Surname statistics for Challis

There are approximately 4,795 people named Challis in the UK. That makes it the 2,188th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 76 are named Challis.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)47952188N/A76
United Kingdom (1881 census)189523090.00663
Change since 1881+2900+121+0.002+13
Other Countries
United States73230199less than 0.0013
Australia5313036N/A32

Politics

People with the surname Challis 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 Conservative.

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

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

Top male forenames

Paul Challis
Andrew Challis
John Challis
David Challis
Michael Challis
Martin Challis
Robert Challis
Peter Challis
Simon Challis
Christopher Challis
Mark Challis
Stephen Challis
Richard Challis
Gary Challis
Nigel Challis
Brian Challis
Philip Challis
Thomas Challis
Russell Challis
Kevin Challis

Top female forenames

Christine Challis
Linda Challis
Elizabeth Challis
Susan Challis
Anne Challis
Michelle Challis
Dawn Challis
Helen Challis
Patricia Challis
Lucy Challis
Fiona Challis
Sarah Challis
Deborah Challis
Lorraine Challis
Andrea Challis
Amanda Challis
Gillian Challis
Vivienne Challis
Bozena Challis
Katherine Challis

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.