Surname statistics for Dykes

There are approximately 4,016 people named Dykes in the UK. That makes it the 2,574th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 64 are named Dykes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)40162574N/A64
United Kingdom (1881 census)206021440.00769
Change since 1881+1956-430-0.001-5
Other Countries
United States138912391N/A52
Australia4473557N/A27

Politics

People with the surname Dykes 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 Dykes are:

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

Top male forenames

Paul Dykes
John Dykes
Andrew Dykes
Alan Dykes
Robert Dykes
David Dykes
Michael Dykes
William Dykes
Christopher Dykes
Stephen Dykes
Peter Dykes
Gavin Dykes
Philip Dykes
Lee Dykes
Stuart Dykes
Graham Dykes
Steven Dykes
Ian Dykes
Roy Dykes
Mark Dykes

Top female forenames

Susan Dykes
Elizabeth Dykes
Jane Dykes
Nicola Dykes
Wendy Dykes
Sarah Dykes
Gillian Dykes
Karen Dykes
Elaine Dykes
Louise Dykes
Tracy Dykes
Helen Dykes
Caroline Dykes
Arlene Dykes
Mandy Dykes
Claire Dykes
Sandra Dykes
Noreen Dykes
Irene Dykes
Demeter Dykes

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.