Surname statistics for Urquhart

There are approximately 7,935 people named Urquhart in the UK. That makes it the 1,365th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 126 are named Urquhart.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)79351365N/A126
United Kingdom (1881 census)420710740.014140
Change since 1881+3728-291-0.001-14
Other Countries
United States41637381N/A15
Australia16221006N/A99

Politics

People with the surname Urquhart are 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Urquhart
James Urquhart
Ian Urquhart
David Urquhart
Robert Urquhart
William Urquhart
Alexander Urquhart
Colin Urquhart
Neil Urquhart
Douglas Urquhart
Andrew Urquhart
Donald Urquhart
Peter Urquhart
Graham Urquhart
Richard Urquhart
Gordon Urquhart
Bruce Urquhart
Steven Urquhart
Brian Urquhart
Kenneth Urquhart

Top female forenames

Alison Urquhart
Linda Urquhart
Elizabeth Urquhart
Susan Urquhart
Fiona Urquhart
Elaine Urquhart
Christine Urquhart
Sheila Urquhart
Catherine Urquhart
Heather Urquhart
Margaret Urquhart
Jane Urquhart
Helen Urquhart
Rosemary Urquhart
Diane Urquhart
Julie Urquhart
Karen Urquhart
Lisa Urquhart
Jacqueline Urquhart
Teresa Urquhart

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.