Surname statistics for Lowe

There are approximately 45,501 people named Lowe in the UK. That makes it the 181th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 720 are named Lowe.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)45501181N/A720
United Kingdom (1881 census)224501540.075750
Change since 1881+23051-27-0.003-30
Other Countries
United States89178309N/A331
Australia7045181N/A431

Politics

People with the surname Lowe are about as likely to be politicians as the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

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

  1. Labour (11)
  2. Conservative (3)
  3. Wrexham Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Lowe
John Lowe
Peter Lowe
Andrew Lowe
Michael Lowe
Christopher Lowe
Stephen Lowe
Richard Lowe
Robert Lowe
James Lowe
Paul Lowe
Mark Lowe
Ian Lowe
Anthony Lowe
William Lowe
Nicholas Lowe
Brian Lowe
Alan Lowe
Simon Lowe
Steven Lowe

Top female forenames

Susan Lowe
Margaret Lowe
Sarah Lowe
Jacqueline Lowe
Anne Lowe
Julie Lowe
Jane Lowe
Patricia Lowe
Linda Lowe
Jennifer Lowe
Diane Lowe
Alison Lowe
Rachel Lowe
Christine Lowe
Helen Lowe
Janet Lowe
Elizabeth Lowe
Judith Lowe
Catherine Lowe
Deborah Lowe

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.