Surname statistics for Sparkes

There are approximately 6,142 people named Sparkes in the UK. That makes it the 1,705th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 97 are named Sparkes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)61421705N/A97
United Kingdom (1881 census)219420320.00773
Change since 1881+3948+327+0.003+24
Other Countries
United States65133142less than 0.0012
Australia8211978N/A50

Politics

People with the surname Sparkes 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Sparkes
Michael Sparkes
Andrew Sparkes
Paul Sparkes
Peter Sparkes
Richard Sparkes
Simon Sparkes
John Sparkes
Stephen Sparkes
Alan Sparkes
Christopher Sparkes
Anthony Sparkes
Gary Sparkes
James Sparkes
Martin Sparkes
Graham Sparkes
Robert Sparkes
Darren Sparkes
Kevin Sparkes
Craig Sparkes

Top female forenames

Karen Sparkes
Susan Sparkes
Sarah Sparkes
Elizabeth Sparkes
Lesley Sparkes
Anne Sparkes
Carol Sparkes
Sheila Sparkes
Julie Sparkes
Alison Sparkes
Margaret Sparkes
Helen Sparkes
Linda Sparkes
Lorraine Sparkes
Jennifer Sparkes
Janet Sparkes
Jane Sparkes
Patricia Sparkes
Vanessa Sparkes
Tracey Sparkes

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.