Surname statistics for Howe

There are approximately 26,028 people named Howe in the UK. That makes it the 379th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 412 are named Howe.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)26028379N/A412
United Kingdom (1881 census)117603650.039393
Change since 1881+14268-14+0.002+19
Other Countries
United States40555775N/A150
Australia3412439N/A209

Politics

People with the surname Howe 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 Howe are:

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

Top male forenames

John Howe
David Howe
Robert Howe
Michael Howe
Peter Howe
Christopher Howe
Andrew Howe
Stephen Howe
Richard Howe
Mark Howe
Paul Howe
Ian Howe
James Howe
Martin Howe
Graham Howe
Brian Howe
Thomas Howe
William Howe
Adrian Howe
Colin Howe

Top female forenames

Sarah Howe
Margaret Howe
Elizabeth Howe
Susan Howe
Linda Howe
Catherine Howe
Alison Howe
Janet Howe
Caroline Howe
Carol Howe
Jacqueline Howe
Jennifer Howe
Julie Howe
Katherine Howe
Sharon Howe
Gillian Howe
Joan Howe
Christine Howe
Diane Howe
Nicola Howe

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.