Surname statistics for Larkin

There are approximately 9,258 people named Larkin in the UK. That makes it the 1,144th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 147 are named Larkin.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)92581144N/A147
United Kingdom (1881 census)269016580.00990
Change since 1881+6568+514+0.006+57
Other Countries
United States230041418N/A85
Australia1987812N/A122

Politics

People with the surname Larkin are about as likely to be politicians as 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 Larkin are:

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

Top male forenames

John Larkin
Michael Larkin
Peter Larkin
Paul Larkin
Stephen Larkin
Christopher Larkin
David Larkin
Andrew Larkin
Anthony Larkin
Patrick Larkin
James Larkin
Kevin Larkin
Brian Larkin
Robert Larkin
Richard Larkin
Simon Larkin
Keith Larkin
Timothy Larkin
Alan Larkin
Joseph Larkin

Top female forenames

Margaret Larkin
Claire Larkin
Patricia Larkin
Christine Larkin
Caroline Larkin
Elizabeth Larkin
Mary Larkin
Lorraine Larkin
Joanna Larkin
Ruth Larkin
Karen Larkin
Michelle Larkin
Jane Larkin
Sarah Larkin
Katrina Larkin
Marie Larkin
Kathleen Larkin
Carol Larkin
Maria Larkin
Deborah Larkin

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.