Surname statistics for Barley

There are approximately 2,742 people named Barley in the UK. That makes it the 3,518th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 43 are named Barley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)27423518N/A43
United Kingdom (1881 census)166426010.00656
Change since 1881+1078-917-0.002-13
Other Countries
United States45626806N/A17
Australia2067361N/A13

Top male forenames

Michael Barley
John Barley
David Barley
Paul Barley
Graham Barley
Richard Barley
Christopher Barley
Anthony Barley
James Barley
Peter Barley
Timothy Barley
Stephen Barley
Andrew Barley
Malcolm Barley
Keith Barley

Top female forenames

Christine Barley
Susan Barley
Julie Barley
Sandra Barley
Janet Barley
Lisa Barley
Andrea Barley
Amanda Barley
Joanne Barley
Kathleen Barley
Lesley Barley
Jacqueline Barley
Deborah Barley
Emma Barley
Rachael Barley

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.