Surname statistics for Cummings

There are approximately 14,166 people named Cummings in the UK. That makes it the 716th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 224 are named Cummings.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)14166716N/A224
United Kingdom (1881 census)46139700.015154
Change since 1881+9553+254+0.007+70
Other Countries
United States76707372N/A284
Australia2045791N/A125

Politics

People with the surname Cummings are 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 Labour.

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

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

Top male forenames

John Cummings
Paul Cummings
David Cummings
Robert Cummings
Andrew Cummings
Michael Cummings
Stephen Cummings
Richard Cummings
Alan Cummings
Peter Cummings
Ian Cummings
William Cummings
James Cummings
Brian Cummings
Mark Cummings
Anthony Cummings
Steven Cummings
Kevin Cummings
Darren Cummings
Daniel Cummings

Top female forenames

Susan Cummings
Julie Cummings
Nicola Cummings
Elizabeth Cummings
Jennifer Cummings
Alison Cummings
Deborah Cummings
Christine Cummings
Patricia Cummings
Linda Cummings
Karen Cummings
Michelle Cummings
Margaret Cummings
Florence Cummings
Sarah Cummings
Jacqueline Cummings
Jane Cummings
Samantha Cummings
Sheila Cummings
Ann Cummings

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.