Surname statistics for Ridley

There are approximately 12,097 people named Ridley in the UK. That makes it the 842nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 191 are named Ridley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12097842N/A191
United Kingdom (1881 census)57887680.019193
Change since 1881+6309-740-2
Other Countries
United States110992987N/A41
Australia1770921N/A108

Politics

People with the surname Ridley are considerably 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 Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Ridley
David Ridley
Michael Ridley
Paul Ridley
Mark Ridley
Andrew Ridley
Nicholas Ridley
Christopher Ridley
William Ridley
James Ridley
Peter Ridley
Robert Ridley
Stephen Ridley
Ian Ridley
Brian Ridley
Anthony Ridley
Matthew Ridley
Keith Ridley
Gary Ridley
Simon Ridley

Top female forenames

Jane Ridley
Linda Ridley
Susan Ridley
Karen Ridley
Margaret Ridley
Janet Ridley
Elizabeth Ridley
Gillian Ridley
Jacqueline Ridley
Barbara Ridley
Charlotte Ridley
Emma Ridley
Clare Ridley
Catherine Ridley
Nicola Ridley
Anne Ridley
Alison Ridley
Carole Ridley
Sarah Ridley
Rebecca Ridley

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.