Surname statistics for Keith

There are approximately 9,623 people named Keith in the UK. That makes it the 1,093rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 152 are named Keith.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)96231093N/A152
United Kingdom (1881 census)321014080.011107
Change since 1881+6413+315+0.004+45
Other Countries
United States46747663N/A173
Australia8002030N/A49

Politics

People with the surname Keith 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

David Keith
James Keith
John Keith
Andrew Keith
Robert Keith
Alan Keith
Michael Keith
Christopher Keith
Ian Keith
Peter Keith
Richard Keith
Stephen Keith
Stuart Keith
Kevin Keith
Benjamin Keith
William Keith
Douglas Keith
Malcolm Keith
Graham Keith
Alexander Keith

Top female forenames

Sarah Keith
Karen Keith
Angela Keith
Caroline Keith
Margaret Keith
Pauline Keith
Jane Keith
Irene Keith
Jacqueline Keith
Marie Keith
Maureen Keith
Nicola Keith
Barbara Keith
Louise Keith
Christine Keith
Susan Keith
Shona Keith
Sheila Keith
Alison Keith
Victoria Keith

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.