Surname statistics for Place

There are approximately 2,394 people named Place in the UK. That makes it the 3,896th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 38 are named Place.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)23943896N/A38
United Kingdom (1881 census)157027180.00552
Change since 1881+824-1178-0.001-14
Other Countries
United States70574600N/A26
Australia4343648N/A27

Politics

People with the surname Place are 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Place
Stephen Place
Andrew Place
Christopher Place
Brian Place
Geoffrey Place
Michael Place
David Place
Nicholas Place
Anthony Place
Alan Place
Bernard Place
Derek Place
Stuart Place
Richard Place
Jonathan Place
Paul Place
Philip Place
Raymond Place

Top female forenames

Anna Place
Caroline Place
Sylvia Place
Susan Place
Sharon Place
Margaret Place
Emma Place
Lynne Place
Patricia Place
Linda Place
Helen Place
Hannah Place
Gemma Place
Elaine Place
Deborah Place
Christine Place
Catrina Place
Carolyn Place
Valerie Place

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.