Surname statistics for Munroe

There are approximately 1,801 people named Munroe in the UK. That makes it the 4,892nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 29 are named Munroe.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)18014892N/A29
United Kingdom (1881 census)81046470.00327
Change since 1881+991-2450+2
Other Countries
United States56395646N/A21
Australia1977665N/A12

Top male forenames

John Munroe
David Munroe
Paul Munroe
James Munroe
Patrick Munroe
Christopher Munroe
Anthony Munroe
Ian Munroe
Stuart Munroe
Gary Munroe
Michael Munroe
Robert Munroe

Top female forenames

Susan Munroe
Suzanne Munroe
Joanne Munroe
Sharon Munroe
Sophia Munroe
Ruth Munroe
Nicola Munroe
Margaret Munroe
Karen Munroe
Julie Munroe
Deborah Munroe
Clare Munroe

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.