Surname statistics for Shaw

There are approximately 107,067 people named Shaw in the UK. That makes it the 61th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,695 are named Shaw.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10706761N/A1695
United Kingdom (1881 census)55011490.1841837
Change since 1881+52056-12-0.015-142
Other Countries
United States155172150N/A575
Australia1172287N/A717

Politics

People with the surname Shaw are 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.

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

  1. Conservative (9)
  2. Labour (7)
  3. Liberal Democrat (5)
  4. SNP (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Shaw
John Shaw
Michael Shaw
Andrew Shaw
Robert Shaw
Peter Shaw
Christopher Shaw
Stephen Shaw
Richard Shaw
James Shaw
Mark Shaw
Ian Shaw
Paul Shaw
Philip Shaw
Martin Shaw
Simon Shaw
Jonathan Shaw
Alan Shaw
Graham Shaw
William Shaw

Top female forenames

Susan Shaw
Karen Shaw
Helen Shaw
Elizabeth Shaw
Margaret Shaw
Sarah Shaw
Patricia Shaw
Christine Shaw
Nicola Shaw
Jane Shaw
Gillian Shaw
Julie Shaw
Jennifer Shaw
Angela Shaw
Alison Shaw
Janet Shaw
Linda Shaw
Amanda Shaw
Caroline Shaw
Jacqueline Shaw

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.