Surname statistics for Peel

There are approximately 9,753 people named Peel in the UK. That makes it the 1,081th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 154 are named Peel.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)97531081N/A154
United Kingdom (1881 census)53758330.018179
Change since 1881+4378-248-0.003-25
Other Countries
United States66034880N/A24
Australia12931271N/A79

Politics

People with the surname Peel 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 Peel are:

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

Top male forenames

David Peel
Robert Peel
Richard Peel
John Peel
Michael Peel
Andrew Peel
Christopher Peel
Simon Peel
Graham Peel
Stephen Peel
James Peel
Nicholas Peel
Martin Peel
Kevin Peel
Mark Peel
Alan Peel
Anthony Peel
Ian Peel
Philip Peel
Alistair Peel

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Peel
Karen Peel
Mary Peel
Julie Peel
Alison Peel
Susan Peel
Andrea Peel
Jennifer Peel
Elaine Peel
Judith Peel
Gillian Peel
Ann Peel
Barbara Peel
Linda Peel
Emma Peel
Angela Peel
Helen Peel
Louise Peel
Margaret Peel
Deborah Peel

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.