Surname statistics for Ratcliffe

There are approximately 16,219 people named Ratcliffe in the UK. That makes it the 619th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 257 are named Ratcliffe.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16219619N/A257
United Kingdom (1881 census)82715110.028276
Change since 1881+7948-108-0.002-19
Other Countries
United States41487411N/A15
Australia11991380N/A73

Politics

People with the surname Ratcliffe 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 Ratcliffe are:

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

Top male forenames

John Ratcliffe
David Ratcliffe
Peter Ratcliffe
Paul Ratcliffe
Michael Ratcliffe
Andrew Ratcliffe
Stephen Ratcliffe
Ian Ratcliffe
Mark Ratcliffe
James Ratcliffe
Alan Ratcliffe
Robert Ratcliffe
Neil Ratcliffe
Anthony Ratcliffe
Christopher Ratcliffe
Simon Ratcliffe
Richard Ratcliffe
Philip Ratcliffe
Nicholas Ratcliffe
Martin Ratcliffe

Top female forenames

Susan Ratcliffe
Jane Ratcliffe
Elizabeth Ratcliffe
Sarah Ratcliffe
Helen Ratcliffe
Nicola Ratcliffe
Karen Ratcliffe
Janet Ratcliffe
Barbara Ratcliffe
Gillian Ratcliffe
Patricia Ratcliffe
Linda Ratcliffe
Sharon Ratcliffe
Ann Ratcliffe
Margaret Ratcliffe
Amanda Ratcliffe
Diane Ratcliffe
Julie Ratcliffe
Louise Ratcliffe
Jacqueline Ratcliffe

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.