Surname statistics for Whitaker

There are approximately 12,527 people named Whitaker in the UK. That makes it the 806th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 198 are named Whitaker.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12527806N/A198
United Kingdom (1881 census)84605010.028282
Change since 1881+4067-305-0.008-84
Other Countries
United States54343558N/A201
Australia9521737N/A58

Politics

People with the surname Whitaker 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Whitaker
John Whitaker
Andrew Whitaker
Michael Whitaker
Richard Whitaker
Paul Whitaker
Robert Whitaker
Stephen Whitaker
Mark Whitaker
James Whitaker
Alan Whitaker
Ian Whitaker
Peter Whitaker
Gary Whitaker
Martin Whitaker
Simon Whitaker
Timothy Whitaker
Jonathan Whitaker
Philip Whitaker
Graham Whitaker

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Whitaker
Helen Whitaker
Susan Whitaker
Anne Whitaker
Jennifer Whitaker
Catherine Whitaker
Sheila Whitaker
Sarah Whitaker
Carol Whitaker
Karen Whitaker
Patricia Whitaker
Deborah Whitaker
Julie Whitaker
Clare Whitaker
Christine Whitaker
Caroline Whitaker
Lesley Whitaker
Linda Whitaker
Stephanie Whitaker
Margaret Whitaker

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.