Surname statistics for George

There are approximately 43,894 people named George in the UK. That makes it the 193rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 695 are named George.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43894193N/A695
United Kingdom (1881 census)175732180.059587
Change since 1881+26321+25+0.01+108
Other Countries
United States119778227N/A444
Australia6623193N/A405

Politics

People with the surname George 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 George are:

  1. Conservative (5)
  2. Labour (5)
  3. Liberal Democrat (2)
  4. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David George
Michael George
Richard George
Robert George
Peter George
Stephen George
Andrew George
Simon George
Christopher George
John George
Ian George
Philip George
James George
Mark George
Paul George
Alan George
Kevin George
William George
Anthony George
Nicholas George

Top female forenames

Susan George
Helen George
Sarah George
Karen George
Elizabeth George
Christine George
Margaret George
Caroline George
Patricia George
Deborah George
Mary George
Jane George
Catherine George
Angela George
Fiona George
Emma George
Julie George
Jacqueline George
Nicola George
Linda George

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.