Surname statistics for Castle

There are approximately 10,961 people named Castle in the UK. That makes it the 954th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 173 are named Castle.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10961954N/A173
United Kingdom (1881 census)59497490.02199
Change since 1881+5012-205-0.003-26
Other Countries
United States197681661N/A73
Australia2018803N/A123

Politics

People with the surname Castle 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 Castle are:

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

Top male forenames

Paul Castle
John Castle
David Castle
Alan Castle
Richard Castle
Peter Castle
Andrew Castle
Michael Castle
Stephen Castle
Robert Castle
Ian Castle
James Castle
Mark Castle
Simon Castle
Martin Castle
Brian Castle
Neil Castle
Christopher Castle
Nigel Castle
Matthew Castle

Top female forenames

Susan Castle
Sarah Castle
Deborah Castle
Karen Castle
Janet Castle
Jacqueline Castle
Michelle Castle
Emma Castle
Patricia Castle
Claire Castle
Jane Castle
Helen Castle
Christine Castle
Sandra Castle
Caroline Castle
Elizabeth Castle
Nicola Castle
Beverley Castle
Lisa Castle
Julie Castle

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.