Surname statistics for Oakes

There are approximately 10,134 people named Oakes in the UK. That makes it the 1,039th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 160 are named Oakes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)101341039N/A160
United Kingdom (1881 census)433710320.014145
Change since 1881+5797-7+0.002+15
Other Countries
United States170081943N/A63
Australia11211475N/A69

Politics

People with the surname Oakes 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Oakes
David Oakes
Stephen Oakes
Michael Oakes
Richard Oakes
Christopher Oakes
Andrew Oakes
Simon Oakes
Robert Oakes
Peter Oakes
Steven Oakes
James Oakes
Paul Oakes
Mark Oakes
William Oakes
Alan Oakes
Daniel Oakes
Ian Oakes
Gary Oakes
Jonathan Oakes

Top female forenames

Susan Oakes
Janet Oakes
Angela Oakes
Jennifer Oakes
Christine Oakes
Helen Oakes
Claire Oakes
Karen Oakes
Linda Oakes
Sarah Oakes
Amanda Oakes
Sharon Oakes
Deborah Oakes
Jane Oakes
Andrea Oakes
Joanne Oakes
Anne Oakes
Patricia Oakes
Julie Oakes
Ruth Oakes

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.