Surname statistics for Ogilvie

There are approximately 5,152 people named Ogilvie in the UK. That makes it the 2,048th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 82 are named Ogilvie.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)51522048N/A82
United Kingdom (1881 census)289715490.0197
Change since 1881+2255-499-0.002-15
Other Countries
United States33768916N/A12
Australia10781533N/A66

Politics

People with the surname Ogilvie 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Ogilvie
John Ogilvie
James Ogilvie
Andrew Ogilvie
Alan Ogilvie
Ian Ogilvie
Kenneth Ogilvie
Mark Ogilvie
Robert Ogilvie
Graeme Ogilvie
Michael Ogilvie
Duncan Ogilvie
William Ogilvie
Alexander Ogilvie
Paul Ogilvie
Stuart Ogilvie
Daniel Ogilvie
Peter Ogilvie
Hamish Ogilvie
Alistair Ogilvie

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Ogilvie
Caroline Ogilvie
Angela Ogilvie
Mary Ogilvie
Nicola Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie
Karen Ogilvie
Margaret Ogilvie
Fiona Ogilvie
Julia Ogilvie
Jeanette Ogilvie
Brenda Ogilvie
Valerie Ogilvie
Sheila Ogilvie
Carol Ogilvie
Marie Ogilvie
Pauline Ogilvie
Paula Ogilvie
Sandra Ogilvie
Rosemary Ogilvie

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.