Surname statistics for McHugh

There are approximately 11,416 people named McHugh in the UK. That makes it the 916th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 181 are named McHugh.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)11416916N/A181
United Kingdom (1881 census)246113530.0018
Change since 1881+11170+10437+0.017+173
Other Countries
United States182061813N/A68
Australia15181078N/A93

Top male forenames

John McHugh
Michael McHugh
Paul McHugh
Peter McHugh
James McHugh
Kevin McHugh
David McHugh
Stephen McHugh
Patrick McHugh
Anthony McHugh
Sean McHugh
Thomas McHugh
Andrew McHugh
Martin McHugh
Richard McHugh
Christopher McHugh
Joseph McHugh
Neil McHugh
Francis McHugh
Darren McHugh

Top female forenames

Mary McHugh
Susan McHugh
Margaret McHugh
Sarah McHugh
Elizabeth McHugh
Claire McHugh
Michelle McHugh
Catherine McHugh
Angela McHugh
Karen McHugh
Maureen McHugh
Patricia McHugh
Christine McHugh
Caroline McHugh
Julie McHugh
Julia McHugh
Ann McHugh
Sharon McHugh
Geraldine McHugh
Lisa McHugh

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.