Surname statistics for Yardley

There are approximately 3,943 people named Yardley in the UK. That makes it the 2,615th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 62 are named Yardley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)39432615N/A62
United Kingdom (1881 census)190122980.00663
Change since 1881+2042-3170-1
Other Countries
United States217912929N/A8
Australia3055137N/A19

Politics

People with the surname Yardley are slightly 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

Michael Yardley
David Yardley
John Yardley
Mark Yardley
Paul Yardley
Robert Yardley
Philip Yardley
Stephen Yardley
Craig Yardley
Alan Yardley
Richard Yardley
Graham Yardley
Peter Yardley
James Yardley
Keith Yardley
Nigel Yardley
Martin Yardley
Gary Yardley
Neil Yardley
William Yardley

Top female forenames

Tracey Yardley
Susan Yardley
Sharon Yardley
Julie Yardley
Karen Yardley
Jane Yardley
Rachel Yardley
Margaret Yardley
Mary Yardley
Jennifer Yardley
Teresa Yardley
Claire Yardley
Pauline Yardley
Sandra Yardley
Samantha Yardley
Tracy Yardley
Olga Yardley
Carol Yardley
Christine Yardley
Diana Yardley

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.