Surname statistics for Balfour

There are approximately 3,586 people named Balfour in the UK. That makes it the 2,810th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 57 are named Balfour.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)35862810N/A57
United Kingdom (1881 census)208621230.00770
Change since 1881+1500-687-0.001-13
Other Countries
United States210013311N/A8
Australia5392998N/A33

Politics

People with the surname Balfour are 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.

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

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. SNP (2)
  3. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Balfour
Ian Balfour
Michael Balfour
William Balfour
Stuart Balfour
John Balfour
Robert Balfour
Alan Balfour
Andrew Balfour
Mark Balfour
Peter Balfour
Christopher Balfour
James Balfour
George Balfour
Ross Balfour
Alexander Balfour
Thomas Balfour
Hew Balfour
Stephen Balfour
Richard Balfour

Top female forenames

Susan Balfour
Sarah Balfour
Emma Balfour
Gillian Balfour
Louise Balfour
Pamela Balfour
Jacqueline Balfour
Margaret Balfour
Laura Balfour
Carol Balfour
Elisabeth Balfour
Cherry Balfour
Catherine Balfour
Yvonne Balfour
Mary Balfour
Jeanette Balfour
Norma Balfour
Angela Balfour
Zara Balfour
Victoria Balfour

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.