Surname statistics for Doolan

There are approximately 2,280 people named Doolan in the UK. That makes it the 4,065th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 36 are named Doolan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)22804065N/A36
United Kingdom (1881 census)58760120.00220
Change since 1881+1693+1947+0.002+16
Other Countries
United States145217781N/A5
Australia1713950N/A105

Politics

People with the surname Doolan 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 Labour.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Doolan
Peter Doolan
Paul Doolan
James Doolan
Christopher Doolan
Stephen Doolan
David Doolan
Andrew Doolan
Kevin Doolan
Matthew Doolan
Patrick Doolan
Colin Doolan
Michael Doolan
Jamie Doolan
Liam Doolan
Anthony Doolan
Charlie Doolan
Thomas Doolan

Top female forenames

Lisa Doolan
Angela Doolan
Deborah Doolan
Muriel Doolan
Ruth Doolan
Josephine Doolan
Helen Doolan
Jacqueline Doolan
Claire Doolan
Dorothy Doolan
Joanne Doolan
Sarah Doolan
Christine Doolan
Kathleen Doolan
June Doolan
Susan Doolan
Jackie Doolan
Julie Doolan

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.