Surname statistics for Yorke

There are approximately 4,584 people named Yorke in the UK. That makes it the 2,293rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 73 are named Yorke.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)45842293N/A73
United Kingdom (1881 census)95740750.00332
Change since 1881+3627+1782+0.004+41
Other Countries
United States144317884N/A5
Australia2117182N/A13

Politics

People with the surname Yorke 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Richard Yorke
John Yorke
Michael Yorke
David Yorke
Stephen Yorke
Christopher Yorke
Robert Yorke
Philip Yorke
Paul Yorke
Gary Yorke
Chris Yorke
Andrew Yorke
Peter Yorke
Matthew Yorke
Simon Yorke
Trevor Yorke
Mark Yorke
Thomas Yorke
Jason Yorke
Alan Yorke

Top female forenames

Julie Yorke
Elizabeth Yorke
Sarah Yorke
Heather Yorke
Claire Yorke
Fiona Yorke
Emma Yorke
Susan Yorke
Jennifer Yorke
Joanne Yorke
Jane Yorke
Marie Yorke
Marion Yorke
Melanie Yorke
Natalie Yorke
Patricia Yorke
Sally Yorke
Margaret Yorke
Kym Yorke
Janet Yorke

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.