Surname statistics for Flaherty

There are approximately 5,014 people named Flaherty in the UK. That makes it the 2,095th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 79 are named Flaherty.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)50142095N/A79
United Kingdom (1881 census)92141980.00331
Change since 1881+4093+2103+0.005+48
Other Countries
United States175131881N/A65
Australia8551917N/A52

Politics

People with the surname Flaherty 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 Liberal Democrat.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Flaherty
Paul Flaherty
Michael Flaherty
Patrick Flaherty
David Flaherty
Anthony Flaherty
James Flaherty
Martin Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty
Christopher Flaherty
Peter Flaherty
Joseph Flaherty
Andrew Flaherty
Thomas Flaherty
Liam Flaherty
William Flaherty
Mark Flaherty
Simon Flaherty
Adrian Flaherty
Colin Flaherty

Top female forenames

Kathleen Flaherty
Margaret Flaherty
Mary Flaherty
Maureen Flaherty
Susan Flaherty
Julie Flaherty
Julia Flaherty
Emma Flaherty
Sarah Flaherty
Jane Flaherty
Sara Flaherty
Michelle Flaherty
Bridget Flaherty
Amanda Flaherty
Rachel Flaherty
Jennifer Flaherty
Ann Flaherty
Joanne Flaherty
Gemma Flaherty
Elaine Flaherty

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.