Surname statistics for Morley

There are approximately 26,556 people named Morley in the UK. That makes it the 365th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 420 are named Morley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)26556365N/A420
United Kingdom (1881 census)119713590.04400
Change since 1881+14585-6+0.002+20
Other Countries
United States108153072N/A40
Australia2689586N/A164

Politics

People with the surname Morley are 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (3)
  2. Conservative (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Morley
John Morley
Andrew Morley
Christopher Morley
Peter Morley
Robert Morley
Michael Morley
Stephen Morley
Richard Morley
Paul Morley
James Morley
Simon Morley
Jonathan Morley
Philip Morley
Anthony Morley
Mark Morley
Nicholas Morley
Steven Morley
Graham Morley
Timothy Morley

Top female forenames

Susan Morley
Carol Morley
Sarah Morley
Christine Morley
Julie Morley
Mary Morley
Jacqueline Morley
Janet Morley
Jane Morley
Gillian Morley
Margaret Morley
Elizabeth Morley
Emma Morley
Karen Morley
Sharon Morley
Angela Morley
Sheila Morley
Samantha Morley
Patricia Morley
Anne Morley

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.