Surname statistics for Burford

There are approximately 4,178 people named Burford in the UK. That makes it the 2,496th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 66 are named Burford.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)41782496N/A66
United Kingdom (1881 census)167325840.00656
Change since 1881+2505+88+0.001+10
Other Countries
United States48726430N/A18
Australia8491930N/A52

Politics

People with the surname Burford 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 Liberal Democrat.

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

  1. Liberal Democrat (1)
  2. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Burford
Christopher Burford
Mark Burford
Philip Burford
Stephen Burford
Peter Burford
Martin Burford
John Burford
James Burford
Matthew Burford
Andrew Burford
Anthony Burford
Nigel Burford
Robert Burford
Ian Burford
Richard Burford
Michael Burford
Darren Burford
Brian Burford
Thomas Burford

Top female forenames

Susan Burford
Margaret Burford
Louise Burford
Patricia Burford
Joanna Burford
Joanne Burford
Pamela Burford
Lucille Burford
Tracey Burford
Rosalind Burford
Sarah Burford
Julie Burford
Sara Burford
Linda Burford
Jennifer Burford
Hazel Burford
Nicola Burford
Janice Burford
Georgia Burford
Lynne Burford

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.