Surname statistics for Shand

There are approximately 4,316 people named Shand in the UK. That makes it the 2,422nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 68 are named Shand.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43162422N/A68
United Kingdom (1881 census)205721450.00769
Change since 1881+2259-2770-1
Other Countries
United States166116035N/A6
Australia4613455N/A28

Politics

People with the surname Shand 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 SNP.

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

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

Top male forenames

James Shand
Michael Shand
John Shand
William Shand
Alan Shand
Ian Shand
Peter Shand
David Shand
Richard Shand
Robert Shand
George Shand
Neil Shand
Mark Shand
Douglas Shand
Scott Shand
Alexander Shand
Anthony Shand
Stephen Shand
Fraser Shand
Bryan Shand

Top female forenames

Mary Shand
Christine Shand
Nicola Shand
Tracey Shand
Elizabeth Shand
Sandra Shand
Helen Shand
Caroline Shand
Kristy Shand
Ann Shand
Kate Shand
Lesley Shand
Lucia Shand
Agnes Shand
Natalia Shand
Penelope Shand
Rosemary Shand
Ruth Shand
Sharon Shand
Susan Shand

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.