Surname statistics for Henson

There are approximately 6,556 people named Henson in the UK. That makes it the 1,613rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 104 are named Henson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)65561613N/A104
United Kingdom (1881 census)351112940.012117
Change since 1881+3045-319-0.002-13
Other Countries
United States46609669N/A173
Australia7132268N/A44

Politics

People with the surname Henson are 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 Henson are:

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. Labour (1)
  3. UKIP (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Henson
Robert Henson
Paul Henson
Michael Henson
Richard Henson
Mark Henson
Anthony Henson
John Henson
Stephen Henson
Ian Henson
Andrew Henson
Simon Henson
Peter Henson
Gary Henson
Christopher Henson
Alan Henson
Brian Henson
Philip Henson
Timothy Henson
Keith Henson

Top female forenames

Susan Henson
Elizabeth Henson
Christine Henson
Lisa Henson
Margaret Henson
Sarah Henson
Patricia Henson
Linda Henson
Gillian Henson
Anne Henson
Claire Henson
Julie Henson
Victoria Henson
Mary Henson
Sharon Henson
Nicola Henson
Lynne Henson
Pamela Henson
Frances Henson
Catherine Henson

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.