Surname statistics for Michael

There are approximately 20,544 people named Michael in the UK. That makes it the 487th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 325 are named Michael.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)20544487N/A325
United Kingdom (1881 census)161026710.00554
Change since 1881+18934+2184+0.028+271
Other Countries
United States39369798N/A146
Australia2126761N/A130

Politics

People with the surname Michael 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 Michael are:

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. Labour (1)
  3. It's OUR County! Party (1)
  4. Ashford Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Andrew Michael
David Michael
Peter Michael
John Michael
George Michael
Anthony Michael
Andreas Michael
Paul Michael
Christopher Michael
Chris Michael
Michalakis Michael
Marios Michael
Savvas Michael
Stephen Michael
Ian Michael
Nicholas Michael
Simon Michael
James Michael
Steven Michael
Joseph Michael

Top female forenames

Helen Michael
Maria Michael
Christine Michael
Androulla Michael
Elizabeth Michael
Sarah Michael
Christina Michael
Margaret Michael
Mary Michael
Yvonne Michael
Elaine Michael
Georgina Michael
Michelle Michael
Karen Michael
Sandra Michael
Anna Michael
Julie Michael
Nicola Michael
Audrey Michael
Alexandra Michael

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.