Surname statistics for Boyer

There are approximately 1,858 people named Boyer in the UK. That makes it the 4,768th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 29 are named Boyer.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)18584768N/A29
United Kingdom (1881 census)94341220.00331
Change since 1881+915-6460-2
Other Countries
United States49601622N/A184
Australia4463563N/A27

Top male forenames

John Boyer
Matthew Boyer
Paul Boyer
David Boyer
Phil Boyer
Steven Boyer
Gary Boyer
Steve Boyer
James Boyer
Anthony Boyer
Mark Boyer
Pierre Boyer
Nicholas Boyer
Richard Boyer

Top female forenames

Patricia Boyer
Katherine Boyer
Jean Boyer
Pauline Boyer
Deborah Boyer
Gale Boyer
Sarah Boyer
Linda Boyer
Janine Boyer
Louise Boyer
Siobhan Boyer
Joanne Boyer
Anne Boyer
Marjorie Boyer

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.