Surname statistics for Townsley

There are approximately 2,045 people named Townsley in the UK. That makes it the 4,431th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 32 are named Townsley.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)20454431N/A32
United Kingdom (1881 census)58560280.00220
Change since 1881+1460+1597+0.001+12
Other Countries
United States264311035N/A10
Australia10214018N/A6

Politics

People with the surname Townsley 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 Liberal Democrat.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Townsley
David Townsley
Michael Townsley
Andrew Townsley
Peter Townsley
Robert Townsley
Steven Townsley
Richard Townsley
Mark Townsley
Paul Townsley
William Townsley
James Townsley
Christopher Townsley
Colin Townsley
Joseph Townsley
Ian Townsley
Christian Townsley
Nick Townsley

Top female forenames

Susan Townsley
Elizabeth Townsley
Andrea Townsley
Mary Townsley
Julie Townsley
Hazel Townsley
Sandra Townsley
Prudence Townsley
Pauline Townsley
Angela Townsley
Lucy Townsley
Louise Townsley
Lindsey Townsley
Denise Townsley
Judith Townsley
Irene Townsley
Helen Townsley
Alison Townsley

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.