Surname statistics for Eley

There are approximately 4,617 people named Eley in the UK. That makes it the 2,264th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 73 are named Eley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)46172264N/A73
United Kingdom (1881 census)185223700.00662
Change since 1881+2765+106+0.001+11
Other Countries
United States46756664N/A17
Australia2416370N/A15

Top male forenames

David Eley
John Eley
Mark Eley
Michael Eley
Richard Eley
Paul Eley
Martin Eley
Robert Eley
Stephen Eley
Anthony Eley
Roger Eley
Christopher Eley
Philip Eley
James Eley
Simon Eley
Andrew Eley
Peter Eley
Graham Eley
Timothy Eley
Steven Eley

Top female forenames

Susan Eley
Jacqueline Eley
Deborah Eley
Karen Eley
Mary Eley
Sally Eley
Janet Eley
Elizabeth Eley
Sharon Eley
Dorothy Eley
Nicola Eley
Tracey Eley
Alison Eley
Anne Eley
Catherine Eley
Margaret Eley
Jane Eley
Bridget Eley
Joanne Eley
Marilyn Eley

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.