Surname statistics for Walter

There are approximately 8,260 people named Walter in the UK. That makes it the 1,298th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 131 are named Walter.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)82601298N/A131
United Kingdom (1881 census)45889760.015153
Change since 1881+3672-322-0.002-22
Other Countries
United States47615651N/A176
Australia2022802N/A124

Politics

People with the surname Walter are slightly less 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 Walter are:

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

Top male forenames

John Walter
David Walter
Michael Walter
Robert Walter
Andrew Walter
Richard Walter
Simon Walter
Stephen Walter
Mark Walter
Timothy Walter
Christopher Walter
Peter Walter
Keith Walter
Jonathan Walter
Philip Walter
Thomas Walter
Martin Walter
Nicholas Walter
Ian Walter
Graham Walter

Top female forenames

Rachel Walter
Elizabeth Walter
Janet Walter
Deborah Walter
Helen Walter
Joyce Walter
Susan Walter
Margaret Walter
Christine Walter
Anne Walter
Maria Walter
Pamela Walter
Angela Walter
Sarah Walter
Gillian Walter
Nicola Walter
Patricia Walter
Marilyn Walter
Harriet Walter
Louise Walter

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.