Surname statistics for Boulton

There are approximately 10,767 people named Boulton in the UK. That makes it the 982nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 170 are named Boulton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10767982N/A170
United Kingdom (1881 census)53988260.018180
Change since 1881+5369-156-0.001-10
Other Countries
United States224512647N/A8
Australia12211353N/A75

Politics

People with the surname Boulton are slightly more 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 Boulton are:

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

Top male forenames

David Boulton
Andrew Boulton
Simon Boulton
Michael Boulton
John Boulton
Paul Boulton
Mark Boulton
Peter Boulton
Stephen Boulton
Richard Boulton
Christopher Boulton
James Boulton
Nigel Boulton
Ian Boulton
Keith Boulton
Robert Boulton
Martin Boulton
Jonathan Boulton
Alan Boulton
Brian Boulton

Top female forenames

Sarah Boulton
Christine Boulton
Julie Boulton
Susan Boulton
Karen Boulton
Patricia Boulton
Alison Boulton
Sandra Boulton
Carole Boulton
Mary Boulton
Catherine Boulton
Nicola Boulton
Rachel Boulton
Janet Boulton
Joanna Boulton
Rosemary Boulton
Joan Boulton
Anne Boulton
Tracey Boulton
Barbara Boulton

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.