Surname statistics for Hay

There are approximately 18,856 people named Hay in the UK. That makes it the 540th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 298 are named Hay.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)18856540N/A298
United Kingdom (1881 census)109833870.037367
Change since 1881+7873-153-0.007-69
Other Countries
United States178241853N/A66
Australia4159357N/A254

Politics

People with the surname Hay are slightly 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.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Hay are:

  1. Liberal Democrat (3)
  2. Labour (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Andrew Hay
John Hay
James Hay
David Hay
Ian Hay
Robert Hay
Michael Hay
William Hay
Alan Hay
Gordon Hay
Richard Hay
Simon Hay
Graham Hay
Stuart Hay
Alexander Hay
Stephen Hay
Peter Hay
Brian Hay
Paul Hay
Colin Hay

Top female forenames

Susan Hay
Karen Hay
Elizabeth Hay
Christine Hay
Sarah Hay
Margaret Hay
Lesley Hay
Anne Hay
Barbara Hay
Jacqueline Hay
Helen Hay
Louise Hay
Jennifer Hay
Gillian Hay
Stephanie Hay
Wendy Hay
Patricia Hay
Fiona Hay
Nicola Hay
Jane Hay

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.