Surname statistics for Riches

There are approximately 7,473 people named Riches in the UK. That makes it the 1,450th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 118 are named Riches.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)74731450N/A118
United Kingdom (1881 census)342413350.011114
Change since 1881+4049-115+0.001+4
Other Countries
United States95224598less than 0.0014
Australia10341599N/A63

Politics

People with the surname Riches 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (1)
  2. Labour (1)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Riches
John Riches
Paul Riches
Mark Riches
Andrew Riches
Stephen Riches
Michael Riches
Peter Riches
James Riches
Nicholas Riches
Brian Riches
Matthew Riches
Ian Riches
Neil Riches
Martin Riches
Steven Riches
Simon Riches
Philip Riches
Alan Riches
Christopher Riches

Top female forenames

Christine Riches
Louise Riches
Elizabeth Riches
Mary Riches
Nicola Riches
Yvonne Riches
Shirley Riches
Tracey Riches
Angela Riches
Amanda Riches
Victoria Riches
Lisa Riches
Julie Riches
Julia Riches
Joanne Riches
Jane Riches
June Riches
Karen Riches
Kathryn Riches
Linda Riches

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.