Surname statistics for Butterworth

There are approximately 14,256 people named Butterworth in the UK. That makes it the 714th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 226 are named Butterworth.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14256714N/A226
United Kingdom (1881 census)107533970.036359
Change since 1881+3503-317-0.013-133
Other Countries
United States43367104N/A16
Australia16161010N/A99

Politics

People with the surname Butterworth are less 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 Butterworth are:

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

Top male forenames

John Butterworth
David Butterworth
Paul Butterworth
Mark Butterworth
Andrew Butterworth
Michael Butterworth
James Butterworth
Christopher Butterworth
Alan Butterworth
Peter Butterworth
Richard Butterworth
Philip Butterworth
Stephen Butterworth
Martin Butterworth
Simon Butterworth
Robert Butterworth
Nicholas Butterworth
Anthony Butterworth
Jonathan Butterworth
Ian Butterworth

Top female forenames

Susan Butterworth
Christine Butterworth
Jacqueline Butterworth
Joanne Butterworth
Catherine Butterworth
Julie Butterworth
Janet Butterworth
Barbara Butterworth
Patricia Butterworth
Jane Butterworth
Jennifer Butterworth
Elizabeth Butterworth
Alison Butterworth
Joan Butterworth
Margaret Butterworth
Sheila Butterworth
Jean Butterworth
Gillian Butterworth
Nicola Butterworth
Sarah Butterworth

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.