Surname statistics for Wheeler

There are approximately 39,578 people named Wheeler in the UK. That makes it the 218th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 626 are named Wheeler.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)39578218N/A626
United Kingdom (1881 census)180822090.06604
Change since 1881+21496-9+0.003+22
Other Countries
United States121684223N/A451
Australia4991281N/A305

Politics

People with the surname Wheeler 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 Labour.

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

  1. Labour (7)
  2. Conservative (6)
  3. Liberal Democrat (4)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Wheeler
John Wheeler
Paul Wheeler
Michael Wheeler
Robert Wheeler
Richard Wheeler
Mark Wheeler
Andrew Wheeler
Peter Wheeler
Simon Wheeler
Christopher Wheeler
Stephen Wheeler
James Wheeler
Alan Wheeler
Martin Wheeler
Kevin Wheeler
Ian Wheeler
Timothy Wheeler
Philip Wheeler
Nicholas Wheeler

Top female forenames

Susan Wheeler
Christine Wheeler
Linda Wheeler
Elizabeth Wheeler
Helen Wheeler
Jane Wheeler
Julie Wheeler
Louise Wheeler
Karen Wheeler
Carol Wheeler
Gillian Wheeler
Margaret Wheeler
Nicola Wheeler
Patricia Wheeler
Joanne Wheeler
Sarah Wheeler
Maureen Wheeler
Janet Wheeler
Caroline Wheeler
Alison Wheeler

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.