Surname statistics for Cawley

There are approximately 5,095 people named Cawley in the UK. That makes it the 2,064th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 81 are named Cawley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)50952064N/A81
United Kingdom (1881 census)158626910.00553
Change since 1881+3509+627+0.003+28
Other Countries
United States53705900N/A20
Australia3095063N/A19

Politics

People with the surname Cawley 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Cawley
Michael Cawley
David Cawley
Robert Cawley
Andrew Cawley
Martin Cawley
Ian Cawley
Peter Cawley
Graham Cawley
Stephen Cawley
Jason Cawley
James Cawley
Jonathan Cawley
William Cawley
Anthony Cawley
Paul Cawley
Daniel Cawley
Brian Cawley
Matthew Cawley
Mark Cawley

Top female forenames

Margaret Cawley
Susan Cawley
Christine Cawley
Sheila Cawley
Karen Cawley
Sarah Cawley
Patricia Cawley
Gillian Cawley
Fiona Cawley
Tina Cawley
Elizabeth Cawley
Mary Cawley
Helen Cawley
Brenda Cawley
Linda Cawley
Deborah Cawley
Jacqueline Cawley
Ann Cawley
Catherine Cawley
Frances Cawley

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.