Surname statistics for Wadsworth

There are approximately 6,872 people named Wadsworth in the UK. That makes it the 1,551th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 109 are named Wadsworth.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)68721551N/A109
United Kingdom (1881 census)417610840.014139
Change since 1881+2696-467-0.003-30
Other Countries
United States96253406N/A36
Australia3684301N/A23

Politics

People with the surname Wadsworth 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 Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Wadsworth
David Wadsworth
Paul Wadsworth
Andrew Wadsworth
Peter Wadsworth
Mark Wadsworth
Timothy Wadsworth
Christopher Wadsworth
Michael Wadsworth
Matthew Wadsworth
Martin Wadsworth
Robert Wadsworth
Simon Wadsworth
Colin Wadsworth
Neil Wadsworth
Stephen Wadsworth
Brian Wadsworth
Richard Wadsworth
James Wadsworth
Graham Wadsworth

Top female forenames

Patricia Wadsworth
Susan Wadsworth
Jane Wadsworth
Catherine Wadsworth
Penelope Wadsworth
Christine Wadsworth
Janet Wadsworth
Jennifer Wadsworth
Jacqueline Wadsworth
Michelle Wadsworth
Elaine Wadsworth
Pamela Wadsworth
Emma Wadsworth
Victoria Wadsworth
Suzanne Wadsworth
Rachel Wadsworth
Margaret Wadsworth
Sheila Wadsworth
Tracy Wadsworth
Angela Wadsworth

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.