Surname statistics for Harding

There are approximately 44,065 people named Harding in the UK. That makes it the 191th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 697 are named Harding.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)44065191N/A697
United Kingdom (1881 census)216751610.072724
Change since 1881+22390-30-0.002-27
Other Countries
United States38340823N/A142
Australia5657241N/A346

Politics

People with the surname Harding 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 Conservative.

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

  1. Conservative (6)
  2. Labour (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Harding
John Harding
Paul Harding
Michael Harding
Richard Harding
Peter Harding
Andrew Harding
Mark Harding
Stephen Harding
Christopher Harding
Robert Harding
James Harding
Anthony Harding
Nicholas Harding
Brian Harding
Alan Harding
Ian Harding
Simon Harding
Neil Harding
Keith Harding

Top female forenames

Susan Harding
Sarah Harding
Julie Harding
Karen Harding
Patricia Harding
Elizabeth Harding
Jacqueline Harding
Deborah Harding
Ann Harding
Claire Harding
Caroline Harding
Janet Harding
Helen Harding
Linda Harding
Carol Harding
Alison Harding
Nicola Harding
Christine Harding
Barbara Harding
Jennifer Harding

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.