Surname statistics for Beggs

There are approximately 1,947 people named Beggs in the UK. That makes it the 4,592nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 31 are named Beggs.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)19474592N/A31
United Kingdom (1881 census)40180520.00113
Change since 1881+1546+3460+0.002+18
Other Countries
United States46116739N/A17
Australia7862058N/A48

Top male forenames

John Beggs
David Beggs
Robert Beggs
Brian Beggs
William Beggs
Stephen Beggs
Roy Beggs
Thomas Beggs
Kenneth Beggs
Peter Beggs
Gary Beggs
James Beggs
Alexander Beggs
Jim Beggs
Paul Beggs

Top female forenames

Carole Beggs
Alison Beggs
Elizabeth Beggs
Antonia Beggs
Karen Beggs
Averil Beggs
Angela Beggs
Denise Beggs
Julie Beggs
Gillian Beggs
Claire Beggs
Joanne Beggs
Valerie Beggs
Ann Beggs
Catherine Beggs

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.