Surname statistics for Oram

There are approximately 4,649 people named Oram in the UK. That makes it the 2,254th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 74 are named Oram.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)46492254N/A74
United Kingdom (1881 census)233519130.00878
Change since 1881+2314-341-0.001-4
Other Countries
United States174015455N/A6
Australia3584426N/A22

Top male forenames

David Oram
Stephen Oram
Peter Oram
Richard Oram
John Oram
Michael Oram
Mark Oram
Andrew Oram
Paul Oram
Brian Oram
Christopher Oram
Philip Oram
Dean Oram
William Oram
Gary Oram
Jason Oram
Jonathan Oram
James Oram
Kevin Oram
Robert Oram

Top female forenames

Karen Oram
Emma Oram
Lisa Oram
Sarah Oram
Elizabeth Oram
Michelle Oram
Claire Oram
Anne Oram
Susan Oram
Jane Oram
Rachel Oram
Rebecca Oram
Margaret Oram
Lucy Oram
Alison Oram
Veronica Oram
Christine Oram
Helen Oram
Catherine Oram
Sandra Oram

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.