Surname statistics for Hobson

There are approximately 13,817 people named Hobson in the UK. That makes it the 735th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 219 are named Hobson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13817735N/A219
United Kingdom (1881 census)77695430.026259
Change since 1881+6048-192-0.004-40
Other Countries
United States165172011N/A61
Australia1773919N/A108

Politics

People with the surname Hobson 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 Hobson are:

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

Top male forenames

David Hobson
John Hobson
Mark Hobson
Paul Hobson
Peter Hobson
Andrew Hobson
Richard Hobson
Robert Hobson
Philip Hobson
Michael Hobson
Ian Hobson
James Hobson
Anthony Hobson
Stephen Hobson
Christopher Hobson
Alan Hobson
Brian Hobson
Simon Hobson
Gary Hobson
Jonathan Hobson

Top female forenames

Amanda Hobson
Sarah Hobson
Margaret Hobson
Susan Hobson
Patricia Hobson
Alison Hobson
Jacqueline Hobson
Janet Hobson
Sally Hobson
Julie Hobson
Christine Hobson
Nicola Hobson
Angela Hobson
jANE Hobson
Catherine Hobson
Ann Hobson
Frances Hobson
Helen Hobson
Linda Hobson
Claire Hobson

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.