Surname statistics for Harold

There are approximately 2,053 people named Harold in the UK. That makes it the 4,403rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 32 are named Harold.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)20534403N/A32
United Kingdom (1881 census)65055510.00222
Change since 1881+1403+1148+0.001+10
Other Countries
United States64285008N/A24
Australia1649057N/A10

Politics

People with the surname Harold 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.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Richard Harold
James Harold
David Harold
Michael Harold
John Harold
Philip Harold
Dennis Harold
Alan Harold
Mark Harold
Peter Harold
Anthony Harold
Steven Harold
Roger Harold
Robert Harold
Roy Harold
Alexander Harold

Top female forenames

Nicola Harold
Laura Harold
Eileen Harold
Cynthia Harold
Margaret Harold
Theodora Harold
Judith Harold
Jennifer Harold
Karen Harold
Elaine Harold
Dawn Harold
Anne Harold
Denise Harold
Andrea Harold
Jacqueline Harold
Alice Harold

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.