Surname statistics for Neville

There are approximately 9,087 people named Neville in the UK. That makes it the 1,163rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 144 are named Neville.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)90871163N/A144
United Kingdom (1881 census)355912690.012119
Change since 1881+5528+106+0.002+25
Other Countries
United States112582935N/A42
Australia2091774N/A128

Top male forenames

John Neville
Richard Neville
Michael Neville
David Neville
Paul Neville
James Neville
Peter Neville
Stephen Neville
Robert Neville
Mark Neville
Christopher Neville
Andrew Neville
Simon Neville
Matthew Neville
Philip Neville
Alan Neville
Patrick Neville
Gary Neville
Colin Neville
Chris Neville

Top female forenames

Susan Neville
Elizabeth Neville
Karen Neville
Jane Neville
Mary Neville
Jill Neville
Margaret Neville
Sandra Neville
Michelle Neville
Louise Neville
Fiona Neville
Lisa Neville
Heather Neville
Christine Neville
Julie Neville
Barbara Neville
Caroline Neville
Jennifer Neville
Janet Neville
Alison Neville

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.