Surname statistics for Cowdrey

There are approximately 868 people named Cowdrey in the UK. That makes it the 7,817th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 14 are named Cowdrey.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)8687817N/A14
United Kingdom (1881 census)263108360.0019
Change since 1881+605+30190+5
Other Countries
United States84926898less than 0.0013
Australia6022051less than 0.0014

Top male forenames

Mark Cowdrey
Alan Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Graham Cowdrey
Peter Cowdrey
Stuart Cowdrey

Top female forenames

Susan Cowdrey
Lisa Cowdrey
Christel Cowdrey
Marjorie Cowdrey
Gillian Cowdrey
Jennifer Cowdrey

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.