Surname statistics for Speight

There are approximately 4,803 people named Speight in the UK. That makes it the 2,182nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 76 are named Speight.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)48032182N/A76
United Kingdom (1881 census)243418330.00881
Change since 1881+2369-3490-5
Other Countries
United States52376040N/A19
Australia2386442N/A15

Politics

People with the surname Speight 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 Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Andrew Speight
David Speight
Michael Speight
Robert Speight
John Speight
Martin Speight
Paul Speight
Richard Speight
Alan Speight
Mark Speight
Anthony Speight
Nigel Speight
Christopher Speight
Peter Speight
Philip Speight
Stephen Speight
Brian Speight
Timothy Speight
Simon Speight
Kevin Speight

Top female forenames

Jacqueline Speight
Helen Speight
Amanda Speight
Valerie Speight
Rachel Speight
Samantha Speight
Yvonne Speight
Joanne Speight
Joan Speight
Laura Speight
Anna Speight
Pamela Speight
Martine Speight
Marion Speight
Michele Speight
Patricia Speight
Ruth Speight
Sarah Speight
Shirley Speight
Susan Speight

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.