Surname statistics for McEwan

There are approximately 8,917 people named McEwan in the UK. That makes it the 1,190th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 141 are named McEwan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)89171190N/A141
United Kingdom (1881 census)14016382less than 0.0015
Change since 1881+8777+15192+136
Other Countries
United States243211795N/A9
Australia15781032N/A97

Politics

People with the surname McEwan 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John McEwan
James McEwan
David McEwan
Ian McEwan
Andrew McEwan
Robert McEwan
Stephen McEwan
William McEwan
Paul McEwan
Neil McEwan
Alan McEwan
Alexander McEwan
Thomas McEwan
Derek McEwan
Scott McEwan
Ross McEwan
Graham McEwan
Brian McEwan
George McEwan
Kenneth McEwan

Top female forenames

Margaret McEwan
Angela McEwan
Fiona McEwan
Elizabeth McEwan
Janet McEwan
Karen McEwan
Sharon McEwan
Sarah McEwan
Samantha McEwan
Lisa McEwan
Louise McEwan
Tracey McEwan
Ann McEwan
Susan McEwan
Janette McEwan
Catherine McEwan
Pauline McEwan
Joanne McEwan
Jill McEwan
Tracy McEwan

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.