Surname statistics for McLaren

There are approximately 12,049 people named McLaren in the UK. That makes it the 850th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 191 are named McLaren.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12049850N/A191
United Kingdom (1881 census)254110810.0018
Change since 1881+11795+10231+0.018+183
Other Countries
United States56155670N/A21
Australia2641600N/A162

Politics

People with the surname McLaren 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John McLaren
Andrew McLaren
James McLaren
Ian McLaren
David McLaren
Robert McLaren
Neil McLaren
Michael McLaren
Peter McLaren
William McLaren
Stuart McLaren
Paul McLaren
Iain McLaren
Steven McLaren
Alan McLaren
Richard McLaren
Colin McLaren
Christopher McLaren
Brian McLaren
Mark McLaren

Top female forenames

Susan McLaren
Fiona McLaren
Margaret McLaren
Sarah McLaren
Jane McLaren
Patricia McLaren
Julie McLaren
Janet McLaren
Anne McLaren
Kirsty McLaren
Christine McLaren
Caroline McLaren
Carol McLaren
Lesley McLaren
Maureen McLaren
Mary McLaren
Lynne McLaren
Jennifer McLaren
Sandra McLaren
Elizabeth McLaren

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.