Surname statistics for Hirst

There are approximately 16,730 people named Hirst in the UK. That makes it the 606th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 265 are named Hirst.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)16730606N/A265
United Kingdom (1881 census)97704380.033326
Change since 1881+6960-168-0.007-61
Other Countries
United States35468554N/A13
Australia10411586N/A64

Politics

People with the surname Hirst 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 Hirst are:

  1. Conservative (5)
  2. Independent (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Hirst
David Hirst
Andrew Hirst
Paul Hirst
Michael Hirst
Stephen Hirst
Richard Hirst
Peter Hirst
Robert Hirst
Christopher Hirst
Mark Hirst
James Hirst
Simon Hirst
Ian Hirst
Philip Hirst
Jonathan Hirst
Graham Hirst
Martin Hirst
Alan Hirst
Steven Hirst

Top female forenames

Susan Hirst
Sarah Hirst
Elizabeth Hirst
Julie Hirst
Karen Hirst
Margaret Hirst
Ann Hirst
Helen Hirst
Patricia Hirst
Jennifer Hirst
Suzanne Hirst
Sandra Hirst
Catherine Hirst
Alison Hirst
Christine Hirst
Janet Hirst
Fiona Hirst
Carole Hirst
Angela Hirst
Jacqueline Hirst

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.