Surname statistics for Irving

There are approximately 13,452 people named Irving in the UK. That makes it the 757th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 213 are named Irving.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)13452757N/A213
United Kingdom (1881 census)66726370.022223
Change since 1881+6780-120-0.001-10
Other Countries
United States139972372N/A52
Australia1731941N/A106

Politics

People with the surname Irving 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 Irving are:

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

Top male forenames

David Irving
John Irving
Andrew Irving
Paul Irving
Richard Irving
Robert Irving
Ian Irving
Mark Irving
Michael Irving
Christopher Irving
William Irving
Peter Irving
James Irving
Stephen Irving
Alan Irving
Stuart Irving
Keith Irving
Gordon Irving
Malcolm Irving
Graham Irving

Top female forenames

Susan Irving
Margaret Irving
Julie Irving
Lisa Irving
Karen Irving
Joanne Irving
Alison Irving
Linda Irving
Jane Irving
Elizabeth Irving
Patricia Irving
Mary Irving
Christine Irving
Ann Irving
Jennifer Irving
Louise Irving
Anne Irving
Helen Irving
Pauline Irving
Janet Irving

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.