes it the 555th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 285 are named McLeod.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)17980555N/A285
United Kingdom (1881 census)49568940.00217
Change since 1881+17485+6339+0.026+268
Other Countries
United States294231088N/A109
Australia6158216N/A377

Politics

People with the surname McLeod 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 SNP.

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

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

Top male forenames

Ian McLeod
John McLeod
Andrew McLeod
James McLeod
David McLeod
Kenneth McLeod
Norman McLeod
Colin McLeod
Robert McLeod
Iain McLeod
Alan McLeod
Neil McLeod
Donald McLeod
Stuart McLeod
Mark McLeod
Alexander McLeod
Peter McLeod
Stephen McLeod
William McLeod
George McLeod

Top female forenames

Susan McLeod
Margaret McLeod
Elizabeth McLeod
Fiona McLeod
Sarah McLeod
Catherine McLeod
Mary McLeod
Helen McLeod
Patricia McLeod
Janette McLeod
Sandra McLeod
Maureen McLeod
Caroline McLeod
Jane McLeod
Alison McLeod
Nicola McLeod
Anne McLeod
Linda McLeod
Amanda McLeod
Kathleen McLeod

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.