Surname statistics for Prowse

There are approximately 2,637 people named Prowse in the UK. That makes it the 3,621th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 42 are named Prowse.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)26373621N/A42
United Kingdom (1881 census)136430270.00546
Change since 1881+1273-594-0.001-4
Other Countries
United States62234459less than 0.0012
Australia7592142N/A46

Politics

People with the surname Prowse are 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 Prowse are:

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. Liberal Democrat (3)
  3. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Michael Prowse
John Prowse
Robert Prowse
Richard Prowse
Ian Prowse
Stephen Prowse
Nicholas Prowse
Barrie Prowse
James Prowse
Graham Prowse
Andrew Prowse
William Prowse
Mark Prowse
David Prowse
Adam Prowse
Charles Prowse
Jolyon Prowse
Roger Prowse
Philip Prowse
Peter Prowse

Top female forenames

Louise Prowse
Jane Prowse
Joanne Prowse
Julie Prowse
Helen Prowse
Patricia Prowse
Christine Prowse
Paula Prowse
Lisa Prowse
Susan Prowse
Kathryn Prowse
Karen Prowse
Juliet Prowse
Carol Prowse
Joan Prowse
Janet Prowse
Emma Prowse
Clare Prowse
Carolyn Prowse
Teresa Prowse

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.