Surname statistics for Mark

There are approximately 11,878 people named Mark in the UK. That makes it the 866th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 188 are named Mark.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11878866N/A188
United Kingdom (1881 census)150628050.00550
Change since 1881+10372+1939+0.014+138
Other Countries
United States159162091N/A59
Australia5472962N/A33

Top male forenames

David Mark
John Mark
James Mark
Robert Mark
Ian Mark
Daniel Mark
Peter Mark
Paul Mark
Michael Mark
Nicholas Mark
Andrew Mark
Martin Mark
Christopher Mark
Edward Mark
Anthony Mark
Colin Mark
Jules Mark
Alex Mark
Alan Mark
Simon Mark

Top female forenames

Joanna Mark
Margaret Mark
Susan Mark
Helen Mark
Jennifer Mark
Diane Mark
Denise Mark
Nicola Mark
Barbara Mark
Nichola Mark
Patricia Mark
Marilyn Mark
Suzanne Mark
Madeline Mark
Mabel Mark
Larraine Mark
Karen Mark
Catherine Mark
Charlie Mark
Christine Mark

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.