Surname statistics for Orchard

There are approximately 6,653 people named Orchard in the UK. That makes it the 1,600th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 105 are named Orchard.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)66531600N/A105
United Kingdom (1881 census)318314170.011106
Change since 1881+3470-1830-1
Other Countries
United States224112657N/A8
Australia13251241N/A81

Politics

People with the surname Orchard are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Orchard
David Orchard
Paul Orchard
Christopher Orchard
James Orchard
Peter Orchard
Michael Orchard
Kevin Orchard
Graham Orchard
Stephen Orchard
Andrew Orchard
Richard Orchard
Anthony Orchard
Robert Orchard
Matthew Orchard
Alan Orchard
Mark Orchard
Nigel Orchard
Philip Orchard
Jonathan Orchard

Top female forenames

Susan Orchard
Elizabeth Orchard
Margaret Orchard
Patricia Orchard
Alison Orchard
Amanda Orchard
Sandra Orchard
Anna Orchard
Mary Orchard
Joanne Orchard
Deborah Orchard
Ann Orchard
Sarah Orchard
Michelle Orchard
Wendy Orchard
Elaine Orchard
Julia Orchard
Barbara Orchard
Sheila Orchard
Victoria Orchard

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.