Surname statistics for Nathan

There are approximately 5,477 people named Nathan in the UK. That makes it the 1,905th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 87 are named Nathan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)54771905N/A87
United Kingdom (1881 census)99839430.00333
Change since 1881+4479+2038+0.006+54
Other Countries
United States73694444N/A27
Australia7292225N/A45

Top male forenames

David Nathan
Michael Nathan
Paul Nathan
Philip Nathan
James Nathan
Stephen Nathan
Daniel Nathan
Roger Nathan
Robert Nathan
Joel Nathan
Mark Nathan
Brian Nathan
Richard Nathan
John Nathan
Gavin Nathan
Jeremy Nathan
Peter Nathan
Martin Nathan
Timothy Nathan
Stuart Nathan

Top female forenames

Sarah Nathan
Linda Nathan
Alison Nathan
Ruth Nathan
Natasha Nathan
Maureen Nathan
Mary Nathan
Margaret Nathan
Louise Nathan
Helen Nathan
Carole Nathan
Gillian Nathan
Barbara Nathan
Sara Nathan
Pamela Nathan
Patricia Nathan
Peace Nathan
Radhika Nathan
Sheryl Nathan
Amanda Nathan

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.