Surname statistics for Ashfield

There are approximately 1,907 people named Ashfield in the UK. That makes it the 4,677th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 30 are named Ashfield.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)19074677N/A30
United Kingdom (1881 census)56761850.00219
Change since 1881+1340+1508+0.001+11
Other Countries
United States25671143less than 0.0011
Australia10913190N/A7

Top male forenames

David Ashfield
Mark Ashfield
Peter Ashfield
Nicholas Ashfield
John Ashfield
Martin Ashfield
Anthony Ashfield
Richard Ashfield
Stephen Ashfield
Timothy Ashfield
Raymond Ashfield
James Ashfield
Robert Ashfield
Andrew Ashfield
Malcolm Ashfield
Paul Ashfield
Nigel Ashfield
Stafford Ashfield

Top female forenames

Susan Ashfield
Christine Ashfield
Melanie Ashfield
Sarah Ashfield
Janet Ashfield
Catherine Ashfield
Andrea Ashfield
Paula Ashfield
Ann Ashfield
Lesley Ashfield
Marilyn Ashfield
Linda Ashfield
Margaret Ashfield
Bethany Ashfield
Barbara Ashfield
Victoria Ashfield
Audrey Ashfield
Julie Ashfield

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.