Surname statistics for Nicholson

There are approximately 42,045 people named Nicholson in the UK. That makes it the 201th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 665 are named Nicholson.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)42045201N/A665
United Kingdom (1881 census)212791670.071711
Change since 1881+20766-34-0.004-46
Other Countries
United States55986534N/A208
Australia5598248N/A342

Politics

People with the surname Nicholson are slightly 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 Nicholson are:

  1. Conservative (10)
  2. Labour (4)
  3. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Nicholson
John Nicholson
Paul Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson
Mark Nicholson
Michael Nicholson
James Nicholson
Peter Nicholson
Ian Nicholson
Robert Nicholson
Stephen Nicholson
Richard Nicholson
Christopher Nicholson
Anthony Nicholson
William Nicholson
Philip Nicholson
Graham Nicholson
Simon Nicholson
Keith Nicholson
Alan Nicholson

Top female forenames

Susan Nicholson
Elizabeth Nicholson
Helen Nicholson
Jane Nicholson
Sarah Nicholson
Christine Nicholson
Patricia Nicholson
Karen Nicholson
Margaret Nicholson
Anne Nicholson
Gillian Nicholson
Sally Nicholson
Amanda Nicholson
Claire Nicholson
Catherine Nicholson
Mary Nicholson
Sandra Nicholson
Louise Nicholson
Linda Nicholson
Jennifer Nicholson

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.