Surname statistics for McLennan

There are approximately 3,578 people named McLennan in the UK. That makes it the 2,816th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 57 are named McLennan.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)35782816N/A57
United Kingdom (1881 census)4930617less than 0.0012
Change since 1881+3529+27801+55
Other Countries
United States225712590N/A8
Australia2878543N/A176

Politics

People with the surname McLennan are 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 McLennan are:

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

Top male forenames

Ian McLennan
John McLennan
Andrew McLennan
David McLennan
Scott McLennan
Neil McLennan
Paul McLennan
Stephen McLennan
William McLennan
Alexander McLennan
Eric McLennan
Robert McLennan
Derek McLennan
Duncan McLennan
Stuart McLennan
Michael McLennan
Marc McLennan
Raymond McLennan
Iain McLennan
Richard McLennan

Top female forenames

Elizabeth McLennan
Margaret McLennan
Heather McLennan
Brenda McLennan
Sarah McLennan
Jane McLennan
Amanda McLennan
Nicole McLennan
Helen McLennan
Linda McLennan
Caroline McLennan
Joanne McLennan
Sasha McLennan
Pamela McLennan
Angela McLennan
Alwyn McLennan
Lisa McLennan
Kathryn McLennan
Christine McLennan
Sheila McLennan

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.