Surname statistics for Light

There are approximately 5,817 people named Light in the UK. That makes it the 1,796th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 92 are named Light.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)58171796N/A92
United Kingdom (1881 census)276316150.00992
Change since 1881+3054-18100
Other Countries
United States166711996N/A62
Australia5862774N/A36

Politics

People with the surname Light are 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 Light are:

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

Top male forenames

David Light
James Light
John Light
Robert Light
Paul Light
Peter Light
Andrew Light
Michael Light
Graham Light
Nicholas Light
Gary Light
Timothy Light
Christopher Light
Anthony Light
Kevin Light
Mark Light
Ian Light
Jonathan Light
Kenneth Light
Stephen Light

Top female forenames

Karen Light
Janet Light
Deborah Light
Claire Light
Linda Light
Valerie Light
Margaret Light
Donna Light
Sarah Light
Rachel Light
Patricia Light
Judith Light
Diane Light
Ann Light
Tracy Light
Joanne Light
Shirley Light
Christine Light
Helen Light
Michelle Light

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.