Surname statistics for Moon

There are approximately 10,864 people named Moon in the UK. That makes it the 972nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 172 are named Moon.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)10864972N/A172
United Kingdom (1881 census)63176840.021211
Change since 1881+4547-288-0.004-39
Other Countries
United States42062748N/A156
Australia2240714N/A137

Politics

People with the surname Moon 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 Moon are:

  1. Conservative (5)
  2. Labour (2)
  3. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Moon
John Moon
Richard Moon
Peter Moon
Christopher Moon
Stephen Moon
Paul Moon
Robert Moon
Jonathan Moon
James Moon
Alan Moon
Nicholas Moon
Andrew Moon
Michael Moon
Philip Moon
Brian Moon
Kenneth Moon
Simon Moon
Colin Moon
Roger Moon

Top female forenames

Susan Moon
Elizabeth Moon
Jacqueline Moon
Jane Moon
Helen Moon
Sarah Moon
Deborah Moon
Alison Moon
Angela Moon
Karen Moon
Patricia Moon
Frances Moon
Pauline Moon
Denise Moon
Nicola Moon
Katherine Moon
Christine Moon
Suzanne Moon
Victoria Moon
Margaret Moon

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.