Surname statistics for Taylor

There are approximately 378,060 people named Taylor in the UK. That makes it the 5th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 5,984 are named Taylor.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)378060515984
United Kingdom (1881 census)19151550.6396395
Change since 1881+1865450-0.041-411
Other Countries
United States72037013N/A2670
Australia453286N/A2773

Politics

People with the surname Taylor 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (42)
  2. Labour (40)
  3. Liberal Democrat (15)
  4. Independent (5)
  5. Green (2)
  6. SNP (1)
  7. Plaid Cymru (1)
  8. Herefordshire Independents (1)
  9. Wrexham Independents (1)
  10. Liberal (1)
  11. Social Democratic Party (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Taylor
John Taylor
Paul Taylor
Robert Taylor
Michael Taylor
Mark Taylor
Andrew Taylor
Richard Taylor
Stephen Taylor
James Taylor
Peter Taylor
Ian Taylor
Christopher Taylor
Alan Taylor
Simon Taylor
Philip Taylor
William Taylor
Brian Taylor
Steven Taylor
Martin Taylor

Top female forenames

Susan Taylor
Sarah Taylor
Margaret Taylor
Patricia Taylor
Helen Taylor
Christine Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Taylor
Karen Taylor
Jacqueline Taylor
Jane Taylor
Linda Taylor
Joanne Taylor
Anne Taylor
Janet Taylor
Alison Taylor
Lisa Taylor
Jennifer Taylor
Claire Taylor
Nicola Taylor

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.