Surname statistics for Hunt

There are approximately 79,854 people named Hunt in the UK. That makes it the 90th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,264 are named Hunt.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)7985490N/A1264
United Kingdom (1881 census)39775770.1331328
Change since 1881+40079-13-0.007-64
Other Countries
United States151986157N/A563
Australia10658101N/A652

Politics

People with the surname Hunt 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 Hunt are:

  1. Conservative (22)
  2. Labour (11)
  3. Liberal Democrat (4)
  4. Independent (1)
  5. The Independents (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hunt
John Hunt
Stephen Hunt
Peter Hunt
Andrew Hunt
Paul Hunt
Richard Hunt
Christopher Hunt
Robert Hunt
James Hunt
Michael Hunt
Ian Hunt
Simon Hunt
Jonathan Hunt
Alan Hunt
Philip Hunt
Mark Hunt
Matthew Hunt
Anthony Hunt
Kevin Hunt

Top female forenames

Susan Hunt
Sarah Hunt
Linda Hunt
Elizabeth Hunt
Christine Hunt
Jane Hunt
Karen Hunt
Barbara Hunt
Alison Hunt
Helen Hunt
Jennifer Hunt
Margaret Hunt
Julie Hunt
Joanne Hunt
Patricia Hunt
Amanda Hunt
Lisa Hunt
Caroline Hunt
Sandra Hunt
Ann Hunt

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.