Surname statistics for Turnbull

There are approximately 22,864 people named Turnbull in the UK. That makes it the 442nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 362 are named Turnbull.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)22864442N/A362
United Kingdom (1881 census)126233330.042422
Change since 1881+10241-109-0.006-60
Other Countries
United States80674049N/A30
Australia4327336N/A265

Politics

People with the surname Turnbull are considerably 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.

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

  1. Labour (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Turnbull
David Turnbull
Ian Turnbull
Robert Turnbull
James Turnbull
Richard Turnbull
Andrew Turnbull
Mark Turnbull
Peter Turnbull
Michael Turnbull
Paul Turnbull
Alan Turnbull
William Turnbull
George Turnbull
Stephen Turnbull
Graham Turnbull
Steven Turnbull
Jonathan Turnbull
Christopher Turnbull
Stuart Turnbull

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Turnbull
Margaret Turnbull
Susan Turnbull
Alison Turnbull
Sarah Turnbull
Julie Turnbull
Christine Turnbull
Anne Turnbull
Sandra Turnbull
Michelle Turnbull
Helen Turnbull
Karen Turnbull
Ann Turnbull
Jane Turnbull
Lesley Turnbull
Carol Turnbull
Pauline Turnbull
Caroline Turnbull
Linda Turnbull
Jacqueline Turnbull

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.