Surname statistics for Thornton

There are approximately 25,168 people named Thornton in the UK. That makes it the 389th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 398 are named Thornton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)25168389N/A398
United Kingdom (1881 census)150572650.05503
Change since 1881+10111-124-0.01-105
Other Countries
United States81191347N/A301
Australia3753393N/A230

Politics

People with the surname Thornton are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

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

  1. Liberal Democrat (6)
  2. Conservative (2)
  3. Labour (2)
  4. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Thornton
Michael Thornton
John Thornton
Stephen Thornton
Peter Thornton
Paul Thornton
Andrew Thornton
Robert Thornton
James Thornton
Christopher Thornton
Mark Thornton
Alan Thornton
Richard Thornton
Ian Thornton
Graham Thornton
William Thornton
Martin Thornton
Brian Thornton
Colin Thornton
Simon Thornton

Top female forenames

Susan Thornton
Caroline Thornton
Christine Thornton
Margaret Thornton
Sarah Thornton
Patricia Thornton
Mary Thornton
Karen Thornton
Gillian Thornton
Janet Thornton
Rosemary Thornton
Joanne Thornton
Deborah Thornton
Julie Thornton
Elizabeth Thornton
Jennifer Thornton
Angela Thornton
Louise Thornton
Helen Thornton
Carol Thornton

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.